Continuing Education Seminar

Room to Grow:
Journey to Cultural and Linguistic Competency Mini-Conference  “Race in the United States and in our Healthcare Work”

Date:            Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Time:           8:00 AM to 8:30 AM Registration and Light Breakfast

                      8:30 AM to 11:45 AM Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH)

                      Noon to 2:00 PM (Lunch Served) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public  

                      Health (JHSPH)    

Location:     8:00 AM to 11:45 AM: JHH, Chevy Chase Auditorium, Sheikh Zayed Tower

                       1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287                     

                       Noon to 2 PM: JHSPH, 615 North Wolfe, Baltimore, MD  21205 

                       Students and Trainees Lunch and Learn Feinstone Hall, Room    

                        E2030                       

                        Professional Staff, Administrators & Faculty Lunch and Learn, Room 

                        W5008   

Admission Free of Charge following Registration

Registration Closes September 12, 2016

8:30 AM to 9:30 AM    Decreasing health disparities with older adults: the CAPABLE study

 

Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  She tests interventions to reduce health disparities among older adults.  Her work particularly focuses on ways to help older adults “age in place” as
they grow older.  These include ways to improve the social determinants of health such as modifying housing and improving access to food.  Szanton completed undergraduate work in African-American Studies at Harvard University and earned a bachelor’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1993. She holds a nurse practitioner master’s degree from the University of Maryland and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. She is Associate Director for Policy at the Center for Innovative Care in Aging at Johns Hopkins as well as Core Faculty at the Center on Aging and Health, the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions and Adjunct Faculty with the Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and Adjunct faculty at Arizona State University.  She has been by funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation
Center, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Hartford Foundation, the Hillman Foundation, and the AARP Foundation. 

Learning Objectives: After participation in this seminar, psychologists will be able to: (1) Discuss how a goal-directed, tailored program can improve function for specific demographic groups who have health disparities; (2) Discuss the results of the CAPABLE study in relation to health disparities; (3) Discuss the benefits and challenges of improving housing to help older adults “age in place”.

Level: Intermediate

9:30 AM to 10:30AM  Race and the US Health Science Workforce: The 3 R’s - Respect, Relevancy and  Responsibility

Teshia G. Arambula Solomon, PhD (Choctaw/Mexican/American) was appointed Director of the Native American Research and Training Center (NARTC) in July 2011, and has over 20
years experience in health-related research and training involving minority populations. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Solomon is dedicated to increasing the diversity of the US health science workforce as Principal Investigator (PI) of the Student Research Development program of the American Indian Research Centers for Health, a research training program for undergraduate and graduate students at the UA and as PI of the Arizona Indians to Medicine program which aims to recruit American Indians to careers in the health sciences. She is also a co-Investigator on the Arizona PRIDE program an National Health Lung and Blood Institute funded Jr. Faculty training program.

Dr. Solomon is an advocate for Native communities as full participants in research and believes that Culture is the Cure^TM to many of the health disparities experienced by Native Americans. As the PI
for the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention Outreach Core with the Arizona Cancer Center, she leads the community engagement of Tribes and urban NA communities in cancer prevention and control. She is also co-Investigator for a collaboration to reduce childhood asthma disparities for Native children. Dr. Solomon is co-author of the groundbreaking article debunking the stereotype of the drunken Indian, “Alcohol use among Native Americans compared to Whites: Examining the veracity of the “Native American elevated alcohol consumption” belief in the journal, Drug Alcohol Dependence and co-editor and author of Conducting Research with Native American Communities, this authoritative work is the first of its kind to provide information to help researchers meet the demands of working in AIAN communities.

Learning Objectives: After participation in this seminar, psychologists will be able to: (1) Explain why RESPECT is the core issue in working with Native American and other vulnerable populations; (2) Discuss the reasons why research and education must be RELEVANT to the populations with whom we work; (3) Articulate the RESPONSIBILITY we all have to promote the success of diversity and inclusion. 

Level: Intermediate

10:45 AM to 11:45 AM   A Matter of Life or Death: Social Inequities in Health and What Can We Do About Them

David R. Williams is the Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University. Dr. Williams is an internationally recognized authority on social influences on health. He has been invited to keynote scientific conferences in Europe, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, South America and across the United States. The author of more than 400 scientific papers, his research has enhanced our understanding of the complex ways in which socioeconomic status, race, stress, racism, health behavior and religious involvement can affect health. The Everyday Discrimination Scale that he developed is one of the most widely used measures of discrimination in health studies.

He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was ranked as one of the top 10 Most Cited Social Scientists in the world in
2005, as the Most Cited Black Scholar in the Social Sciences in 2008 and as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2014. He has also received an inaugural Decade of Behavior Research Award and the Stephen Smith Award for Distinguished Contributions in Public Health from the New York Academy of Medicine.

Learning Objectives: After participation in this seminar, psychologists will be able to: (1) Participants will be able to describe how racial differences in health today compare to the patterns of 60 years ago; (2) Participants will be able to identify how socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity-related aspects of social experience affect health; (3) Participants will be able to identify how interventions within health care delivery that address the social determinants of health can improve health and achieve health equity; (4) Participants will be able to list at least 3 ways in which interventions in upstream factors such as housing, neighborhood environments and increased socioeconomic status can lead to improvements in health

Level: Intermediate

Noon to 1PM: Lunch Feinstone Hall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

1PM to 2PM: Interactive Lecture and Workshop for Students and Trainees: Addressing Race in Healthcare Settings

Tawara Goode , MA the Director of the National Center for Cultural Competence and is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She has been on the faculty of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD), for the past 30 years and has served in many capacities.  She has degrees in early childhood education, and education and human development.  Ms. Goode has extensive experience as a principal investigator for federal and private sector grants and contracts.  She is the director of the National Center for Cultural Competence at GUCCHD. She is also the Associate Director of the GUCCHD’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and focuses on national level efforts to advance and sustain cultural and linguistic competence in this field.

1PM to 2PM:   Faculty, Clinical Staff, and Administration Lunch and Learn:  Enhancing and
Supporting Diversity in Healthcare Settings

Panelists: Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy [Professor, Former Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs, School Counseling, Mental Health Counseling, Johns Hopkins University, Dean of American University School of Education]; Dr. Chiquita Collins [Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean for Diversity and Cultural Competence, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine]; Dr. Phyllis Sharps  [Professor, Elsie M Lawler Endowed Chair, Associate Dean for Community Programs & Initiatives, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing]

Learning Objectives: After participation in this seminar, psychologists will be able to: (1)  Identify strategies to recruit diverse faculty, clinicians, and staff; (2) Utilize effective strategies to support and retain diverse faculty, clinicians, and staff

  Kennedy Krieger Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Kennedy Krieger Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 4 CE Credits will be granted to licensed psychologists. This seminar reflects program content and is intended to meet the Maryland license requirement to enhance competence in the provision of psychological services to culturally diverse populations. There is no fee for this seminar. No conflicts have been identified. 

If an accommodation or assistance for individuals with disabilities is needed please email mcfaddenj@kennedykrieger.org with your request by 09/12/2016. 

Conference Sponsor

 Center for Diversity in Public Health
Leadership Training at Kennedy Krieger Institute

In Partnership with

Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities, Hopkins Center for Health
Disparities Solutions, Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related
Disabilities (LEND) Program, Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH),
Population, Family and Reproductive Health Bloomberg School of Public Health, and
Office of the Provost, Johns Hopkins University  

 

 

 

 

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