141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Disparity amelioration through professional education

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Demonstrate advances in professional development and education with respect to equalizing disparities List two barriers to curriculum in sensitivity to disparities and social justice Describe outcomes of an effort to recruit more representative students into the health professions Identify two changes of attitudes and knowledge by ethnicity with respect to health conditions
Moderator:
Linda D. Green, MD

2:30pm
Let justice flow on like a river   
Kawika Liu, MD, PhD, JD and Kaimi Sinclair, PhD, MPH
     
2:45pm
Diversifying the healthcare workforce: An innovative model targeting community college students   
Odichinma Akosionu, BS and Ramon Hernandez, MPH, DrPH candidate
     
3:00pm
An interprofessional education program that includes clinical and community-oriented health professions fosters increased sensitivity to the complexities of childhood obesity   
Tiara N. Rosemond, MPH, CHES, Christine E. Blake, PhD, RD, Scotty Buff, PhD, MPH, Elizabeth W. Blake, Pharm.D., Brianne L. Dunn, Pharm.D. and Teri Browne, PhD, MSW, NSW-C
     
3:15pm
Changes in perceptions and knowledge of health and healthcare disparities, after health equity training, among public health workers in Texas   
Oladimeji Akinboro, MBBS, MPH, Allison Ottenbacher, PhD, Kim Linnear, MPA, Marcus Martin, PhD, MPH, MA, Edilissa Martin, PharmD, Thomas James, PhD, Jim Murdoch, PhD, Roderick Harrison, PhD, Avani Parikh, MPH, Prashanti Selvakumar and Kathryn Cardarelli, PhD
     
3:30pm
Time to promotion among racial/ethnic minority and female academic medical center faculty   
Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D., M.H.S., Tara Rizzo, MPH and Maria Ciarleglio, PhD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Medical Care
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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