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Fourth National Conference on
Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations:
Integrating Community Needs into the National Health Agenda

September 28-October 1, 2004, Washington, DC
Hilton Washington, Washington DC

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B Workshops 8 Concurrent Sessions

Workshop B-1: Obtaining race, ethnicity, and primary language information: policies and practices, challenges and opportunities*

Karen Ho Research Analyst, Medstat, Inc., National Healthcare Disparities Report research team, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (Rockville, Maryland)

Mara Youdelman, JD, LLM Staff Attorney, National Health Law Program (Washington, DC)

Roxanne Andrews, PhD Senior Health Services Researcher, Center for Delivery, Organization and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (Rockville, Maryland)

Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD Senior Director, Health Research & Educational Trust, American Hospital Association (Chicago, Illinois)

David W. Baker, MD, MPH Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University (Chicago, Illinois)

Discussant: Anne Beal, MD, MPH Senior Program Officer, The Commonwealth Fund (New York, New York)

Workshop B-2: Philanthropy's Role in Addressing Cultural Competence and Health Disparities

Rea Pañares, MHS Program Associate, Grantmakers In Health (Washington, DC)

William F. Crimi Vice President of Program & Evaluation, Connecticut Health Foundation (Farmington, Connecticut))

Celeste Reid Lee, EdM Director of Community Partnerships, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (Boston, Massachusetts)

Margaret O’Bryon President and CEO, Consumer Health Foundation (Washington, DC)

Workshop B-3: Language Services Agencies: a community approach to interpreter services*
Peer-to-peer practice advancement session

Sarah C. Cunningham, PhD Principal Investigator, Hablamos Juntos; Executive Director, Central Nebraska Area Health Education Center (AHEC) (Grand Island, Nebraska)

Kathleen K. Diamond President and CEO, Language Learning Enterprises - Language Services, Association of Language Companies (Washington, DC)

Frederick D. Hobby, MA Administrative and Chief Diversity Officer, Greenville Hospital System, Hablamos Juntos, MedVerse (Greenville, South Carolina)

David Jones Manager of Interpretation Services, Mercy Medical Center (Des Moines, Iowa)*

Linda Okahara Community Services Director, Language and Cultural Access Program, Asian Health Services (Oakland, California)*

Fausto G. Patiño, MD, DrPH Principal Director and Project Director, Hablamos Juntos; Director of Research and Evaluation, Hablamos Juntos en Alabama, En Español (Birmingham, Alabama)

Patricia Patrón Training and Evaluation Specialist, Cross-Cultural Medical Interpreter Services, Family HealthCare Center (Fargo, North Dakota)

Facilitator: Melinda Paras Paras & Associates Consulting (Albany, California)

Workshop B-4: Meeting people where they are: culturally competent health promotion and disease prevention

Ruth Browne, MPH, MPP, ScD Executive Director, Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, SUNY Downstate Medical Center (Brooklyn, New York)

Alison Alfonzo Pence Community Services Director, The Cross Cultural Health Care Program (Seattle, Washington)

Workshop B-5: National quality organizations interpret the CLAS standards: a focus group discussion*

Lok Wong, MHS Senior Health Care Analyst, Quality Measurement, National Committee for Quality Assurance (Washington DC)

Amy Wilson, MPP, CPHQ Associate Director, Division of Standards and Survey Methods, Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) (Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois)*

Helen Wu, MSc Program Director, National Quality Forum (Washington DC)*

Workshop B-6: How cultural competency contributes to reducing racial/ethnic disparities in healthcare

Eboni Price, MD, MPH Fellow, Academic General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland)

Elizabeth Jacobs, MD, MPP Assistant Professor of Medicine, Collaborative Research Unit, Cook County Hospital & Rush Medical College (Chicago, Illinois)

Somnath Saha, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Oregon)

Moderators/Discussants: Glenn Flores, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology & Health Policy; Director, Community Outcomes; Associate Director, Center for the Advancement of Urban Children, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy; Director of Multicultural Education, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts)

Workshop B-7: Incorporating physician views into the design and implementation of cultural competence training

Patricia Hudelson, PhD Medical Anthropologist, Département de Médecine Communautaire, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland)*

Joel S. Weissman, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts)*

Robert C. Like, MD, MS Associate Professor and Director, Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (New Brunswick, New Jersey)*

Workshop B-8: Improving the delivery of mental health services: from patient to clinic to the community

Dolores I. Rodriguez-Reimann, PhD The Center for Behavioral & Community Health Studies, San Diego State University (San Diego, California)

Deqa Farah Community Mental Health Consultant, Community Resources Consultants of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)*

Teresita Camacho-Gonsalves, PhD Program Manager, Human Services Research Institute (Cambridge, Massachusetts) *

*Resource Materials available for this presenter. See white pages in this section.

 
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    Fourth National Conference is presented by
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care, Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
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