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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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C Workshops 8 Concurrent Sessions

Workshop C-1: Transforming organizations to improve cultural competence and quality*

Katherine Gottlieb, MBA President & CEO, Southcentral Foundation, and Douglas Eby, MD, MPH Vice President, Medical Services, Southcentral Foundation at the Alaska Native Medical Center (Anchorage, Alaska)*

Joan Quinlan, MPP Director, Community Benefits at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts)

Workshop C-2: Improving communication with diverse populations: implications for quality*

Christina Bethell, PhD, MBA, MPH Director, The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University

Andrew Chang, JD, MPH Director, Center for Patient Safety, Division of Research, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO), and Chandrika Divi, MPH Associate Project Director, Center for Patient Safety Research, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), (Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois)

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

Workshop C-3: Developing an interpreter code of ethics and implications for practice*

Karin Ruschke, MA President, International Language Service, Inc.; Co-Chair, Standards, Training and Certification Committee of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (Chicago, Illinois), and Shiva Bidar-Sielaff Manager of Interpreter Services, University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics (Madison, Wisconsin)*

Priscilla Mendenhall Director, Education and Training, Northern Virginia Area Health Education Center (Alexandria, Virginia), Wilma Alvarado-Little Co-Chair of the Board, National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (Albany, New York), and Seyoum Berhe Director of the Arlington Diocese Office of Resettlement (Washington, DC)

Workshop C-4: Measuring the costs and benefits of language services*

Juan José Orellana, MBA Strategic Planner, Molina Healthcare-Hablamos Juntos Su Idioma (Long Beach, California)

Charles Soltoff, MBA Associate Vice President, Program Development, Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Brenda Seagrave-Whittle Senior Director of Member Development, Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island (Providence, Rhode Island)*

Workshop C-5: Designing and delivering culturally appropriate health services: strategies for maximizing community participation*
Peer-to-peer practice advancement session

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

Martha Geraty Director, Community Outreach Programs, UC Davis Center for Healthy Aging, Event Chair, Healthy Aging Summit 2002-2003 (Sacramento, California)*

Nathaly Herrel, MSc Project Coordinator, Minnesota International Health Volunteers (Minneapolis, Minnesota)*

Robert Phillips, MPA Principal, Carter Phillips LLC; Board Chair, Health Access California; Board member California Donor Transplant Network; former Board Treasurer, Alameda County Medical Center; Participant in Worlds Apart Film (San Francisco, California)

Sharon Sherlock, RN, BSN, MSA Executive Director, Reach Out of Montgomery County (Dayton, Ohio)

Winston Tseng, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Behavioral Factors Training Grant, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health (Berkeley, California)*

Workshop C-6: Cultural competence training for health professionals: How to reach them and what difference it makes*
Peer-to-peer practice advancement session

Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy; Director of Multicultural Education, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts)

Diana Carr, MA Cultural and Linguistic Services, Health Net of California (Pasadena, California)

Ann S. Kenny, MPH, RN Director, Center for Healthcare Outreach and Management Support, Science Application International Corporation (SAIC) (Falls Church, Virginia)

Robert C. Like, MD, MS Department of Family Medicine, Robert W. Johnson Medical School (New Brunswick, New Jersey)*

Guadalupe Pacheco, MSW Special Assistant. to the Director, USDHHS Office of Minority Health (Rockville, Maryland)

Mary Walton, RN, MSN Nurse Manager, Department of Nursing, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Facilitator: Ira SenGupta Executive Director, Cross Cultural Health Care Program (Seattle, Washington)

Workshop C-7: Managed health networks meet the challenge of serving diverse populations*

Arthur Chen, MD Chief Medical Officer, Alameda Alliance for Health (Alameda, California)

Lucienne H. Ricketts Manager, Public Affairs and Cultural and Linguistic Services, and Loretta Estes Coordinator, Cultural and Linguistic Services, Passport Health Plan (Louisville, Kentucky)

Workshop C-8: Improving quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries: interventions to improve care for underserved communities

Jacqueline Harley, MS Co- Government Task Leader, Reduce Disparities Projects, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Baltimore, Maryland)

Steven Preston PhD Co- Government Task Leader, Reduce Disparities Projects, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Seattle, Washington)

Susan Brittman, MPH Special Projects Manager, QSource-Center for Healthcare Quality, Underserved Quality Improvement Organization Support Center (Memphis, Tennessee)

Mary ‘Toni’ Flowers, RN Director of Health Disparities and Cultural Competency, MPRO-Michigan Quality Improvement Organization (Detroit, Michigan)

Romie Lutz Health Educator, Quality Insights of Delaware Quality Improvement Organization (Wilmington, Delaware)

Paula Savini Director of Communications, Quality Insights of Delaware Quality Improvement Organization (Wilmington, Delaware)

Discussant: Judith M. Hammond, PhD Interventions Specialist, Q-Source-Center for Healthcare Quality, Underserved Quality Improvement Support Center (Memphis, Tennessee)

*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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