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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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E Workshops 6 Concurrent Sessions

Workshop E-1: Promising initiatives to improve language access to hhs programs and services

Deeana Jang, JD Senior Civil Rights Analyst, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC)

David Santana Health Insurance Specialist, Philadelphia Regional Office of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), US Department of Health and Human Services (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Guadalupe Pacheco Public Health Advisor/Special Assistant to the Deputy, Office of Minority Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (Rockville, Maryland)

Qien He Health Insurance Specialist, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), US Department of Health and Human Services (Baltimore, Maryland)

Jennifer Fagan Public Health Analyst, Office of Minority and Special Populations, Bureau of Primary Health Care (Bethesda, Maryland)

Workshop E-2: Reducing chronic disease disparities in primary care: targeting health centers and managed care organizations*

Lisa Cox Assistant Director, Public Health Policy, National Association of Community Health Centers (Washington, DC)

Deborah Bradley Kilstein, MBA, JD Director of Program Management, The Center for Health Care Strategies (Princeton, New Jersey), and Constance Martin, MHA Program Officer, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.*

Workshop E-3: Interpreter services: a dialogue with the managers of mature programs*
Peer-to-peer practice advancement session

Oscar Arocha Director Interpreter Services Department Boston Medical Center ( Boston, Massachusetts)*

Shiva Bidar-Sielaff Manager of Interpreter Services, UW Hospitals & Clinics (Madison, Wisconsin)

Maureen L. Feldman Team of Interpreter Services, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angles, California)

Carla Fogaren, RN Principal Facilitator, Forum of Coordinators: Interpreter Services (FOCIS), (Milton Village, Massachusetts)*

Martine Pierre-Louis, MPH Manager, Interpreter Services & Community House Calls, Harborview Medical Center (Seattle, Washington)

Facilitator: Loretta Saint-Louis Director of Interpreter Services, Cambridge Health Alliance (Somerville, Massachusetts)

Workshop E-4: Innovative approaches to meeting the needs of diverse populations

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

Marijke Ekkelboom Coordinator of Migrant Health Educators, Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, Municipal Health Service Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Workshop E-5: Managing a multicultural workforce: A roundtable discussion

Bria Chakofsky-Lewy, RN Community House Calls, Interpreter Services, Harborview Medical Center (Seattle, Washington)

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

Marilyn Gardner Program Consultant for the VNA Care Network, Inc; Director, Cross Cultural Health Care (Phoenix, Arizona)

Workshop E-6: Taking interpreter training into colleges and universities*
Peer-to-peer practice advancement session

Clementina Adams, PhD Professor, Clemson University, Department of Languages (Clemson, South Carolina)*

Katie Crenshaw, JD, MSEd Director, Samford After Sundown CE, Samford University (Birmingham, Alabama)*

Nora Goodfriend-Koven, MPH Program Coordinator and Instructor, Healthcare Interpreter Certificate Program, Health Sciences Department, City College of San Francisco (San Francisco, California)*

Eric Jones, PhD Dean of Educational Services, Central Community College (Grand Island, Nebraska)

Lisa Morris, MSTD Director, Cross Cultural Initiatives, Office of Community Programs, Commonwealth Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts)

José Velázquez, PhD Project Director, Hablamos Juntos, Regional Medical Center at Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee)

Facilitator: Ellen M. Dawson, PhD, ANP Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Health Science, George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia)

*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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