MAI Summit

5th Annual Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) - NEHEC Multicultural HIV/AIDS Provider Summit

Part of the "NEHEC-MAI" series.

 

5th Annual
Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) - NEHEC
Multicultural HIV/AIDS Provider Summit
 
Leading the efforts to eliminate HIV/AIDS ethnic and racial
health disparities
Building Capacity and Bridges to care in New England’s
Communities of Color
 
AGENDA
 
 
7:45  - 8:45 Registration - Information Displays, Networking Breakfast
8:45  - 9:15 Welcome from NEAETC, NEHEC, and Springfield
  • Durrell Fox, BS (New England HIV Education Consortium)
  • Donna Gallagher, APRN-C, MS, ANP, FA (New England AIDS Education and Training Center)
  • Helen Caulton-Harris (Springfield Health & Human Services)
9:15  - 10:15 Minority AIDS Initiative History and Future & US Office of HIV/AIDS Policy Update (PLENARY I)
  • Christopher H. Bates (US Office of HIV/AIDS Policy)
  • Durrell Fox, BS (New England HIV Education Consortium)
10:15  - 10:45 Newtorking Display Break
10:45 -11:30

Exploring HIV/AIDS Racial and Ethnic Disparities & HIV Clinical
Research Opportunities (PLENARY II)

  • Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPD (Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital)
11:30 - 12:30

MA Perspectives on HIV in Communities of Color (PLENARY III)

  • Dawn Fukuda (Office of HIV/AIDS at Mass Department of
    Public Health)
12:30  - 1:45

Lunch Roundtables

Topics will include -HIV Immigration; HIV Stigma; HIV clinical providers of color
networking; Strategies for outreach in communities of color; Advocacy;
Correctional Health; Aging; Populations -Native American, Black, Latino
1:45  - 3:45

Concurrent Afternoon Breakout Sessions

A)   HIV Clinical Provider Skills Building Session
       Clinical Consultation and Case Discussions

  • Carolina Abuelo, MD, DTM&H (Brown University)
  • Richard Torres, MD, MPH, FACP, CHES (Optimus Health Care)

 B)   Strengthening Systems/Clinical Infrastructure Session
        Implementing National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically 
        Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care       

  • David Luckett - (NMAETC)

C)   Interdisciplinary- Multicultural HIV Clinical Team Approaches to Care Session
       Diverse providers, clinical and non clinical representing teams from 
       Springfield-Holyoke area will describe how they work, with their team, 
       to optimize access, care and treatment services for HIV+ people of color.

  • Claudia Martorell, MD, MPH, FACP (The Research Institute)
  • Frances Santiago, RN (Community Research Initiative of New England)
  • Daniel J. Skiest (Baystate Medical Center)
  • Norma Vasquez (Baystate Mason Square Neighborhood Health Center)
3:45  - 4:15 Workshop Review and Wrap Up
4:15  - 4:30 Closing Entertainment

 

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Learn more about this event: download the flyer/brochure.  

Sponsorship & Funding

Jointly sponsored by: University of Massachusetts Medical School Office of Continuing Medical Education
New England AIDS Education and Training Center
UMMS Planning Committee: Jennifer Daly, MD, Donna Gallagher, RN, MS, ANP, FAAN, MA

Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of The University of Massachusetts Medical School and New England AIDS Education and Training Center. The University of Massachusetts Medical School is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement: The University of Massachusetts Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: Under the auspices of the New England AIDS Education & Training Center, this offering meets the requirements for a maximum of 5.0 contact hours, as specified by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (244-CMR 5.04). Each nurse should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Policy on Faculty and Provider Disclosure: It is the policy of the University of Massachusetts Medical School to ensure fair balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all activities. All faculty participating in CME activities sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Medical School are required to present evidence-based data, identify and reference off-label product use and disclose all relevant financial relationships with those supporting the activity or others whose products or services are discussed. Faculty disclosure will be provided in the activity materials.

Funding: The New England AIDS Education and Training Center is one of fifteen education centers funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, and sponsored regionally by Commonwealth Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center , Worcester, MA, through a grant from the Health Resources & Services Administration, Federal Grant No.5 H4AHA00050-08-00.

when

Friday, April 30
8:30 AM to 4:00 PM

registration

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where

Springfield Marriott
2 Boland Way
Springfield , MA

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