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Midwifery
Leadership Conference
Overcoming Maternal and Child
Health Disparities Through Leadership: Preparing for the Next
Generation
Agenda
| 7:45
AM |
Registration,
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:15 AM |
Opening
Remarks – Carolyn L. Gegor CNM, MS, FACNM, Project Director
and CAPT Nanette Pepper, BSN, MEd, HRSA / MCHB Project Officer |
| 8:30 AM |
Keynote
Speaker: Healthcare Disparities in the US: Where are we in
2006? – Barbara Aranda-Naranjo, RN, PhD, FAAN, Robert
and Kathleen Scanlon Endowed Chair in Values Based Healthcare |
| 9:15 AM |
Healthcare
Disparities in the US: Where can we go? How can we get there? – Michelle
Sara King, JD, Senior Policy Analyst, American College of Nurse-Midwives |
| 10:00 AM |
Break, Coffee |
| 10:30 AM |
Healthcare
Disparities in Washington, DC: What is happening in our own
neighborhood? – Linda Randolph, MD, MPH, President and
CEO of DC Developing Families Center |
| 11:00 AM |
Leadership
in Conquering Healthcare Disparities: Follow ME! – Ruth
Lubic, CNM, EdD, Founder and President Emeritus of DC Developing
Families Center, President and CEO of Family Health and Birth
Center |
| 12:00 PM |
Luncheon
Networking: Opportunities for Leadership
- Nurses
for America – (Student TBA); MCHB Midwifery Leadership
Scholarship – Carolyn L. Gegor, CNM, MS, FACNM
- Update
from HRSA – Laura Kavanagh, MPP, Chief of HRSA
/ MCHB Training Branch
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| 1:00 PM |
Leadership
in Cultural Competence for Midwifery Practice: Cultural Competency
as Strategy to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities – Jo-Anna
L. Rorie, CNM, MSN, MPH, FACNM Assistant Professor of Maternal & Child
Health, Associate Director, Nurse Midwifery Education Program,
Boston University School of Public Health |
| 2:15 PM |
Break |
| 2:30 PM |
Leadership:
How to Create the Care Needed in our Community – Maria
S. Gomez, RN, MPH, President and CEO of Mary's Center for Maternal
and Child Care, Inc. |
| 3:15 PM |
Leadership
Case Studies: Examples of individuals who made a big difference – (3
Students TBA) |
| 4:00 PM |
Measuring
Our Success |
| 4:15 PM |
Preparing
the Next Generation: NEXT STEPS – Bette R. Keltner, RN,
PhD, FAAN, Dean of Georgetown University School of Nursing
and Health Studies |
| 4:30 PM |
Completion
of Program Reception |
Georgetown University
School of Nursing & Health Studies is accredited as a provider
of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s
Commission on Accreditation. Participants who completed the conference
were eligible to receive 6.9 contact hours for attending the entire
program. An application to the American College of Nurse Midwives
was submitted for specialty credit of .69 CEUs.
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