SCHEDULE DETAILS Information of Event Schedules
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Check-In
Please join us for check-in and networking.
Karen Rice, PhD, LSW, ACS
Behaviors that Create barriers to Engaging Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
This session will explore the various behaviors that impede efforts to foster an environment that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. These behaviors include conscious and unconscious bias, prejudice, stereotypes, discrimination, and microaggressions. To foster inclusivity and create a sense of belonging, various interrupters can be implemented. These interrupters include involve create an environment that fosters psychological meaningfulness, safety, and availability.
This sessions is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Stretch Break
Fifteen minute break for coffee, stretching, brain breaks.
Evelin A. La Paz
Language Barriers & Immigration: How Do We Bridge the Gap to Access Effective Communication?
This presentation aims to explore the language barriers immigrants face in the United States. These barriers may impact how they navigate simple daily life activities such as opening a bank account, to more complicated ones, including accessing healthcare services or navigating the legal system. The target audience will be exposed to a discussion about regulations that protect their rights to effective communication in certain instances as well as the resources available to service providers and the individuals with limited English proficiency or emerging English language skills.
This sessions is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 3 morning break-outs.
Karla Tolan
Building Inclusive Spaces and Advancing a Culture of Belonging
Learn how one healthcare organization is advancing a culture of belonging with Inclusion Champions; team members passionate about DEI, trained to be allies, bias disruptors and promotors of equity for their colleagues and patients at WellSpan Health.
This sessions is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 3 morning break-outs.
Tina Nixon
Women’s Health & Vulnerable Populations
Crucial conversations on women’s health including access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare especially for vulnerable populations.
This session is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 3 morning break-outs.
Lunch and Networking
Dr. Ada-Nkem Emuwa, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Race-Based Discussion in the Workplace
Break
Enjoy a fifteen minute brain break.
Julie Myers, MPH
Traumatic Brain Injury and Health Equity
This session is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 4 morning break-outs.
Andrea Murray, MPH
Community Activism: The Role of Community Influencers in Affecting Diversity and Change
This session is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 4 morning break-outs.
Dr. Tee Okasi-Nwozo
Building and Practicing Inclusion: A practical guide to implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in the workplace
This session is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 4 morning break-outs.
Dr. Scott McCraken, MD
Transgender Health and Implications for Building an Inclusive Community
This session is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 4 morning break-outs.
Check-In
Technology check.
Adrian Shanker
LGBTQ – needs assessment & health disparities: Barriers to Care
Stretch Break
Fifteen minute break for coffee, stretching, brain breaks.
Geoffrey M Roche
Social determinants of health and the political determinants of health are both vital if we are to advance a more equitable Commonwealth.
This session is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 4 morning break-outs.
Joseph A. Troncale, MD MFA DFASAM
Substance Use Disorders & Treatment: Nature vs. Nurture and How We Reconcile the Two in Treatment
This session is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 4 morning break-outs.
William A Charpentier
Current Operational Environment Impact on the National Guard
This session is eligible for 1.5 CEs.
Choose 1 of 4 morning break-outs.
Lunch on your Own