COMMUNITY TOWN HALL MEETING

Saturday, May 16, 2009

My Community, My Family, and Me: What Does Genetics Have To Do With Our Health? 

Sponsored by Howard University’s Community and Family Medicine Department

and National Genome Center

When: Saturday, May 16, 2009

Time: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Where: WHUT-TV Studio on the campus of Howard University, 2222 4th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001.

The town hall meeting will feature two one hour discussion forums: “Race, Genetics and Health” and “Family Health History”. Both forums will feature a panel of local and national experts from medicine, academia and the government. Refreshments will be provided. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required by April 30, 2009.

For more information or to register contact Finie Richardson at (202)806-9849 or e-mail fkhunter@howard.edu

Town Hall Registration Information

This program is supported by grant U33MC0057 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Genetics Services Branch to the March of Dimes Foundation.

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This conference was sponsored by the DC Academy of Family Physicians in conjunction with Howard University Department of Community and Family Medicine. Funding provided by the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Health Literacy State Grant Awards Program.

A one day health literacy workshop for health care professionals to increase awareness about health literacy issues and acquire practical strategies to assess health literacy and communicate effectively with their patients. There will be two diverse expert panels present to shed light on the issue, providing representation from local and national organizations in medicine, patient advocacy and government.

Objectives:

• Gain awareness of health literacy, its impact, and relationship to quality care
• Describe strategies to empower patients in all aspects of the health care process
• Examine physician role in assuring coordination, integration and continuity of care for low health literacy patients
• Develop skills and techniques to address low health literacy
• Identify low health literacy resources within the Academy for Family Physicians

Conference Agenda

Presentations:

Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion (Dr. Rose Martinez)

Overcoming Health Disparities among African Americans via Improving Health Literacy and Bidirectional Communication (Dr. Raggio Ashley)

Addressing Health Literacy in Multilingual Population: A community health center approach (Dr's. Anderson and Padilla)

Photonovelas in Health Education (Dr. Silvia Martinez)

Health Literacy Universal Precautions (Ms. Brach)

Effective Use of "Play It Safe...With Medicine!" AAFP Health Literacy Toolkit Resources (Dr. Mouton)

Slide Show:

The 2008 AHRQ PBRN Research Conference

The AHRQ PBRN Research Conference was held June 11-13, 2008 in Bethesda, Maryland. Mrs. Finie Richardson presented preliminary findings from our CAM data as well as data from the pandemic flu survey obtained from DC PrimCare PBRN member practices. This conference was a great opportunity to share the work of our network with other PBRNs, meet with funders, and receive updates on the most recent PBRN research. Click on the link below to view the poster presentation.

2008 AHRQ Conference Poster Presentation