Events

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November 4, 2004: Health Disparities Seminar Series - "The Loss of Culture, The Loss of Health" - JENNIE R. JOE, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Director, Native American Research and Training Center, University of Arizona

October 20, 2004: Health Disparities Seminar Series - "Recent Changes in Medicare and Medicaid and Their Impact on Health Disparities" - MARY TIERNEY, MD, Senior Research Analyst, American Institutes of Research

September 15, 2004: Health Disparities Seminar Series - "Achieving Cultural & Linguistic Competence in Health Care" - TAWARA D. GOODE, MA., Director, National Center for Cultural Competence & Associate Director for Community Planning, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center

July 28, 2004: University of Maryland School of Medicine Opens Center for Health Disparities to Address Ethnic, Racial and Geographic Barriers to Care

June 30, 2004: Health Disparities Seminar Series -"Health Related Differences Among Rural Americans: Disparities, Disgraces, or Discrimination?"- JOHN C. HIGGINBOTHAM, PHD, MPH, Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Community & Rural Medicine, College of Community Health Sciences, Director, Institute for Rural Health Research, The University of Alabama School of Medicine

June 17, 18, 19, 2004: African American Heritage Festival - Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD, The University of Maryland Center for Health Disparities Research, Training and Outreach, will have an exhibit with health information on cancer and other tobacco-related diseases along with blood pressure screenings.

May 18, 2004: Health Disparities Seminar Series - "Minority Girls: Addressing Their Mental Health Needs With Effective Evidence Based Interventions"- GAYLE K. PORTER, Psy.D., Principal Research Analyst and Senior Mental Health Advisor for the American Institutes, Co-Director, The Gaston & Porter Health Improvement Center

April 13, 2004: Health Disparities Seminar Series - "Pain and Palliative Care in Underserved Communities: Barriers and Opportunities" - RICHARD PAYNE, MD, Director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life at Duke Divinity School, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina

March 17, 2004: Health Disparities Seminar Series - "A Review of Racial Disparities in Colorectal, Oral and Breast Cancer Treatment and Outcomes"- VICKIE L. SHAVERS, Ph.D., Epidemiologist Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Services, National Cancer Institute

February 11, 2004: Health Disparities Seminar Series - "A Discussion on the National Healthcare Disparities Report and the National Healthcare Quality Report Recently Released by AHRQ" - CAROLYN M. CLANCY, M.D., Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Department of Health and Human Services

June 25, 2003: Inequities in Health Care: A Review of the Institute of Medicine's "Unequal Health Care" - ALAN NELSON, MD, MACP, former American Medical Association president and chairman of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare

February 5, 2003: Cancer Disparities Seminar Series - "What is a health disparity?" - OLIVIA CARTER-POKRAS, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine

November 6, 2002: Cancer Disparities Seminar Series - "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Receipt of Cancer Treatment," - VICKIE L. SHAVERS, PhD, Epidemiologist Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Services, National Cancer Institute

October 8, 2002: Cancer Disparities Seminar Series - "Hormone Receptors and Age Specific Rates in Formation of Breast Cancer in White and Black" - KENNETH C. CHU, PhD - Program Director, Disparities Research Branch, Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, National Cancer Institute

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