Agenda

8:30-9:00        

Registration/Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:30

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Claudia R. Baquet, MD, MPH, Associate Dean, Policy and Planning, Professor, Medicine, Director, Center for Health Disparities, University of Maryland School of Medicine

9:30-10:30

Opening Keynote Address

Introduction: Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACP, Vice-President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland and Dean School of Medicine

Yvonne T. Maddox, PhD, Deputy Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

• “Building Public Trust In Clinical Research With Partnerships: NIH Roadmap and Public Trust Initiatives” (PowerPoint)

10:30-10:45         

Break

10:45 – 12:15

Panel Discussion 1: “Getting Support for Community Health Disparities Initiatives from Providers, Policy Makers, Business Leaders and Community Members”

Moderator
The Honorable Ulysses Currie, Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee, Senate of Maryland

Panelists

• Mark S. Clanton, MD, MPH, Deputy Director, Cancer Care Delivery Systems, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
• Lisa Egbuonu-Davis, MD, MPH, MBA, Pfizer Scholar-in-Residence, Spelman College
• Robert L. Comis, MD, President and Chairman, Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups
• Linda L. Alexander, PhD, FAAN, Vice-President, Women’s Health, Digene Corporation

12:15 – 12:30

Break

12:30-2:00

Luncheon Keynote Address 

Introduction: Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACP, Vice-President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland and Dean School of Medicine

David Satcher, MD, PhD, Interim President Morehouse School of Medicine; 16th Surgeon General of the United States

• “Health Disparities: A Global Perspective on the Cost to Society of Inequities in the United States” (PowerPoint)

2:00-2:30

“What We Know about Health Disparities in Maryland”

Michelle Gourdine MD, Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services, Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene

2:30-2:45         

Break

2:45 -3:45           

Panel Discussion 2: “Networking in Maryland to Address Health Disparities-What Works and Why”

Moderator
The Honorable Shirley Nathan–Pulliam, Maryland House of Delegates

Panelists

• Delores C. Datcher, Ed D, C. Datcher and Associates LLC.
• Mary S. DeShields, MD, Medical Oncologist, Senior Investigator & Director of the Cancer Clinical Trials Program, Shore Regional Cancer Center, Shore Health System
• Sonia Mora, Director, Latino Health Initiative Montgomery County, Department of Health and Human Services (Diego Uriburu MS, Co-Chair, Latino Health Steering Committee of Montgomery County presented on her behalf)
• Joy Bramble, Publisher, The Baltimore Times
• Diana Harrison, Rural Health Initiatives Director, South Atlantic Division, American Cancer Society

3:45-4:00         

Closing Remarks: “Today is Only the Beginning”

Claudia R. Baquet, MD, MPH, Associate Dean, Policy and Planning, Professor, Medicine, Director, Center for Health Disparities, University of Maryland School of Medicine

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