Educational Archive
Conferences
Fourth National Conference on "Quality Health Care for Culturally
Diverse Populations: Integrating Community Needs into the National
Health Agenda." Hilton Washington Hotel in Washington ,
DC .
September 28 - October 1, 2004
The Obesity Epidemic: Impact and Interventions within the
Minority Communities
Friday, November 12, 2004
Special evening speaker:
Antonia Coello Novello, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H.
New York State Health Commissioner Formerly 14th
Surgeon General of U.S. Public Health Service
Special guest faculty:
Lawrence Agodoa, M.D.
Director, Office of Minority Health Research Coordination
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Jordan Hall Conference Center
University of Virginia
Charlottesville , Virginia
Overcoming Barriers to Improving
Health Disparities:
Policy, Practice, Research
September 20-21, 2002
Keynote Speaker:
Louis W.
Sullivan, MD
President, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta
Host of the public television series Frontiers of Medicine
Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

Conferences with CIMH Members
Presenting
National Rural Health
Association's
8th Annual Rural Minority Health Conference
Race,
Culture, Technology: Impact on Rural Minority Health
December 5-6, 2002
Hyatt Regency Islandia; San Diego, California
Sarah
Farrell, RN, CS, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
and Health Evaluation Sciences, School of Medicine and Shaughnessy
Fellow, Provost’s Office
UVa Downlink:
Social
Determinants of Health: Assembling Pieces of the Puzzle
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health
24th Annual Minority Health Conference
Friday, March 1, 2002
2:00 - 3:15 pm
Downlink Sponsored by the Center on Health Disparities and Health
Evaluation Sciences
Eliminating Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities 
April 27, 2001
Albemarle County Office Building--Lane Auditorium
Keynote speaker: David
Satcher, U.S. Surgeon General
April 28-29, 2001
UVa Health System--Jordan Hall (G1, G2 & 1st Floor--Rooms
1-3)
Monthly Series
Spring 2004
April 13
The Global Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease in Underserved
Populations
Ross Isaacs,
M.D., Associate Director: Center for Improving
Minority Health; Associate Professor of Medicine: Division of
Nephrology
May 27
The International Family Medicine Clinic and Cultural
Competence: Caring for Refugees at the
University of
Virginia
Fern R. Hauck, M.D., M.S.;
Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Health
Evaluation Sciences; Director of Research; Director of International
Family Medicine Clinic
Spring 2003
February 18
In recognition of African-American Heritage Month at UVA
The State of African-American Health in
Virginia
Wally Smith, M.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, The Division Of Quality Health
Care, Medical College of Virginia Department of Internal
Medicine
Fall 2002
September 17
Migrant Workers' Health: Challenges and Progress
Esther Miller, R.N., B.S.N., Migrant
Health Coordinator, at the Rural Health
Outreach Program in Nelson County
12-1:00 pm
Jordan Hall, Rooms 2ABC
September 25
Communication with the Underserved about Cancer: Physical and
Spiritual Barriers
Groesbeck Parham, M.D., Professor of
OB/GYN, Gynelogical Oncology, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
12:30-1:30 pm
Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium
October 15
Barriers and Facilitators of Mental Health Care in Community
Health Centers
Elizabeth
I. Merwin, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Associate Professor,
School of Nursing Division of Community Health/ Home Health/ Health
Services Research
12-1:00 pm
Jordan Hall, Meeting Room 1 (1st floor)
November 19
Racism, Racial Identity, and Blood Pressure
Lucie Ferguson,
R.N., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Director, Primary Care and Community Services at Bon Secours
Richmond Health System
12-1:00 pm
Jordan Hall, Rooms 2ABC
January 22
HIV in the Minority Population
Gregory Townsend, M.D.,
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Instructor of
Pediatrics; Associate Director University of Virginia Infectious
Diseases Clinic; Primary Department: Internal Medicine, Division of
Infectious Diseases
February 19
Prostate Cancer: Disparities Among African American
Men
Kerry
Kilbridge, M.D., Assistant Professor, Division of
Health Services Research & Outcomes Evaluation
March 22
Diabetes in Underserved Populations
John Schorling, M.D., M.P.H, Section Head, Division of General
Medicine
Terry Saunders, PhD,
Director, Virginia Center for Diabetes Professional Education,
Assistant Professor of Medical Education in Internal
Medicine
Natalie May, Ph.D.,
Director of Research, Division of General Medicine and
Geriatrics
May 21
Racial Disparities & Diabetic Kidney
Disease
Ross Isaacs, M.D., Medical DirectorMullti-Organ Transplant
Clinic,
Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, Associate Director
Center on Health Disparities
Fall 2001
September 13
Cultural Factors in End-of-Life Care
Leslie Blackhall, M.D.,
M.Div., Assistant Professor Palliative Care Services; UVA Center for
Biomedical Ethics
October 4
Migrant Health Issues in Virginia
Mary Bell Boltwood, RN, Migrant Health Network
Spring 2001
February 2, 2001
Community Based Participatory Research: Principles, Challenges, &
Recommendations from the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research
Center Experience
Barbara
Israel, Dr.P.H., Professor, Department of
Health Behavior & Health Education, School of Public Health,
University of Michigan
Fall 2000
November 7, 2000
Evolution
of the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education
Program
Clive O.
Callender, M.D., Professor & Chairman,
Department of Surgery, Director of the Transplant Center, Howard
University Hospital
Founder & Principal Investigator, Minority Organ Tissue Transplant
Education Program (MOTTEP)
September 28, 2000
Eliminating
Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities: Towards a National
Plan
Gregory Pappas,
M.D., Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Surgeon
General
University of
Virginia
Courses on Minority Health
co-sponsored by the CHD
Fall
2002
Center for Global Health
Global Health and Africa (Mnemonic still to be given)
Women's Health: A Global Perspective (GNUR 510 - SWAG 510)
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