The American College of Preventive Medicine is partnering with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Black Women's Health Imperative (BWHI) to support the development of novel approaches in addressing prediabetes among high-risk populations, with a focus on Black and Hispanic women. We are excited to be hosting a virtual session as part of this initiative.
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from three health systems which were awarded grants on how to increase prediabetes awareness, screening and referrals of patients to diabetes prevention programs that are recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These organizations use innovative practice protocols to tear down barriers to health and address prediabetes in high-risk populations.
Attendees will also learn about addressing the social determinants of health within the National Diabetes Prevention Program, evaluating diabetes prevention efforts within healthcare organizations, high-touch coaching to improve engagement of Black and Hispanic women, and the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program.
The virtual session will also feature speakers from the CDC, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, ACPM, AMA, and BWHI. CME/MOC credits is pending for this session. There is no cost for this session.
The SAP helps connect residency candidates with the accredited Preventivie Medicine Residency programs across the country. If you are interested in learning more about the SAP match process, we hope you'll join us as we provide an overview of the program and answer candidate questions.
SAP Info session recording for candidates
We hope you'll lend your time, energy and expertise to asking Congress to appropriate increased funding in the HRSA budget to support these residency programs training the next generation of Preventive Medicine physician-leaders.
Our Hill Day will be on Tuesday, March 16, and will be conducted virtually over the phone and via video-conference. Additional meetings can be scheduled for March 17 and 18, depending on the availability of all participants.
The goal of the Learning Collaborative is to explore strategies for clinics and communities to prevent high blood pressure among African American adults. The Collaborative is a forum for sharing promising practices, innovative ideas and lessons learned in four areas:
- Screening, testing, and referral of individuals with or at risk for hypertension
- Engage this specific patient population in lifestyle education and self-measured blood pressure monitoring (SMBP)
- Addressing social needs and determinants of health that are barriers to controlling blood pressure
- Using data to track, report, and improve outcomes
Participants can anticipate leaving collaborative sessions with new ideas to improve their practice and patient outcomes. Through the online repository of slides and handouts, we’ll create a record of successful strategies with real-world track records that are available to others engaged in hypertension management and prevention.
Amir Razaghizad is a second-year Master of Science student at McGill University, where he received a Bachelor of Science with specialization in Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He completed his training in epidemiology and biostatistics at the Lady Davis Institute’s Center for Clinical Epidemiology. His primary research interests are in public health harm reduction and cardiovascular health promotion. He is actively involved in education in his program and academic initiatives to promote research trainee’s involvement in knowledge translation.
Cynthia Baur, PhD, is the Director of the UMD Horowitz Center for Health Literacy and will describe the health literacy challenges in the current information environment. She will use COVID-19 communication examples to examine how people think about prevention, health risks and trust. She will offer examples of how health literacy techniques can help clinicians talk to patients and the community at large about our choices and how to be choosey information users.
Dr. Baur is a health literacy and health communication expert focused on improving health literacy at the individual, family, community and organizational levels. She is a professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health and the Principal Investigator on multiple projects on health literacy techniques for clear communication, digital health, diabetes and organizational improvement. She provides expert advice to local, state and national committees and initiatives.
By the end of this webinar you will be able to:
- Describe how the National DPP curriculum can effectively be used to prevent diabetes among diverse populations
- Describe the approval process to curriculum changes to the National DPP
- Review methods of culturally competent program delivery that do not require approval
Lynn Silver, MD, MPH, FAAP, a pediatrician and public health advocate, will be guiding this important discussion. Dr. Silver is the Senior Advisor at the Public Health Institute (PHI) and Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco. She directs Getting it Right from the Start: Local Regulation of Recreational Marijuana, a project of PHI to support marijuana policies that learn from tobacco and alcohol control to better protect youth, public health and equity.
This exciting opportunity will feature speakers from Exact Sciences, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Fight Colorectal Cancer and will focus on epidemiology, the accessibility and efficacy of home testing kits, proposed age changes to the onset of colonoscopy screening and advocacy efforts to address barriers associated with screening.
Fight Colorectal Cancer (Fight CRC) is a national patient advocacy organization dedicated to supporting game-changing research, balanced patient education and support, and meaningful policy change for the colorectal cancer community.
Fight CRC's Catalyst State-by-State Advocacy Program supports coalitions working to advance policy to increase access to colorectal cancer screening at the state level. Learn about the Catalyst program, its successes to date, and ways you can get involved in the work.
Speakers:
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Molly McDonnell, Director of Advocacy at Fight CRC
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James Gray, Senior Government Relations Director, Texas at the American Cancer Society
