Agenda 2017

2017 National Caucus Addressing Musculoskeletal Health Disparities

Thursday, November 9, 2017
7:00am – 8:00am Breakfast and Registration
8:00am – 8:30am Welcome/Opening Remarks

Mary I. O’Connor, MD
Movement is Life Caucus Chair
Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Care at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital
Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine
Chair, Diversity Advisory Board, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons

8:30am – 9:15am Dismantling Racism in Healthcare

David A. Ansell, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President, Community Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center
Michael E. Kelly, MD, Presidential Professor, Rush University Medical Center
Author, County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital and The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

9:15am – 9:30am Let’s Move For Life!
9:30am – 10:15am Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
Immediate Past President, American Public Health Association
Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine
10:15am – 10:30am Break
10:30am – 11:30am Small Groups
11:30am – 12:30pm Keynote

Seizing the Power of Moments

Dan Heath, MBA
Senior Fellow, Duke University, CASE Center
Author, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Switch:
How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life
and Work and The Power Of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

12:30pm – 1:30pm Lunch and Poster Exhibits
1:30pm – 2:15pm Community Empowerment Through Change, Understanding and Faith

Carol R. Naughton
President, Purpose Built Communities
2:15pm – 2:25pm Let’s Move For Life!
2:25pm – 3:10pm Patricia Perez
President, VPE Tradigital Communications
3:10pm – 3:20pm Let’s Move For Life!
3:20pm – 4:05pm Reverend Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson
Senior Pastor, Grace Baptist Church
4:05pm – 4:20pm Break
4:20pm – 5:05pm Small Groups
5:05pm – 6:05pm Group Report Outs
6:05pm – 6:30pm Vanguard Award

Cara V. James, PhD
Director, Office of Minority Health, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

6:30pm – 8:00pm Reception
Friday, November 10, 2017
7:00am – 8:00am Breakfast and Registration
8:00am – 10:30am Activism Workshops

Activating Your Community

  • Rosemary Agostini, MD
    Founder and First Chief of Activity, Sports and Exercise Medicine, Kaiser Permanente of Washington
  • Lt. Adrian Diaz
    Seattle Police Department
  • Patria Alguila
    Training Director, MHP Salud
  • Onika Jervis
    National Director of Recruitment and Outreach, GirlTrek

Bias Is A Two-Way Street: Protecting Patients and Caregivers

  • Alexander R. Green, MD, MPH
    Associate Professor of Medicine and Director, Theme on Health Equity and Cross Cultural Care, Harvard Medical School
    Senior Scientist, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Augustus A. White, III, MD, PhD
    Member, Movement Is Life Executive Steering Committee
    Director, Culturally Competent Care Education Program
    Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education
    Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Eliminating Disparities in Musculoskeletal Health and Health Care: Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

  • Robert C. Like, MD, MS
    Professor and Director, Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Is Payment Policy Colorblind?

  • Scott Cook, PhD
    University of Chicago Medicine
  • Adaeze Enekwechi, PhD
    Vice President, McDermott + Consulting
  • Tamara Huff, MD
    Orthopaedic Surgeon, St. Francis Orthopaedic Institute
10:30am – 10:45am Break
10:45am – 1:15pm Movement Workshops

Applying Telemedicine in Underserved Communities

  • Latisha Rowe, MD, MBA
    Founder & CEO, Reliable Online Wellness Experience

Motion In Action – Mind/Body/Spirit

  • LeShea Agnew
    National Medalist and Instructor, Hunyuan Taijiquan (Tai Chi)
  • Cheryl Jones
    Director of Mindfulness, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Moving Out of the Vicious Cycle: Behavioral Health, the Missing Link

  • Ramfis Marquez, PhD, LPC
    Director, Behavioral Health Department, Greater Prince William Community Health Center
  • Annie R. Neasman, RN, MS
    President and CEO, Jessie Trice Community Health Center

The Longest Journey Begins with the First Step…The Power of Movement

  • Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu, MD, MPH
    Instructor of Physiatry, Harvard Medical School
  • Melicia Whitt-Glover, PhD
    President and CEO, Gramercy Research Group
1:15pm – 1:30pm Break
1:30pm – 2:30pm Luncheon Keynote Speaker

On The Other Side of Freedom

DeRay Mckesson
Civil Rights Activist
Podcast Host, Save the People

2:30pm – 3:00pm Closing Remarks

Mary I. O’Connor, MD
Movement is Life Caucus Chair
Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Care at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital
Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine
Chair, Diversity Advisory Board, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons