" Racing Towards the Finish Line of Inclusion

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1 40th Annual National Conference September 16-20, 2015 / Hyatt Regency / Louisville, KY " Racing Towards the Finish Line of Inclusion Tuesday, September 15 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm NAMME National Board Meeting (Closed) Keeneland Wednesday, September 16 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm NAMME Registration 2 nd Floor Coat Check Desk 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm NAMME Regional Executive Board Meetings (E-board members only) Central Northeast ern Western 3:15 pm - 4:15pm NAMME Regional Business Meetings (All Members) Central Northeast ern Western Shawnee Iroquois Seneca Cherokee Shawnee Iroquois Seneca Cherokee 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm BREAK 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm New Member Orientation Churchill Downs 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Welcome Reception & Poster Session Co-Sponsored by University of Louisville School to Medicine

2 Thursday, September 17 7:00 am - 5:00 pm NAMME Registration 2 nd Floor Coat Check 9:00 am - 10:30 am Pipeline Programs Panel: What is working well? Speakers(s): Cedric M. Bright, MD, FACP of UNC-Chapel Hill 10:30 am - 10:45 am BREAK Area R 10:45 am - 11:30 am 11:30 am - 12:00 pm 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch on Your Own 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Concurrent Sessions General National Business Meeting I/ Nominations Meet the Candidates Forum & Elections Break Out Sessions I. Inclusion at What Expense?: Building Effective Strategies for the Supply and Demand of Diversity Initiatives in the Healthcare Professions Speaker: Chassity Holliman Douglas, Ed.D of University of Kentucky Keeneland During this session, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about structuring a diversity services office with special attention to the development, implementation, and assessment of recruitment and retention efforts. The goal of this session is to equip attendees with the knowledge needed to identify and cultivate a plan of action to strive for diversity in all health professions. 1. After the presentation, the attendee will be able to structure diversity services for health profession students. 2. After the presentation, the attendee will be able to develop, implement, and assess retention and recruitment efforts for underrepresented students. 3. After the presentation, the attendee will be more prepared to identify and cultivate a plan of action toward overcoming limitations such as: securing funding, inspiring institutional buy-in, and creating collaborative partnerships.

3 Thursday, September 17 - continued 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Break Out Sessions Concurrent Sessions II. Advise for Learning, Mentor the Heart for Inclusion Speaker: Sherry C Babbage, DMD of University of Louisville Gulfstream-Hialeah The roles of mentors and advisors are very important in reaching goals. Mentors and advisors prepare and support students and each other with in the health professions race for inclusion as a practicing health care professionals, administrators or educators. 1. Define the role of mentor and advisor in student and institutional success 2. Discuss the differences between mentor and advisor roles 3. Develop an action plan to use principles of the sessions presentations for students and institutions to reach the finish line of inclusion III. Scholarships and Loan Repayment for Mission-Driven Health Profession Students Speaker(s): Leah Henao, MPH of Health Resources and Services Administration & Aileen Edwards Harris, MSA of Capital Area Health Education Center Kentucky Suite From Alabama to Los Angeles, the National Health Service Corps serves patients in communities with limited access to health care. Many people live in areas where they go without essential health services or have to travel long distances to see a primary health care provider. There's a need for dedicated and culturally competent health care providers. Learn about the financial support available for the health care providers who choose to practice in these communities. 1. Assist their student's in knowing which scholarship and loan repayment programs they are eligible to apply for if they are interested in practicing in underserved communities. 2. Educate their students and fellow faculty members regarding the need for primary care providers in urban, rural, and frontier communities in the United States and its territories. 3. Join the National Health Service Corps Ambassador Program (volunteer) so they can be further trained on this topic to the benefit of their students and institutions. 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm BREAK

4 Thursday, September 17 continued 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm Break Out Sessions Concurrent Sessions I. Medical Education in the Age of the Computer Speaker: Richard C. Vause Jr, DHSc, MPAS, PA-C of Salus University Keeneland The session is designed to give educators a sense of how current computer technology can be utilized in the classroom. This is particularly important in the age of students who grew up using this technology as part of their everyday life. 1. Participants will gain understanding of the use of the personal computer based technology in the classroom 2. Participants will gain insight into the economic advantage of the e-textbook and its use in the modern classroom 3. Participants will gain understanding of the learning style of the modern student and how to best use current technology for learning II. Talking Bias: Engaging Institutional Leadership in Diversity Education Initiatives Speaker(s): Ryan Simpson, MDA; Katie F. Leslie, PhD; V. Faye Jones, MD, PhD, MSPH all of University of Louisville Gulfstream-Hialeah This session will provide a case study of how the AamC/Cook Ross Inc. "Unconscious Bias in the Health Professions" training was successfully implemented and adapted for faculty, staff, and student groups at a health sciences center. Participants will engage in action planning to identify strategies to disseminate diversity content within their respective institutions 1. Engage institutional leadership for support of diversity training initiatives. 2. Partner with departments, committees, and individuals to expand your reach to various institutional groups. 3. Appropriately adapt diversity content to meet the unique needs of student, faculty, and staff audiences.

5 Thursday, September 17 continued 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm Break Out Sessions Concurrent Sessions III. Reading Professors' Strategies on Reasoning and Critical Thinking in Medicine Speaker: Patsy Self Trand, PhD of International University & Kay Lopate, PhD of the University of Miami Kentucky Suite This session, will outline what two reading professors with extensive experience in teaching reading, critical thinking and reasoning in pre medical and medical programs at several universities, feel students should do to succeed in a medical career. The presentation will cover how to make a medical school time line that helps students meet the benchmarks to take the MCAT, how to think through the test and medical school readings using linear markings, and how to use the backup system to pass the USMLE, in other words: how to make it to the finish line! Since this presentation is activity based, all workshop participants must apply these strategies to the handouts or the materials they brought to the session; therefore, participants are encouraged to bring their current course schedules and a medical school textbook or MCAT readings. 1. After this presentation the attendee will be able to develop a time line of study and bench marks to be ready for admittance to medical school. 2. After this presentation the attendee will be able to choose 4 professional journals as a reading, critical thinking and learning tool. 3. After this presentation the attendee will be able to read with reason, think critically and analysis text for the MCAT and assigned reading in Medical School with better proficiency. 3:45 pm - 7:00 pm BREAK 6:30 pm Depart for Networking Reception Hotel Lobby 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Networking Reception (ticketed event) Muhammad Ali Center N 6th St, Louisville, KY 40202

6 Friday, September 18 7:00 am - 5:00 pm NAMME Registration 2 nd Floor Coat Check 8:00 am - 10:00 am Breakfast With Brazile: Healthcare Reform and the Future HC Provider or Why Diversity Matters Speaker: Donna Brazile, Veteran Democratic Political Strategist Area North 10:00 am - 10:45 am Presentation of Scholarship and Awards North 10:45 am - 11:15 am Break 11:15 am - 12:30 pm General Business Meeting II 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions Break Out Sessions I. Filling the Gap: Developing Pipeline Structures for Residents and Fellows Speaker: Brittney M. Richardson, MD & Ryan Simpson, MDA of University of Louisville One of the components needed to build more inclusive and diverse health professionals and educators is to support residents and fellows underrepresented in their field to achieve their career and professional goals. This can be done through resident/fellow organizing and pipeline programs. This session will tell the story and development of the University of Louisville's Health Science Center Diversity Alliance, which was created to fill pipeline gaps for medical and dental residents and fellows. Participants will learn what worked and what didn't in this organization's development. They'll also determine which elements they'd like to use at their institutions. Interactively participants will share their stories of supporting underrepresented residents and fellows in a collective learning environment, and all will walk away with next steps they can take to their home institutions. 1. Use or adapt the University of Louisville, Health Sciences Center (HSC) model for its HSC Diversity Alliance (which works to collaboratively support under represented postgraduate trainees in healthcare in achieving their personal and professional goals) for their own purposes. 2. Access information from other participants regarding the needs, challenges and strategies for supporting underrepresented residents and fellows. 3. Develop their own needs assessment and action plan to support underrepresented residents and fellows at their own institutions Keeneland

7 Friday, September 18 - continued 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions - continued Break Out Sessions II. MCAT Update- Comparing the Old MCAT to the New MCAT in Order to Facilitate More Effective Preparation Speaker: James Flowers, MD of Dr. Flowers Test Prep, LLC Kentucky Suite A direct comparison of the most recent MCAT, which most are familiar with, to the MCAT. Will develop a perspective on how the 2015 MCAT defers from the prior one and will provide suggestions as to how students must prepare and how advisors/counselors/instructors can educate them on how to meet the challenge of the MCAT. 1. To know the general Content differences and structure differences between the prior MCAT and the 2015 MCAT 2. To understand the differences in the scoring between the prior MCAT and the 2015 MCAT 3. To Understand how students must prepare for the 2015 MCAT III. Obstacles Undocumented Students Encounter Pursuing a Medical Career Speaker: Charles J. Alexander, PhD of UCLA Gulfstream-Hialeah More and more undocumented students are pursuing a medical education since President Obama issued his Executive Order granting eligible youth the opportunity to reside and work in the United States. Health profession schools have yet to fully understand the impact of this Executive Order and how to proceed with admitting DACA students. 1. Identify who is eligible for DACA status and what current law states. 2. Identify obstacles DACA students face in their pursuit of a medical education. 3. Identify some of the barriers that DACA students face once in medical school and beyond. 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break 3:15 pm - 5:00 pm Town Hall Meeting 40 th Anniversary Edition Facilitators: Iral Porter, MBA and Patricia Lowrie, MS Panel of Participants: Hardo Bardo, Ph.D., Wanda Lipscomb, Ph.D., Charles Alexander, Ph.D., Linda James, MS, Michael Ellison,

8 Ed.D. Join current and former NAMME leaders for a trip down memory lane and learn about the early days of the organization, today s challenges and opportunities for the future. 5:45 pm Dinner On Your Own Saturday, September 19 6:30 am - 8:00 am NAMME Cardio Funk/Zumba Belmont 7:00 am - 5:00 pm NAMME Registration 2 nd Floor Coat Check Area 8:30 am - 2:00 pm Student Development Program 9:00 am - 10:15 am Plenary Speaker I - Who is entitled to health? Erica Sutton, MD FACS, University of Louisville School of Medicine This program will explore access to healthcare as a universal or American right. We will discuss the Kentucky experience with the Affordable Care Act and who has yet to receive healthcare in Describe the current way in which uninsured individuals access healthcare 2. Offer unique solutions to improving access to healthcare North 10:15 am - 11:30 am Plenary Speaker II Pull Up as You Go Up Christopher Jones, MD, University of Louisville To educate attendees on the actual decline in numbers of minority medical professionals. Understand what we as minority educators can do to help our younger generation succeed. 1. Discuss the issues behind minority retention in medical education 2. Determine what it means to be a mentor in Recognize the importance of reaching potential healthcare applicants early 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch On Your Own 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Student Recruitment Fair Setup 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Student Recruitment Fair 7:30 pm - until Past and Present President's Red Carpet Event The Sphire

9 Sunday, September 20 7:45 am - 9:00 am NAMME National Board Transitional Meeting and Conference Gulfstream-Hialeah Planning Committee Debrief (Closed) 9:00 am - 9:15 am BREAK 9:15 am - 10:15 am Ecumenical Service 10:15 am - 10:30 am BREAK 10:30 am - 11:30 am Keynote Speaker: It Only Takes Everything You ve Got Speaker: Kenston J. Griffin, Dream Builders Communication, Inc. s This keynote address is designed to empower participants and evaluate how leaders tap into their greatness and acquire the most out of others while maintaining a supportive learning environment. Participants will be encouraged to reduce stress/workload demand, regain energy and retain focus on the organization goals and objectives. This keynote will allow participants to evaluate what effective and ineffective leaders have done and will do to enhance teamwork, strengthen moral and assist in planning and organizational development and best practices to embrace 21st century methodologies to operate at the next level. Participants will be provided tools and strategies to maximize collaboration, understand the power of positive attitude and renew thinking patterns to support the day-to-day challenges that professionals face. 1. Identify specific strategies that will assist in work life balance, enhance culture and best practices to be a top performing organization 2. 5 keys to effective communication and collaboration 3. Best practices to working with multiple people, personalities and learning styles to enhance effective communication 4. Keys to strengthening critical and initiative thinking 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Conference Wrap Up and Closing