Program Schedule

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Plenary
Reflections on Roads Not Taken
Cy Worby MD
University of Nevada, Reno
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
Brief Papers
“Learning From Experience”: Using Clinical Experiences of Third Year Medical Students to Teach
Sociocultural Issues in Patient Care
Tricia Tang Ph.D.

The Integration Of Culture And Behavior In An Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: Potential Impacts on Health Disparities
Jason Satterfield Ph.D. & Nancy Adler Ph.D.

Hearing the Minority Voice:
Experiences in Emergency Departments
Robert Wolosin Ph.D. & Sabina Gesell Ph.D.

Helping Students Gain an International Perspective from Elective Clerkships Abroad: Design and Implementation of an International Health Rotation
Carol Elam Ed.D., Lois Nora M.D., J.D.
Todd Cheever M.D.

Seminars
Marcus Welby Meets the 21st Century Family Doctor:
 Home Visits Redux
Patricia Lenahan MA
Wadie Najm MD & Mark Giglio MD

‘Acting Out of the Box’: Integrating Experiences with the
Social and Community Contexts of Care through the
Medical Education Continuum
Roberta Goldman Ph.D.
Christopher Campanile MD, Ph.D. & Sean David MD, MPH

3:45 PM - 5:45 PM Concurrent Workshops
Cultural Diversity Matters: A Summer Elective for First Year Medical Students
Mary F Smith Ph.D.
Professor, Albany Medical College

Mary Jo Fink MD
Assoc. Professor, Albany Medical College

Looking for Tools to Design or Refresh Your
Cultural Competency Curriculum?
Kenneth E. Wolf Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Educational Affairs, Charles Drew University

Sunita Mutha M.D.
University of California, San Francisco

H. John Blossom M.D.
California Arena Health Education Center

6:30 PM -8:30 PM ABSAME Dinner

Keynote: ABSAME: A Rich Heritage
Paving the Way to the Future
DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr. MD
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and the Behavioral  Sciences, University of Nevada School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Clinical  Psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical School
Senior Associate,  Institute for Ethics
Scholar-In-Residence, American Council on Graduate Medical Education

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast Plenary
The National Breast-feeding Awareness Campaign:
The Role of Medical Education
Suzanne Haynes Ph.D.
HHS, Office of Women's Health
Assistant Director for Science in the Office on Women’s Health

8:45 AM - 10:30 AM Plenary with Discussion
Funding Strategies for Eliminating
Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Tuei Doong
 HHS, Office of Minority Health
Deputy Director

H. Westley Clark, M.D., JD, MPH., CAS, FASAM
HHS, Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Concurrent Seminars
Black Domestic Violence: Teaching Gender, Race, and
Class (GRC) Intersections
William Conwill Ph.D.

Addressing Access Issues for Underserved
Minority Populations
Georgiana Herzberg Ph.D. & Stan Cohen Ed.D.

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Poster Session (with lunch)
List of poster

1:00 PM - 6:00 PM Special Session Workshop
Grant Writing Workshop
National Cancer Institute, Behavioral Research Program
Limited to 20 participants

Sabra F. Woolley, Ph.D.
Program Director, Health Promotion Research Branch
Behavioral Research Program
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Common Interest Breakfast
Crossing the Communication Divide
Sheila Rettig RN BS & Gerri Navarre MSW

Expansion of a Clinically Based, Interdisciplinary Service Elective: How Can Behavioral Students be Integrated?
Terry Stratton Ph.D.
Jean Wiese Ph.D. & Wanda Gonsalves MD

Using Humanities to Teach Multicultural Sensitivity
Kathie Culhane-Pera MD MA

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM Plenary Workshop
Transcultural Principles Applied to Medical Education
Ann O Hubbert Ph.D., RN, CTN
University of Nevada, Reno , Orvis School of Nursing
Assistant Professor in Nursing

Gail Harris Ph.D.
Private Consultant
 

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Concurrent Seminars
Substance Abuse: The Impact of Sociocultural Factors and the Role of Medical Education
Kimberly Sutton Ph.D.

The Biomedical Lecture as Opportunity to Inculcate Biopsychosocial Perspective
Greg Troll MD

12:00 - 1:30 PM             ABSAME Business Meeting/Lunch

1:45 PM - 3:45 PM Concurrent Sessions
Brief Papers
Health Information Disparity in Spanish and English at a Core Safety Net Public Hospital System
Jose Calderon MD, Richard Baker MD
Ron Hays PhD

Perceptions of Career Choices, Assignment of Specific
Faculty Mentors and the Residency Match
Shobita Rajagopalan MD
Vanessa Ngakeng MS-3 & Monica Tillis MS-3

Student Perceptions of a Focus on Healthcare Disparities in Medical Education
Shobita Rajagopalan MD
Susan Baillie, Ph.D. & Harmony Crutcher MS-3

Do We Make a Difference?  Core Competency as a
Measure of Behavioral Science Outcomes
Mark Vogel Ph.D.

Culture, Patient Advocacy and the Community
Alicia D. Monroe M.D.

Using Case Studies in Small Discussion Groups To Teach Medical Students About Health Care Access And Availability For Vulnerable Populations
Gary Myers Ph.D.
 

Concurrent Workshops
Using Multi-vocal Case Narratives to Explore
Multicultural Ethics
Kathie Culhane-Pera MD MA
Regions Hospital, Ramsey Family Medicine

Dorothy E. Vawter PhD
Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics

Malice in Genderland: Reducing Disparities in the
Care of Transgender Persons
Amy Ellwood MSW, LCSW
Associate Professor, Dir of Behavioral Science
Univ of Nevada SOM, Dept of Family Medicine

Jane Heenan MS, MFT
Transgender Support & Advocacy, Nevada

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Concurrent Workshops
Teaching Prevention in a Sociocultural Context: The Case of  Type II Diabetes
Charlotte Kennedy Ph.D.
U of Tennessee, Memphis - Health Sciences

Beverly Williams-Cleaves M.D.
University of Tennessee Center for The Health Sciences

Dorris Tinker, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, PsiMed, P.A.

Developing Written Communication for Vulnerable Patients Having Limited Literacy Skills
Jose Calderon MD
Director Cross Cultural Epidemiologic Study, Charles Drew University, School of Medicine

Sandra Smith MPH, CHES
Center for Health Education and Research, University of Washington

7:30 AM - 8:45 AM Student Scholars Breakfast
Is it Social Phobia or Social Oppression? A Case Description of Social Phobia Symptoms in Closeted Non-Heterosexual Female
Jodie Eckleberry Ph.D. & Anne Dohrenwend Ph.D

Perceptions of Breast Cancer Risk in Second
Generation Asian American Women
Melinda Chen BA, Rowan Chlebowsi MD
Kenneth Wolf Ph.D,& Linda Lillington

Medical Student Workshop: Teaching Sociocultural
Issues Related to HIV-AIDS
Darren Johnson, Charlotte Kennedy Ph.D.,
Owen Phillips MD, & Edwin Thorpe, MD

Depression, Health Beliefs and Compliance: Relationships to Glycemic Control in Hispanic and African-America Diabetics
Arriana Moreno

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions
Brief Papers
Investigating Healthcare Disparities Research Through a Required Primary Care Thesis Initiative
Dotun Ogunyemi M.D.
Ronald Edelstein EdD
Mohsen Bazargan PhD

“Brainwashing” and “Battering Fatigue”: The Role of
Psychological Abuse in Domestic Violence and Its
Impact on Healthcare Disparities
Lesly Mega MD, Jessica Mega MD,
Benjamin Mega M-2, & Beverly Moore Harris, MD

Medical Students’ Participation in a First-Year Community Service Elective: Preliminary Evaluation Results From a
Pilot Program
Terry Stratton PhD & Carol Elam EdD

Children and Adolescent Type II Diabetes
Ryan Nishihara MD

Diabetes and Science Education in Tribal Schools
Sanford Garfield Ph.D., Lawrence Agodoa MD
Marilyn Nichols MS

Concurrent Workshops
Addressing Health Disparities Through Faculty Development: A Course in Survey Research for Clinical
Kenneth E. Wolf Ph.D., Richard W. Lindstrom M.A.
Margaret Govea,
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Sciences

Richard S. Baker, M.D.,
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Sciences

Mohsen Bazargan, Ph.D.
Charles R. Drew Univeristy of Medicine and Science

Risa Palley Flynn
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Sciences

Biomechanical Thoracic Restriction Technique for Teaching Diaphragmatic Breathing
Albert Eaton Ph.D.
Director of Behavioral Sciences
Colombus Regional Medical Center

Michael Walsh M.D.
Family Practice Faculty
Columbus Regional Family Practice Residency

11 AM  Adjourn

Do Patients Understand Instructions on Their Prescribed Medication Containers?
Membere Bahru MS-3
Celia Mercado MS-3
Kenneth Wolf Ph.D.
 

Religiosity and Spirituality: Implications for Public Health Practice, Policy, and
John Bomar M.D.

Teaching Medical Students About Health Care Disparities in a Longitudinal Clinical Care
Katherine Au MS-3
Noah Rodriguez MS-3
Ronald Edelstein EdD

The Behavioral Impact of Educational Interventions on Percutaneous Injuries in Medical
Elizabeth Garland MD, MS
Laura Bienenfeld MD, MSc
Meryl Mendelson MD
 

Spirituality and the Client / Healer Relationship in Ayurvedic Medical Education
Jennifer Rioux Ph.D.

National and Gender Differences in Health-related Behaviors: A Comparative Study of
Mohammad Esmaeil Rriahi

Analysis of homelessness: Results from a regional survey of homeless assistance clients
Patrick Hardigan Ph.D.
Georgiana Herzberg Ph.D.

A Study of Self-Efficacy in Medical Education
LJ Perrot MD, JD
Linda Deloney MA, EdD(c)

The Effect of Direct Physician Counseling of High-Risk HIV-Negative Adolescents on the
Raul Sepulveda MS-3
Jorge Magallon MS-3
Chancelor Daniel MD

Integrating Tuberculosis Training in Medical Education Programs
Shobita Rajagopalan MD
Ronald Edelstein EdD
Bobby Bryant MS-3

Mucho Gusto! Reducing Health Disparities Through Cultural Competency
Alicia McClary Ed.D.
 

Qualitative Analysis of Providers Perceptions of Health Care Barriers Across Cultures.
Ali McGaw
Joelle Friedman
Hayden Bosworth Ph.D.

"Limit the Whites, Leave a Bite"
Anna Mies Richie M.D.
Cynthia Ledbetter M.S., CFNP
Matthew Yociss M.D.
Sherry Simmons, MD

In and Out of the Comfort Zone: Boundaries and Emotional Responses in Behavioral Science
William Elder Ph.D.