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ABSAME Annual Meeting - Pleary Speakers

Plenary Speakers Information

Richard Botelho, M.D.

Dr. Rick Botelho is a family doctor (25 years in practice), motivational guide, trainer (online/offline), public speaker, and process researcher. He is a Professor of Family Medicine and Nursing at the University of Rochester, New York (1985-present). He graduated from Nottingham Medical School (1972-1977). After completing his training in general practice in England, he became a Member of the Royal College of General Practice in 1981. He moved to the U.S.A. in 1982 and became a Board-certified family physician.

He edited a book entitled “Partnerships in Healthcare: Transforming Relational Process” and recently published the second editions of “Motivational Practice: Promoting Healthy Habits and Self-Care of Chronic Diseases” (2004) for practitioners and the Mutual Aid and Self-Help (MASH) guidebooks, “Motivate Healthy Habits: Stepping Stones to Lasting Change” (2004) and “My Healthy Habits Journal” (2003) for the general public

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Sandra A Smith, MPH, CHES

Sandra Smith is a Health Education Specialist at University of Washington Center for Health Education and Research and clinical faculty in the School of Public Health Department of Health Services. Her area of specialization is developing materials for teaching healthcare consumers with low literacy skills, particularly information for the zero-to-three period, that is, preconception to the child’s third birthday. She is author of the Beginnings Parents Guide and editor of the Beginnings Pregnancy Guide, which have been used nationally since 1989 and will appear throughout the upcoming second edition of Writing and Designing Print Materials for Beneficiaries: A Guide for State Medicaid Agencies (HCFA 2006) to illustrate effective writing and design of materials intended for Medicaid populations. Smith is co-author of the Beginnings Home Visitors Handbook. She is a Zero to Three Graduate Fellow of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. Her research interests include health literacy and effects of information on outcomes. Contact her at sandras@u.washington.edu or www.BeginningsGuides.net

 

José Luis Calderón, MD

Dr. Calderón was born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He was received a Bachelor of Science with honors from the University at Albany, NY in 1977 and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1982. After training in Family Medicine at the State University of New York’s Brooklyn Health Sciences Center he practiced family medicine in the Bronx and Brooklyn in underserved Latino and African-American communities until re-training in Neurology at New York University-Bellevue Hospital Medical Center in 1990. Dr. Calderón has completed a graduate fellowship in Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University and in Health Services Research at the Health Services Research Institute of the American Association of Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C.

Currently, Dr. Calderon is an Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Health Science, Los Angeles. He is director of the NIH funded Drew University Center of Cross-Cultural Epidemiologic Studies (DUCES), the UCLA/Drew Measurement Core, and the RCMI Translational Research Network, Minority Involvement in Clinical Research Opportunities (MICRO) Core.

Dr. Calderón is currently President of the Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education (ABSAME), and Associate Editor for Health Communications for the Latino Med Journal. He is a board member of the Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education, the Live a Difference Foundation, Washington, DC and the Hispano American Biomedical Society, NY, and the CF Faura Alzheimer’s Foundation, Carlsbad, CA.

Dr. Calderon’s area of research and teaching expertise is in the use of qualitative and quantitative (mixed) research methods in the implementation of cross-cultural studies with a concentration in health communication (linguistics, health literacy, language translation, and health information readability) and cultural diversity-competence with a focus on Latino and African American communities. He has given numerous workshops and seminars in these areas nationally.

 

 

 


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