Second Annual Latino Health Promotion Summit:
A Focus on Prevention & Community Collaboration
February 11, 2012
ALMA & NHMA Regional CME Meeting
The University of Arizona, College of Medicine
Presented by: Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence and the Office of Outreach and Multicultural Affairs
Goal: To foster collaboration between the medical and lay community in order to take action on disease prevention, such as supporting the availability of public spaces (i.e. parks) for physical activity promotion.
Conference Proceedings
The Office of Outreach and Multicultural Affairs and the University of Arizona’s Hispanic Center of Excellence collaborated with the Arizona Latin-American Medical Association (ALMA), the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA), the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA), and the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (THCC) to host the Second Annual Latino Health Promotion Summit on February 11, 2012. The goal of the summit was to bring together community members, physicians, medical and pre-health students, residents and promotoras or community health workers to increase awareness of the effects of excess weight on health and wellness and to work together to develop community-based health promotion strategies that address the root causes of this epidemic in the Latino community*.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
The University of Arizona Medical Center, DuVal Auditorium, Room 2600
8:00 AM - Registration
9:15 -
9:30 AM -
Welcome and Introduction
Speaker: Ana María López, MD, MPH, FACP
Associate Dean for Outreach and Multicultural
Affairs, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Medical Director, Arizona Telemedicine
Program
9:30 -
10:00 AM
“Obesity as a Social Determinant of Health”
Speaker: Howard Eng, MS, DrPH, RPh
Director, Southwest Border Rural Health
Research Center
10:00 - 10:40 AM
“Childhood Obesity Advocacy”
Keynote Speaker: Elena Ríos, MD, MSPH
President and CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)
10:40 AM - View Exhibits
11:00 AM -
12:30 PM
Speakers:
“Understand Diabetes: Therapeutic Targets”
Stephen Thomson, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Program Director, Endocrinology Fellowship
“School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity”
Roberto Ruiz, MD
Medical Director, Arizona Diabetes Foundation
Assistant Clinical Professor
“Surgical Weight Loss: Bariatric Surgery”
Amit Kaul, MD and Barbara Fleshman, RN, BSN
UA Surgical Weight Loss Center
12:30 PM - Lunch/View Exhibits
1:00 - 2:45 PM - Panel Discussion: Best Practices
“Healthy Eating and Active Living:
Focusing on Policy, Systems, and the
Environment”
Speaker: Merrill Eisenberg, PhD
Assistant Professor
UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College Public Health
“Salud Sí: Innovative Approach to a Healthy Lifestyle”
Speaker: Carmen Ferlan, MPS, MIS
Mariposa Community Health Center
“Addressing Obesity through a Patient
Centered Medical Home: Impact of
Team-Based Care”
Speaker: Leticia Martinez, RD, MS, MPH, BC-ADM
El Rio Community Health Center
2:45 PM - View Exhibits
3:00 PM - Closing
Sponsored for CME by the University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
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