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18th Annual UIC MCH National Leadership Conference

Making Change Happen:

Translating Research into MCH Public Health Practice

 

Agenda

Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference
Translating Research into MCH Public Health Practice
May 16-17, 2005

Sunday, May 15, 2005
Time* Session* Speaker(s)
5:00pm-7:00pm Registration
 
Monday May 16, 2005
Time* Session* Speaker(s)
8:00am-5:00pm Registration
9:00am-10:00am Continental Breakfast
10:00am-11:15am

Welcome

Susan Scrimshaw, PhD
Dean, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago

Arden Handler, DrPH
Professor & Co-Director, MCH Program
School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago

Steven Saunders, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Office of Family Health, Illinois Department of Human Services

Keynote: Lost in Translation: How Do We Increase the Return on Investment from Research?

Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP
Professor and All Children’s Hospital Guild Endowed Chair in Child Health Policy, Chief, Division of Child Health Outcomes, University of South Florida Department of Pediatrics, Associate Program Director, Pediatric Clinical Research Center, All Children’s Hospital, National Director, Child Health Policy, National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality

11:15am-11:45pm Break/Network with Keynote Speaker
11:45am-1:00pm Concurrent Workshops I

1. Practical Evaluation: From Logic Models to Program Improvement

Michael Fagen, PhD, MPH
Department of Health and Physical Education, Northeastern Illinois University

2. Mortality Review Models that Improve Outcomes in Maternal and Child Health

Holly Grason, MA
Department of Population & Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Stacie Geller, PhD
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinois at Chicago

Theresa Covington, MPH
The National MCH Center for Child Death Review, Michigan Public Health Institute

3. Reviewing the Literature: Tips for Reading and Understanding the Quality of MCH-Related Research Findings

David L. DuBois, PhD
School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

1:00pm-2:30pm Lunch
2:30pm-3:30pm

Plenary I: Practice-Based Intervention to Improve the Quality of Pediatric Care: Results from the Healthy Steps for Young Children Evaluation

 

Donna Strobino
Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health , the Johns Hopkins University

Moderator: Jerry Niederman, MD, MPH
Division of General and Emergency Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois at Chicago

3:30pm-4:00pm Break/Network with Plenary Speaker
4:00pm-5:15pm Concurrent Workshops II

4. Using Outcome Data to Guide Program Enhancement and Improvement. Examples From Foster Care, Home-Based and Other Non-Residential Programs

Steven M. Koch, PhD, HSPP
Riley Child Development Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

5. Disseminating Healthy Steps: Experience in Sustainability and Evolution

 

Mike Barth, PhD
Director, Healthy Steps for Young Children and Executive Vice President, ICF Consulting, Fairfax, VA

Anita Berry, MSN, CNP/APN
Director, Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, Advocate Heath Care, Park Ridge, IL

6. Medicaid: The Largest Health Care Insurer For Maternal and Child Health Shares Lessons About How They Use Research to Shape Practice

Anne Marie Murphy
Medicaid Director, Illinois Department of Public Aid

5:15pm-6:30pm Reception
 
Tuesday May 17, 2005
Time* Session* Speaker(s)
8:00am-1:00pm Registration
8:00am-8:45am Continental Breakfast
8:45am-9:45am

Plenary II: Prematurity Prevention: Which Interventions Work/Don’t Work and Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities

Jennifer Culhane, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Drexel University College of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Drexel School of Public Health

9:45am-10:15am Break/Network with Plenary Speaker
10:15am-11:30am Concurrent Workshops III
7. Community-Based Participatory Research in Health: Principles and Applications

Amy Schultz, PhD
Research Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health

8. Searching For Wisdom: Lessons From the WISEWOMAN Projects

Julie Will, PhD, MPH
Team Leader, WISWOMAN, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Patricia Poindexter, MPH, CHES
Public Health Advisor, Chronic Disease Nutrition Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

9. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention: From Research to Policy

Felicia Rabito, PhD
Environmental Disease Prevention Research Center, Center for Applied Environmental Public Health, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Anne Evens
Director, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Chicago Department of Public Health

Moderator: Myrtis Sullivan, MD, MPH, FAAP
Assistant Professor, Maternal and Child Health Program, Community Health Sciences, UIC School of Public Health

11:30am-1:30pm

Lunch / Plenary III: CeaseFire: An Effective Public Health Outreach Program to Reduce Violence in Communities

 

Gary Slutkin, MD
Director and Professor, Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health