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

Time*	Session*	Speaker(s)
Sunday, May 15, 2005
5:00pm-7:00pm	Registration

Time*	Session*	Speaker(s)
Monday May 16, 2005
8:00am-5:00pm	Registration
9:00am-10:00am	Continental Breakfast
10:00am-11:15am	Welcome Handler webcast archive (requires RealPlayer) Handler transcript Saunders webcast archive (requires RealPlayer) Saunders slides (requires Acrobat Reader) Saunders transcript	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
10:00am-11:15am	Keynote: Lost in Translation: How Do We Increase the Return on Investment from Research? Simpson webcast archive (requires RealPlayer) Simpson slides (requires Acrobat Reader) Simpson transcript	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 Fagen slides (requires Acrobat Reader)	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 Grason slides (requires Acrobat Reader) Geller slides (requires Acrobat Reader)	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 DuBois slides (requires Acrobat Reader)	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 Strobino webcast archive (requires RealPlayer) Strobino slides (requires Acrobat Reader) Strobino transcript	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 Koch slides (requires Acrobat Reader)	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 Barth and Berry slides (requires Acrobat Reader)	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

Time*	Session*	Speaker(s)
Tuesday May 17, 2005
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* Culhane webcast archive (requires RealPlayer) Culhane transcript	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* Poindexter slides (requires Acrobat Reader)	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* Slutkin webcast archive (requires RealPlayer) Slutkin transcript	Gary Slutkin, MD Director and Professor, Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health