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The Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (CICATS) at the University of Connecticut formally invites you to attend the inaugural National Health Disparities Elimination Summit at the University of Connecticut on Saturday, June 13, 2015 from 8:00am-4:30pm. The Summit, "Keeping It Real: Real Solutions, Real Change," is hosted in partnership with the Connecticut Legislative Black & Puerto Rican Caucus and the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute.

6/13/2015
When: 5/13/2015
8:00 AM
Where: University of Connecticut, Farmington
Contact: Katherine Hayden
[email protected]
860 679 7051

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The Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (CICATS) at the University of Connecticut formally invites you to attend the inaugural National Health Disparities Elimination Summit at the University of Connecticut on Saturday, June 13, 2015 from 8:00am-4:30pm. The Summit, "Keeping It Real: Real Solutions, Real Change," is hosted in partnership with the Connecticut Legislative Black & Puerto Rican Caucus and the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute.

 

As the challenge of reducing health disparities continues to evolve, effective solutions require multi-disciplinary collaboration from various perspectives and experiences in the health care delivery. This Summit will involve renowned experts with a wealth of experience in addressing the various factors contributing to health disparities. More importantly, we hope to develop collectively actionable recommendations to eliminate these disparities.

 

CME and CEU to be offered. For moreinformationclickhere.

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMIT KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Louis W. Sullivan, MD

  • 17th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • CEO & Chairman of The Sullivan Alliance
  • President Emeritus of the Morehouse School of Medicine
  • Senior Fellow of the Cobb Institute

 

 

Other distinguished speakers include:

  • Chiledum Ahaghotu, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor
    Chief of Urology
    Howard University
    Cobb Board of Directors
  • Biree Andemariam, MD
    Assistant Professor of Medicine
    University of Connecticut
    Director
    Comprehensive Sickle Cell Clinical and Research Center, UConn Health
  • Pat Baker

President & CEO
Connecticut Health Foundation

  • Linda Barry, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Connecticut
Chief Operating Officer/Assistant Director
Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

  • Carolyn Barley Britton, MD, MS Past-President

National Medical Association

  • W. Michael Byrd, MD, MPH

Health Policy Researcher and Instructor Harvard School of Public Health
Clinical Instructor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Director, Institute for Optimizing Health and Health Care, Inc.

  • Linda A. Clayton, MD, MPH

Health Policy Researcher and Instructor Harvard School of Public Health
Clinical Instructor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director Institute for Optimizing Health and Health Care, Inc.

  • Adrienne W. Cochrane, JD
    President & CEO

Urban League of Greater Hartford

  • Grace Damio, MS
    Director of Research and Service Initiatives

Hispanic Health Council

  • Bruce Gould, MD, FACP
    Professor of Medicine
    University of Connecticut

Medical Director
Hartford Department of Health and Human Services

  • Garth Graham, MD
    President
    Aetna Foundation
    Associate Professor of Medicine
    University of Connecticut
  • Lonnie Joe, MD

Speakerof House of Delegates
National Medical Association

 

  • Camara P. Jones MD, MPH, PhD
    President-Elect
    American Public Health Association
  • Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD
    Chairman, Cobb Board of Directors
    University Professor
    Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Chair in Orthopedic Surgery
    Professor of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering
    CEO, Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
    Director, Institute for Regenerative Engineering
    The University of Connecticut
  • Robert C. Like, MD, MS
    Director

Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

  • Edith Mitchell, MD
    President-Elect
    National Medical Association
  • Randall C. Morgan, Jr., MD, MBA
    Executive Director
    Cobb/NMA Health Institute

 

  • Jewel Mullen MD, MPH, MPA
    Commissioner

Connecticut Department of Public Health

  • Joan Y. Reede, MD, MS, MPH, MBA
    Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership and Associate Professor of Medicine
    Harvard Medical School
  • Margaret R. Weeks, PhD Executive Director
    Institute for Community Research
  • Augustus A. White III, MD, PhD
    Professor of Medical Education
    Harvard Medical School
  • Richard Allen Williams, MD
    Founder

Association of Black Cardiologists

  • Joyce Hunter, PhD
    Deputy Director
    National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities

 

 

IMPORTANT SUMMIT DATES

Friday, June 12 - Hartford Marriott Downtown

Summit Welcome Reception 5:30 pm | FREE

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Saturday, June 13 - UConn Health, Farmington, CT
Summit Scientific Program 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Registration begins at 7:00 am

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Saturday, June 13 - Hartford Marriott Downtown

Networking Reception 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

FREEto Summit registrants

$20 for Summit non-registrants

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About the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (CICATS) at the University of Connecticut

Since 2009, CICATS has developed programs and services supporting the education, training and mentorship of the next generation of researchers in the academic pipeline of underrepresented minority scholars. CICATS strives to educate and nurture new, emerging and future scientists; increase the number of innovative clinical and translational research projects and move discoveries into the community quickly and effectively; work collaboratively with regional and national stakeholders to eliminate health disparities; and forge new partnerships with the aim to provide a platform for integration of services and initiatives. In partnership with the University of Connecticut, Connecticut state agencies, foundations and local and national community-based organizations, CICATS works collaboratively to realize new health discoveries through research, innovation and action.

 

For more information visit: https://cicats.uconn.edu

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