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Summit Poster Sessions
Table of Contents

The Summit was pleased to present 57 poster presentations in the areas of Access, health professions, and data/research. For a complete list of the poster sessions for print, click here. To view individual poster presentations and/or for contact information on poster session authors, click on the poster presentation ID below.

Access

  • [PA-1] Sisters for Breast Health Program - Maria Scruggs Weston, BS, (Karen McGough, ARNP, MS, AOCN; Sandie Jones, ARNP, MS), St. Anthony's Health Care, St. Petersburg, FL

  • [PA-2] Bridges to Health: Preparing Health Professionals to Better Serve the Latino Population - Lisa Stevak, MA, University of Illinois College of Nursing and Illinois Health Education Consortium, Chicago, IL

  • [PA-3] "Lift Every Voice": National Diabetes Education Program of the National Urban League - Debra Murray, PhD, (Cindy Van Riper, MS; Maya Rockeymoore, PhD), National Urban League, Washington, DC

  • [PA-4] An Educational-Cultural-Historical Project to Promote Healthcare and Community Education - Bonita Bolden, BS, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC

  • [PA-5] State Community Partnership to Improve Tobacco Disparities - Doris A. Fields, Stop Tobacco on My People- STOMP, Santa Fe, New Mexico

  • [PA-6] A Participatory Approach to Addressing Cancer Concerns in a Haitian Community in Miami-Dade County - Sabrina Charles, BA, (Noel Brathwaite, PhD; Dorothy Parker, MHS; Edward Trapido, ScD), Florida Comprehensive Cancer Control Initiative of the University of Miami, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL

  • [PA-7] Cambodian Community Health 2010 - Sheila Fernandez, BS, Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell, MA

  • [PA-8] A Capacity Building, Technical Assistance, and Coalition Building Demonstration Project Targeting Disparities and Unmet Needs in HIV/AIDS Services in Highly Impacted Communities of Color in Miami-Dade County - Doralba Munoz, MS, Economic Opportunity Family Health Center, Inc.,/C-BORN, Miami Springs, FL

  • [PA-9] The Process of Making Getting Connected: African Americans Living Beyond Breast Cancer - Patricia K Bradley, PhD, RN, CS, (Marjorie Scharf, MPH, RD), Villanova University College of Nursing, Villanova, PA

  • [PA-10] A Georgia Partnership to Evaluate and Prevent Hepatitis B Virus Among First Generation Asian American Families - Soomy Lee, Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc., Doraville, GA

  • [PA-11] Georgia HIV/AIDS Project - Gregory Amos, BS, (Jeffery D. Roman; Suzette Thedford), Office of Minority Health, Georgia Department of Community Health, Atlanta, GA

  • [PA-12] New Jersey's Asians' and Pacific Islanders' Success with Collective Advocacy: Impact on Health Disparities - Kem Louie, PhD, (Antony Stephen, PhD),Asian American and Pacific Islander Nurses Association, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ

  • [PA-13] The MOCHA Coalition - Addressing HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the African American and Latino Gay/Bisexual Community - Victor Pond, Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL

  • [PA-14] The Bayfront African American Health Forum - Dawn E. Jones, MS, Bayfront Medical Center, St. Petersburg, FL

  • [PA-15] Healthy Eyes and Clear Vision For All: A Community Eye Care Initiative - Barbara Kazdan, BA, Interprofessional Fostering of Ophthalmic Care for Underserved Sectors/InFOCUS, Houston, TX

  • [PA-16] Pathways to Care for Minority Young Offenders - Deborah Shelton, PhD, RN, (Ellen Mahoney, PhD), The Catholic University of America, School of Nursing, Washington, DC

  • [PA-17] Centro Latino Americano's Salud Primero Medical Access Project - Nedine Karakaplan, MA, Centro Latino Americano, Eugene, OR

  • [PA-18] Culturally Appropriate Means to Disseminate Health Information and Recruit Minorities: The Sub-Saharan African French Speaking Program - Dorcas Muteteke, MD, (Julie Bailey, LMSW), West End Medical Center, Atlanta, GA

  • [PA-19] How to Talk to Your Doctor - Frank Martin, MS, Baylor College of Medicine, Section of Health Services Research and EXCEED, Houston, TX

  • [PA-20] Changing Minds, Advancing Mental Health for Hispanics - Henry Acosta, MA, MSW, LSW, New Jersey Mental Health Institute, Inc., Manasquan, NJ

  • [PA-21] The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Culturally Competent Care - Nilda Chong, MD, DrPH, MPH, (Sue Tico, BA), Kaiser Family Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Oakland, CA

  • [PA-22] Health Care for Vietnamese Immigrants/Refugees in a Vietnamese Community in New Orleans - Velma McInnis Edmonds, DNS, APRN, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing, New Orleans, LA

  • [PA-23] The Breaking Silence Project: Raising AIDS Awareness and Increasing Health Access in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities - Jen Haejin Kim, MPH, Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, New York, NY

  • [PA-24] Vista Community Clinic's Cultural Awareness Program - Konane Martinez, PhD, (Carola E. Green),Vista Community Clinic, Vista, CA

  • [PA-25] Nutrition Education Training Academy - Lucrecia Farfan-Ramirez, MPH, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Alameda , CA

  • [PA-26] CyberHealth: An Intergenerational, Bilingual, Web-based, Health Literacy Initiative -Community Partners: "CyberSeniors/CyberTeens" - Elizabeth Isele, CyberSeniors.org., Portland, ME

  • [PA-27] The Breast Health Connection of Georgia - Diane Manheim, MSW, Breast Health Connection of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

  • [PA-28] Linking African American and Hispanic Families to Child Health and Immunization Providers in South Los Angeles - Rachel Golden, DrPh, MPH, South Los Angeles Health Projects, Inglewood, CA

  • [PA-29] Parkland Community Oriented Primary Care Language Assistance Program - Nora Castro, MEd, MA, Parkland Community Oriented Primary Care, Dallas, TX

  • [PA-30] The Diversity Toolbox -Miriam Brewer, BS, Alzheimer's Association National Office, Washington, DC

  • [PA-31] Clinic Health Education and Lifestyle Promotion (Clinic HELP) - Mary M. Hoke, PhD, RN-CS, (Theresa Bryd; Michael Kelly; Paul Lang; Jeffrey Brandon), Department of Nursing, College of Health & Social Services, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

  • [PA-32] Examining and Reducing Disparities in Breast and Cervical Cancer Among Pacific Islander and Southeast Asian Women - Mary Anne Foo, MPH, Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Garden Grove, CA

  • [PA-33] The Deep South Network for Cancer Control - Francine Huckaby, MPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center, Birmingham, AL

  • [PA-34] Howard University Hospital and la Clinica del Pueblo Cooperative Agreement - Isabel Van Isschot, MS, La Clinica del Pueblo, Washington, DC

  • [PA-35] A Culturally Competent Community Based Provider Linking Minority Veterans with PTSD with Effective Health and Human Services - Sidney Lee, MBA, African American Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Association, Lakewood, WA

  • [PA-36] The Bronx Health REACH - Neil Calman, MD, Institute for Urban Family Health, New York, NY

  • [PA-37] Efficacy of a "Hip Hop" Cultural Health Symposium in Improving Health-Related Attitudes Among African-American Young Adults - Alondra Oubré, PhD, Black Biomedical Research Movement, Woodland Hills, CA

  • [PA-38] Community Education and Reduced Asthma Hospitalization: A Peer Educator Program - Antonio Garcia, BA, Health Force: Community Preventive Health Institute, Bronx, NY

Research/Data

  • [PD-1] Improving Healthcare Quality for Minority Patients: Workshop Proceedings - Helen Wu, MS, The National Quality Forum, Washington, DC

  • [PD-2] Seeking the Causes for the Racial Disparities in Stroke Mortality: The Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study - Virginia Howard, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

  • [PD-3] The Transcendental Meditation Program and Regression of Carotid Atherosclerosis in High-Risk African Americans: Implications for Community Programs - Sanford Nidich, EdH, Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA

  • [PD-4] Strengthening U.S. Health Policy to Eliminate Health Disparities - Barbara Krimgold, BA, Center for the Advancement of Health, Washington, DC

  • [PD-5] A Simple Method for Analyzing and Presenting Health Data - Charles Vukotich, Jr., MS, Allegheny County Health Department, Pittsburgh, PA

  • [PD-6] Creating a Database for Evaluating a Training Program in a Medically Underserved Minority Community - Irene A. Gutierrez, BS, University of Arizona, College of Pharmacy, Tuscon, AZ

  • [PD-7] Success Stories! California and New York Reduced Smoking and Health Disparities - Bruce Leistikow, MD, MS, University of California at Davis, Davis CA

  • [PD-8] Using a Community-Based Participatory Approach for Evaluation: Lessons Learned from the Promoting Assets Across Cultures (PAAC) Project - Stella Gran-O'Donnell, MSW, MPH, Public Health-Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA

  • [PD-9] Lawrence Latino Health 2010 Program: Assessment of Diabetes and Associated Cardiovascular Disease in a Caribbean-Latino Population - Meeta Nguyen, MD, MPH, (G. Dean Cleghorn, EdD; Gilda Duran, MS), Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Lawrence, MA

Health Professions

  • [PHP-1] Mobilizing Bilingual Professionals to Provide Car Seat Education to Latino Families in Georgia - Ana Soler, BSW, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Community Health Development and Advocacy, Atlanta, GA

  • [PHP-2] Project L/EARN: Preparing the Next Generation of Mental Health Research - Peter Guarnaccia, PhD, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

  • [PHP-3] `Imi Hale - Native Hawaiian Cancer Network: A Community's Response to Cancer Prevention and Control - JoAnn Umilani Tsark, MPH, Papa Ola Lokahi, Honolulu, HI

  • [PHP-4] Barriers to Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minorities in US Medical Schools - Jaya Agrawal, MSIV, BA, American Medical Student Association, Providence, RI

  • [PHP-5] Meditation in the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans: Review of Controlled Clinical Trials - Robert H. Schneider, MD, Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention, College of Maharishi Vedic Medicine, Fairfield, Iowa

  • [PHP-6] Health Education & Lifestyle Program (HELP) - A Culturally-Defined Prevention Program - Asantewaa Gail Harris, Alliance of African American Artists and Art Forms, Brooklyn, NY

  • [PHP-7] Preparing Minority Youths for Health Careers - Joy Okereke-Arungwa, PhD, Compass Communications Inc., Bowie, MD

  • [PHP-8] Making Culturally Competent Care an Integral Part of Your Organization - Kristene Cristobal, MS, Care Management Institute, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

  • [PHP-9] The North Carolina Health Careers Access Program: Recruiting and Retaining Minorities in the Health Professions - A Program that Works - Moses Goldman, EdD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

  • [PHP-10] The Social Dynamics of Racial Disparities in Preventive Cardiology Advice - Charlene Pope, PhD, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY


Date: July 10-12, 2002

Location: Hilton Hotel & Towers, Washington, DC

Sponsor: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health / Office of Public Health and Science