Population Health Events

October 2024 

National Panel: Innovations in Care Delivery and Training to Advance Health Equity

Interested in learning about innovations that hold promise to improve care and advance healthcare equity? How can we be confident that innovations in health care won’t lead to new disparities in access, quality, or outcomes of care? How are learners best introduced to the clinician’s role in eliminating health disparities, inside and outside the health care system? In this session, we will discuss innovations in medical training and health care delivery that promote health equity and prepare the next generation to leverage innovation to improve access and care for all.

National speakers:

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  Nana Coleman, MD, EdM
  System Senior Vice President of Academic and Faculty Affairs, Physician Enterprise, and Chief Academic Officer at CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems; Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine; Pediatric Intensivist at Texas Children’s Hospital.
  
  Dr. Coleman is a seasoned physician executive and national leader across all domains of health systems science. Throughout her career she has served as a bridging leader between health systems, academic institutions, clinicians, educators and learners and has applied this expertise to lead transformation and achieve excellence across complex learning health systems. In her current position, Dr. Coleman is the accountable leader at CommonSpirit for the health system’s relationships with its national academic partners and has operationalized a national vision and strategy for academics. She oversees system initiatives across the realm of both academic affairs and faculty affairs, including the implementation of the data-driven systems and processes necessary to elevate academic research, clinical training and healthcare delivery across the enterprise..
   

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  Helen Hughes, MD, MPH
  Medical Director, Office of Telemedicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Medical Director, Pediatric Telemedicine, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
  
  Hughes is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and practices general pediatrics in East Baltimore. After earning an undergraduate degree at Haverford College, Hughes attended medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and received a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
  
  She completed a residency in pediatrics and served as chief resident at Johns Hopkins, where she stayed on to complete a health equity research fellowship in general academic pediatrics. In addition to her work in telemedicine, she is an Epic Physician Builder and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Patient Family Centered Design (MyChart) committee.

Investing in the Health of Our Communities

In today's complex healthcare landscape, barriers to quality care abound for all—from privately insured patients to uninsured patients. This session will explore innovative strategies undertaken by AZ Blue and St. Vincent de Paul to address barriers to care, improve patient outcomes, and promote a more equitable healthcare system. 

Speakers 

• John Anwar, MD, Chief Medical Officer, St. Vincent de Paul / Virginia G. Piper Medical Clinic
• Carla Berg, MHS, Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
• Shannon Clancy, Chief Executive Officer, St. Vincent de Paul

The Health System's Role in Reimagining Care to Improve Access & Health Equity

Health systems play a pivotal role in our communities. Through clinical redesign, training future providers, policy work, and community engagement, health systems have a mission to improve health equity. This session will delve into specific strategies underway in Arizona to reimagine care delivery to address disparities, improve outcomes, and ultimately advance population health.

Speakers

• Viren Bavishi, DO, President, Dignity Health Medical Group
• Kamal Sumar, MD, MBA, CPE, VP Population Health Arizona | Nevada, Dignity Health
• Michael White, MD, MBA, Chief Clinical Officer, ValleyWise Health

Fireside Chat: Creighton’s Commitment to Advancing Population Health 

Creighton exemplifies many aspects of population health needed to move beyond barriers and improve the health of our communities in Phoenix. This session will highlight the ways that Creighton is advancing population health work in Phoenix to reduce health disparities and ultimately improve health equity.

Speakers

• Emily Babcock, DHSc, PA-C, Program Director, PA Program, Associate Professor
• Jason Beste, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Arrupe Global Scholars and Partnerships Program, Associate Professor
• Claudia Chambers, MD, MBA, FACOG, Associate Dean of Medical Education
• Helen Hurst, DNP, RNC-OB, APRN-CNM, Associate Dean of Nursing-Phoenix, Professor
• Jennifer Jessen, EdD, RN, CNOR, Executive Director, CIPER, Assistant Professor
• Danielle Okezie, MEd, Program Manager, LEAD Scholar Program 

University Symposium on Population Health - Surgical Equity: A Call to Action

Immediately following the symposium, the IPH hosted an evening of dialogue with national and local surgical leaders who are transforming surgical care to reduce disparities and enhance access to high-quality surgical care for all. If surgeons are to be leaders in advancing health equity, they must take a multifaceted approach to improving surgical outcomes—one that focuses on improving access, addressing implicit bias and racism, and training the next generation to understand the impact of social determinants of health on outcomes.

National Speakers:

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  Jennifer Tseng, MD, MPH, is a surgical oncologist specializing in upper GI surgery. She is professor of surgery emerita and Immediate Past Utley Professor and chair of surgery at Boston University. She will deliver a keynote titled "Surgery is vital to building health equity everywhere (it’s not urban versus rural)." She founded the Surgical Outcomes Analysis & Research (SOAR) initiative in 2007 at UMass Chan Medical School, subsequently moving it to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and to Boston University/Boston Medical Center, and remains principal of SOAR Enterprices LLC. Tseng is immediate past chair of the board and past president of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) and is a founder and past president of the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons (SAAS). She is a Director of the Complex General Surgical Oncology Board and serves as a deputy editor for JAMA Surgery. Tseng has been focused on longitudinal work in health equity and advocacy, service to medical and philanthropic organizations, and several writing projects.

   

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  Irving Jorge, MD, MBA, FACS, is the chair of acute care surgery at Mayo Clinic Arizona. His research focuses on systemic policies that widens the disparity gap within our healthcare system and all aspects of emergency general surgery. Using his knowledge and experience, Jorge works to identify and put in place strategies that make access to quality care better for those who are underserved.

   

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  Tess Montminy, MD, is a general surgery resident at Creighton University School of Medicine in Phoenix, where she is leading the program's first free surgical clinic to improve surgery access for uninsured and underinsured patients. The program runs in association with the Dignity Health Hernia Institute and St. Vincent De Paul Phoenix. Montminy originally hails from outside of Toronto, Canada, and studied medicine at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.
   

• Daniela Cocco, MD, FACS, chief of breast surgery at Valleywise Health Medical Center and assistant professor at Creighton University School of Medicine.

   

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  Priya Rajdev, MD, is a general/minimally Invasive surgeon specializing in benign foregut disease and abdominal wall reconstruction. Rajdev serves as the surgery clerkship director for the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix as well as the inclusive excellence champion for the Department of Surgery. In her role she has created a cultural humility curriculum for students, implemented ongoing faculty development around diversity, inclusion, equity, microaggressions, and unconscious bias, introduced social determinants of health into weekly M+M, and partnered with the Department of Family Medicine to address the impact of food deserts in our patient population.