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Members
Hon. G.K. Butterfield
Hon. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
Hon. Corrine Brown
Hon. Julia Carson
Hon. Donna M Christensen
Hon. Yvette Clarke
Hon. William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver II
Hon. James E. Clyburn
Hon. John Conyers, Jr.
Hon. Elijah E. Cummings
Hon. Artur Davis
Hon. Danny K. Davis
Hon. Keith Ellison
Hon. Chaka Fattah
Hon. Al Green
Hon. Alcee L. Hastings
Hon. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
Hon. Sheila Jackson Lee
Hon. William J. Jefferson
Hon. Hank Johnson
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson
Hon. Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Hon. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Hon. Barbara Lee
Hon. John Lewis
Hon. Kendrick B. Meek
Hon. Gregory W. Meeks
Hon. Juanita Mi -McDonald
Hon. Gwendolynne Moore
Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Hon. Barack Obama
Hon. Donald M. Payne
Hon. Charles B. Rangel
Hon. Bobby L. Rush
Hon. David Scott
Hon. Robert C. Scott
Hon. Bennie Thompson
Hon. Edolphus Towns
Hon. Maxine Waters
Hon. Diane E. Watson
Hon. Melvin L. Watt
Hon. Albert Russell Wynn

In Cooperation with


The Congressional Black Caucus
2007 Fall Health Braintrust
Friday, September 28, 2007
Washington D.C. Convention Center

Demanding Opportunity and Justice for
African-American Health Providers

 
 

Congresswoman Donna M. Christensen, Chair
Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust

Welcome and Introduction
 
Co-Sponsor

Dr. Paul G. Alexander
Executive Director,
External Medical Relations
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
 
PANEL1
 
Avoiding Dreams Deferred:
Bolstering the African-American Health Provider Pipeline

Click Here to View Opening Session
 
 
Experts Discuss Pipeline with CBC Health Braintrust
 


Pierre Vigilance, M.D., MPH
Director and Health Officer
Baltimore County, Maryland

Numerous types of African-American health providers and health care executives play pivotal roles in the health care continuum. During this session, panelists introduce the audience to myriad African-American health providers - including physicians, dentists, nurses, hospice care providers, mental health practitioners and health care executives - address the successes of and challenges confronting the provider pipeline. Panelists also highlight the importance of workforce diversity efforts

Questions and answers presented after presentations
 
 

The Honorable Dr. Louis Sullivan
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Chairman, Sullivan Commission on
Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce

Dr. Sullivan provides an overview that defines who the African-American health provider includes and why it is critically important to bolster the pipelines of all African-American health providers. Dr. Sullivan also provides a snapshot of how many African-American health providers currently are practicing or are in training in the nation today.

Sullivan Commission Report, at W.K. Kellogg Website
 
Panelists
 
 

Dr. Wayne J. Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, FACP
President
Meharry Medical College

Dr. Riley discusses the efforts being undertaken to bolster the pipeline of African-American providers and the role that African-American providers play in helping to close myriad health workforce and health care gaps.

Dr. Moses Williams
Director
Physician Scientist Training Program. Temple University School of Medicine .

Dr. Williams discusses the importance of meeting the future health workforce needs and outline the critical necessity of working with young people long before they reach college to encourage and mentor them to pursue careers in health-related fields. Dr. Williams also focuses on the challenges and success of the Physician Scientist Training Program.

     
     

Dr. Bettye Davis Lewis
President
National Black Nurses Association

Dr. Lewis explores the critically important role that African-American nurses play in the health and well-being of African Americans and other people of color, and l highlights workforce needs that are unique to nurses.

Ms. Myla Moss
Director of Congressional Relations and Regulatory Affairs
American Dental Education Association.

Ms. Moss highlights the number of African-American dentists in the nation, hone in on the workforce issues, especially shortages, that affect African-American dentists, and explore the dental and oral health issues confronting African-Americans and other people of color.

     
     

Mr. Rodney Miller
Representative
National Association of Health Services Executives

Mr. Miller explores the role that African-American health care executives play in the health and health care of African Americans and other people of color and highlights the role that health service executives are playing in efforts to support African-American health providers.

 
Questions and Answers

Click Here to View Panel 1 Q & A
 
 
Selected photos by Shanna O'Reilly
 
 
 

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