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CBC Health
Braintrust
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
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In Cooperation with
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The
Congressional Black Caucus
2007 Fall Health Braintrust
Friday, September 28, 2007
Washington D.C. Convention Center
FORUM
TWO
Expanding Our Vision; Strengthening Our Role:
The Challenges Facing and Unfair Practices
Affecting the African-American Health Provider
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Mr.
Andrew L. Davis
Sandhills
Regional Medical Center
Mr. Davis delivers presentation about the challenges facing
African-American health providers in hospital settings
and highlights how hospital policies can have a disproportionate
and detrimental impact on African-American health providers,
particularly those serving large racial and ethnic minority
populations.
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Dr.
James Tate
Association of Black Physicians
Dr.
Tate provides an overview of the challenges and unfair confronting
African-Americans from a public policy perspective, as well
as those confronting African-American health providers across
health insurance and academic institutions.
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Dr. Edward H. Chappelle
National Dental Association,
Speaker of the House
Dr. Chappelle highlights the challenges facing African-American
dentists and oral health providers, and the impact that
these challenges have on the oral and dental health and
well being of the African-American community..
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Dr. Joia Crear-Perry
New Orleans Medical Association Executive Committee
Dr.
Crear-Perry explores the issues and highlights unfair practices
that disproportionately and detrimentally affect African-American
health providers in the Gulf Coast region who survived the
Hurricane Katrina and remain in the area to rebuild their
practices and meet the health and health care needs of survivors
and returning residents.
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Dr.
Gary Puckrein
President and CEO
The National Minority Quality Forum
Dr.
Puckrein provides an overview of the reimbursement and payment
disparities, as well as other unfair practices that have
a detrimental impact on the African-American provider.
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Dr.
Theodore Knatt
Greater Baton Rouge
Surgical Hospital
Dr. Knatt raises awareness about the challenges and
issues facing African-American health providers who
own and operate a premiere health facility in Baton
Rouge. Dr. Knatt also discusses the impact that current
health policies have on African-American health providers
who serve medically-needy communities.
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Alfred
Goldson Memorial Lecture Series
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Alfred
L. Goldson, M.D., FACR Professor and Chairman Department
of Radiation and Oncology
Howard University
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Keynote
Speech
"The
African-American Physician in a Disparate America
of Insufficient Funds and Leadership,"
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Dr.
Oscar Streeter, Jr.
Associate Professor of ClinicalChief Physician of
Radiation Oncology
University Southern California Norris Cancer Center
Vice-Chair Western Region, National Black Leadership
Initiative on Cancer
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Closing
Remarks
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Congresswoman
Donna M. Christensen, Chair
Congressional
Black Caucus Health Braintrust
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