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2009 Ethnic Physician Leadership Summit
September 26 - 27, 2009
Hilton Santa Clara Hotel, Santa Clara, California
Presented by the CMA Foundation and Network of Ethnic Physician Organizations.
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Health disparities and health policy, impact on quality care of health IT and the stimulus package, and the inspiring messages of hope and determination from medical students. These are just some of the highlights from the California Medical Association (CMA) Foundation and Network of Ethnic Physician Organizations’ (NEPO) 2009 Ethnic Physician Leadership Summit held during September 26 – 27 in Santa Clara, CA. In attendance were medical students, community health advocates, health care professionals and policymakers such as Congressman Mike Honda, 15th Congressional District of California and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, California 12th Assembly District.
Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH, Director of The Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, kicked off the Summit by presenting an overview of the health disparities in minority populations in the United States. Dr. Betancourt stated, “My goal everyday is to figure out how I can get everybody to take one step forward on this issue - to assure we can achieve equity in the healthcare system.”
An Unprecedented Opportunity: Federal Stimulus Funds Advancing Health IT in California was presented by Mark Smith, MD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer of the California Healthcare Foundation. Diversity in Clinical Trials addressed the gap that exists with communities of color in clinical trials while Politics 101 reminded ethnic physicians about the importance of participating in public health policy efforts.
Dr. Guillermo Valenzuela, M.D., was presented the 2009 Ethnic Physician Leadership Award for his outstanding leadership in efforts to send Inland Empire students to college. “I am so honored to receive this award,” said Valenzuela, chairman of Women’s Health at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, “It is my hope that this will bring attention to the need for greater investment in the futures of students across the state.”
The California Medical Association Foundation, in conjunction with the Network of Ethnic Physician
Organizations (NEPO), designed the Ethnic Physician Leadership Summit program to serve as a vehicle to continue the organizational development and strategic planning for NEPO, establish a process and structure for public policy advocacy for NEPO; inclusive of the development of the capacity to identify, analyze, track and reach consensus on key public policy issues; to work with partner advocates, policy makers and other coalitions; and to serve as an information clearinghouse and communications conduit on policy issues for ethnic physicians and their organizations and lastly, facilitate the collaboration of ethnic physicians across projects within NEPO.
The 2009 Ethnic Physician Leadership Summit is sponsored by the California Wellness Foundation, The California Endowment, United Health Foundation, Genentech, The Doctors Company Foundation, P&G, Pfizer, Office of Minority Health, HealthNet, California Smoker’s Helpline, Health Professions Education Foundation, and Fluency, Inc.
A project of the CMA Foundation, NEPO is a coalition of over 41 ethnic physician organizations throughout California. As these leaders from the Chinese, Peruvian, Vietnamese, Latino, East Indian, Filipino, Korean and African American medical associations coalesced around a unified message, the creation of NEPO was set in motion. No longer would ethnic physicians allow critical decisions that impact the health of their communities to be made without ethnic physicians at the table. The project, established in 2002, is designed to identify strategies for building the capacity of ethnic physician organizations. As a result, physicians are able to reduce health disparities and improve access to health care for their communities through increased collaboration with community organizations and policy advocacy in both the public sector and organized medicine, as well as addressing diversity in the healthcare workforce and cultural competency. For more information about NEPO or the Ethnic Physician Leadership Summit, visit www.ethnicphysicians.org or contact NEPO Project Director, Valerie Berry, MPH at vberry@thecmafoundation.org.
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