Asheville African American Health Webinar Series
Feb 12–Sep 18, 2021 Medicine Mental Health Nursing
Description
The Mountain Area Health Education Center presents the first Asheville African American Health Symposium. This Symposium is designed to create awareness and education within the medical community regarding the current health of African Americans and the implications of centuries of medical oppression. Racial disparities are unremitting and widespread within the African American population. The causes are multifactorial - including historical oppression, implicit bias toward African American patients, community mistrust, and lack of diversity within the healthcare field, to name a few. This conference will include national leaders in medicine and in the African American community to bring the conversation to Asheville on how to address these disparities.The in-person conference will occur October 15-17, 2021 in beautiful Asheville, NC.
Leading up to the conference, MAHEC is hosting a monthly webinar series of national experts to start the discussion and build momentum around closing the gaps in African American healthcare disparities. The webinar series will include topics such as Healthcare Reparations, Mental Health in the African American Community, The Role of the Black Church in Health Care, Historical Trauma and The Black Body, Systemic Oppression in the Healthcare System and its effects on Black Patients and Black Providers, and more.
Topics:
I. Do Black Lives Matter in Healthcare? - September 18, 2020
II. Healthcare Reparations in a Public Health Crisis - October 2, 2020
III. Before You Kill Yourself: Mental Health and the Black Patient - November 13, 2020
BONUS Session - Mental Health & The Black Patient: Part II - November 30, 2020 - 8:30am-9:30am
IV. The Role of the Black Church in Healthcare - December 4, 2020
BONUS Session - The Role of the Black Church in Healthcare: Part II - January 5, 2021 - 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
V. Black Women's Health - January 15, 2021
VI. The Effects of Historical Trauma in the Black Patient - February 12, 2021
VII. Lifestyle Medicine for the Black Patient - March 12, 2021
VIII. Lockdown: Pipeline to Prison and Disease - April 16, 2021
IX. Black Men's Health - May 14, 2021
X. Cardiac Care for the Black Patient - June 11, 2021
For more information on this conference series, visit www.avlaahs.net.
Target Audience
The target audience for the Asheville African American Health Symposium and Webinar Series will be Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, Nurses, Behavioral Health Therapists, Care Coordinators, Primary Care Physician practice staff members, Social Workers, and community members in Western North Carolina and across the United States.
Objectives
- Define racism as a healthcare crisis and develop strategies to dismantle systemic racism towards African Americans in healthcare.
- Analyze healthcare disparities affecting our black communities and examine the causes of these disparities, including implicit bias of providers, historical trauma of African Americans, and lack of diversity within the healthcare workforce.
- Connect WNC providers with African American healthcare leaders across the nation in order to continue to improve the health of African Americans in Western North Carolina.
Faculty
- Vic R. Armstrong, Sr., MSW
- Ronny A. Bell, Ph.D, MS
- C Jason Branch, PhD
- Cedric M. Bright, MD, FACP
- Odell Dickerson, Jr., MBA
- Leo Flowers
- William E. Gist, MD
- Jacquelyn D. Hallum, MBA, MHA
- Felicia Hipp, RN, MSN
- Anquinetta Lewis
- Tyrice MCoy
- Frederick D. Murphy, LCMHC
- Nathan Scovens
- Donya Wallace, PhD, NCC, LPC, LPCS
- Darin Waters, PhD
- Sharon K. West, RN, BSN, PhD
- Cornell P. Wright, MPA
Sessions
Asheville African American Health Webinar Series (registering once will give you access to all sessions)
9/18 12:00 PM–9/18 1:00 PM
Credits
.000
Community Members - no credit requested
.100 CEU
0.10 Hour Per Session
The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this entire continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 0.10 CEUs as established by the National Task Force on the Continuing Education Unit.
1.000 Contact Hours
Nurse Practitioner - 1 Hour Per Session
Nurse Practitioners: MAHEC designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 1.0 contact hour.
1.000 NBCC Hours
1 Hour Per Session
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5514. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. MAHEC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 1.00 hour per session.
1.000 Nursing Contact Hours
1 Hour Per Session
1.00 Nursing Contact Hours Activity # AP 008-1833 Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
1.000 CME for Physician Assistants
1 Hour Per Session
Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts certificate of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician Assistants may receive a maximum of 1.00 hour of Category 1 credit for completing this program.
1.000 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
1 Hour Per Session
Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) through Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC). MAHEC is accredited by the NCMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Credit Designation: MAHEC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.