Leadership Symposium

One of HealthSTAT’s signature events, the Annual Leadership Symposium, brings together students from across disciplines and across the state to wrestle with Georgia’s biggest public health and healthcare challenges.  Each year, the symposium offers students the opportunity to learn from and network with experts and leaders in health.  This year, students will be able to give presentations and present posters on their work in the community and academically that pertains to healthcare access challenges, interdisciplinary collaboration and chronic disease management and prevention.

9th Annual Leadership Symposium
April 14, 2012
10 AM - 3 PM
Winship Ballroom in the Dobbs University Center, Emory University

Access to Care & Chronic Disease Prevention and Management

Download the agenda here

View map and parking information here

Faculty Speakers:

Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MPH –Eliminating Health Disparities
Kara Jacobson, MPH – Health Literacy: Can We Confuse Patients Less?
Terry Mize, PA-C, MMSc – Heat Illness Among Migrant Workers
Scott Richardson, MD -- From Genes to Society: Broadening Case-Based Learning
George Rust, MD, MPH  – Free-Range Humans in the Patient Centered Medical Home
Tim Sweeney, M.P.Aff. – Access to Care Issues in Georgia

Student posters and oral presentations:

Leading the Way: 10 Years of Civic Leadership in Health Professional Students
Sarah G. Candler

Emory University Volunteer Medical Interpretation Services
Howard Chiou*, Eduardo Garcia*, Trisha Patel*, Kristin Rebescher*, Duncan Wilson* and Emory University Volunteer Medical Interpretation Services

Print Media and STD Prevention
Renee Monique Haynes

Atlanta Awareness for Homeless Health
Courthney Russell, MD,  Chris Johnson, and Kanya Jones

Obstetric Provider Shortage and Maldistribution in Georgia
Bridget Spelke, Adrienne DeMarais Zertuche, Nikita Boston, Abby Yandell, Ansley Howe, Kayla Lavilla, Brittany Argotsinger, Danika Barry, Sylvie Hua, Pat Cota, RN, MS,  Andrew Dott, MD, MPH, Roger Rochat, MD

Harriet Tubman Free Women’s Health Clinic: the student-run clinic as a setting for the integration of education, service & leadership
Bridget Spelke,  Joelle Rosser

Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Pediatric Liver Transplant Outcomes: A Single-Center Experience
Rekha Thammana, Rachel E. Patzer, William McClellan, Hong Zhu, Caroline Toher, Rene Romero, Stuart Knechtle

A Quantitative Approach to Understanding Depression in African-American Women
Ashaki Warren

This is Public Health:  Addressing Issues and Creating Solutions
Melanie Williams, Crystal Davis, Geghan Gondron, Phylicia Hammonds, Jennifer Jones, Shekita Maxwell, Chanda Redd, Karishma Saini, Patience Sellars, Else Seifu, and Brittany Taylor from the Mercer University Public Health Association

Mobile Market:  Providing Healthy, Affordable Food to Communities
Karlyn Wilson

Associations between weekly traffic-related air pollutants and pediatric asthma control in El Paso, Texas
Jennifer Zora, Stefanie Sarnat

Register online here

Past topics, agendas, and papers:

2010: Health Reform and Access to Care
2009: Improving the Quality of Health in Our Communities
2008: Lead or Be Led: The Future of Healthcare in Georgia
2007: Childhood Obesity Prevention
2006: Access to Care
2005: Advancing HIV Prevention in Georgia
2004: Combating and Preventing Childhood Obesity
2003: Protecting and Expanding Access to Care for Georgia’s Children

See pictures from past Symposia on our Flickr account.