University of Virginia Health System

CENTER FOR IMPROVING MINORTY HEALTH ANNOUNCES SPRING SPEAKER SERIES

The University of Virginia Health System Center for Improving Minority Health (CIMH) has announced its monthly speaker series, Issues in Minority Health, for 2002. Presentations will be held in Jordan Hall in rooms A-C from noon to 1 p.m. unless noted.

Organized in 2000 by Dr. Norman Oliver, associate professor of family medicine, CIMH has a goal of evaluating healthcare practices, identifying problems and inequities and designing solutions that will improve health outcomes for minority populations. These weekly forums are open to healthcare professionals and the public.

• February 19 Prostate Cancer: Disparities among African American Men.
  Dr. Kerry Kilbridge, assistant professor in the Division of Health Services Research & Outcomes Evaluation in the Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, will be presenting.
  
  
• March 22 Diabetes in Underserved Populations.
  Dr. John Schorling, section head of the Division of General Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine; Terry Saunders, Ph.D., director of the Virginia Center for Diabetes Professional Education and assistant professor of medical education in the Department of Internal Medicine; and Natalie May, Ph.D., director of research in the Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, will be presenting.
  
  
• April 22 Racial Disparities & Diabetic Kidney Disease.
  Dr. Ross Isaacs, medical director of the Multi-Organ Transplant Clinic, assistant professor of Clinical Internal Medicine and associate director of CIMH, will be presenting.
  
  
• March 1 U.Va. Downlink: Social Determinants of Health: Assembling Pieces of the Puzzle.
  This is a presentation of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Public Health's 24th Annual Minority Health Conference.

This event takes place in the Health Evaluation Sciences Classroom A from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. The downlink is sponsored by the Center for Improving Minority Health and Health Evaluation Sciences.

For more information about these presentations, please call (434) 982-4153 or e-mail acs4n@virginia.edu to register.

February 15, 2002