What is the Heartland Conference?
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The vast majority of medical care in the United States is administered in a community based-setting. Yet, training for clinicians and clinician-researchers rarely concentrates in a community setting, and thus many important social underpinnings of disease go unnoticed and unaddressed.
With the advent of community-university partnerships such as the teaching health centers program, community based participatory research and clinical and translational research programs, stronger connections between community and university are being made possible. |
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Still though, as social determinants of health are increasingly seen as the key to many chronic diseases, we feel that academic health institutions and local and regional community health entities stand to partner, communicate, and connect in many more radical ways.
With the recognition of the critical roles patient, community and team-informed science plays in health research, mechanisms to promote, facilitate and reward team and community engaged science are emerging. Diverse teams of collaborating scholars and meaningful inclusion of patients, providers, community members and other key stakeholders in decision-making is sorely needed to address research challenges and advance health improvement for all.
With this conference, we would like to explore the rich interplay of community and university together, with the thought that the strength of our community may determine meaningful research priorities and relevant programs and providers.
The Heartland Conference on Health Equity and Patient Centered Care highlights community - academic partnerships and encourages open discussion among academic health centers, community health workers, faith-based community, and community-based service organizations.
With the recognition of the critical roles patient, community and team-informed science plays in health research, mechanisms to promote, facilitate and reward team and community engaged science are emerging. Diverse teams of collaborating scholars and meaningful inclusion of patients, providers, community members and other key stakeholders in decision-making is sorely needed to address research challenges and advance health improvement for all.
With this conference, we would like to explore the rich interplay of community and university together, with the thought that the strength of our community may determine meaningful research priorities and relevant programs and providers.
The Heartland Conference on Health Equity and Patient Centered Care highlights community - academic partnerships and encourages open discussion among academic health centers, community health workers, faith-based community, and community-based service organizations.
As a cardiovascular outcomes researcher, this conference introduced me to wonderful folks in the community that have been tremendous partners as we further our patient-centered research on shared decision-making.
Carol Decker RN, PhD
Our conference objectives include:
This conference targets a vibrant audience of clinicians, academics, health service organizations social workers, public health, regional and local foundations, community health workers and community leaders with interest and passion for social justice, health equity, community and patient advocacy.
- develop health focused partnerships
- explore strategies to preserve the health of our communities
- understand perspectives to address community and population health
- provide opportunities for community health workers to grow and develop
- highlight patients and families as health care partners
This conference targets a vibrant audience of clinicians, academics, health service organizations social workers, public health, regional and local foundations, community health workers and community leaders with interest and passion for social justice, health equity, community and patient advocacy.
Featured Speakers
Alan RichmondAlan Richmond is the executive director of Community Campus Partnerships for Health. For the past five years, locally and nationally, he has had a significant role in advancing community engagement in health research through the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Award. He became the first community leader to serve co-chair of the national CTSA Community Engagement Key Function Committee, working to better understand and support the role of community leaders in the CTSA program. He is Principal Investigator of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded project, “Facilitating Community Engagement through Partnerships”, that conducts a series of regional meetings in the US.
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Mark ThrunMD
Mark Thrun is an Associate Director for HIV Medical Sciences at Gilead Sciences where his focus is on HIV prevention. Previously he was the Director of HIV and STD Prevention and Control at the Department of Public Health in Denver, an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, and the Director of the Denver Prevention Training Center. He is a past Co-chair of the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers and has served as a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on HIV prevention, testing, and preexposure prophylaxis. With an interest in health access and equity, Mark volunteers in the community on the board of directors for One Colorado, a statewide LGBT-advocacy organization. Dr. Thrun received his doctorate in medicine and completed his residency at the University of Cincinnati. He completed an Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Colorado.
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Rachel A. Prosser
PhD, APRN, CNP, AAHIVS, FAANP
Dr. Prosser completed her Bachelors of Science at the College of Saint Benedict. She completed her masters of Science in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner, Certificate of International Health and Social Development and Doctorate of Philosophy in Nursing in the Health Promotion and Risk Reduction track at the School of Nursing at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include: new therapies for HIV, medication adherence and neurocognitive disease in people living with HIV.
Dr. Prosser works as a nurse practitioner providing care to people living with HIV and HCV at the Positive Care Center and is the Research Manager of the HIV/AIDS Research at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. She is the Medical Director for Rural AIDS Action Network (RAAN) of Minnesota. She is the HIV Specialist for the MN Department of Corrections and Minnesota State Hospitals (MSOP). Dr. Prosser is the sole owner of Positive Healthcare LLC. Positive Healthcare LLC provides out of state telemedicine and consultative HIV and HCV services. She is faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and Metro State University School of Nursing.
Dr. Prosser works as a nurse practitioner providing care to people living with HIV and HCV at the Positive Care Center and is the Research Manager of the HIV/AIDS Research at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. She is the Medical Director for Rural AIDS Action Network (RAAN) of Minnesota. She is the HIV Specialist for the MN Department of Corrections and Minnesota State Hospitals (MSOP). Dr. Prosser is the sole owner of Positive Healthcare LLC. Positive Healthcare LLC provides out of state telemedicine and consultative HIV and HCV services. She is faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and Metro State University School of Nursing.