Topic: Association of Black Women Physician's CME Symposium- COVID, HIV, and Alzheimer's "Disparities In Care"

Program Credit: Approved for 3.0 CME credits by AAFP. Attendance at live broadcast required. 

Description:  THE ABWP CME SYMPOSIUM: COVID, HIV AND ALZHEIMER'S "DISPARITIES IN CARE" will cover updates on infectious diseases (COVID, HIV, and Monkeypox), health disparities in public health (historically in the areas of HIV for example to the current pandemic), and the silent pandemic of Alzheimer's in the Black community (causes, signs/sxs, diagnosis, management).

Guest Speakers:

• Miriam Burnett, MD, MPH, Internal Medicine
• Kinji Hawthorne, MD, MPH, Infectious Disease
• Chandra Ford, PhD, MPH, Founding Director, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health

Moderated by: 

ABWP's Dr. Kaishauna Guidry, MD, HMDC

Time

Aug 20, 2022 09:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

MIRIAM J. BURNETT, MD, MDiv, MPH, CHCQM, FABQAURP

Dr. Burnett serves as the President of Resource And Promotion of Health Alliance, Inc. (R.A.P.H.A., Inc.), a non-profit Health Education and Promotion Consulting Company with 30 years of experience aiding faith-based (FBO) and community (CBO) organizations as they strive to optimize health for their communities.

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KINJI HAWTHORNE, M.D., M.P.H.

The Desert Care Network continues to enhance specialty healthcare access to the Coachella Valley by growing our network of the best doctors, such as Dr. Kinji Hawthorne. Dr. Hawthorne joins our network, so that we may ensure patient needs are met with the highest level of care. He has spent much of his medical career as a public health practitioner at different levels of government. 

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CHANDRA FORD, PHD, MPH

Dr. Chandra L. Ford is Professor of Community Health Sciences and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She is lead editor (with Derek Griffith, Marino Bruce and Keon Gilbert) of Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional (APHA Press, 2019), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine.

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