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45th Annual LMSA Northeast Regional Conference
Construyendo Puentes: Overcoming Barriers for a Healthier Community
Saturday, February 17th - 8:00 AM
Sidney Kimmel Medical College
1025 Walnut St, #100
Philadelphia PA 19107
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The Annual LMSA Northeast Regional Conference brings together around 400 Latino high school students, premedical students, medical students, graduating physicians, residents, and practicing physicians interested in serving the healthcare needs of their community. This year's regional conference will include special keynote speakers (Miriam Zoila Pérez and Ana Núñez), a series of workshops on the healthcare needs of the Latino community, MCAT and USMLE Prep, advice from residents, healthcare policy, and several networking events.
Regional Conference will be followed by a brief Spring House of Delegates (HOD) meeting which will include election of the new regional board.
ALL CHAPTERS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND BOTH REGIONAL CONFERENCE AND SPRING HOD
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UPDATE: Confirmed Conference Speakers and Workshops
General
* Clinica de Migrantes - HBO Documentary Screening with Puentes de Salud creators Dr. Jack Ludmir, Dr. Steven Larson, Dr. Krys Foster, Dr. D. Daphne Owen, Annette Silva, Henrique Jaime
* Introduction to Healthy Policy Making and Advocacy - Jessica Morales
* Social Determinants of Health: Addressing the Needs of Every Patient - Dr. Rosemary Frasso
* Public Health: Influence on the Immigrant Population - Dr. Ellen Plumb
* Cultural Competencies and Biases in Medicine - Dr. Bernard Lopez
Medical Students
* How to Succeed in Residency - Dr. Jeffery Uribe, Dr. Juliana Jaramillo, Dr. Monica Hinestroza Jordan
* Why Diversity Matters in Academic Medicine - Dr. John Sanchez, Dr. Carlos Rodriguez, Dr. Halegoua-DeMarzio
* How do they know what I know? "Steps" to becoming a competent physician - Dr. Manuel Paniagua
Pre-Health Students
* The Journey to Medical School - Dr. Clara Callahan + Panel of Jefferson Medical Students
* Examkrackers MCAT Preparation Workshop
* Introduction to Clinical Skills: Is Medicine right for me?
Network with our exhibitors!
Medical School Admissions, Residency Programs, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Offices, Post-Bac Programs, Exam Prep Services including but not limited to:
* Kaiser Permanente + Residency Programs
* Sidney Kimmel Medical College - Thomas Jefferson University
* Becker Professional Education
* Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
* Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
* Examkrackers MCAT Test Preparation
* Boston Medical Center
* University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
* Lehigh Valley Health Network Family Medicine Residency Program
* University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania
* Cristiana Care Health System + Residency Programs
* F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine
* MEDPREP (Medical/Dental Education Preparatory Program)
* Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences
* Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
* AND MANY MORE!
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A Couple Words on Our Keynote Speakers...
Ana Núñez<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=31605e7968&e=1f2fa2e9b1>, MD, is the associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion. She is also the director of the Center of Excellence in Women's Health and director of the Women's Health Education Program at Drexel University College of Medicine.
She is a nationally recognized medical educator in women's health, curricular reform and cultural competency. Dr. Núñez has developed varied educational interventions including a women's health education series that has been successfully integrated and evaluated within the medical school's curricular tracks.
She has also served as a test-question reviewer for the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) for cultural competence and sex/gender medical education, and was co-editor of the Achieving Cultural Competency Casebook. In 2015, she was awarded the prestigious Herbert W. Nickens Award by the AAMC, honoring her effort to advance the educational, societal, and healthcare needs of minorities.
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Ana Núñez, MD - Towards a Trauma-Informed City: Challenges and Opportunities in Philadelphia
Miriam Zoila Pérez, is a queer Cuban-American writer and activist focused on race, health and gender. Pérez is the gender columnist for Colorlines<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=a200f5b7ff&e=1f2fa2e9b1>, and is the founder of Radical Doula<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=e4dcd47e16&e=1f2fa2e9b1>, a blog that covers the intersections of birth activism and social justice from a doula's perspective. Her interest in birth started sometime in middle school, during various hour-long sessions pouring over health books at friend's houses. She became a doula in 2004, after watching the documentary Born in the USA<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=b2aac24bda&e=1f2fa2e9b1> and deciding that birth activism was her passion. Miriam has worked as a reproductive justice organizer with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=a355259293&e=1f2fa2e9b1>, a case manager for pregnant Latinas and most recently a self-employed writer<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=dd9ca044d4&e=1f2fa2e9b1> and speaker<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=b8fde04ae5&e=1f2fa2e9b1>.
She was an editor at Feministing.com<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=d6093e1461&e=1f2fa2e9b1> for four years, during which the site was awarded the Sidney J Hillman Prize for Blog Journalism. Her writing <https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=34082dba36&e=1f2fa2e9b1> has appeared in Splinter, The Nation, The American Prospect, MORE Magazine, Rewire and Talking Points Memo.
Her TED Talk, How Racism is Harming Pregnant Women--and What Can Help<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=1f9efe939d&e=1f2fa2e9b1>, has been viewed over 800,000 times.
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Miriam Zoila Pérez is a queer Cuban-American writer and activist focused on race, health and gender. She has spoken at two TED conferences: TEDWomen in 2016<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=4bf5885ff2&e=1f2fa2e9b1> and TEDx DePaul University in 2012<https://lmsa-ne.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcccbb45918bd582b27144656&id=9492ef01fa&e=1f2fa2e9b1>.
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Registration
Early Bird - 12/1/2017 to 12/31/2017
Advanced Registration - 1/1/2018 to 1/31/2018
Late/On-Site - 2/1/2018 to 2//17/2018
With Gala included for anyone over the age of 21
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