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Saturday,
October 3 Treating and Managing the Care of Diverse Patient Populations: Challenges for Training and PracticeJordan J. Cohen, MD Glenn Flores, MD Robert C. Like, MD, MS
As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Jordan J. Cohen, MD leads the Association’s support and service to the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals. His almost 40-year career in academic medicine has included positions at some of the most prestigious institutions in the country. Most recently, he served as dean of the medical school and professor of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and president of the medical staff at University Hospital. Dr. Cohen held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, Brown University, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He has served as Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and has been a Regent and Vice Chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians. He is the author of more than 100 publications and is an editor of Nephrology Forum. Dr. Cohen received his BA from Yale University and his MD from Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Glenn Flores is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Public Health at the Boston University School of Medicine, Founder & Co-Director of the Pediatric Latino Clinic at Boston Medical Center, and a Robert Wood Johnson Minority Medical Faculty Development Scholar. He has been interested in the impact of culture on clinical care for several years, dating back to serving on the Committee on Multicultural Education at Yale University School of Medicine, for which he developed the Latino cases in the syllabus, and was a faculty facilitator for the Multicultural Module of the Doctor-Patient Encounter course for first-year medical students. Dr. Flores has a manuscript under review at JAMA entitled, "Culture and the Patient-Physician Relationship: Achieving Cultural Competency in Health Care." He is completing a manuscript, "Teaching cultural sensitivity to medical students: Discounting diversity, or drowning in the melting pot?" Dr. Flores is also completing a project examining the clinical consequences of interpreter errors in pediatric encounters. Dr. Flores recently received a $10,000 grant from the National Emergency Medical Services for Children Research Alliance for his project, "The Impact of Culture on the Emergency Care of Children." He is also a member of the Task Force on Cultural Competence in Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC).
Robert C. Like, MD., M.S. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, and Director of the Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also Director of the Family Health Track in the New Jersey Graduate Program in Public Health, and Associate Director of the Primary Care/Health Services Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Dr. Like is a practicing family physician with a background in medical anthropology, and has carried out fieldwork in the Azores Islands, Portugal; Israel; Zuni, New Mexico; and the Kingdom of Tonga in Western Polynesia. He is Co-Chair of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s Group on Multicultural Health Care and Education, and is actively involved in providing training and technical assistance relating to the delivery of culturally competent health care to diverse populations. NEXT > |
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