Breakout Presentations

Breakout Sessions

View the Conference Program for the full schedule.

Monday, March 30, 10:30-12:00 pm

Training for Good Medicine in Healthcare’s Digital Future: An Integrated Humanities and Health Systems Curricular Approach

Room: Wiltern A

Presenter(s): Swapna Reddy, Arizona State University; Cora Fox, Arizona State Unicersity; Annika Mann, Arizona State University; Kristen Will, Arizona State University

In this presentation, interprofessional faculty experts at a new school of medicine and medical engineering will describe the process of designing interdisciplinary convergences into curriculum and the development of a stand-alone intensive course, “Clinician Leadership and Advocacy,” that combines perspectives from multiple fields to offer students practical and early clinical experiences that integrate those competencies into the practice of medicine.

 

Advising Meets Institutional Advocacy: Creating Systems of Support for Undocumented Students Pursuing Health Related Programs (Panel)

Room: Wiltern BC

Presenter(s): Yadira Ortiz, Pre-Health Dreamers

Undocumented students continue to be underrepresented in higher education. This panel will discuss obstacles faced by undocumented students, specific statewide issues in California health programs, and successful interventions that support undocumented students. 

 

Developing the Next Generation: Innovative Approaches to Strengthening the Health Workforce (Panel)

Room: Orpheum A

Presenter(s): Janice Blanchard, Atlantic Fellowship for Health Equity; Adrian Billings, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; Shannon Ladner-Beasley, Contra Costa County

This panel highlights three distinct interventions that strengthen health workforce capacity across diverse contexts, including a health equity fellowship program, a pathway program for non-clinical health careers, and a program aimed to train more rural family physicians in West Texas through a Family Medicine Accelerated Track and a summer camp for rural high school students. 

 

Writing Toward Justice: Using Narrative Medicine as Advocacy for Health Equity (Workshop)

Room: Orpheum B

Presenter(s): Shanda McManus, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine; Laura Shu, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine; Bridgit Tracey, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Participants will learn how to apply narrative medicine techniques to document moments where they witness structural inequity in clinical settings; transform clinical narratives into advocacy tools by connecting individual stories to systemic critique; and develop implementation plans for narrative-based advocacy at their institutions.

 

From Implicit to Intentional: Interdisciplinary Simulation for Equitable Healthcare (Workshop)

Room: El Capitan

Presenter(s): Jabina Coleman, Temple University; Dana Crawford, CBRT

In this workshop, speakers will share their experience implementing anti-racism trainings that enable interdisciplinary teams working across maternal health, obstetrics, nursing, and more to practice recognizing and addressing bias during realistic clinical encounters. This workshop will include an overview of maternal health inequities affecting Black birthing people, a LET-UP Framework instruction, immersive simulation practice, and time for participants to create plans for how to bring interdisciplinary simulation labs to their respective institutions.

  

Kindness ROCKS: Youth Led Strategies to Build Positive Childhood Experiences and Reduce the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (Workshop)

Room: Los Angeles

Presenter(s): Renee Kinman, UCSF Fresno; Kelly Colwell-Walker, UCSF Fresno; Nevaeh Marie Jordan, UCSF Fresno; Mia Analise Burciaga, UCSF Fresno Valerie Aguilar; Ysabellah Cielo Cervantes, UCSF Fresno

Speakers will introduce the Kindness ROCKS framework as a youth driven approach to promoting Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) and improving school climate. Participants will be supported in designing a Kindness ROCKS campaign tailored to their own settings, and will leave with a strengthened understanding of how kindness campaigns can address trauma, promote resilience, and advance equity.

Monday, March 30, 1:40 - 3:10 pm

Abolition in Medicine: Limiting ICE and Law Enforcement Activity in Hospital Settings (Workshop)

Room: Wiltern BC

Presenter(s): Sharmain Siddiqui, Loyola University Stritch SOM; Miranda Harris-Martinez, University of Minnesota Medical School

The pervasive presence of law enforcement in hospitals undermines patient trust and safety, leading to delayed care and worsened health outcomes for immigrant, undocumented, and state-targeted communities. This workshop will include a social and historical overview of ICE, a primer on medical-legal rights, a role-playing segment based on real-world incidents, and a facilitated debrief. Upon leaving, participants will be able to demonstrate de-escalation techniques that can be used to manage a crisis situation without defaulting to police involvement.

  

Structural Incompetencies: Student, Educator, & Community Strategies for Resisting Institutional Censorship & Suppression of Anti-Racist Health Professional Education (Panel)

Room: Orpheum A

Presenter(s): Matt Hing, UCLA; Claire Nussbaum, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Sami Haraguchi, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Isabella Duan; Jaideep Chakladar, UCLA; Daniel Kennedy Morales; Ben Schneider, UCLA; Edgar Rivera Colón; Mohamad Raad; Ayah El-Fahmawi

Through comparative case studies of censorship within medical school curricula, this panel will analyze the systematic dismantling of social justice medical education. In doing so, panelists will describe its mechanisms, actors and effects, and explore urgent strategies for professional and community resistance with the audience. 

 

Promising Practices for Social Mission Advancement: Innovations Across Health Professions Schools (Panel)

Room: Orpheum B

Presenter(s): Isabel Chen, Social Mission Alliance; Tonya Fancher, UC Davis; Resa Caivano, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine; Makeen Yasar, Charles R Drew University of Medicine

To support institutional self-evaluation and improvement in social mission areas, the Social Mission Metrics Initiative developed and deployed a national benchmarking survey to hundreds of U.S. health professions schools. This panel will feature four medical school representatives that took part in the most recent benchmarking cycle to discuss the assessment process, lessons learned, strategies for leveraging benchmarking data, and opportunities for adaptation across schools.

 

California Medical Scholars Program (Panel)

Room: El Capitan

Community colleges play a critical role in expanding and diversifying the future physician workforce. This panel will highlight the California Medicine Scholars Program (CMSP), a statewide program designed to strengthen the pathway from community college to medical school through mentorship, academic support, clinical exposure, and regional partnerships. Panelists will discuss the development and growth of CMSP, insights from program evaluation and research, and lessons learned from building an intersegmental pathway model that supports aspiring physicians across California. The conversation will explore how collaborative partnerships across educational institutions and regions can help address physician workforce shortages and expand opportunities for students pursuing careers in medicine.

Panelists:

  • California Medicine Scholars Program: Leveraging Regional Partnerships to Transform California’s Physician Workforce (Jessica Garcia, California Medicine Scholars Program; Kenneth Bush, California Medicine Scholars Program; Johanna Navarrette, UC Riverside School of Medicine; Melissa Kent, UCSF Fresno; Charlene Green, UC Davis School of Medicine)
  • Elevating Community Colleges in the Pre-Med Pathway: Evaluation of the California Medicine Scholars Program (Margaret Ziemann, George Washington University)
  • Research, Data, and Evaluation in Pathway Programs: Insights and Lessons from the California Medicine Scholars Program (Sos Nazaryan, California Medicine Scholars Program)

 

PrePAre to Transform: Building Pathways that Power the Social Mission in Health Professions Education (Workshop)

Room: The Los Angeles

Presenter(s): Lucy Kibe, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science; Holly Johnson, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science; Erin Jackson

Equity gaps in health professions education persist despite decades of awareness and reform. The PrePare Framework is an institutional model that any health professions school can implement to improve early preparation, belonging, and readiness for graduate-level study. This skill-building workshop will emphasize participation, design thinking, and institutional application.

Tuesday, March 31, 9:00 - 10:00 am

Sector Partnerships as Engines for Health Workforce Equity: Lessons from Nursing and Behavioral Health Pathways in California’s Northern San Joaquin Valley (Panel)

Room: Wiltern A

Presenter(s): Paul Lanning, HealthForce Partners California; Fay Vieira, San Joaquin County Behavioral Health Services; Lisa Lucchesi

This panel will highlight two proven scalable initiatives that build community-rooted, equity-centered pathways in nursing and behavioral health, The HOPE Nursing Program at San Joaquin Delta College and The Behavioral Health Workforce Partnership. Attendees will learn actionable strategies to adapt these models to their own region, plus insights into the policy, funding, and relationship-building mechanisms needed to make sector partnerships effective.

  

Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortiums (GME-SNCs): Rooting Workforce, Restoring Communities, and Reimagining Social Mission (Panel)

Room: Wiltern BC

Presenter(s): Linda Thomas-Hemak, The Wright Center; Brian Ebersole, The Wright Center

This panel discussion of the GME Safety-Net Consortium model offers attendees a replicable, policy-aligned path to ensure that GME fulfills the promise for which it was publicly funded: healthier communities, a resilient workforce, and equity in who receives care and who delivers it This panel brings together leaders with complementary expertise who have designed, operationalized, and sustained a community-owned framework for GME that has extended to other health professions education.

 

Advocacy in Medical Education (Wicked Problems)

Room: Orpheum A

Moderator: Ronan Hallowell, Keck School of Medicine of USC

As health advocacy and health equity curricula and policies are increasingly embedded in health professions education institutions, there remains a lack of clarity on best approaches for teaching these subjects and how to handle resistance from faculty. This session will prompt participants to reflect on how advocacy training could evolve within their own contexts and institutions, how to incentivize and measure institutional efforts to embed advocacy as a core component of training, and practical approaches to recognize, anticipate, and navigate faculty resistance in order to sustain momentum for advancing equity.

Panelists:

  • Training Health Advocates in a Blurred Policy System: A Wicked Problem in U.S. Health Professions Education (Garrett Kneese, Center for Professionalism & Value in Healthcare; Alexandra Greenberg, NYP/Columbia)
  • We Need to Talk About Resistance: The Structural Roots of Faculty Opposition to Teaching Social Justice and Health Equity in Medical Education (Allison Brown, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine)

 

Overcoming Barriers to Entry (Wicked Problems)

Room: Orpheum B

Moderator: Rachel Gold, Albert Schweitzer Fellowship

Students deserve equal access to health professions education. The first wicked problem in this session invites participants to grapple with a fundamental question: how can health professions education realign its incentives to cultivate culturally humble, socially accountable clinicians and create environments where all trainees can safely learn and thrive? The second wicked problem focuses on the decline in Native matriculants to medical school and will prompt discussion on barriers Native students face applying to medical school, ways to increase awareness and accessibility of medical school, and more.  

Panelists:

  • Who Gets to Be Trained? Reimagining Incentives for Safe and Equitable Learning Environments in Health Professions Education (Vanessa Grubbs, Black Doc Village)
  • The Missing Matriculants: Understanding the Decline in Native American MD Students (Mackenzie Savage, University of New Mexico School of Medicine)

 

Fellowship & Global Training (Panel)

Room: El Capitan

Moderator: Adriann Begay, UCSF HEAL Initiative

This panel will demonstrate practical strategies, implementation, and impact of interprofessional local and global health fellowship programs. Panelists will discuss community-based learning structures and reciprocal research methods, real-world examples of health equity in practice, shared/distributed leadership, and programmatic considerations for effective partnerships between learners, mentors/mentees, and community members and workers to further health equity. Key themes include sustainable community partnerships, structural competency, community-based health career development, and advocacy.

Panelists:

  • Social Medicine Fellowship: An Innovative Model for Community Transformation (Moazzum Bajwa, HEAL Social Medicine Fellowship; John Dover, RUHS; Rosana Cobos, HEAL / Riverside University Health System; Jesus Pacheco, HEAL / Riverside University Health System)
  • Health Equity Projects Implemented by a Global Fellowship Program: Impacts and Lessons Learned for Health Professions Education (Lauren Munoz, Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity; Angela Echiverri, UCLA / Venice Family Clinic; Shannon Ladner-Baesley, Contra Costa Health)

  

Classroom Community Connections (Panel)

Room: The Los Angeles

Moderator: Emma Sellers, PA Education Association

Panelists will discuss examples of community partnerships in health professions education, including a medical school required curriculum to help learners operationalize the concepts of the determinants of health and structures that affect patient care, AAMC NEXT grant projects supporting community-academic initiatives, and a learning collaborative for FQHCs to develop their own programs to train and recruit dental assistants from within their community.

Panelists:

  • Creating A Student-Driven, Community-Based Course That Addresses Determinants of Health to Create Real-World Systems Change (Andy Reyes Santos, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine)
  • Connecting Classrooms and Communities: Building Partnerships for Health Equity (Katrice Cain, Association of American Medical Colleges)
  • Creating Community Pathways: Expanding Access and Opportunity through Dental Assistant Training Programs (Candace Owen, Candace Owen, National Network for Oral Health Access)

Tuesday, March 31, 10:15 - 11:15 pm

Building a Community Engaged Health Workforce (Panel)

Room: Wiltern A

Presenter(s): Rhonda McIntyre, Ross University School of Medicine; Rashida Daisley, Ross University School of Medicine

Integrating community engagement and research into medical training is imperative because it prepares future physicians to address social determinants of health and reduce inequities in care. Panelists will specifically discuss these concepts as it relates to a 12-credit Community Medicine curricular component at Ross University School of Medicine.

Ignite Session

Room: Wiltern BC

Moderator: Mary-Alice Scott, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This Ignite session allows speakers to give quick 5-minute presentations of innovative ideas. This Ignite session features 7 speakers discussing topics such as culturally tailored care, pathway programs, mentorship, and admission processes.

Speakers:

  • Circles of Change: Community Voices Shaping Tomorrow’s Physicians (Caryn Katz-Loffman, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine; Mekbib

    Gemeda, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine)

  • Does Your Training Work? Ask the Patients and Families! (Olanrewaju Falusi, Children’s National Hospital, George Washington University)
  • Education as Empowerment: Practical Steps for Accompaniment in a Community Health Center (Rosana Cobos, Riverside University Health System; Mozzum Bajwa; John Dover, RHUS; Jesus Pacheco, HEAL / Riverside University Health System)
  • From Vision to Impact: Developing a Custom DEI Strategy (Emma Sellers, PA Education Association)
  • Identifying Gaps in Nutrition Education for East Asian Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: Opportunities for Culturally Tailored Care (Jingyi “Jeni” Zhang, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Science; Addie Boone, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences)
  • Mentorship Can Bridge Latino Health Profession Gaps (Silva Perez, Alliance in Mentorship, founding entity of MiMentor)
  • Reimagining Admissions: Broadening Access and Building Belonging Through Holistic Admissions and the Taylored Excellence Program (LeAnn Allgood, AT Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona; Eboni Anderson; Virginia Young, AT Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona)

 

Latest Research in Social Mission (Panel) 

Room: Orpheum A

Moderator: Anushree Vichare, Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity

The advancement of social mission in health professions education requires tools and metrics to track and evaluate the integration and impact of social mission principles from the point of application through graduate practice. Panelists will discuss medical school admission and matriculation rates post 2023 SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action, a multidisciplinary teamwork competency assessment to ensure safe, equitable, and diverse collaboration, and a systematic analysis of physician and PA graduate practice locations to address provider maldistribution.

Panelists:

  • Medical School Admissions after the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling (Mytien Nguyen, Yale School of Medicine; Dowin Boatright; Sarwat Chaudhry)
  • Building Inclusive Teams: Validation of a New Framework for Health Professions Education (Akina Sanyang, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Hetty Cunningham, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons)
  • Measuring Social Mission Accountability: Project PAIR and the Systematic Longitudinal Tracking of Physician and PA Graduates (Kim Perry, A.T. Still University; Eric Luo, Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity)

 

Mitigating Bias in Curricula and Practice (Panel) 

Room: Orpheum B

Moderator: Daphnie Pierre, CFAR

Bias in healthcare appears in many ways, and it is the responsibility of a training institution to teach strategies and produce healthcare workers prepared to mitigate bias. To that end, attendees will learn about a replicable model for embedding community-engaged learning across medical education, insights into the role of social workers in combating implicit bias within multidisciplinary teams, and a framework for positioning community partnership as a core strategic priority in education. 

Panelists:

  • Embedding Community and Humanism Across the Continuum of Medical Training (Andy Reyes Santos, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine; Bridget Tracy, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine)
  • The Role of Power & Identity in Healthcare Bias Disruption for Social Workers on Multidisciplinary Teams (Tabitha Pederson, University of Denver)
  • Community as Strategy: Engaging Community in Creating a Vision for Health Equity in Medical Education (Barry Dornfeld, CFAR)

 

Access to Care & Community Inclusion (Panel)

Room: El Capitan

Moderator: Vivian Garcia, MiMentor

A key aspect of social mission is the ability of a training institution to develop healthcare workers that will work in underserved areas and have strategies to care for a diverse population. Panelists will discuss how teledentistry can be used to close care gaps and create pathways towards oral health access, a clinical skills workshop for pre-clerkship learners to improve confidence and clinical competence in caring for people with disabilities, and lessons from qualitative research on how the health of Latinx immigrant labor-intensive workers is affected by labor-intensive jobs, workplace dynamics, and language barriers. 

Panelists:

  • Creating Advanced Care Pathways through Teledentistry (Candace Owen, National Network for Oral Health Access)
  • People with Disabilities as Co-Educators: Advancing Disability Inclusion and Health Equity in Medical Student Clinical Readiness Training (Shariq Jumani, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Danielle Foltz, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Hetty Cunningham, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons) 

 

New Training Skills for Equity (Panel)

Room: The Los Angeles

This interdisciplinary panel will discuss emerging topics for health equity-focused training, including the use of AI in diagnostic imaging, modalities of teaching trauma-informed care, and flipped-learning interprofessional curriculum to teach physical exam skills. 

Panelists:

  • Designing AI-Assisted X-ray Education Across MD, NP, and PA Programs: What Students Want, What They Worry About, and How to Teach It (YuFu Kuo, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, PA Program; Stefan Lin; Lucy Kibe, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science)
  • Cultivating a Culture of Sensitivity: A Longitudinal Plan to Advance Trauma-informed Care in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Curriculum (Katherine Immergluck, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Reem Farjo)
  • Preparing a Collaborative Primary Care Workforce: Flipped, Interprofessional Advanced Physical Exam Training for PA and FNP Students at a Community-Serving Institution (YuFu Kuo, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, PA Program; Lucy Kibe, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science)