Calendar of Events and Seminars

The First Annual Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora: Generating Solutions

Sponsored by the Office of Diversity Affairs and the Centers for Health Disparities Research, New York University School of Medicine

Saturday February 4, 2006
9:00AM – 6:30PM
Farkas Auditorium
New York University Medical Center

Opening remarks: Mariano Rey, Director, Centers for Health Disparities Research

Welcome: Robert Glickman, Dean and CEO, NYU Medical Center

Cardiovascular Diseases/Hypertension

Charles Francis, New York Academy of Medicine
Race Medicine and Heart Failure

Luther Clark, Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine SUNY Downstate and Kings Hospital Medical Center
Race-Based Medicine: Implications of the African American Heart Failure Trial

Diabetes

Gail Nunlee Bland, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Howard University
Diabetes Prevention – Know Your ABCs

Charmaine Ruddock, Bronx HealthReach
Community Policy Change from the Front line: A Community’s Effort to Address the Epidemic of Diabetes - The Bronx Health REACH experience

Key Note Speech

Deborah Fraser-Howze, President/CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS
A Culturally Conpetent Response to the State of Energency brought by HIV/AIDS in the African American Community

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch: Healthy Ethiopian and Caribbean Cuisine

HIV/AIDS

Robert Fullilove, Mailman School of Public Health
HIV in the African Diaspora

Wilbert C. Jordan, Director, OASIS Clinic and AIDS Program, Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center
A profile of African American HIV + Men and its effect on Adherence

Asthma

Mary Bassett, Deputy Commissioner, NYC Department of Health
Neighborhood Disparitiesin Asthma Occurrence and Outcome

Denise Harrison, Department of Environmental Medicine, NYU Medical Center
Disparities in Asthma Prevention and Treatment

Breast Cancer

Kathie Ann Joseph, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Breast Cancer in Women of Color

Shellie Anderson-Tazi, Cancer Survivor, Author Soul Beginnings: 8 Strategies for Overcoming Life's Challenges
Discovering your Soul Beginning and Overcoming a Challenge

Closing Keynote:Charles Baron, City Council Member, Chair, Committee on Higher Education

Closing Remarks: Mekbib Gemeda, Director, Office of Diversity Affairs

6:40 p.m. Reception: South African food, wines, and music by a South African Trio

New York University School of Medicine is grateful for the major support provided by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation to the Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora: Generating Solutions.

The Event is Free and Open to the Public.

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