Community Healers Inspiring Tomorrow (CHIT) Chats
Public Health Fellowships and Rotations for Medical Students & Residents
- January 18, 2012
Traditional medical training focuses only on treating the individual patient, one person at a time. While addressing medical issues on an individual basis is very important, the field of public health allows practitioners to address health issues at the population level- through health education, promotion, systems and policy. Many medical students and practicing physicians never have the opportunity to consider how the home, community and work environments impact the health of an individual, nor do they have the opportunity to consider working as a physician in the field of public health. If you are interested in learning more about public health and how you could improve the health of entire populations, join us for the webinar!
During this webinar, six students/residents/physicians will describe public health opportunities they pursued as either students or residents. The opportunities that will be described are listed below:
- Duke Global Health Fellowship in Geneva, Switzerland (presented by Nathan Barusch, MS2 at Creighton)
- CDC Applied Epidemiology Fellowship in Atlanta (presented Farhad Modarai, MS4 at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine)
- NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene elective rotation (presented by Sayone Thihalolipavan, MD, MPH and recent graduate of the NYC DOHMH Preventive Medicine Residency)
- South Texas Environmental Education and Research (STEER) elective rotation (presented by Ashley Maltz, MD, MPH and recent graduate of the of the UTMB Combined Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine Residency Program)
- LA County Dept of Public Health elective rotation (presented by Heather Tindall Readhead, MD, MPH- current resident at California Department of Public Health Preventive Medicine Residency)
- Johns Hopkins Preventive Medicine elective rotation (presented by Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH- current resident at Johns Hopkins General Preventive Medicine Residency)
This webinar is brought to you by the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and is designed for medical students and residents. Through a partnership between ACPM and the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) the webinar series aims to increase medical students' awareness of current public health issues and interest in the medical specialty of preventive medicine. ACPM is the national professional society for physicians who specialize in preventive medicine. Preventive medicine physicians are uniquely trained in both clinical medicine and public health and serve in leadership positions throughout the country and internationally.
To learn more about ACPM and careers in preventive medicine, visit:
“Putting Prevention into Medicare” - November 30
Dr. Marcel Salive, MD, MPH will be discussing the controversy behind the use of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) in Medicare. As part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare has been charged with incorporating evidence–based medicine into their activities. The idea of CER would encourage the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to apply the research generated by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and others for their payment, coverage and quality measurement systems. This becomes controversial because some people are not comfortable with the idea that the government would be deciding what services to provide based on efficacy, and possibly cost.
Dr. Salive is from the National Institute on Aging of the NIH. He is the Vice Chair for the American Board of Preventive Medicine and mid-Atlantic Regent of the American College of Preventive Medicine. He oversees a portfolio of clinical and translational research on geriatrics for the NIH, including polypharmacy and treatment of multiple chronic conditions. He is also a Captain in the US Public Health Service (PHS) and medical officer for the PHS Rapid Deployment Force-2.
Dr. Salive completed his MD at the University of Michigan. He earned his MPH and completed his preventive medicine residency from Johns Hopkins University.
"Prevention: The Best Health - and Healthcare - Strategy" - October 12
Dr. Miriam Alexander, the current President of the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), will be speaking about the importance of prevention and public health to patients and the nation. Dr. Alexander is a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and serves as the director of the general preventive medicine residency program. Her faculty responsibilities include directing the Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center and providing the medical direction to the community health worker program of the Urban Health Institute. She is also the occupational medical director for McCormick and Company.
Dr. Alexander has a BA and an MD from Cornell University. She earned her MPH and completed her preventive medicine residency from Johns Hopkins University.
This webinar is brought to you through a partnership between the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM). The webinar series serves as one of three core components of AMSA's Academy Scholars Program in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. ACPM is the national professional society for physicians who specialize in preventive medicine. Preventive medicine specialists are uniquely trained in both clinical medicine and public health and serve in leadership positions throughout the country and internationally. They practice in a variety of health settings—including state and local health departments, federal agencies, hospitals, health plans, community and migrant health centers, industrial sites, occupational health centers, academic centers, private practice, and the military.
"Rx for Better Health: Changing Food-Related Disease from Farm to Fork" - October 25
Four of the top six causes of expensive, life shortening chronic disease are related to unhealthy eating – stroke, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. They’re closely linked to the epidemic of obesity. Americans didn’t suddenly decide to eat their way to an early grave. Public health research now identifies an unhealthy food system as a key driver of Americans' poor health. Find out how med students can become linchpins in the advocacy needed for a healthier food system, from better lunches in schools to the 2012 Farm Bill.
Speakers:
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Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP, is Adjunct Associate Professor in Community Health at Portland State University and practices internal medicine with Kaiser Permanente. He serves on the Board of Advisors of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and was Chief Scientific Advisor to Oregon PSR’s Campaign for Safe Foods.He received his BS and MD from UCLA, completed internship and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. His work on food safety encompasses genetically-modified crops, biopharming, hormones in the food supply, and the overuse of agricultural antibiotics.
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David Wallinga, MD, MPA, is Senior Advisor in Science, Food and Health, at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. From 2009 through 2010, Dr. Wallinga was a William T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow in Food Systems and Public Health at University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. He received a medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School, a master’s degree from Princeton University and a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College. Dr. Wallinga applies a systems lens to think about health impacts of food and how it is produced, processed, packaged and distributed in today's global, industrialized food system.