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National Council for the Diversity of the Health Professions (NCDHP)
Dale P. Dirks is the President of the Health and Medicine Counsel of Washington, a government relations firm that specializes in health policy. He is the Washington Representative for the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools, known as AMHPS. AMHPS is comprised of the 12 historically black medical, dental, pharmacy, and veterinary schools in the country. In his capacity working with AMHPS for nearly 30 years, Dale has worked to develop the Minority Centers of Excellence Program at HRSA, the Research Centers at Minority Institutions Program at NIH, the recently established National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH, and other federal programs focused on improving the health status of minorities in this country. More recently, Mr. Dirks has begun to work with the Nation Council on Diversity in the Health Professions. NCDHP is a consortium of health professions institutions which has been formed to revitalize annual funding for the Minority Centers of Excellence Program (COE) and the Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP).
National Council for the Diversity of Health Professions (NCDHP) Co-presenter - see Dale Dirk for presentation Katherine A. Flores MD received her undergraduate degree at Stanford University and her medical degree from the University of California, Davis. Since completing her residency training, she has spent her professional career as a family physician in private practice within an all-woman, bilingual medical group in Fresno, CA, which serves families from widely varying economic and ethnic backgrounds. Dr. Flores is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine and the Director of the UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research (LaCMER). The LaCMER is a unit of the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program located in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley. The overall mission of LaCMER is to work with disadvantaged students and help prepare them to become healthcare professionals who will ultimately return to the Central Valley to provide culturally competent healthcare services to the medically underserved. Dr. Flores has been active over the past 20 years in developing and overseeing programs that recruit and retain Latino and other underrepresented youth into the health professions. She has worked collaboratively with multiple partners to establish a comprehensive health careers pipeline program in the Central Valley of California, targeting disadvantaged youth, particularly from migrant farmworker backgrounds. Through her work in developing health professions pipeline programs for disadvantaged students, Dr. Flores and others jointly formed the California Health Professions Consortium to explore the development of a statewide strategy to address increasing the diversity of the healthcare workforce.
National Council for the Diversity of the Health Professions (NCDHP) Co-presenter - see Dale Dirk for presentation Wanda Dean Lipscomb, PhD is the Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Diversity and Outreach at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Dr. Lipscomb is also a tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Lipscomb served as the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Services from 1997 – 2007 and as Associate Chairperson of Education in the Department of Psychiatry from 1993 - 1996. Dr. Lipscomb has also held several other administrative roles in the college including, Director of Admissions, Director of Prematricular Programs, and Director of Recruitment and Special Projects. Trained as a psychologist, Dr. Lipscomb has an active interest in the recruitment and retention of minority health professionals. She has designed several initiatives for the College of Human Medicine targeting students from under-represented minority and disadvantaged backgrounds. One in particular, the Advanced Baccalaureate Learning Experience (ABLE) Program was established in the late 1980’s and has provided the vehicle for nearly 250 students from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain entry to the CHM by successful completion of the ABLE Program since its inception.
Preventing a Social Media Mismatch
Tamara Murray is an Account Director at Fenton and provides strategy, campaign and online engagement guidance for health, environment, and education causes. She leads Health Jobs Start Here's effort to educate youth about health jobs, and built an active community on Facebook connecting young adults to health workers for advice and encouragement. The campaign’s website drew more than 1.7 million unique visitors in less than two years after its launch. Prior to joining Fenton Communications in San Francisco, CA as the Account Director, Murray served on staff at NARAL Pro-Choice California and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, where she led a campaign to help low-income parents advocate for better schools.
“Preventing a Social Media Mismatch” Co-presenter - see Tamara Murray for presentation Erin Hart is a senior vice president at Fenton and has worked in issue-based communications for nonprofit, corporate, and government organizations for more than 15 years. She leads Fenton’s health practice and provides brand development, training, media relations and coalition-building counsel, specializing in public health, education, and youth issues. For the past four years, Erin has led The California Wellness Foundation’s campaign to grow and diversify the allied health professions. Prior to joining Fenton Communications in San Francisco, CA as Senior Vice President, Hart managed her own firm, worked for a global communications company and held posts in government and non-profit organizations. Her work with the American Legacy Foundation and state and local health agencies has played a role in lowering youth smoking rates in reducing tobacco sales to minors – largely through the development of branded campaigns in which youth played a key role. She has worked with online and traditional media outlets for stories with Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Wired, regional news outlets and CNN – ranging from TV coverage to its popular Twitter feed. Click here for more presentations... |
Dale P. Dirks
Katherine A. Flores, MD
Wanda Dean Lipscomb, PhD
Tamara Murray, BA
Erin Hart, BS