8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Registration

Foyer

8:30 am-8:45 am

Welcome

Collaborative Classrooms

8:45 am – 9:30 am

Transformational Leadership and Pathways to Access: Increasing Representation of Historically Marginalized Communities in Naturopathic Medical Education
Speaker:Baljit Kaur Khamba, ND, Ed.D, M.PH
University of California Irvine, Assistant Director of the Integrative and Functional Medicine Fellowship

Collaborative Classrooms

9:30 am – 9:45 am

Break

5th Floor Atrium

9:50 am -10:45 am

Concurrent Session 1

From Possibility to Profession: Reimagining Community-Engaged Healthcare Pathways Through Leadership, Mentorship, and Experiential Learning
Speaker(s): Christy Dinkins, EdD
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM Georgia), Director of Campus and Community Partnerships

TaeYana Thomas, MIS
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM Georgia), Assistant Director of Campus and Community Partnerships

5203

9:50 am -10:45 am

Empowering Future Professionals with AAMC First Step Career Skills
Speaker: Brandon Hunter
AAMC, Strategic Partnerships & Educational Pathways Director

5205

10:45 am – 10:55 am

Break

5th Floor Atrium

11:00 am – 11:50 am

Concurrent Sessions 2

Beyond One Mentor: Creating Communities of Support for Future Physicians
Speaker(s):Robin B. Clay, M.Ed.
Associate Director of Admissions, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Ed.D. Candidate, College of Education and Human Development, University of Missouri–Columbia

Andrea M. Simmons, Ed.D.
Senior Program Manager, Pre-Professional Pathway and Outreach, Office of Community, Professional Proficiency and Student Success, University of Missouri School of Medicine

Joel M. Stancer, Ed.D.
Senior Student Services Coordinator, Office of Community, Professional Proficiency and Student Success, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Adjunct Faculty/Doctoral Mentor, College of Education, University of Missouri–St. Louis

5203

11:00 am – 11:50 am

Pathways That Persist: Four Years of Lessons from the South Piedmont AHEC Scholars Mentoring Model
Speaker (s): Michelle Boyd, MS
Director of Health Careers & Workforce Development

Dr. Lienne Edwards
Professor, UNC Charlotte School of Nursing

5205

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch on Your Own

1:00 pm –2:00 pm

After the Score Report: Perspectives on the Emotional Labor of Standardized Test Failure Support of Under-Resourced Students
Speaker(s):Chantae D. Still-Siceron, Ph.D
Cheryl Slaughter-Hurst, Ed.D.
Gerard Robertson, Ph.D.

Collaborative Classroom

2:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Break

5th Floor Atrium

2:15 pm – 3:15pm

Concurrent Sessions 4

The Promise of Mission Driven Preadmission Programs in Workforce Development
Speaker(s): Laura Henderson Kelley, MD, MPH
University of Missouri School of Medicine; Associate Dean for Preprofessional Programs

5203

2:15 pm – 3:15pm

Seeing Beyond Sight: How Storytelling Builds the Future Healthcare Workforce
Speaker(s):Leslie A. Council, CPLC, CDE
Director, Health Careers, Mountain Area Health Education Center

5205

3:15 pm – 3:20 pm

Transition

5203/5205

3:20 pm – 4:00 pm

Medical Education Collaborative Update

Collaborative Classrooms

4:00 pm – 4:10 pm

Day One Educational Sessions End

Content

4:10pm – 5:30pm

NAMME National Business Meeting featuring strategic panel on “Strengthening the Pathway to the Health Professions: NAMME Past and Present”

Collaborative Classrooms

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Welcome Reception

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