School of Medicine Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Michelle Roett, MD, MPH, FAAFP, CPE
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 / 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Werner Health Sciences Center (WHSC)
Room 407B | 2616 Burt Street Omaha, NE 68178
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Advancing Health Equity through Meaningful Community Engagement
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
5-6 p.m. CT
3-4 p.m. MT
Online or in person at:
Werner Health Sciences Center (WHSC)
Room 407B
2616 Burt Street
Omaha, NE 68178
No Cost | 1.0 CE Hours
*6-7pm CT
Reception and Happy Hour
WHSC 5th Floor Lobby
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For those attending virtually, this program will be available through Zoom. Scroll down under Featured Activities to find the DLS activity.
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Michelle Roett, MD, MPH, FAAFP, CPE
Professor and Chair, Clinical Chief
Department of Family Medicine
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Co-Medical Director, HOYA Clinic
Founding Director, Georgetown University Center
for Health Equity
Director, DC Area Health Education Center (AHEC)
Georgetown University Medical Center
Designed For
Physicians, physicians assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, residents, fellows and students
Provided By
- Creighton University School of Medicine
- Creighton University Office of Continuing Education
Objectives
- Apply a health equity lens to health professions education, including associated competencies and metrics, and assessment of meaningful community engagement
- Describe the challenges for educators, researchers and clinicians in the health professions for creating sustainable community engagement aligned with the needs of historically marginalized groups
- Describe ongoing strategies and interventions to improve health professions education focused on improving health outcomes with meaningful community engagement
Presented by Michelle Roett, MD, MPH, FAAFP, CPE
Dr. Roett is a Professor and Chair, and Clinical Chief of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. She is the Founding Director of the Georgetown University Center for Health Equity, Director of DC Area Health Education Center for GUMC, and co-Medical Director of Health Outreach for Youth and Adults (HOYA) Clinic, a student run clinic for homeless families. She is the co-Chair of the Racial Justice Committee for Change, focused on improving racial equity in education, clinical care, and leadership across schools and programs on the GUMC campus to better achieve Georgetown’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to address systemic racism as a social determinant of health. She is also Chair of the GUMC Faculty Development Subcommittee on Mentoring, focused on creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for career development, belonging, and success of new faculty.
As a former residency director at the MedStar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program at MedStar Medical Group Family Medicine at Fort Lincoln, she sees adult and pediatric patients, and continues to precept residents and students in outpatient and inpatient settings.
She received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, completed residency and Community Health fellowship training with Georgetown Family Medicine, and Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She practices integrated behavioral health, women’s health, preventive care, newborn, pediatric, adult, and geriatric care with both outpatient and inpatient medicine.
She teaches first through fourth year medical students and serves as a health equity research mentor for medical students, undergraduates, and postdoctoral research fellows. Her interests are racial justice, care of marginalized groups, community partnerships and engagement, eliminating health disparities and advancing health equity, interprofessional education and student recruitment to primary care, faculty development, inclusive excellence, women’s health, chronic diseases, and population health.
Education Credit
Category 1
Creighton University Health Sciences Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.
Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurse CE
Creighton University Health Sciences Continuing Education designates this activity for 1.0 contact hour for nurses. Nurses should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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