Agenda

Webinar 1 : August 22, 2020 3:00-5:00 PM EST

Examining Disparity Requires Action: Structural Racism, Healthcare Disparity and the Opioid Crisis

Webinar Sponsor: Catholic Charities Diocese of Cleveland

Moderator: Anisi Daniels Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rust College

Ben Vinson III, PhD Provost and Executive Vice President, Case Western Reserve University

Welcoming Remarks

Zinzi Bailey, SCD, MSPH University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jay Weiss Institute for Health Equity

"The Uneven Playing Field of Structural Racism and Racialized Drug Policy"

Pooja Lagisetty, MD, MSc Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School and Research Investigator at the Center for Clinical Management and Research, Ann Arbor VA

"Racial Disparities in Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: What Does the Data Show?"

Yvonka Hall, MPA Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition

“Effectively Engaging the African American Community: The Art of Addressing Disparities utilizing Social Justice Strategies"

Webinar 2 : September 10, 2020 10:00-11:30 AM EST

Trauma, Mental Health and Substance Use

Webinar Sponsor: The Melissa Rae Fund in Support of Substance Use Disorder Education, Advocacy, Understanding, and Change

Moderator: Edward M. Barksdale, Jr., MD, Robert J. Izant, Jr. MD Professor and Surgeon-in-Chief at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital/University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine

Valerie Alloy, PhD Clinical Psychology Fellow and Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Early Childhood Lead Administrator

"Children, Racism and Trauma; A Systems Crash at the Intersection"

Alissa Huth-Bocks, PhD, IMH-E Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Center

"Trauma-Informed Care within Urban Healthcare Settings"

Christina Delos Reyes, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Director, Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship and Addiction Services, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

“Practicing Trauma-Informed Care in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Settings”

Webinar 3

Panel 1: September 16, 2020 1:00-3:00 PM EST

Moderator: Melinda Ramage, BSN, MSN, FNP-BC Medical Director of Project Care that Advocates Respect/Resilience/Recovery for All (CARA) OBGYN, Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), Asheville, North Carolina

Brian Amkraut, Executive Director of Siegal Lifelong Learning at Case Western Reserve University

Welcoming Remarks

Arthur James, MD, FACOG Senior Consultant at First Year Cleveland

Keynote Address: "Infant Mortality EQUITY in Ohio...a dream deferred"

Panel 2: September 16, 2020 3:00-4:30 PM EST

Achieving Health Equity for Black Mothers and Infants

Moderator: Da’na M. Langford, M.S., CNM, Co-Founder Village of Healing

Erika Hood, M.Ed Program Development Manager, Case MetroHealth Center for Reducing Health Disparities; Community Engagement Consultant, 44128:One Community

"44128:The Story of One Community’s Fight to Save Black Babies"

Birthing Beautiful Communities Team A village of doulas from Cleveland, OH who provide social support to pregnant women at highest risk for infant mortality during the perinatal period. They will be discussing their evidence-based strategies for addressing the social determinants that impact infant mortality. These include education and engagement, and systems change.

Stephanie Mitchell, DNP, CNM, MSN Birth Sanctuary Gainesville, Alabama

"Labor and Birth, it is your Business"

Webinar 4: September 24, 2020 2-3:30 PM EST

Substance Use, Stigma, and Incarceration: How Racism Impacts Prosecution, Sentencing and Access to Treatment in the Prison System

Moderator: Alicia Graves, JD, Law Offices of Alicia Graves

Latoria Eason, Drug Court Treatment Coordinator, Greater Cleveland Drug Court

“Systemic Issues in Treatment Courts”

William Maddox, LSW, LICDC-CS Program Manager of the Men's Residential Unit at Community Assessment & Treatment Services Cleveland

"Substance, Stigma, the Criminal Justice System and Access to Treatment: My Perspective"

Piet van Lier Research Consultant, Policy Matters Ohio

"Opportunities for Justice Reform in Ohio"

Webinar 5: October 7, 2020 1-2:30 PM EST

Epidemics of Inequities: COVID-19 and the Opioid Crisis

Webinar Sponsor: The Center for Health Affairs Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium

Moderator: Kathleen Kane-Willis, Director of Policy and Advocacy, Chicago Urban League

Utibe Essien, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine; Core Investigator, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion; Director, Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Diversity Program II

Monica Webb Hooper, PhD Deputy Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Miriam Komaromy, MD, DFASAM, FACP Medical Director, Grayken Center for Addiction, Boston Medical Center; Professor, Boston University Faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Boston University

“Caring for COVID’s Most Vulnerable Victims: A Safety-net Hospital Responds”

Webinar 6: October 23, 2020 2-3:30 PM EST

Where’s the Data: Mortality, Treatment Disparity and the Opioid Epidemic

Moderator: Lashale Pugh, PhD Medical Geographer, Hope Community Services, Youngstown Ohio

Kathleen Kane-Willis, Director of Policy and Advocacy, Chicago Urban League

"Whitewashed: The African American Opioid Epidemic"

Dennis Cauchon, President, Harm Reduction Ohio

“Death by the Numbers: Overdose Mortality and Race in Ohio”

Sheila Vakharia, PhD, MSW Deputy Director, Department of Research and Academic Engagement, Drug Policy Alliance

"The overdose crisis and racial disparities: Policy "failures" or polices working as designed?"

Webinar 7: Roundtable Discussion October 29, 2020 1-3:00 PM EST

Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Health Care Disparity for the Black and Latinx Transgender Community

Moderator: Anisi Daniels Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rust College

Laura J. Mintz, MD, PhD Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, MetroHealth Medical Center Cleveland

Shubham Gupta, MD, FACS Director of Gender and Sexual Diversity Services (GSDS) and Division Chief of Reconstructive Urology at University Hospitals Urology Institute, Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Naazneen Diwan, PhD (She/They) QYou Program Coordinator, The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland

Devinity Jones (She/Her/Hers) Trans Wellness & HIV Prevention Program Coordinator, The LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland

Webinar 8: Keynote Address November 5, 2020 3-4:30 PM EST

Moderator: Yvonka Hall, MPA Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition

Robert L. Solomon, Esq., Vice President, Office of Inclusion Diversity & Equal Opportunity, Case Western Reserve University

Introductory Remarks

Helena Hansen, MD, PhD Professor and Chair, Research Theme in Translational Social Science and Health Equity, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

“Beyond Magic Bullets: White Race as a Social Determinant of the Opioid Crisis”

Webinar 9: November 12 2-3:30 PM EST

Community Health Solutions: Overcoming Barriers to Treatment for Substance Use in Latinx Communities

Moderator: Dinah Ortiz, Harm Reduction expert, Child Protective Reform expert, Independent Consultant

Diliana De Jesús, MA Director of Advancement & Communications, Casa Esperanza, Boston Massachusetts

Graziela do Carmo Reis, MPH IMANI Latino - Project Coordinator, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

"Imani Breakthrough: A Faith-Based Recovery Opioid Program"

Webinar 10: November 19 3-5:00 PM EST

Overcoming Stigma and Increasing Access: Challenges in Harm Reduction and Medication-Assisted Treatment

Moderator: Lee Hoffer, PhD, MPE Case Western Reserve University, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry

Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine

Allison V. Schlosser, PhD, MSW Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Sociology and Anthropology Department

"Being the “Right” Kind of Patient: The Racialization of Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder and Access to Care in Northeast Ohio"

Ted Parran, MD Internal Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Isabel and Carter Wang Professor and Chair in Medical Education, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; St. Vincent Charity Hospital

"Accessing Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: More Challenging for People of Color"

Webinar 11: Roundtable Discussion December 9 10:00 AM-12:00 PM EST

Policy Change Across Institutions I: Achieving Healthcare Equity for Individuals with Substance Use Disorders

Moderator: Yvonka Hall, MPA, Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition

North Carolina Team

Ana Cabello-De la Garza, MSW, MPH Senior Program Manager at UNC Health Sciences, Mountain Area Health Education Center, NC (MAHEC)

Shuchin Shukla, MD, MPH Family Medicine, Opioid Crisis Educator, MAHEC

Melinda Ramage, BSN, MSN, FNP-BC Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Addiction Specialist for Project CARA: Care that Advocates Respect/Resilience/Recovery for All, Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), Asheville, North Carolina

"Intersection: Promoting Equity in the Management of Substance Use Disorders in Medical Residency Training Programs"

Jessica McCullough, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, Doctoral Student, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Practicing Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and Substance abuse treatment provider at University Hospitals Medical Center Cleveland, SAMHSA Minority Fellow, and SAMHSA Faculty Champion for Ursuline College’s MAT training grant.

Marie Jauffret-Roustide, PhD Professor of Sociology and Social Science, French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Inserm, Center of Medicine, Sciences, Health, Mental Health and Health Policy CERMES 3, University of Paris Descartes and Senior Research Fellow for the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo.

Darcy Freedman, PhD, MPH Swetland Professor of Environmental Health Sciences & Director, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Case Western Reserve University Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences

"Ohio HEALing Communities Initiative"

Webinar 12: Roundtable Discussion December 17 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Policy Change Across Institutions II: Prevention, Treatment and Diversion in the Cuyahoga County Criminal Justice System

Webinar Sponsor: Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

Moderator: Alicia Graves, JD, Law Offices of Alicia Graves

Hon. Judge Tonya Jones, Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court

Alternatives to Incarceration Team

Lisa Fair, External Forensic Coordinator, Expanding Medication Assisted Treatment Program (ExAM Program), Cuyahoga County Corrections Center and MetroHealth Office of Opioid Safety

Jaquetta Curlee, External Forensic Coordinator, ExAM Program, Cuyahoga County Corrections Center and MetroHealth Office of Opioid Safety

Hon. Judge Lauren C. Moore Greater Cleveland Drug Court

Rickey Lewis, Artist and Prevention Specialist

"I care about my life & I care about your life"