Research Subcommittee WIP

Join us, Wednesday, December 11, 2023, from 2:30-4PM ET / 11:30-1PM PT on Zoom to hear Heather Tubbs Cooley, PhD, RN, FAAN, present her work on "Examining differences in nursing care quality by infant race and ethnicity."

Dr. Tubbs Cooley is an expert in pediatric and perinatal health care quality and patient safety, with a research program focused on the care delivery mechanisms linking the organization and financing of nursing services with patient outcomes. She incorporates theoretical frameworks and methods from health services research, psychology and systems engineering to study clinician workload, staffing resources and dynamics, and other organizational factors that affect the reliable delivery of high-quality nursing care. Her work spans pediatric populations and settings including general inpatient and home-based pediatric care and neonatal intensive care environments and has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Do not miss Dr. Heather Tubbs Cooley share her work rooted her in extensive experience as a clinician and scientist in top children’s hospitals and a principal investigator in the Center for Perinatal Research at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

January GBM

Kick off 2025 right by joining NJC for our first General Body Meeting, Threats to Neonatal Justice Work: Processing and Strategizing. We will learn from two NJC senior leaders and nationally renowned neonatal health advocates Dr. Liz Bonachea and Dr. Valencia Walker. We plan to learn from our panelists, break out to smaller groups, and collect back together to compile learnings on means to address barriers faced or anticipated and continue to center neonatal health equity in our ongoing work. More details to come!

Policy + Advocacy hosts

Dr. Joseph Wright

Join the NJC Policy and Advocacy committee as they host Dr. Joseph Wright at their next meeting on Thursday, January 23rd. Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH was appointed last year as the Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President for Equity Initiatives of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He most recently served as inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer of the University of Maryland Medical System and prior to that was tenured Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the Howard University College of Medicine. He spent more than two decades in leadership at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC where he provided strategic direction for the organization’s advocacy mission, public policy positions, and community partnership initiatives while also serving 17 years as the inaugural State Pediatric Medical Director within the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems. Dr. Wright maintains appointments as adjunct professor of emergency medicine and health policy at George Washington University, and teaches as professor of health policy and management at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Stay tuned! Date and time to follow.

Health Equity Highlights - January

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Committee Corner

Advocacy + Policy

This committee is led by new junior leaders Drs. Kshama Shah and Sarah Swenson, new senior leader Dr. Levi Funches, and returning senior leader Dr. Valencia Walker. Stay tuned for their next event!

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Med Ed + Workforce Diversity

This committee is led by new junior leaders Drs. Kaquanta Barlow and Shenell Reynolds, our previous junior leading serving new senior role Dr. Uche Anani, and returning senior leader Dr. Elizabeth Bonachea.

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Quality Improvement

This committee is led by junior leaders Drs. Gaby Cordova Ramos, Nick Heitkamp, and Michelle-Marie Pena, and lead by senior leaders Drs. Roopali Bapat and Susan Hwang.

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Research

This committee is led by junior leaders Drs. Alejandra Barrero-Castillero and Ashlee Vance, and senior leaders Drs. Ashwini Lakshmanan and Henry Lee.

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