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Equity, Disparity, Diversity, and Unconscious Bias in Healthcare: Beyond the Buzz Words (NTD)
Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM CDT
Category: District Meetings

The APTA supports efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to better serve the association, profession, and society. A new standing committee and Director of Inclusion staff position at APTA have been created to advance the APTA’s strategic plan objective of improving DEI in the profession and association. At the District level, we support and value these efforts. As health providers, we must first familiarize ourselves with terms including equity, disparity, diversity, and unconscious bias, so that we can acknowledge their impact on health outcomes and their influence within our healthcare systems. Increased awareness should allow us to identify our personal roles and responsibilities in mitigating health disparities and unconscious biases and pursuing healthy equity and diversity within our workplaces and communities. 1.5CCUs

At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to:
1) Define and explore the following terms and how they relate to health and our healthcare systems: equity, disparity, diversity, unconscious bias;
2) Explore unconscious bias and how it impacts health disparities;
3) Examine diversity and disparities in physical therapy clinical and academic settings;
4) Explore roles of the PT/PTA/SPTs in mitigating current health disparities and pursuing healthy equity within our workplaces and communities.

Speaker(s)
Carolyn D. Bradley-Guidry, DrPH, MPAS, PA-C, BSN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies and the Assistant Dean of Diversity Equity and Inclusion at UT Southwestern School of Health Profession. She holds the endowed title of Distinguished Teaching Professor and is a National Institutes of Health, Minority Health and Health Disparities Scholar. Dr. Bradley-Guidry earned a Bachelor’s in Nursing and Physician Assistants Studies, a Master’s in Physician Assistant Studies and a Doctor of Public Health degree. Her primary clinical experience has been in hypertension. Her primary research interest is in health professions workforce diversity. She has received over 3.25 million dollars in grant funding to increase recruitment and retention of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and to increase the number of graduates practicing in primary care and medically underserved areas. Myla (Myles) Quiben, a dual board-certified clinical specialist in Neurologic and Geriatric Physical Therapy, is Chair and Professor at the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of North Texas Health Science Center Department of Physical Therapy. She earned a PhD in Physical Therapy and a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Central Arkansas, a Bachelor of Science from the University of the Philippines, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in geriatric research leading to an MS in Clinical Investigation from the University of Texas Health at San Antonio. Dr. Quiben is a Fellow of the APTA Education Leadership Institute, the National Academies of Practice, and the Texas Physical Therapy Leadership Program. She serves as the Chair of the National Interprofessional Education Consortium (NIPEC) of the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy, as Secretary of the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy, and as Delegate-at-large for the Texas Physical Therapy Association. She is an APTA Clinical Instructor Trainer and teaches cardiopulmonary, geriatric, neurologic, and clinical medicine in the DPT program. Her clinical experience has spanned varied settings from acute care, outpatient, inpatient rehab to cardiac rehab.

Schedule
7:00 PM - Intro and Presentation
8:30 PM - Q&A/Discussion

Fees
N/A

Additional Locations
Online only

Cancellation Policy 
N/A

Additional Information

Pre-registration is required for Zoom Meeting access link. Please e-mail any questions you would like to ask the speakers or facilitate discussion about to the District at [email protected] ahead of time!

Registration
You must register for the meeting. Registration is used in the attendance verification process. Registration closes at noon (CST) on 1/19/2021. In order to receive credit, you must be logged in for the full course and complete the course evaluation here. Credits will be issued on February 2, 2021. Please allow until then for processing. You will log in to the same account used for registering to retrieve your transcript. Please wait until after that date to contact TPTA if your CCUs have not posted on your transcript. Please check your email, including SPAM folder for your confirmation that includes the meeting login information. The subject of the email is "Equity, Disparity, Diversity, and Unconscious Bias in Healthcare: Beyond the Buzz Words (NTD)".

 Registration Closed.

 


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