Center
for Multicultural & Community Affairs
Mount
Sinai School of Medicine
PRELIMINARY AGENDA (10/3/08)
Achieving
Health Equity: Genes, Race, Ethnicity and the Environment
VALUING DIVERSITY,
TRANSFORMING MEDICINE
10TH YEAR
ANNIVERSARY
(1998-2008)
November 17, 2008
Hatch Auditorium
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY
SYMPOSIUM
AIMS:
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Provide
an update on scientific insights into gene expression, disease prevalence and
variation.
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Provide
background information on how race, ethnicity, and environment affect health.
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Provide
a dialogue on health equity in light of the NIH vision of transforming medicine
and health through science.
OBJECTIVES:
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Understand
the impact of gene variations on racial and ethnic
disparities in disease susceptibility.
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Understand
the scientific evidence for environmental impact on
health outcomes disparities.
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Understand
how race, ethnicity, environment, disability, and disease contribute to health
disparities.
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Explain
the need for advancing research in health disparities and translating
findings into practical interventions to reduce health outcomes
disparities
Target
Audience: Mount Sinai Medical Center community, local and regional guests
November 17, 2008
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Activity
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Location
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7:30am
– 8:30am
7:30am
– 8:30am
8:30
am – 9:00am
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Hatch Conf Ctr.
Hatch Auditorium
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9:00am – 10:30am
10:30am – 10:45am
10:45am – 12:15pm
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Race, Genes and the
Environment
Panel Moderator
– Robert Desnick
Genetics and
the Relevance of Race and Ethnicity - Clarence
Gravlee [25 min]
Studying Genes
in Ethnic Populations - Joel Hirschhorn [25 min]
Pharmacogenetics
- David Goldstein [25 min]
Q/A [15 min]
Break
Panel Moderator
– Kurt Hirschhorn
Genes and
Susceptibility to Infectious Disease – Cheryl Winkler [25 min]
Disease
Susceptibility in Latinos - Joan Reibman [25 min]
Genes and Prematurity
– Siobhan Dolan [25 min]
Q/A [15 min]
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Hatch
Auditorium
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12:30pm - 1:30pm
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Trophy
Room
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1:45pm – 3:00pm
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Social Justice, Genes
and the Environment
Panel Moderator
– Rosamond Rhodes
Racial and Ethnic Disparities
and Environmental Impact on Genes - Phil Landrigan [30 min]
Poverty, Illness,
Disability and Justice and Healthcare – Patricia Smith [30 min]
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Hatch
Auditorium
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3:00pm – 3:15pm
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Break
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3:15pm – 4:45pm
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Panel Moderator
– Gary Butts
Age, Gender, Race
and Justice in Healthcares – Leslie Francis [25 min]
Access and Racial
and Ethnic Health Disparities – Lynne Richardson [25 min]
Implications for the
Future: Call to Action –
Anne Taylor [25 min]
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Hatch
Auditorium
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4:45pm - 5:00PM
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