First Annual Latino Health Promotion Summit:
A Focus on Prevention & Community Collaboration

January 29, 2011

ALMA & NHMA Regional CME Meeting
The University of Arizona, College of Medicine
Presented by: Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence and the Office of Outreach and Multicultural Affairs

Goal: To foster collaboration between the medical and lay community in order to take action on disease prevention, such as supporting the availability of public spaces (i.e. parks) for physical activity promotion.

Conference Proceedings

The Office of Outreach and Multicultural Affairs and the University of Arizona’s Hispanic Center of Excellence collaborated with the Arizona Latin-American Medical Association (ALMA) and the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) to host the First Annual Latino Health Promotion Summit on January 29, 2011. The goal of the Latino Health Promotion Summit was to bring together community physicians, residents, medical students, premed students, Promotoras and community members to increase awareness about the obesity epidemic and its consequences, and to co-develop community-based health promotion strategies that address the root-causes of obesity in the Latino community.

Saturday, January 29, 2011
Arizona Cancer Center, Kiewit Auditorium, Room 2951

10:30 - 11:00 AM - Registration for CME Event

11:00 AM - Welcome Remarks
Speaker: Ana María López, MD, MPH, FACP

11:05 AM - 12:00 PM
“Opportunities for Prevention within Health Care Reform”
Keynote Speaker: Elena Ríos, MD, MSPH

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Lunch and Panel Discussion:
“Reflections on successfully widening the pipeline into the health professions”

Speakers:

Michelle Aguilar, Medical Resident at University Physicians Hospital

Marco Gallegos – Pre-med Undergraduate Student

Carlos Gonzales, MD, FAAFP, Associate Professor, Family and
Community Medicine

Moderator:
Ana María López, MD, MPH, FACP

1:30 - 3:00 PM - Panel Discussion: Prevention of Vascular Disease

“Diabetic State Overview 2011”
Speaker: Roberto Ruiz, MD, FACP

“Neurovascular Disease Prevention”
Speaker: Bruce Coull, MD

“Cardiovascular Disease Prevention”
Speaker: James E. Dalen, MD, MPH

3:00 - 3:30 PM - Discussion and Future Directions:
“Community Based Prevention Strategies for Healthy Promotion”

Speakers:
Promotoras (Nogales, El Rio, Douglas)

Moderator:
Ana María López, MD, MPH, FACP

4:00 PM - Summit Adjourned

Sponsored for CME by the University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.