Please view our full conference agenda below. A map of all room locations at the Hyatt Regency can be found on the homepage.
| Time and Location | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9:30 ET Regency Ballroom Foyer | Registration and Check-In |
| 9:00-4:30 ET Meeting Room Foyer | Federal Partner Exhibit Hall (all day) |
| 9:30-10:45 ET Regency Ballroom | Welcome from CMS Administrator and HHS Maternal Health Panel – Administrator Carole Johnson; Health Resources and Services Administration – Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – Administrator Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, PhD; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Moderated by Aditi Mallick, MD; CMS Office of Minority Health |
| 10:45-11:00 ET | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 ET Diplomat / Ambassador Room | Outreach and Engagement: Replicable Strategies to Reduce Disparities 1. Mini Grants, Big Impact: An Outreach Strategy to Reduce Health Coverage Disparities and Raise Awareness Cheryl Isabell; Covering Wisconsin Tina Marshalek; Covering Wisconsin 2. Health Equity Tours to Engage Older Adults and Persons With Disabilities Michelle Thomas, MPA, BSW; Arlington Area Agency on Aging 3. A Pueblo Approach to Health Equity: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Through a Holistic Tribal LensJosiah Concho; Keres Community HealthKateri Chino; Keres Community Health Moderated by Vacheria Keys, JD; National Association of Community Health Centers |
| 11:00-12:00 ET Cabinet / Judiciary Suite | Gold Standard: Aligning on Best Practice for Measuring Health Inequities and the Impact of Efforts to Reduce Them Across the U.S. Health Care Industry – Kristen Azar, RN, MSN/MPH, FAHA; Sutter Health – Nikki Tennermann, LICSW, MBA; Institute for Healthcare Improvement – Rachel Harrington, PhD; National Committee for Quality Assurance – Whitney Haggerson, MHA; Providence Moderated by Erin Mackay, MPH; National Partnership for Women and Families |
| 11:00-12:00 ET Old Georgetown / Congressional Room | Building Community Capacity to Advance Health Equity: Lessons from Accountable Communities for Health in California and Texas – Amy Hooten; City of Longview Fire Department – Carolyn Johnsonn, EdD, MBA, MPH; Black Cultural Zone – Ener Chiu; East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation Moderated by Anne Reid, MPH; George Washington University, Funders Forum on Accountable Health |
| 11:00-12:00 ET Regency Ballroom | Discussion of Recent Advances in HHS Health Equity Data Efforts – Abigail Viall, ScD, MA; CDC Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology – Jack Mirabella, JD, MSW; CMS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight – Karen Matsuoka, PhD; CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services – Megan Reilly; CMS Office of Communications – Morgan Gruenewald; CMS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight – Nancy Chiles Shaffer, PhD; CMS Office of Minority Health Moderated by Meagan Khau, MHA; CMS Office of Minority Health |
| 12:00-1:15 ET | Lunch Break |
| 1:15-2:15 ET Regency Ballroom | Afternoon Plenary Session: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH – Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH; American Medical Association Introduced by Pamela Gentry; CMS Office of Minority Health |
| 2:15-2:30 ET | Break |
| 2:30-3:30 ET Diplomat / Ambassador Room | Health Equity Lightning Talks 1. Coding4Food – Katie Ettman, MPA; San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association – Kristin Sukys, MS; Food is Medicine 2. Creating a Robust Library of Sickle Cell Educational Materials for Patients, Providers, and the Community – Molly Lawson, MAS, RN, BMTCN; Dalio Center for Health Justice, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital 3. Historical Trauma and Health Disparities: How Incorporating Intergenerational Lived Experiences of Indigenous, Native Americans, and Alaska Natives Can Improve Indian Health Service by CMS Health Care Providers – Varleisha Lyons, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, ASDCS, FAOTA; American Occupational Therapy Association 4. Achieving Digital Equity and Literacy in Maternal Health – Priya Bathija, JD, MHSA; Nyoo Health 5. Optimizing Care Delivery to Improve Patient Lives – Stella “Stace” Mandl, BSW, BSN, RN, PHN; CMS Office of Burden Reduction & Health Informatics Moderated by Jessica Maksut, PhD; CMS Office of Minority Health |
| 2:30-3:30 ET Cabinet / Judiciary Suite | Providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services to Persons of Limited English Proficiency, LGBTQ+ Individuals, and Muslim-Americans – Cindy Hou, DO, MA, MBA, CIC, CPHQ, CPPS, FACOI, FACP, FIDSA; Jefferson Health – Sandy Cayo, DNP, FNP-BC, FAAN; Yale Nursing – Uzma Syed, DO, FIDSA; South Shore Infectious Diseases & Travel Medicine Consultants Moderated by Alexa McKinley, JD; National Rural Health Association |
| 2:30-3:30 ET Old Georgetown / Congressional Room | Invisible and Undercounted: Exclusion of U.S. Territories in the Pacific and Caribbean From National Datasets and Subsequent Health Equity Impacts – Alex Wheatley, MPA; Association of State and Territorial Health Officials – Daniel P. Doyle, PMP; United States Census BureauJae June Lee; Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality – Thomas Bane, PhD, LMSW; CMS Office of Program Operations & Local Engagement Moderated by Marina Diaz, MHSA; CMS Office of Program Operations & Local Engagement |
| 2:30-4:00 ET Regency Ballroom | Implementing Health Equity Through Value-Based Care for People in Medicare2:30 – 3:15 p.m. CMS Innovation Center – Katy Tapp, LMSW; Commonwealth ACOMisty Chicchirichi, RN, MSN; Shenandoah Oncology – Purva Rawal, PhD; CMS Innovation CenterUnini Odama, MD, MPH, MBE; DaVita Kidney Care 3:15 – 4:00 p.m. CMS Center for Medicare/CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality – Alex Laberge, PT, MBA, PhD; CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality – Cindy Massuda, JD; CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality – Lucy Bertocci; CMS Center for MedicareMaya Peterson, MSN, RN; CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality Moderated by Susan Hill, MPA and Alexandra Bryden, MPP; CMS Office of Minority Health |
| 3:30-4:30 ET Regency Ballroom Foyer | Poster Hall and Networking |
| Time and Location | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 ET Regency Ballroom Foyer | Registration and Check-In |
| 9:00-4:30 ET Meeting Room Foyer | Federal Partner Exhibit Hall (all day) |
| 9:00-10:00 ET Regency Ballroom | Welcome from CMS Office of Minority Health Deputy Director and Health Equity Award Ceremony – Jonathan (Jon) Blum, MPP; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – Pamela Gentry; CMS Office of Minority HealthHealth Equity Award winners |
| 10:00-11:00 ET Regency Ballroom Foyer | Poster Hall and Networking |
| 11:00-12:00 ET Diplomat / Ambassador Room | Building Capacity for the Health Care Workforce: Tools and Lessons Learned to Assist in Reducing Health Care Disparities 1. Implementing CLAS to Improve Health Equity – Amanda Wyatt Hutto, PCMH CCE; TMF Health Quality Institute – Anne Carpenter, MSW, MHA; TMF Health Quality Institute 2. HDPulse: A Resource to Identify Disparities and Access Interventions to Improve Rural Health – Antoinette Percy-Laurry, DrPH, MSPH; National Institute on Aging – Steven Gong; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 3. Lessons from the Community Health Plan of Washington: Designing an Equity-Focused Payment Model to Support Capacity Building, Community Needs, and Accountability – Kayla Salazar Poncet, MSW; Community Health Plan of Washington – Victoria Gersch, MPH; Community Health Plan of Washington Moderated by Thomas Mason, MD; Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
| 11:00-12:00 ET Cabinet / Judiciary Suite | Inequity in Care Navigation: How Confusion, Complexity, and Fear Have Severe Consequences for Vulnerable Caregiver Populations – Carla Perissinotto, MD; Sabio Health – Ellen Rudy, PhD, MPH; Wellthy – Lorena Rodriguez Chandler, MPH; Inland Empire Health Plan |
| 11:00-12:00 ET Old Georgetown / Congressional Room | Oral Health Throughout the Lifespan: Disparities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Improving Oral Health Access and Coverage – Astha Singhal, BDS, MPH, PhD; University of Florida College of Dentistry – Carla Shoff, PhD; CMS Office of the Administrator – Lorel Burns, DDS, MS; New York University College of Dentistry – Natalia Chalmers, DDS, MHSc, PhD; CMS Office of the Administrator – Steffany Chamut, DDS, MPH; Harvard School of Dental Medicine Moderated by Shondelle Wilson-Fredrick, PhD; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute |
| 11:00-12:00 ET Regency Ballroom | Increasing AANHPI Health Equity Through Language Access, Health Education, and Community-Based Interventions – Tuyet T. Tran; Southeast Asian CoalitionUalani Hoopai; Pacific Islander Health Partnership – Vida Lin; Asian Community Development Council Moderated by Juliet K. Choi; Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum |
| 12:00-1:15 ET | Lunch Break |
| 1:15-2:15 ET Regency Ballroom | Afternoon Plenary Session: Access, Affordability, and Quality: A Discussion with CMS Leadership – Aditi Mallick, MD; CMS Office of Minority Health – Dora Hughes, MD, MPH; CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality – Jeff Wu, JD, MBA; CMS Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight – Jessica Lee, MD, MSHP; CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services – Liz Fowler, PhD, JD; CMS Innovation Center – Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD; CMS Center for Medicare – Tim Engelhardt, MHS; CMS Federal Coordinated Health Care Office |
| 2:15-2:30 ET | Break |
| 2:30-3:30 ET Diplomat / Ambassador Room | Using 1115 Waivers to Advance Health Equity 1. Innovative Community Partnerships and Programming as Pathway to Reducing Health Disparities: New York Health Equity Reform Waiver – Katherine Rogala; Finger Lakes Performing Provider System – Melissa Pennise, MPH; Common Ground HealthCalAIM Experience: Lessons Learned From a CBO – Kristine Nixon; True North Housing Alliance 2. Addressing Housing-Related Social Needs Through Health Policy Authorities: Lessons from North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots – Katie Huber, MPH; Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy at Duke University – William K. Bleser, PhD, MSPH; Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy at Duke University Moderated by Sweta Haldar, MSPH; Families USA |
| 2:30-3:30 ET Cabinet / Judiciary Suite | Supportive Reentry Network HTC: A Model Approach to Care Coordination & Social Determinants of Health for Men and Women Leaving Incarceration – Angela Mecagni, LCSW; Illinois Department of Corrections – Sherie D. Arriazola Martinez, MPPA; MIMS Consulting LLC – Sodiqa Williams, JD; Safer Foundation Moderated by by Barbara Otto; Smart Policy Works |
| 2:30-3:30 ET Old Georgetown / Congressional Room | Leading the Way on the Journey to Health Equity and Wellness for American Indians/Alaska Natives – Carrie Field, MPH; National Indian Health Board – Karen Matsuoka, PhD; CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services – Susan Karol, MD; CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services Moderated by Susan Karol, MD; CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services |
| 2:30-3:30 ET Regency Ballroom | Ensuring Access for Patients with Disabilities in an Evolving Telehealth Landscape – Jan Withers, MA; North Carolina Division of Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing – Kathy Wibberly, PhD; Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center – Laura C. Hoffman, SJD; Cleveland State University College of Law – Robert C. Nutt, MD, MPH; Disability Determination Services at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services – Tony Davis, MSW; North Carolina Division of Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Moderated by Katie Reget, MPH; Association of American Medical Colleges |
| 3:30-3:45 ET | Break |
| 3:45-4:45 ET Diplomat / Ambassador Room | Building Organizational and Staff Capacity at Community Health Centers to Reduce Visual Health Disparities – Luke Ertle, MPH; Association for Clinicians for the Underserved – Morgan Cassidy, MHA, MPH, JM; Cherokee Health Systems – Susan Olivo, MBA; Lavelle Fund for the Blind Moderated by Ashley Valentine; Sick Cells |
| 3:45-4:45 ET Cabinet / Judiciary Suite | Improving Equity in Medicaid and CHIP Maternal Health – Ellen-Marie Whelan, PhD, NP, FAAN; CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services – Gregory LaManna, MPH; Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Ohio Medicaid – Kristen Zycherman, RN, BSN; CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services – Linda Jiang, MPH; LyftMeghan Woo, ScD, ScM; NORC at the University of Chicago Moderated by Karen Matsuoka, PhD; CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services |
| 3:45-4:45 ET Old Georgetown / Congressional Room | Analyzing Network Data to Improve Access to Providers That Are Critical to Meeting the Health Equity Needs of Marketplace Consumers – Cheryl Fish-Parcham, MSW; Families USA – Erika Melman, MPP; CMS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight – Kyle Esdaille, PhD; American Institutes for Research – Subhash Seelam, MBA; Quest Analytics Moderated by Laura Weidner, JD; Epilepsy Foundation |
| 3:45-4:45 ET Regency Ballroom | The Role of Generative AI and Large Language Models in Enhancing Health Equity: Applications, Considerations, and Addressing CMS’ Programmatic Needs – Deelip Mhaske; National Minority Quality Forum – Kenyon Crowley, PhD, MBA, MSc, CPHIMS; Accenture Federal Services – Meagan Khau, MHA; CMS Office of Minority Health – Ritu Agarwal, PhD; John Hopkins University Moderated by Akin Demehin, MPH; American Hospital Association |
| 4:45-5:00 ET Streamed into all breakout sessions from Regency Ballroom | Closing Remarks – Pamela Gentry; CMS Office of Minority Health |