NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Health Care Reform & Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities

 

NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING
 
“Health Care Reform & Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities”
Rayburn House Office Building Room B-339
Washington, DC
 

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

 
AGENDA
 
5:15 P.M.             Welcome
                                               
Elena Rios, MD, MSPH
                                                President & CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association
 

5: 30 P.M.             “Health Care Reform &Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities”
                               
                Honorable Donna Christensen (VI)
Chair, Congressional Black Caucus Health Committee
 
Honorable Raul Grijalva (AZ)
Member, Congressional Hispanic Health Task Force
 
Honorable Mike Honda (CA)
Chair, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
 
5:45 P.M.
Lucille C. Norville Perez, MD
                                                Former President, National Medical Association
 
Velma Henderson, RN, MS, CNAA, BC
                                                Board, National Black Nurses Association
 
                                Norma Martinez Rogers, PhD, RN, FAAN
                                                President, National Association of Hispanic Nurses
 
                                                Deeana Jang, J.D.
                             Director of Policy, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum,
                                            National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians
 
                                Fredette West
                                                Chair, Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Coalition
                
 
6:15 P.M.               Q&A       (Reception Follows)
Dr Rios with Briefing Attendees: NHMA 2009 Congressional Briefing
 
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