Leonard P. Rome CATCH Visiting Professorships

Leaders: Larissa Hines, MD and Colleen Parrish, MD

Visiting Professor: Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH

Abstract: Our proposal is to enhance legislative advocacy training for residents and faculty across Oklahoma. The goal is to develop a more robust legislative advocacy curriculum that includes collaborating with other residencies and targeted community partners. We will also incorporate CATCH grant opportunities into the curriculum to improve community outreach. Residents will have both practical learning on legislative advocacy paired with experiential learning which includes going to the capitol during legislative session with our community partners.

Goals & Objectives

Increase legislative advocacy for pediatric residents and faculty through community partnerships, collaboration, and legislative activities.

1. Develop a plan for incorporating legislative advocacy education into the
   resident social determinants of health curriculum and educate residents about CATCH
   grant opportunities in the next year.
2. Bring together the three pediatric residency programs in the state to share current advocacy experiences and develop an opportunity for collaboration over the next 2 years.
3. Collaborate with Oklahoma Chapter of the AAP and community partners to effectively advocate for legislation involving childhood vaccination and other child health priorities in the next year.
4. Increase residency, faculty, and community pediatrician knowledge of and participation in legislative advocacy through grand rounds, educational workshops, and webinars over the next 2 years.
5. Coordinate with community partners to support ongoing legislative advocacy days such as Oklahoma State Medical Association (OSMA) Doctor’s Day, Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness (OPSR) Invest in Kids (INK) Day, Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Day at the state capitol next legislative session.

Leaders: Corinne Bria, MD and Kate Rooney-Otero, MD

Visiting Professor: Benjamin Hoffman, MD, CPST-I, FAAP

Abstract: Driven to increase child health advocacy in Florida, three pediatric residency programs created the Central Florida Pediatric Advocacy Coalition (CFPAC) with the recent addition of a fourth pediatric residency program, extending our efforts to St. Petersburg. The Visiting Professorship will advance our efforts to learn how to hone our pediatric advocacy skills, create a sustainable infrastructure for the CFPAC, and improve faculty career development in advocacy. Engaging with a visiting professor will not only improve our capacity to better understand our role as child health advocates and give us tools to educate residents, it will bring notable attention to these efforts with the goal of faculty members utilizing these advocacy efforts towards promotion.

Goals and Objectives

By the end of 2023, create a sustainable partnership among the residency programs in Central Florida that comprise the Central Florida Pediatric Advocacy Coalition (CFPAC) with goals for advocacy and education for the next 3 years, including resident and faculty development activities and curriculum development.

1. After the workshop, more than 80% of participating pediatric residents will better understand how to use and incorporate advocacy skills into their practice to improve child health than before the workshop.
2. Pediatric residents and faculty will be be able to identify at least one community nonprofit, understand the role of their institutions’ government affairs, and understand the role of the FL Chapter of the AAP in advocacy and lobbying
3. After a 1-day workshop, the majority of pediatric faculty will better understand the importance of developing an advocacy portfolio for promotion
4. 80% of residents and faculty will have a better understanding of why advocacy is important for child health

Leaders: Sarah Ventre, MD, MPH, FAAP

Visiting Professor: Andy Aligne, MD, MPH, FAAP

Abstract: We recently implemented an Advocacy Track for residents to receive more formal advocacy project mentorship and development.  Our budding advocacy curriculum will benefit greatly from the wisdom and guidance of a well-established program, like Rochester, that has sought evidence-based design with community participation and longitudinal collaboration.

Goals & Objectives

To strengthen the University of Buffalo pediatric advocacy curriculum by focusing on the voice of our community, in partnership with pediatricians and trainees, in order to develop meaningful engagement and encourage career paths in advocacy

1. Bring together community partners and pediatricians to identify at least 3 strategies to address social determinants of health.
2. Identify at least 3 strategies to actively address systemic racism by listening to community voices and providing space for community players to take the lead.
3. Devise 3-5 strategies for improving the structured advocacy curriculum, to ensure residents will be equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary for effective project impact planning, implementation, and evaluation with community-based participation.
4. Residents and faculty will learn 3-5 strategies for incorporating child advocacy into their future career paths.
5. Through departmental faculty engagement, faculty will gain both didactic and experiential knowledge of how to better advocate for their patients in partnership with the community, residents, and other faculty.

Leaders: Patricia Pinto-Garcia, MD, MPH; Melanie Rudnick, MD, MACM; and Nancy Presnick, DO

Visiting Professor: Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, FAAP

Abstract: We will use the visiting professorship to explore the connections between racism and child health, to enhance resident and faculty competence in this subject matter. Furthermore, we will examine both curricular and institutional approaches to SDH and health equity, and we will strengthen institutional connectivity with local resources. The educational activities will provide a foundation for the further development and implementation of a new curriculum that can be integrated into the existing residency didactic curriculum, allowing for longitudinal reinforcement of competency areas.

Goals & Objectives

To improve health equity for Connecticut’s children through education of residents and attending pediatricians in identifying, addressing and creating solutions at the individual, institutional, local and national levels; Elevating this vital topic in the curriculum will allow residents and faculty to work with community partners, policy makers, patients, and families to provide more equitable health care

1. Introduce benchmark research linking racism to specific SDH and health inequities to pediatric residents and faculty.
2. Review approaches for screening and linking patients to appropriate community resources.
3. Develop a shared language among house staff, faculty, and community and hospital partners to talk about racism and its impacts on health.
4. Utilize an advocacy portfolio, including a personal mission statement, as a tool to assess trainee and faculty efforts regarding these topics.
5. Refer to personal mission statement themes to enhance partnership between residents and community allies to address health inequities at the individual, institutional and governmental levels.

Leaders: Beverly Nazarian, MD + Neha Zaer, MD

Visiting Professor: Tina L. Cheng, MD, MPH, FAAP

Abstract: While the current UMMS Pediatric Residency Program offers many opportunities for residents to advocate for children, the Department of Pediatrics is evolving to have a greater focus on promoting child health equity. This Visiting Professorship will galvanize the program’s health equity work by creating a child health equity elective; incorporating equity training initiatives into the program; and fostering multisector partnerships designed to address the root causes of health inequities.

Goals & Objectives

To promote child health equity in Worcester and beyond by educating residents, faculty, and students about how adverse SDOH affect children, leading to disparities over the life course; to foster partnerships can mitigate the root causes of health inequities

1. All attendees will understand how adverse SDOH, including racism and poverty, affect individuals across the life course.
2. Residency program leadership and stakeholders will draft a strategic plan to address adverse SDOH in the Worcester community through collaborations. The plan will be developed during the Summit and will be finalized within three months.
3. Residency program leadership and stakeholders will identify members for a Community Advisory Board (CAB) to drive health equity initiatives within the program and across Worcester. The CAB’s charter and membership will be finalized within three months of the Summit.
4. Attendees will identify metrics to track progress towards addressing adverse SDOH.
5. Create a plan for augmenting extant child health equity curricula by incorporating a new health equity elective.
   
   

Leaders: Stuti Das, MD, MSc + Erin Avondet, MD, FAAP

Visiting Professor: Anisa Ibrahim, MD, FAAP

Abstract: The goal of our advocacy curriculum is to engage and inform residents about efforts to advocate for youth and children on individual, local, state, and national levels.  Through the Rome Visiting Professorship, we aim to establish a curriculum for residents that will provide the tools they will need as they care for immigrant and refugee children throughout their careers, and to educate residents about the logistics and nuances of sustainable coalition building with community partners.

Goals & Objectives

To develop an advocacy curriculum for residents around the care of refugee and immigrant pediatric populations that can be easily disseminated to other care providers in the region to ensure equitable, accessible, focused, and culturally-sensitive care

1. Work with community providers and organizations who care for children in immigrant and refugee families to collaboratively identify at least 5 opportunities for long-term partnerships to integrate into the outpatient curriculum.
2. Develop a needs assessment for community partners to: a) elicit feedback on needs that the pediatric residency program could support, and b) examine barriers.
3. Identify and discuss specific and unique social and political determinants of health that affect children in immigrant and refugee families.
4. Discuss recommended health screenings for newly-arrived refugee and immigrant children, including similarities and differences based on family experiences, immigration status, and other sociocultural factors.
5. Establish a framework for the sustainability within the residency program to ensure ongoing partnerships in the community and continued education for residents and interested community pediatric providers.

Leaders: Andrew Beck, MD, MPH, FAAP & Ndidi Unaka, MD, Med, FAAP

Visiting Professor: Lee Ann Savio Beers, MD, FAAP

Abstract:  Our current curriculum includes a 2-week advocacy rotation, and a 2-week advanced advocacy elective, yet few residents make advocacy and equity a career focus.  It is imperative that we build a "health equity pathway" to propel physicians to become positive change agents for vulnerable children and families.  We seek to help residents move from awareness to ownership as it pertains to equity-oriented initiatives.

Goals & Objectives

To strengthen connections between CCHMC and our local community during this Visiting Professorship through education, dialogue, and a call to action

1. Increase resident and faculty knowledge of local and national child health equity gaps now magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. Highlight key community partnerships and policies capable of mitigating hardships at the root of longstanding equity gaps.
3. Accelerate the academic medical center goal of a fully developed "Health Equity Pathway," supporting a growing workforce devoted to excellent, equitable health for every child and every community.
4. Illustrate uses for a development Advocacy Portfolio to depict professional advocacy-related contributions in support of resident/faculty development.

​Leaders: Julie M. Linton, MD, FAAP & Lochrane Grant, MD, FAAP

Visiting Professor: Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, FAAP

Abstract:  Our advocacy program offers a robust curriculum, yet our trainees often lack deep community partnership experiences. We want our curriculum to address racial equity more directly. This Visiting Professorship will expand trainee exposure to a community partnership, exemplified through a relationship with a local dance company to demonstrate the power of the arts as a catalyst for conversations around racial healing. Faculty development activities will include equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) focused leadership training towards creating an advanced advocacy elective.

Goals & Objectives

To increase efforts across Prisma Health and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville (UofSCSOMG) to advance racial equity through enhanced community partnerships, strengthened advocacy training, & focused faculty development

1. Develop common language amongst trainees, leadership, faculty, and community partners to facilitate conversations around EDI.
2. Critically examine historical, structural, and sociological factors contributing to the preschool to prison pipeline.
3. Engage new and expand existing community partnerships in exploring racial inequities in health and education; identify opportunities for collaboration to address barriers to care and resources.
4. Strengthen faculty and trainee leadership and advocacy skills using an equity lens to enhance the impact of advocacy and QI projects.
5. Develop strategies to support successful recruitment, support, and retention of trainees who identify as under-represented minorities in medicine as critical factors in advancing racial equity and improving health outcomes in children.

Leaders: Vini Vijayan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA & Carmela Sosa, MD, FAAP

Visiting Professor: Benjamin Hoffman, MD, FAAP

Abstract:  We want to increase engagement in child advocacy endeavors.  This Visiting Professorship will allow us to develop strategies to address gaps in our advocacy program, and encourage resident-faculty to develop and complete successful advocacy projects.  Topics include: 1) The role of advocacy in enhancing the health of children, and the responsibility of pediatricians to engage in advocacy; 2) Identifying and developing partnerships with community-based organizations; 3) Understanding the legislative process and opportunities with respect to child health.

Goals & Objectives

Create a longitudinal advocacy experience throughout pediatric residency by increasing resident and faculty engagement in child advocacy, implementing strategies to enhance partnerships with community-based organizations, and ensuring resident and faculty commitment to advocacy

1. Improve resident knowledge of the history and principals of advocacy and increase their experiential learning by providing a longitudinal structured, sustainable advocacy curriculum through education workshops.
2. Identify community resources to help develop meaningful partnerships between the residency program and community-based organizations.
3. Identify current policy makers and pediatric health policy issues especially relevant to children in the Valley.
4. Improve resident and faculty knowledge of the state and federal legislative processes regarding child health.
5. Creation of resident-led and faculty mentored quarterly advocacy workshops to present their advocacy efforts on a child health issue.

Leaders: Christina Guillén, MD, FAAP & Jennifer Chao, MD, FAAP

Visiting Professor: Adam Aponte, MD, FAAP

Abstract:  Our community advocacy training program would benefit from deeper exposure and interaction with additional community-based organizations in the surrounding neighborhood.  Through the Visiting Professorship, we will create a structured community health and advocacy model, which will create partnerships that will improve the quality of delivery of healthcare to our pediatric patient population.

Goals & Objectives

To improve the collaboration between medical practitioners and community partners which would decrease health disparities in the pediatric population in Brooklyn

1. Educate residents, faculty, and community-based organizations and community partners in health disparities that affect our community.
2. Educate residents, faculty, and community pediatricians on the role that community- based organizations and community partners serve in the community.
3. Increase knowledge of the various medical resources that are available to the pediatric patient population and their families.
4. Increase the pediatricians' knowledge of the various resources that community-based organizations and community partners offer the pediatric patient and their families in our community.
5. Identify the top 10 barriers to health equity and identify ways to address them.

Leaders: Julie O'Keefe, MD, FAAP & Barbara Bayldon, MD, FAAP 

Visiting Professor: Arvin Garg, MD

Abstract: Illinois Community Advocacy Network for Kids (ICAN4K) is a collaborative formed by the 10 pediatric academic institutions within the state and the Illinois Chapter of the AAP (ICAAP).  Illinois pediatric residents yearn for additional education and experiences in addressing unmet social needs (USN) and Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs). This Visiting Professorship will advance all Illinois pediatric training programs' abilities to educate residents and implement initiatives, working collaboratively with their communities to address USN and ACEs.

Goals & Objectives

ICAN4K faculty, residents and medical students will develop the comfort and skills to address SDH within the medical home and collaborate with community partners to address SDH in their communities across Illinois.

1. Increase faculty and resident comfort and skills in screening for and addressing SDH within the Medical Home.

2. Identify an action plan for each ICAN4K institution to strengthen relationships and collaborate with partners to creatively and strategically address SDH in its local community.

3. Create a Community Engagement/Assessment committee within ICAN4K and define steps for tracking both success in addressing SDH and progress with community partnerships.

4. ICAN4K's Education committee will develop an action plan for incorporating SDH into the curricula at all institutions across the collaborative.

Leaders: Brian Youth, MD, FAAP & Pam Dietz, MD, FAAP

Visiting Professor: J. Gary Wheeler, MD, MPS, FAAP

Abstract: We intend to expand resident exposure to legislative advocacy and teach how to incorporate legislative action into pediatric careers within each residency program included in the New England Advocacy Collaborative (NNEAC).  This Visiting Professorship will educate and motivate our learners, teachers, and community partners to become more involved in legislative advocacy on both State and Federal levels, which will result in a stronger presence at the State House and Congress – observing, testifying, and influencing change.

Goals & Objectives

Increase resident, faculty and community pediatrician understanding of being a physician advocate for patients through legislative action.  Strengthen the NNEAC community through resident education and faculty development.

1. Bring together the NNEAC residency programs and their respective AAP chapter representatives to share ongoing advocacy experiences and provide continued opportunity for collaboration.

2. Increase collaboration with and exposure to community partners involved in addressing social determinants of health through legislative advocacy across the state lines of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

3. Increase resident, faculty, and community pediatrician knowledge of and participation in legislative advocacy through educational workshops.

4. Develop advocacy action items for the NNEAC to monitor ongoing progress.

5. Create a plan for ongoing sustainability of the NNEAC.

Leaders: Brit Anderson, MD, FAAP, Elizabeth Lehto, DO, FAAP, & Ashley Zerr, MD

Visiting Professor: Benjamin Hoffman MD, FAAP

Abstract: Pediatricians Urging Safety and Health (PUSH) is a resident-led, faculty-supported advocacy group at the University of Louisville which has been active in community and legislative advocacy for more than a decade. We seek formal evaluation of our current program with subsequent curriculum development to further strengthen our program.  Additionally, we seek to develop strategies to navigate the challenges we've encountered with resident hesitancy to participate in legislative advocacy or discuss controversial topics, ensure consistent resident participation in advocacy activities, and improve collaboration with key partners.

Goals & Objectives

Strengthen advocacy training by improving the curriculum, addressing challenges, and enhancing community collaboration.

1. Outline strengths and opportunities for improvement in existing advocacy program by conducting a needs assessment.

2. Develop and implement activities to fill gaps in existing program and address challenges we've encountered

3. Provide residents and faculty with tools to translate their passion into effective community projects, and also to foster sustained, academically-valued commitment to advocacy in order to improve children's health

4. Develop broad-based relationships with community partners based on CATCH concepts

5. Strengthen relationships between key partners, focusing on improvement of Children's Day at the Capitol and resident liaison positions at the AAP.

Leaders: Brian Hilliard, MD, FAAP & Amy Gaug, C-TAGM

Visiting Professor: Michelle M. Barnes, MD, FAAP

Abstract: We intend to create a meaningful advocacy program centered around long-term community partnerships. To complement the current components of our advocacy training, we want to have organized community partnerships that are housed in our Pediatric Residency Program. Through this Visiting Professorship, our program will benefit from an expert in Advocacy and Community Health, and also from the time dedicated to meeting with two community partners to create a meaningful plan.

Goals & Objectives

Learn from successful models for community advocacy that exist in other residency programs, particularly those with a strong network of community partnerships. Create a sustainable plan for advocacy work housed within the University of Minnesota Pediatric Residency Program.

1. Solidify expectations between two community partners and residency program through increased dialogue.

2. Draft plan for encouraging these community partnerships.

3. Outline how dedicated program administrative support will advance this effort of enhanced community partnerships.

4. Create strategy to further opportunities for trainee exposure to community partnerships and local advocacy opportunities.

5. Increase trainee understanding of Somali and homeless communities to better understand barriers faced by these communities.