CHEK-D Activity

Thursday, September 30, 2021
12:30 PM
Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: “Achieving Transplant Equity: Closing the Gaps in Research, Interventions, and Community Engagement”

• To describe multiple factors influencing persistent disparities in transplantation
• To highlight the significance of patient, family, and community engagement
• To discuss examples of promising interventions to address transplant disparities
• Swift - food subsidies and incident CKD
• Future directions and collaborations

• Tanjala Purnell, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University

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Thursday, June 24, 2021
12:30 PM
Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: “Synergistic Research to Improve Health Equity in the Kidney Care Continuum”

• Brief overview of health services research and the WHO conceptual model - social determinants of health
• Myaskovsky - IMPACT Study
• McDougall - kidney cancer research
• Swift - food subsidies and incident CKD
• Future directions and collaborations

• Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine & Director, Center for Healthcare Equity in Kidney Disease, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
• Jean A. McDougall, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine, UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Samuel L. Swift, PhD, MPH, Health Systems Epidemiology Program Manager

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Thursday, June 17, 2021
12:00 PM
Northwestern Nephrology Renal Grand Rounds: “Enhancing Equity in Kidney Transplantation”

• Disparities in kidney transplantation
• Previous kidney transplant studies
• Ongoing kidney transplant studies
• Planned research under review

• Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine & Director, Center for Healthcare Equity in Kidney Disease, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

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Wednesday, November 4, 2020
2:00 PM
American Society of Transplantation’s Timely Topics in Transplantation Webcast Series: “Disparities in Access to Transplantation”

• Describe the nature of disparities in transplantation in the US
• Identify factors that are driving disparities in transplantation - using kidney transplantation as a case study
• Highlight examples of multi-level strategies to address disparities in transplantation

• Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine & Director, Center for Healthcare Equity in Kidney Disease, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
• Tanjala Purnell, MPH, MD, Director of Education, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity

• Winfred Williams, MD, Associate Chief, Division of Nephrology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Thursday, January 23, 2020
12:30 PM
Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: “Dialyzing the Undocumented: Driving Policy with Data”

• Describe the provision of outpatient dialysis care for undocumented immigrants with end-stage kidney disease
• Describe research documenting worse outcomes among undocumented immigrants that rely on emergency-only dialysis
• Describe advocacy approach and policy implications

• Lilia Cervantes, MD, Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Group

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Thursday, April 25, 2019
12:30 PM
Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: “Are We Still Worlds Apart? Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Kidney Transplantation”

• Summarize racial and ethnic disparities in access to kidney transplantation
• Understand individual, provider, and system level barriers to kidney transplantation
• Describe at least 3 potential strategies for overcoming barriers to kidney transplantation

• Vanessa Grubbs, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology, University of California, San Francisco

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