How Can Health Care Organizations Become More Health Literate? Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 101-108
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College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University and received his dental degree from the SUNY at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine. Debra Dever, chief executive officer of the Loudoun Community Health Center (LCHC)
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Her com munity involvement includes the El Paso Center for Children and El Paso Families Project, the Habitat for Humanity board of directors, YWCA del Norte Region board member, the YWCA children's advisory committee, the Better Business Bureau board of directors, the Computer Career Center advisory board, and the Executive Forum, and she is a Women's Fund of El Paso Fortune 400 Member. Isabel V
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and is currently serving as the acting deputy chief medical officer. In addition to supporting the work of quality measurement nursing homes, home health agencies, End-Stage Renal Disease Network, and, more recently, the development of measures for new quality-reporting programs in inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care acute hospitals, and hospices, she has also been the lead coordinator and facilitator of the monthly Office of Clinical Standards and Quality measures forum.
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McKee represents The Joint Commission enterprise as she focuses on and develops policies and strategies for promoting patient safety and quality improvement in health care. Her responsibilities include providing support to The Joint Com mission's Patient Safety Advisory Group; overseeing work related to the development of the Sentinel Event Policy, National Patient Safety Goals, and Sentinel Event Alerts; supervising the Sentinel Event Database; and overseeing the functions of the Standards Interpretation Group and the Office of Quality Monitoring.
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He has been honored with the 2003 Institute for Healthcare Advancement Research Award, the 2008 Research Award in Safety and Quality from the National Patient Safety Foundation, the 2009 Engel Award in Health Communication Research, and the California Association of Public Hospital Quality Leaders Award for this work. He was a coinvestigator for the
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Beyond the local communities it serves, CVP is nationally and internationally known for its research in health communication and health policy to reduce health disparities, with special expertise in the social determinants of health, including literacy, food policy, poverty, and minority status, as well as with a focus on the clinical conditions of prediabetes, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, including hypertension, chronic kidney disease and heart failure.
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With respect to chronic disease control on the global level, he recently returned from a semester as visiting scholar at the University of Chile's School of Public Health to help develop chronic disease prevention and treatment initiatives and has served as a consultant to the National Health Group in Singapore and the Scotland Department of Health on chronic disease and health promotion initiatives. Darren Townzen is currently the director of health and wellness systems for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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At a strategic level, Dr. Wilson has been a member of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety Expert Advisory Group, a contributor to the WHO Patient Safety Research Council, a member of the WHO International Steering Committee for Patient Safety Solutions, a member of the Asia–Pacific Regional Council for Joint Commission International, and a member of the editorial board of the British Medical Journal.
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