Opens today! Register now to view Pearls of Practice 9 - Hot Topics for Clinicians: Diversity, Cultural Competence & Implicit Bias. Why? Does your practice encompass an entire city? Dr. Chuck Callahan’s does!

Dr. Chuck Callahan is a retired Army physician-executive who over 30 years served in a range of leadership positions as a pediatrician, pediatric pulmonologist and intensive care physician. In the last decade of his military career, he served as chief medical officer, chief operating officer and chief executive officer of military facilities and health systems in the Washington D.C. area.

His global health experience includes the care of patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone He is the author of more than one hundred abstracts, articles, books and book chapters and has been awarded more than two million dollars in research grants in asthma, telemedicine and population health.

In the fall of 2015, he transitioned to his position at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore as Vice President of Population Health, supporting the medical center’s efforts to improve the health and well-being of the people of West Baltimore both as a practitioner and as a health care leader. Most recently, he has provided municipal and state public health leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaker Lineup

• Jana Goodwin. PhD, RN - Bias, Culture and The Social Determinants of Health: The Healthcare Challenge
• Wendy Zhang, RN, DNP candidate - Social determinants of health screening in the primary care setting 
• Valerie Barnes, PharmD - Disparities in Medication Management: Methods to Foster Equality in Prescribing
• Andrew Miller, MS - Basics of LGBTQ+ Affirming Care
• Ginette Okoye, MD - Management of Acne in Skin of Color
• Charles Callahan, DO, FAAP - This is Baltimore: The impact of structural racism on population health
• Debra Holbrook FNE, FAAN - Human Trafficking: Clinical Presentation & Blue Dot Response Model

This activity is approved for 7.0 contact hours of continuing education (which includes 1.5 hours of pharmacology) by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Activity ID 21034780. This activity was planned in accordance with AANP Accreditation Standards and Policies. Physicians and PAs can claim 7.0 Category 2 CME for this webinar.

Pearls for Practice aka Lightning Talks (non-CE)

• Briana Walton, MD – Complex Pelvic Floor Disorders
• Sean Stewart, MD – Treating Veins in Skin of Color
• Heather Mikesell – Incorporating a Hereditary Cancer Risk Assessment into Practice
• The Maryland Addiction Consultation Services – Support for Providers
• Charlton Cooper - ATI Physical Therapy: The Patient Experience
• Steven Horel – Zypitamag: A new pitavastatin option for lipid management
• University of Maryland DNP Students - Peer Reviewed Scientific Poster Presentations
• CVS MinuteClinic – Diversity in the Workplace & A Day in the Life of a MinuteClinic NP

 

MAAPC has 2 webinars for 2021 that meet Maryland’s 2018 requirement for applicants registering for new or renewing CDS registration.

•  Shana Metzger, MS, AG-ACNP-BC, presenting Strategies for Safe Opioid Prescribing
•  Nick Tannous, MD presenting Pathopharmacology in Pain Medicine