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Sep 25

2024 Delaware Healthcare Workforce Summit

Delaware's healthcare workforce faces many challenges. This summit will provide a daylong, intensive series of panels and individual speakers covering various issues and solutions.

This Summit includes three keynotes and three-panel discussions. Breakfast, Lunch, and mid-morning and afternoon snacks are included at no cost to attendees.

The event will be held in the Martin Luther King Student Center on the Delaware State University Campus in Dover, Delaware.

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Agenda


7:30 AM to 8:30 AM

Registration and Breakfast


8:15 AM to 8:30 AM

Welcome

Tim Gibbs, MPH, Director and PI, Delaware Health Force - Conference Chair

Tony Allen, PhD, President, Delaware State University

Rebecca Walker, PhD, JD, MSN, Clinical Deputy Director, Delaware Division of Public Health

Nichole Moxley, BS, Bureau Chief, Office of Healthcare Provider Resources, State of Delaware - Conference Co-Chair

Julia O'Hanlon, MPA, Institute for Public Administration, Biden School for Public Policy & Administration, University of Delaware - Conference Co-chair


8:30 AM to 9:15 AM Morning Keynote Workforce Challenges and Successes from a National Perspective

Michelle Washko, PhD,

Director, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, HRSA


9:20 AM to 10:40 AM Panel

Expanding Educational and Advanced Clinical Opportunities to Address Workforce Deficit.

Tabassum Salam, MD, MBA - Moderator

Panelists:

Joe Deutsch, MD - Bayhealth, Internal Medicine Residency Program Director

Margaret E. LaFashia DNP, MBA, RN, NPD-BC - Nemours Children's Health, Director of Workforce Partnership Development

Brian Levine, MD - ChristianaCare, Designated Institutional Official

Maggie Norris-Bent, MPA - Westside Family Healthcare, Chief External Affairs and Communications Officer

R. Christopher Mason, PhD - Delaware State University, Associate Professor and Department Chair - Public & Allied Health Services


10:45 AM to Noon Panel

Advancing Care Through Workforce Development, Implementation, and Innovation

Topics to include Primary Care, Behavioral Health, Primary Dentistry, Lifespan Continuum of Care

Rita Landgraf - Moderator

Panelists:

State Representative Valerie Longhurst

State Senator Spiros Mantzavinos

State Representative Melissa Minor-Brown, MSN, RN

Christine Stinton, DMD, La Red Health Center

Mark Thompson, MHSA, Executive Director, Medical Society of Delaware


Noon to 2:00 PM Lunch and Keynote

Battling Burnout and Enhancing Well-being in the Healthcare Workforce: Evidence-based Strategies that Work and Yield a Positive Return on Investment

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN

Vice President for Health Promotion and Chief Wellness Officer at Ohio State University, Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Evidence-based Practice in the College of Nursing and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry in the College of Medicine.


2:05 PM to 3:25 PM Panel

Institutional Challenges and Responses to Staffing Shortages

Brian Frazee, MPP - Moderator

Panelists:

Sue Getman, MA, Executive Director, Delaware Association for Home and Community Care

Jeffrey Hawtof, MD, Director, Provider IT and Medical Education, Beebe Healthcare

Cheryl Heiks, BA, Executive Director, Delaware Health Care Facilities Association

Jessi Rhoades, MSN, MBA, RN, RACR, ChristianaCare

Rosemary (Rosi) Wurster, DNP, RN, MPH, NEA-BC, CEN, Senior VP of patient care services and chief nurse executive, Bayhealth


3:30 PM to 4:30 PM Closing Keynote

Next Steps to Maintain Momentum

Rachel Block, Program Officer, Milbank Memorial Fund


Delaware State University
1200 N Dupont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901
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Sep 25, 2024 07:30am

Free

Breakfast and lunch are included. Registration is limited to 300 attendees on a first-come, first-served basis.