Advocacy Training SIG
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Advocacy Training Special Interest Group meeting in Vancouver. Special thanks to the members of the Serving the Underserved Special Interest Group for working with us this year on our combined SIG meeting. The attendees had lots of opportunities for networking and collaboration.
This year, our combined SIG featured a panel of pediatricians successfully navigating career paths as advocates and serving the underserved. Jeff Kaczorowski, the Principal Investigator of the Community Pediatrics Training Initiative served as moderator. Elisa Nicholas, (CEO, The Children's Clinic), Ben Hoffman, (Director, UNM Pediatric Residency Program), and Steve Berman, (Section Head, Division of General Pediatrics, University of Colorado in Denver) participated as panelists. Each is nationally recognized for their advocacy work. They described their inspiring and unique career paths and shared key lessons learned along the way.
The spotlight and highlight of the SIG - the Resident Community Health and Advocacy Presentations and Poster session - was a huge success! Three residents gave oral presentations: Lisa Meneses, MD (UCSF), Autumn Kiefer, MD (Mayo Clinic), and Eden Kahle, MD (CHOP). Twenty-two residents presented posters. We continue to be awed and inspired by their work!
We appreciate all of the suggestions for future SIG meetings. Many of our attendees are interested in ways to combine research and advocacy. We look forward to incorporating this topic into our SIG meeting next year.
Finally, we have really enjoyed our tenure as Co-Chairs of the Advocacy Training SIG! We will be transitioning the leadership of our SIG to those nominated as the new co-chairs: Barbara Bayldon, (Children's Memorial Hospital), Jennifer Walthall, (Indiana University), and Elizabeth Miller, (UC Davis). We look forward to seeing you all in 2011 in Denver!
SIG Co-Chairs:
Allison Brindle
brindla@ccf.org
Anda Kuo
AKuo@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu
Megan Sandel
megan.sandel@bmc.org
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Thank you to all who participated in the Advocacy Training Special Interest Group meeting in Baltimore. Thanks again to the Community Pediatric Training Initiative for sponsoring a wonderful breakfast. There was great participation and interaction amongst the attendees. Our theme of the meeting was Creating Academic Careers as Child Advocates.
Our key note address was "Doing Advocacy and Getting Your Work Published" by Howard Bauchner, the Editor in Chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, the Pediatric Journal of British Medical Journal (BMJ). He offered a lot of great ideas of non traditional types of articles and ways to research good journal choices. (We had a last minute speaker change with Josh Sharfstein, MD becoming the Assistant FDA commissioner. Thank you, Dr Bauchner!)
The crux of our meeting was an interactive workshop, "Making your Advocacy Count in Promotion and Tenure," by Cathy Jordan, Director of the Children Youth and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota, who also is one of the authors of the Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit from Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (http://www.communityengagedscholarship.info/). Attendees were put to work on mock promotion and tenure committees, highlighting the importance of capturing and framing one's advocacy work within the context of the academic arena.
Last but not least, we had our Resident Community Health and Advocacy Poster and Presentations - the spotlight and the highlight of the SIG! Three residents gave oral presentations: John Peoples, MD from Stanford, Angie Valdez, MD from the University of Utah and Anna Fishbein, MD from Children's Memorial Hospital. Nineteen residents presented posters.
Some suggestions for future meetings include: addressing how community health and advocacy training programs occur within residencies, learning from the wisdom of lobbyists, and broadening our scope by linking with medical students and other pediatric specialties engaged in advocacy. We look forward to incorporating the feedback and wonderful ideas raised at our SIG meeting for the 2010 meeting in Vancouver!
SIG Chair:
Allison Brindle brindla@ccf.org
SIG Co-Chairs:
Barbara Bayldon, MD
2300 Children's Plaza
Chicago,IL60657
Phone: (773) 880-3830
Fax: () -
bbayldon@childrensmemorial.org
Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD
3335 Sunnybank Lane
Carmichael,CA95608
Phone: (916) 734-5571
Fax: (916) 456-2246
elizabeth.miller@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Jennifer DH Walthall, MD
8701 Lepart Court
Indianapolis,IN46278
Phone: (319) 228-0940
Fax: () -
jdhewlet@iupui.edu
