April 2008
- Efforts to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare (PDF, 319KB)
John M. Montgomery, MD, MPH, FAAFP, CPE, CHIE
Vice President, Professional Relations
BlueCross BlueShield of Florida - Focusing on Native American Health Care Disparities (PDF, 486KB)
Adriann Begay, MD
Medical Officer, Indian Health Service - American Indian/Alaska Native Workforce Diversity: Best Practices and Solutions (PDF, 1.14MB)
Terry Maresca, M.D.
Director, Native American Center of Excellence
University of Washington School of Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor, Family Medicine - When No Data is Misinterpreted as No Problem (PDF, 482KB)
Maile Taualii, Scientific Director
Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle Indian Health Board
October 2007
- Meeting summary (PDF, 20KB)
- Addressing Health Care Disparities: Recommended Goal, Guiding Principles, and Key Strategies for Comprehensive Policies (PDF, 264KB)
The Commission to End Health Care Disparities - Biomonitoring & Disparities: Strategies to Accelerate a Disparity Reducing Advance (PDF, 849KB)
Clement Bezold, PhD, Institute for Alternative Futures - Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Data in Small Physician Practices (PDF, 482KB)
Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD, HRET
Mara Youdelman, JD, NHeLP
Christian Krautkramer, Boston University
Kevin Van Dyke, HRET - Federal Response: Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities (PDF, 64KB)
Office of Minority Health (OMH), National Institute of Health(NIH), and AHRQ
Mildred Hunter, MSW, MPH (OMH)
Ileana Herrell, PhD (NIH) - Health Disparities: A State View (PDF, 330KB)
Eric Whitaker, MD, MPH former director, IL Department of Public Health - Local Efforts to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities (PDF, 1MB)
Stephen A. Martin, Jr, PhD, MPH, Chief Operating Officer, Cook County Department of Public Health
March 2007 (PDF, 127KB)
Panel discussions were held on the first day of the meeting that addressed the history of health care disparities, advocacy and universal coverage. Massachusetts Medical Society discussed the work that has been done within the state, information was provided on the role of universal access to health care in reducing health care disparities. Representative Peter Koutoujian provided a detailed description of how other states can create commissions and task forces. The program was highlighted by the Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, MD, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine, and chair of the Sullivan Alliance who discussed how increasing diversity in the health professions will reduce racial and ethnic health care disparities. Jeffrey Drazen, M.D., editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discussed the role of peer-reviewed medical journal and the media in addressing racial and ethnic disparities and focused on how general research can play a role in helping the physician community care for patients from diverse backgrounds and how that research can be applied to different patient populations.
- Sullivan Commission/Sullivan Alliance
Slides 1-9 (PDF, 1MB), Slides 10-18 (PDF, 1MB)
Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, MD, former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, President-Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine, Chair, Sullivan Alliance - Disparity Reducing Advances Project (The DRA Project)
Slides 1-35 (PDF, 445KB), Slides 36-71 (PDF, 2MB)
Clement Bezold, PhD, Institute for Alternative Futures - Racial Disparities in Health: Interpreting the Research (PDF, 525KB)
Eric C. Schneider, MD, MSc, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital
September 2006 (PDF, 377KB)
The first day of the meeting focused on Commission business. Educational forums were held on the second day of the meeting focusing on pay for performance, dietary sodium reduction, and pharmacogenetics, health care disparities and personalized medicine. The Commission also approved the 2007-2008 strategic plan. (PDF, 24KB)
- Physician’s Quagmire: Salt Consumption and Chronic Kidney Disease
Slides 1-9 (PDF, 1MB), Slides 10-18 (PDF, 1MB)
Sandra Gadson, MD, Co-Chair, Commission to End Health Care Disparities - Political & Clinical Basis of Health Disparities Realistic Solutions (PDF, 172KB)
Randall W. Maxey MD, PhD, Co-chair Emeritus “The Commission”, President Alliance of Minority Medical Associations, Past President National Medical Association - Disparities in Pharmaceutical Therapy: A major contributor to unequal treatment of ethnic and racial minorities (PDF, 1MB)
Richard Levy PhD
Robert Like, MD, MS
Randall Maxey, MD, PhD - Pay for Performance and Health Care Disparities (PDF, 176KB)
John M. Montgomery, MD, MPH, FAAFP, CPE, CHIE, Vice President, Senior Care Solutions and Professional Relations, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Member Plan of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association - Pay for Performance and its potential Impact on Health Care Disparities (PDF, 1MB)
Valentine J. Burroughs, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, North General Hospital, CAFA Chair, National Medical Association
March 2006 (PDF, 150KB)
The first day of the meeting focused on Commission business with the second day focused on the patient/physician listening session held at Howard University where minority patients and physicians provided testimonies on their non-financial experiences in the health care system and offered suggestions for what physician groups can do to help eliminate disparities
September 2005 (PDF, 252KB)
January 2005 (PDF, 324KB)
July 2004 (PDF, 477KB)
April 2004 (PDF, 199KB)
October 2003 (PDF, 382KB)
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