Good Morning,

Today’s CDC Public Health Grand Rounds topic is “Addressing Gaps in Health Care for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities”.  For those interested, it will be held at 1p EST today and you can attend remotely.  Details of the call are at the bottom of this email. 

CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds Presents:

“Addressing Gaps in Health Care for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities”

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (ET)

Chamblee Campus

Building 106, Rooms 1A and 1B

Presented By:

Georgina Peacock, MD, MPH, FAAP

Director

Division of Human Development and Disability

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC

“Improving Health for People with Intellectual Disabilities”

Susan Havercamp, PhD, FAAIDD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, and

Director, Health Promotion and Healthcare Parity Program

Ohio State University Nisonger Center and Past President, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)

“Education Is Key to Better Health Care for People with Disabilities”

Liz Weintraub

Senior Advocacy Specialist and Host of Tuesdays with Liz: Disability Policy for All!

Association of University Centers on Disability (AUCD)

“All Means All: Health Care for People with Disabilities”

Tim Shriver, PhD

Chairman of the Board

Special Olympics

“Inclusive Health: Creating Health Justice for People with Intellectual Differences”

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

For questions about this Grand Rounds topic:
Feel free to e-mail your questions before or during the session.

Our sessions are open to the public:

A live webcast will be available on our website. Open captions are provided. The link will be live five minutes before the presentation. Sessions are posted 3-4 days after each presentation to the On Demand page of our website.

For non-CDC staff who want to attend in person:

Non-CDC staff must have prior security clearance. US citizens must submit a request to the Grand Rounds Team.  A US state-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, US passport) is required.

Non-US citizens must submit their requests 20 days prior to the session to the Grand Rounds Team, and additional information will be required.

For CDC staff unable to attend in person:

The session will be available on our webcast or on IPTV. Open captions are provided. Note: IPTV is NOT available on CITGO.

For non-FTE staff who want to attend in person:

Contractors may attend this meeting with the prior approval of their employer.

CDC encourages full participation by employees with disabilities:

CDC encourages full participation by employees with disabilities: Assistive listening devices will be available from blue-shirted technicians at the event. Please plan to arrive early to ensure your needs are met before the event begins. A closed-captioned version will be available via IPTV (select Channel 4 from the list of channels on the IPTV website) or via the web stream. Captions will also be available online via Relay Conference Captioning. To view the online captions at the start time of this event, please log in on your computer, smartphone, or table.

Please email Meeting Accessibility Support if you have questions or comments about accessibility compliance.

Free Continuing Education is available for Grand Rounds Sessions

In order to receive continuing education (CE) for Public Health Grand Rounds sessions, please visit TCEO and follow these 9 Simple Steps. To find our courses use the search term “Public Health Grand Rounds”. To receive continuing education you must complete the online seminar evaluation and posttest. Continuing education will be available for up to 2 years and 1 month after the initial session offering.

Target audience: physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, pharmacists, veterinarians, certified health education specialists, laboratorians, and others.

Objectives:

1. List key measures of burden of disease involving morbidity, mortality, and/or cost.

2. Describe evidence-based preventive interventions and the status of their implementations.

3. Identify one key prevention science research gap.

4. Name one key indicator by which progress and meeting prevention goals is measured.

CE certificates can be printed from your computer immediately upon completion of your online evaluation and posttest. A cumulative transcript of all CDC/ATSDR CE credits obtained through the TCE Online system will be maintained for each user. We hope that this will assist you in fulfilling the requirements for your professional licenses and certificates.

Continuing Medical Education for Physicians (CME):

CDC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME^®) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. CDC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Continuing Nursing Education for Nurses (CNE):

CDC is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity provides 1 contact hour.

Continuing Education Contact Hours in Health Education (CECH):

Sponsored by CDC, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designed for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I continuing education contact hour. Maximum advanced level continuing education contact hours available are 0. CDC provider number 98614.

Continuing Education Units (CEU):

CDC is authorized by IACET to offer 0.1 CEU for this program.

Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE):

CDC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program is a designated event for pharmacists to receive 0.1 CEU in pharmacy education. The Universal Activity Number (UAN) changes for each session. Please visit the session page to obtain the assigned number for that specific session. Course Category: This activity has been designated as knowledge-based. Once credit is claimed, an unofficial statement of credit is immediately available on TCEOnline. Official credit will be uploaded within 60 days on the NABP/CPE Monitor.

AAVSB/RACE:

This program was reviewed and approved by AAVSB RACE program for 1.0 hour of continuing education. Participants should be aware that some boards have limitations on the number of hours accepted in certain categories and/or restrictions on certain methods of delivery of continuing education. Please contact the AAVSB RACE program if you have any comments/concerns regarding this program’s validity or relevancy to the veterinary profession.

Certified Public Health Professionals:

CDC is an approved provider of CPH Recertification Credits by the National Board of Public Health Examiners. Effective October 1, 2013, the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE) accepts continuing education units (CEU) for CPH recertification credits from CDC.

Disclosure: In compliance with continuing education requirements, all presenters must disclose any financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters as well as any use of unlabeled product(s) or product(s) under investigational use.

CDC, our planners, presenters, and their spouses/partners wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters. Planners have reviewed content to ensure there is no bias.

Content will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use.

CDC did not accept commercial support for this continuing educational activity.