APA Presidential Plenary: Authenticity in Partnership: Centering Communities in the Academic Mission

Chair(s)

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  Jean Raphael, MD, MPH (he/him/his)

  Professor of Pediatrics
  Pediatrics
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Houston, Texas, United States

Session

Description: With increased understanding of the social and structural determinants of health, the field of pediatrics has reached a critical inflection point in how to center children and families in the academic mission. Community partnership has represented a cornerstone of public health for decades supported by an evidence base demonstrating its potential to increase access to care, enhance research, and achieve health equity. However, use of community partnership remains nascent in academic pediatrics. Efforts towards partnership have been fragmented, not equitably applied to all populations, and often misaligned with evidence-based practice. While well intentioned, community partnered work without attention to core principles of community partnership may lead to collaborations that perpetuate cycles of injustice and harm. The urgency to appropriately center community partnership into the academic mission has increased with recent requirements to address health equity from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Joint Commission, and National Committee for Quality Assurance. Concurrently, patient centered outcomes and community partnership have become highly encouraged or required by research funding agencies such as the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and National Institutes of Health. As community partnership becomes more of a visible aspiration in the academic mission to drive clinical care, research, and education, approaches must be informed by evidence-based approaches, ethical practices, and authenticity with respect to partnership and resource provision. In this session, Dr. Jean Raphael, APA President, will provide an overview of the plenary. This introduction will be followed by top abstracts and presentations from experts in community partnership.

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM ET

  Session Introduction and Overview
  

  Speaker: Jean L. Raphael, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Baylor College of Medicine
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM ET

  Connecting the Dots to Improve Health and Education Equity: Results of A Pilot Program Integrating School Attendance Data into a Pediatric Primary Care
  

  Presenting Author: Jaytoya Manget, DNP, MSPH, FNP – Children's National Hospital
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM ET

  An Innovative Community-Academic Partnership Connects Families Experiencing Food Insecurity with Clinic-Based and Community Resources in New York City
  

  Presenting Author: Jennifer Acevedo-Sanchez, MD (she/her/hers) – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• 8:45 AM – 8:55 AM ET

  Partnering with Community-based Organizations to Advance Clinical Care
  

  Speaker: Michelle Lopez, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine
• 8:55 AM – 9:05 AM ET

  Co-creating Impactful Research with Community Partners
  

  Speaker: Evdokia Anagnostou, MD (she/her/hers) – Bloorview Research institute
• 9:05 AM – 9:15 AM ET

  Future Directions to Advance Community-partnered Work
  

  Speaker: Maya Ragavan, MD. MPH, MS – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM ET

  Question and Answer
  

  Speaker: Laura Plencner, MD – Children's Mercy Kansas City