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National Hispanic Health Foundation
November 19:
West U.S. Gala
Reception: 6:30 PM
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7:30 PM PT
Scholarship Award Ceremony: 7:30 PM
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8:30 PM PT
December 4:
East U.S. Gala
Reception: 6:30 PM
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7:30 PM ET
Scholarship Award Ceremony: 7:30 PM
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8:30 PM ET
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NHMA Virtual Events
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
COVID-19 Twitter Chat Series Session 1: Elderly Mental Health & Social Isolation
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
COVID-19 Twitter Chat Series Session 2: Telehealth & COVID-19
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The NHHF National Hispanic Health Professional Student Scholarship applications are NOW OPEN!
For more information and to register, go
here
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NHMA COVID-19 Education and Advocacy
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NHMA Board of Directors, Chapter Leaders and our networks – National Hispanic Health Professional Leadership Network, Council of Medical Societies, Latino Heath Organizations have provided their priorities to improve the health of Latinos through the following activities:
- Developed a Resource hub at HispanicHealth.info
- NHMA Chapter leaders have met three times to share their COVID-19 collections with NHMA, including video messages in Spanish.
- NHMA sent a letter with input from above network to support COVID-19 Relief Legislation (CARES Act, HEROES Act) to Speaker Pelosi, Senate Leader McConnell
- NHMA sent letter to support COVID-19 Relief Legislation (CARES ACT) to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
- NHMA sent letter voicing concern on the Trump Administration’s Immigration Changes during COVID-19 to Congressional Hispanic Caucus Health Task Force
NHMA COVID-19 Resource Hub
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HispanicHealth.info
We invite you to send links to reports, articles, videos on COVID-19 and Physicians/Health Professionals Caring for Latinos and on Latino Messages. Please send your materials to Briah Stokes at
bstokes@nhmamd.org
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NHMA has participated in meetings with partners on COVID-19 to share priorities for Federal advocacy. Read more
here
to see how our partners are involved.
#1 May 28 – Managing Chronic Care Patients w/ COVID-19
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Please go
here
to watch this webinar for CME credit
#2 June 24 – COVID-19 and Latino Mental Health *
Please go
here
to watch this webinar
#4 August 26
– Dealing with the New Normal
**If you are interested in speaking on our monthly NHMA Virtual Briefing Series on your experience and strategies in dealing with COVID-19 and the suggestions for the health care delivery system - please send the topics you can address in an email to Elena Rios, MD at
erios@nhmamd.org
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Legislative Update & Action Alerts
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The Trump Administration CMS announced its FINAL RULE on Section 1557 change to the Affordable Care Act
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Data Collection to decrease discrimination. NHMA and several health equity partners and coalitions sent in comments against this rolling back of the Affordable Care Act anti-discrimination topics and enforcement by the Office of Civil Rights at the US Department of Health and Human Services that we feel will decrease access to health care for LGBTQ and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) patients and consumers.
NHMA released a statement against the Trump Administration Department of Homeland Security ICE that mandated this week that all foreign students in universities and colleges be deported if they do not enroll in in-person instruction for the Fall Semester in the United States. NHMA does not feel it is fair to take back the educational opportunity for nonimmigrants who are trying to improve their educational growth in a variety of biomedical, life science, and research related careers.
Read more on NHMA Legislative Updates
here
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NHMA has various opportunities for our members and partners to engage with other health care providers and patients. Some of these opportunities include providing short educational video messages on COVID-19, cardiovascular disease, and patients living with HIV; mentoring health professional students, spokespersons for the NHHF Stop Vaping Campaign, and more.
We encourage your participation.
- NIH All of Us Research Program - supported by All of Us Research
- NHMA Chapters
- NHMA Medical School Liaison Program
- NHMA - CDC PACT - Let's Stop HIV Together - supported by CDC
- NHMA Cardiovascular Disease Campaign - supported by Amgen
- NHMA College Health Scholars Program - supported by HHS OMH
- NHMA Chapters
- NHMA Opioid Project - supported by Allied Against Opioid Abuse
- Looking for advisory committee members! If interested, sign up here.
- NHHF Stop Vaping Campaign - supported by CVS Health-Aetna Foundation
- NHHF Health Literacy Program & COVID-19 - supported by Centene Corporation
- NHMA 24th Annual Hispanic Health Conference
- Has been postponed to March 18-21, 2021
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We are seeking physicians and health care providers that treat Hispanic/Latinx patients to create a short video on cardiovascular disease and the importance of being heart healthy, and physicians and providers treating Hispanic/Latinx patients with HIV to create a short video on the importance of HIV prevention/treatment.We are also seeking physicians to discuss COVID-19 and treating patients with the virus.
Check out other educational videos our members have done on COVID-19, cardiovascular disease, HIV, and more, on our
YouTube channel.
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**Interested in becoming an NHMA leader? Join our committees, Council of Young Physicians, Council of Residents, Chapter Steering Committees today! If interested, please contact Vincent Gearity:
vgearity@nhmamd.org
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We are seeking liaisons (physicians or residents) to meet with Latino medical students at medical schools in the NHMA Chapter Cities: Sacramento or Los Angeles, California; Albuquerque, NM; Phoenix, AZ; El Paso, San Antonio, or Harlingen, TX; Chicago, IL; New Orleans, LA; New York City, NY; Boston, MA: Philadelphia, PA; Washington, DC Metro Area; Atlanta, GA; and Miami, FL. If interested, please contact:
nhma@nhmamd.org
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COR and CYP have started recruiting Members for the NHMA Chapter Steering Committees and other networking activities for the year and invite interested Young Physicians to join
CYP
or Residents/Fellows to join
COR
.
Of note, NHMA does provide awards for both groups that are presented at the March 2021 Annual Conference.
NHMA Members are hard at work being catalyst for change in their communities.
The 4 major values of an NHMA membership are
Advocacy, Education, Leadership Development and Networking.
Our major benefits for health professionals:
- Opportunities to be nominated for commissions and advisory boards in the Federal government, private sector, and other national health professional associations.
- Opportunities to mentor medical students and residents.
- Discounts at the NHMA Annual Conference for registration fees & briefings for CME credits.
- Opportunities to share your research either by being a speaker or poster presenter at our annual conference.
- Network with other healthcare professionals our 16 NHMA Chapter Forums.
Our major benefits for residents/health professional students:
- Opportunities to mentor college students.
- Discounts at the NHMA Annual Conference.
- Opportunities to share your research or service learning as a poster presenter at our annual conference.
- Network with health professionals at one of NHMA Chapter Forums and Annual Conference.
Ways You Can Get Involved With NHMA:
Click below to see our membership options:
If you have received an award or attended an event and would like to be featured in our monthly Membership Update, please contact
communications@nhmamd.org
by the first Friday of every month.
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Elena Rios, MD was appointed to the National Advisory Council for the new Partnership of the Satcher Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine with Google and the CDC Foundation on developing a COVID-19 Health Equity Data Platform to collect and analyze data to get to the root causes and drivers of health inequity among minority communities in the U.S.
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This past month Maria Mora Pinzon, MD, MS received the William Kane Rising Star Award.
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NHMA Board Director Member Claudia Zamora, NHMA DC Chapter Chair Sergio Rimola, MD, and Elena Rios, MD repesented NHMA with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Select Committee on Climate Change Press Conference on July 1 at the U.S. Capitol and with the new Clean Energy and Coalition.
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NHMA stands in solidarity with the support for police reform and other strategies to decrease police brutality against African Americans. We encourage our members, colleagues and partners to consider donating to one of various funds and organizations that are helping to provide legal aid, working to end police brutality, and other disparities in the Black community. Please see a list of these organizations
here
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The NHHF National Hispanic Health Professional Student Scholarship applications are
NOW OPEN!
Check
here
for more information.
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HCSC is hiring experienced Pharmacists. HCSC is the largest customer-owned health insurer in the nation and fourth largest overall. We operate through our Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas (as well as a variety of affiliates and subsidiaries). If you are looking for a career where you can make a direct impact on the health and wellness of people in your community HCSC/BCBS might be the right company for you. Our current Pharmacist openings are listed below. Apply Now!
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The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) is offering NHMA members a 50% discount to their virtual summer conference on July 19-23. Please see this
brochure for more information about the conference and use the code
NHMA at checkout.
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The National Medical Association (NMA) invites you to participate in a brief survey to better understand the diversity of physician experiences, barriers, and supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this survey is to understand the experiences of physicians who are members of minoritized and/or marginalized demographic groups (across race/ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability status). NMA aims to create a research base that sheds light on COVID-19 service delivery barriers and opportunities, patient barriers and opportunities, experiences with discrimination, and physician’s overall stress and well-being.
NMA has
extended the deadline for this important survey
in order to gather important and necessary perspective, so you are invited to participate as soon as possible.
At this time, NMA is specifically looking to supplement their understanding of the Black/African-American, Latinx, American Indian/Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander physician experiences. Additionally, NMA wants to hear from physicians of diverse gender identities to share their experiences.
This assessment will take approximately 10-15 minutes. This survey has been until July 20th, 2020 to allow time for additional responses.
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Researchers at Virginia Tech are attempting to understand the impact of being a frontline responder in order to understand the need to allocate mental health resources to frontline workers responding to this virus. As part of this study individuals are asked to complete an online research survey at their convenience. The voluntary survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete in a single session.
If you would like to take part in this research to better understand the impact of the important
work you are doing please go
here.
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Hoy Health has launched the first bilingual telemedicine and medication program, HoyDoc+. See the press release
here.
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We ask that you consider making a $25 donation to help NHMA & NHHF help our health professionals help their patients:
1) NHHF Health Professional Student Scholarship
2) NHMA Resident Leadership Program.
3) NHMA Physician Leadership Fellowship
Join NHMA as a member and participate in our Chapters and national campaigns and programs!
Sign-up for the AmazonSmile Program and 0.5% of your Amazon purchase will be donated to support the NHHF & NHMA.
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