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April 8 - 10, 2015
Hilton McLean Tysons Corner
McLean, Virginia
HOSTED BY
National Center for Medical
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The Medical-Legal Partnership Summit brings together hundreds of leaders in health care, law, public health,
social work and government to share ideas, insights and best practices about how the integration of legal care
and health care can help address social determinants of health for vulnerable people, and how these practitioners benefit from working together. This year’s Summit will pay particular attention to how medical-legal
partnership can be used to address population health.
Attendees have the option to register for the Medical-Legal Partnership Summit only (Thursday and Friday), or
the Medical-Legal Partnership 101 Intensive pre-meeting on Wednesday along with the Summit (Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.) Attendees cannot register for the Wednesday pre-meeting only. Academic credit is available for all three days to physicians, nurses, social workers and attorneys who attend.
Information on registration, tuition rates and hotels is on page 3. Biographies of
keynote and plenary speakers are on pages 3 - 8. Details on accreditation is on
page 26-27.
MLP 101 Pre-Meeting: April 8, 2015
On Wednesday, a half-day Medical-Legal Partnership 101 Intensive pre-meeting will
help ground individuals in the medical-legal partnership approach and provide an introduction to more advanced topics on Thursday and Friday. Attendees will participate
in three 90-minute workshops.
Everyone is welcome to attend Wednesday’s pre-meeting, but anyone who is new to
medical-legal partnership or the MLP Summit is strongly encouraged to attend. This
pre-meeting was designed specifically in response to feedback from participants at last
year’s conference who asked for additional introductory content.
The Wednesday pre-meeting agenda is on pages 9 - 10.
MLP Summit: April 9-10, 2015
The Summit will feature plenary sessions connecting the medical-legal partnership approach to hospital community benefit practices, the delivery of care at community health
centers, population health and health equity. Workshops, affinity groups and an accredited poster session will offer new research and practices related to the impact of integrating health and legal care for vulnerable individuals and families.
The Summit agenda and session descriptions are on pages 11-25.
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Registration and Hotel Information
Location
Registration
Hilton McLean Tyson’s Corner Hotel
7920 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22102
(703) 847-5000
To register, visit: http://www.bu.edu/cme/telegraph/public/MLP15reg.html
Tuition Type
Travel from Reagan Airport: It will take 20 minutes by cab
to get to the hotel from Reagan airport. The hotel is also accessible by the D.C. Metro from Reagan. Board the blue line
at Reagan, transfer at “Rosslyn” to the silver line, and get off
at the “Tysons Corner” stop. It is a 5-10 minute walk from the
Metro stop to the hotel. The trip will take approximately 60
minutes.
Thursday /
Friday ONLY
Wednesday /
Thursday / Friday
Student
$200
$275
Workshop presenter
$300
$375
$400 (before
Feb 27) / $500
(after Feb 28)
$475 (before Feb
27) / $575 (after
Feb 28)
Individual
*Learn more about eligibility for the student rate at: http://
medical-legalpartnership.org/join-movement/summit
Travel from Dulles Airport: It will take 20 minutes by cab to
get to the hotel from Dulles airport. The hotel is NOT Metro
accessible from Dulles.
Tuition Scholarships
Travel from the Union Station (Amtrak): It will take 30 minutes by cab to get to the hotel from Union Station. The hotel
is also accessible by the D.C. Metro from Union Station. Board
the red line at Union Station, transfer at “Metro Center” to the
silver line, and get off at the “Tysons Corner” stop. It is a 5-10
minute walk from the Metro stop to the hotel. The trip will
take approximately 60 minutes.
The deadline to apply for a tuition scholarship was February
20, 2015.
Hotel Accommodations
Our block of rooms at the Hilton McLean Tyson’s Corner Hotel
has sold out. If you are still looking for accomodations, please
book a room at a different hotel in McLean / Tysons Corner
Virginia.
The 2015 MLP Summit is possible with generous support from:
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Keynote Speaker
Lauren A. Taylor
Co-author
The American Health Care Paradox
@LaurenTaylorMPH
Lauren A. Taylor is the co-author of The American Health Care Paradox (Public Affairs, 2013) and a Presidential Scholar at Harvard Divinity School. In both
domestic and global contexts, she studies how to build boundary-spanning
partnerships for the purpose of health care delivery. Over the past year, she has
presented this work on MSNBC, C-SPAN, Sirius Radio, and at the Mayo Clinic
and Institute of Medicine. Lauren received a Bachelors in the History of Medicine and a Masters in Public Health from Yale. She is now a Fellow at both the
Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Global Health Institute.
Featured Plenary Speakers
Phillip Alberti, PhD
Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy
Association of American Medical Colleges
@PM_Alberti
As the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) Senior Director,
Health Equity Research and Policy, Philip M. Alberti, Ph.D., supports the efforts of academic medical centers to build an evidence-base for effective programs, protocols, policies and partnerships aimed at eliminating inequities in
health and healthcare. He joined the AAMC in 2012 to increase the visibility
and to identify and develop opportunities that facilitate the conduct of health
equity research at AAMC-member medical schools and teaching hospitals.
Previously, Dr. Alberti led research, evaluation, and planning efforts for a Bureau within the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that works to promote health equity
between disadvantaged and advantaged neighborhoods. In that capacity, he developed research partnerships
between government, academic, and local institutions, helped design policies and interventions targeting local inequities, and evaluated these and other efforts. Dr. Alberti holds a B.A. in psychology and a Ph.D. degree
in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University and was a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow in the
Psychiatric Epidemiology Training program.
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Don Blanchon, MPH, MPA
Executive Director
Whitman-Walker Health
@donblanchon
Don Blanchon began his tenure as Chief Executive Officer of Whitman-Walker in
2006. Before joining Whitman-Walker, he spent nine years with Schaller Anderson, a national health care management and consulting firm specializing in public-sector programs. During that time, he held positions of increasing authority,
including CFO and CEO of Maryland Physicians Care, a $325 million multi-product
health plan owned by four Maryland-based non-profit community health systems. From 2004 to 2006, Blanchon served as Vice President for Medicaid and
Medicare programs for Schaller Anderson. Earlier in his career, Blanchon served as
Vice President for strategic planning for Health Services for Children with Special
Needs, a specialty health plan in Washington, DC. He also spent five years as a budget examiner in the executive office of the president at the federal Office of Management and Budget. Blanchon, a native of Foxborough, MA, holds
a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Bowdoin College and a master’s in public health and public affairs from
Columbia University.
Maureen Byrnes, MPA
Lead Research Scientist, Department of Health Policy
The George Washington University
For over 30 years Maureen Byrnes served in leadership positions in the federal
government, philanthropy and the non-profit sector. When she was Executive
Director of Human Rights First, Maureen traveled to Russia and Pakistan, and
worked to end the use of torture as an interrogation technique.
From 1997 to 2005, Maureen served as the Director of the Health and Human
Services program at The Pew Charitable Trusts. In the 1980’s, Maureen worked
with Senator Lowell Weicker as the Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies. Later she
served as Executive Director of the National Commission on AIDS, the first Congressionally-mandated independent commission to address the challenges associated with the HIV epidemic. Currently, Maureen is a Lead Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Department of
Health Policy and Management in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.
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Featured Plenary Speakers (continued)
Malika Fair, MD, MPH
Director of Public Health Initiatives
Association of American Medical Colleges
Malika Fair, MD, MPH, FACEP is the Director of Public Health Initiatives at the
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Dr. Fair directs both the
Urban Universities for HEALTH (Health Equity through Alignment, Leadership,
and Transformation of Health Workforce) project and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) Cooperative Agreement with AAMC. Dr. Fair
is also an Assistant Clinical Professor and practicing physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine of The George Washington University. Dr. Fair
completed her residency training and chief residency at Carolinas Medical
Center in Charlotte, NC. She received her medical and Master of Public Health
degrees from the University of Michigan and Bachelors of Science from Stan-
Yvonne Goldsberry, PhD, MPH, MSUP
Vice President for Programs
Endowment for Health (Concord, NH)
@YGoldsberryEFH
Yvonne Goldsberry is Vice President for Programs at the Endowment for
Health, a statewide, private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving
the health of New Hampshire’s people, especially those who are vulnerable
and underserved. Dr. Goldsberry manages a portfolio of grants, projects and
policy initiatives that support a broad array of health policy, health equity and
advocacy issues. She is directing the implementation of the Endowment’s
strategic investment plan and evaluation process. She serves as Chair of the
New Hampshire Citizen’s Health Initiative Leadership Advisory Board, and as
a Commissioner on the Governor’s Medicaid Care Management Commission.
Before joining the Endowment, Dr. Goldsberry was Vice President of Population Health and Clinical Integration
at Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene. She directed and implemented the population health
approach to patient care and worked with state and local partners to implement collaborative community health
improvement initiatives. She was responsible for oversight of the Community Health, Employee Wellness and the
Pharmacy Departments. Dr. Goldsberry previously served as Administrator of the Community Public Health Development Unit for the State of New Hampshire, Division of Public Health Services. With an extensive background
in community health planning, she helped guide the development of the New Hampshire Public Health Network.
Dr. Goldsberry is a graduate of Brown University. She received her Masters’ degrees in Public Health and Urban
Planning from Columbia University and PhD in Public Policy from George Washington University.
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Vincent Keane
President and CEO
Unity Health Care, Inc.
Vince Keane is a former Catholic priest who has dedicated himself to the issue of health care for the homeless in D.C.
He is a previous winner of NACHC’s John Gilbert award for his championing of community health care. Among his successful achievements are increased services for homeless patients; raising the profile of non-profit clinics through his
leadership role in DC Primary Health Care Association (DCPCA) and the Non-Profit Clinic Consortium; turning around
the fate of Federally Qualified Health Centers in the city; and more recently taking on the gargantuan task of assuring
service amidst the change, once again, of the city’s public health system.
Paul Kuehnert, NP
Director, Bridging Health and Health Care
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
@PaulKuehnert
Paul Kuehnert is the director for Bridging Health and Health Care at Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation.
As an executive leader for the past twenty years, Paul led both government and
community-based organizations to help people lead healthier lives. He was
founder and later, CEO of Community Response, Inc., one of the Chicago-area’s largest housing, nutrition and social
service providers for people living with HIV/AIDS. He moved to Maine in 1999 and served in the state health department, leading the development of a regional public health system and becoming Deputy Director of the department
in 2005. Most recently, Paul was the County Health Officer and Executive Director for Health in Kane County, Illinois.
Paul is a pediatric nurse practitioner and holds the Doctor of Nursing Practice in executive leadership as well as the
Master of Science in public health nursing degrees from University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Featured Plenary Speakers (continued)
Jeffrey Levi, PhD
Exeutive Director
Trust for America’s Health
Jeffrey Levi, PhD, is Executive Director of the Trust for America’s Health, where
he leads the organization’s advocacy efforts on behalf of a modernized public
health system. He oversees TFAH’s work on a range of public health policy
issues, including implementation of the public health provisions of the Affordable Care Act and annual reports assessing the nation’s public health preparedness, investment in public health infrastructure, and response to chronic diseases such as obesity. TFAH led the public health community’s efforts to
enact, and now defend, the prevention provisions of the ACA, including the
Prevention and Public Health Fund and the new Community Transformation
Grants. In January 2011, President Obama appointed Dr. Levi to serve as a
member of the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health, which he chairs. Dr. Levi is also Professor of Health
Policy George Washington University’s School of Public Health, where his research has focused on HIV/AIDS, Medicaid, and integrating public health with the healthcare delivery system. In the past, he has also served as an associate editor of the American Journal of Public Health and Deputy Director of the White House Office of National
AIDS Policy. Beginning in the early 1980s, he held various leadership positions in the LGBT and HIV communities,
helping to frame the early response to the HIV epidemic. Dr. Levi received a BA from Oberlin College, an MA from
Cornell University, and a PhD from The George Washington University.
Suma Nair, MS, RD
Director, Office of Quality Improvement
Human Resources and Services Administration
Suma Nair MS, RD is the Director of the Office of Quality Improvement in the
Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Health
Care. The Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) administers the Health Center
Program which supports 1,300 health centers operating approximately 9,000
service delivery sites, including community health centers, migrant health
centers, health care for the homeless centers, and public housing primary care
centers. Located in communities nationwide, this network of health centers
has created one of the largest safety net systems of primary and preventive
care in the country providing comprehensive, culturally competent, quality
health care to more than 22 million people. The Office of Quality Improvement (OQI) serves as the organizational focus for program performance including, clinical and operational quality improvement, patient safety and risk
management, data reporting, and program evaluation.
Prior to joining BPHC, Ms. Nair worked on program evaluation and performance improvement programs impacting more than 80 different grant programs across HRSA. Suma earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Nutrition and
a Master of Science degree in Public Health Nutrition from Case Western Reserve University.
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Woody Thorne, MSEd
Vice President for Community Affairs
Southern Illinois Healthcare
@SIHWThorne
Woody Thorne serves in the role of Vice President of Community Affairs for Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH). SIH is a not-for-profit, integrated health care system
employing 3,400 individuals that provides comprehensive inpatient, outpatient,
and emergency services to the residents of Southern Illinois. In this role, Thorne
provides strategic direction for the organization’s marketing, communications,
and media relations efforts. Additionally, he is responsible for leading the regional, collaborative community health improvement strategy of SIH. Through
these efforts, Thorne is working to create the necessary infrastructure to align community-based assets in the clinical
delivery network into a cohesive system of care. Finally, Thorne is responsible for the organization’s efforts to secure
and manage grant funding from private and public sources as well as individual and corporate philanthropic support through the organization’s charitable foundation, the SIH Foundation. Prior to working for SIH, Thorne worked
in financial services providing business continuation planning, financial, and estate planning services to small business owners and professionals. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he received a bachelor’s
degree in Business Administration – Marketing as well as a MSEd from SIUC. Thorne currently serves on the Advisory
Council of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, as a member of the board of directors of ConnectSI, Inc.,
a 20-county economic development initiative, is a founding member of the ConnectSI Foundation board of directors,
and is a past-President of the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce. Thorne participated in the Delta Regional Authority Advanced Leaders Program 2005-2006, was selected as a “Leader Among Us” for the Southern Business Journal
in 2007, and as recipient of the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce President’s Service Award in 2011. His hobbies
include outdoor sports and many family activities involving his wife, Rita, two daughters and two sons.
About the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
Because 1 in 6 people needs legal care to be healthy.
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership’s mission is to mainstream
an integrated medical-legal approach to health and health care for people
and populations by: (1) Transforming the focus of health care and legal practice from people to populations; (2) Building and informing the evidence
base to support the medical-legal partnership approach; and (3) Redefining
interprofessional education with an emphasis on training health care, public
health and legal professionals together. It is a project of the Milken Institute
School of Public Health at the George Washington University.
www.medical-legalpartnership.org
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Wednesday, April 8 Pre-Meeting Agenda
Medical-Legal Partnership 101 Intensive
Participants will be divided into three pre-assigned groups. Name tags will have either a red, blue or green circle sticker
on them, which correspond to group assignments. Throughout the day, groups will rotate through the three sessions
below at different times. All groups will attend all three workshops.
12:30 p.m.
Foyer
Registration & Boxed Lunch Pick-up
1 - 2:30 p.m.
Break-out rooms
Session #1
2:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Break
2:45 - 4:15 p.m.
Break-out rooms
Session #2
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Break
4:30 - 6 p.m.
Break-out rooms
Session #3
6 p.m.
Pre-meeting adjourns
Red: “Basic Strategies for Medical-Legal Partnership Research and Evaluation”
Blue: “Capacity and Priority Setting for Medical-Legal Partnership 101”
Green: “Getting to Know Your Partners: Health Care and Legal Landscapes 101”
Red: “Getting to Know Your Partners: Health Care and Legal Landscapes 101”
Blue: “Basic Strategies for Medical-Legal Partnership Research and Evaluation”
Green: “Capacity and Priority Setting for Medical-Legal Partnership 101”
Red: “Capacity and Priority Setting for Medical-Legal Partnership 101”
Blue: “Getting to Know Your Partners: Health Care and Legal Landscapes 101”
Green: “Basic Strategies for Medical-Legal Partnership Research and Evaluation”
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Basic Strategies for MLP Research and Evaluation
Room: Continental A
Shannon Mace, JD, MPH
Woody Thorne, MSEd
This session will review research trends, priorities and best practices for medical-legal partnerships related to
patient benefit, provider knowledge and cost benefit. Participants will learn practical strategies for implementing
program evaluation at the local level. There will also be a discussion of the MLP performance measures the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership is developing and how MLP programs can adapt them.
Capacity and Priority Setting for MLP 101
Room: Continental B
Sharena Hagins, MPH
Ellen Lawton, JD
This session will focus on how to start, grow and strengthen a medical-legal partnership by defining a target
population, setting program priorities to align with funding and staffing, managing partner expectations and
roles, and establishing a Memorandum of Understanding.
Getting to Know Your Partners: Healthcare and Legal Landscapes 101
Room: Continental C
Dennish Hsieh, MD, JD
Mallory Curran, JD
This session will equip partners with a nuanced understanding of the financial and organizational capacity of
health care and civil legal aid organizations at local, state, and national levels. Participants will better understand
and maneuver in their partners’ landscape.
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Thursday, April 9 Agenda
8 - 9 a.m.
Foyer & International Ballroom C
Registration & Breakfast
9 - 9:15 a.m.
International Ballroom
A&B
Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10 a.m.
International Ballroom
A&B
Keynote Address: The American Health Care Paradox: Where do MedicalLegal Partnerships Fit?
Paul Kuehnert, NP
Director, Bridging Health and Health Care, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Lauren Taylor, MPH
Co-Author, The American Health Care Paradox
Presidential Scholar, Harvard Divinity School
This talk will explore how the United States currently aims to create health and how we could do
better. At the national level, we will compare the US’ relative expenditure on health and social services to that of other industrialized countries and review the impact of these allocation patterns.
At a more local level, we will explore the ways in which Medical-Legal Partnerships can serve as a
meaningful bridge between these two historically divided sectors - and a leverage point for systems change.
10 - 10:15 a.m.
International Ballroom
A&B
Communications Blitz: What It Means to Marry Our Missions
Kate Marple, MS
Manager for Communications, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
Practitioners from highly integrated medical-legal partnerships describe the tipping point for program success as the moment all partners could articulate and operate from a common mission. In
this communications blitz, we’ll pull from interviews with MLP teams to examine how these partnerships successfully married their missions, why doing so was critical to program success, and
what living a shared mission across sectors looks like in practice.
10 :15- 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Break-out rooms
Break-out Sessions 1-6
Session descriptions, presenters and room assignments are listed on pages 16-17.
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch, Affinity Groups & MLP Photo Booth
International Ballroom C ,
Break-out Rooms & Atrium During lunch, optional affinity groups will meet. Details about Thursday’s affinity groups are
on page 24. MLP teams are also encouraged to visit the MLP Photo Booth.
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Break-out Sessions 7-12
Session descriptions, presenters and room assignments are listed on pages 18-19.
2- 2:15 p.m.
Break
2:15 - 3:15 p.m.
International Ballroom
A&B
Plenary 1: Linking Community and Health: Community Benefits and Medical-Legal Partnership in the Age of the Affordable Care Act
Maureen Byrnes, MPA
Lead Research Scientist, Dept. Health Policy
The George Washington University
Yvonne Goldsberry, PhD
Vice President for Programs
Endowment for Health
Woody Thorne, MSEd
Vice President for Community Affairs
Southern Illinois Healthcare
This session will review the landscape of community benefit rules for tax exempt hospitals and the
opportunities for community transformation through the Affordable Care Act. Panelists will reflect on
the role of hospital community benefit programs in advancing medical-legal partnership.
3:15 - 4 p.m.
International Ballroom
A&B
Presentation of Medical-Legal Partnership Awards and 10th Anniversary
Celebration
Information about the awards and the award recipients will be printed in the on-site program.
4 - 4:15 p.m.
Break
4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Break-out Rooms
Break-out Sessions 13-18
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Atrium
5:30 - 7 p.m.
Atrium
Session descriptions, presenters and room assignments are listed on pages 20-21.
Medical-Legal Partnership Poster Session (accredited)
Twenty posters detailing original medical-legal partnership research will be on display and
authors will be standing with posters to answer questions. Poster descriptions will be included
in the on-site program.,
Reception
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Friday, April 10 Agenda
7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Registration & Breakfast
International Ballroom C
Anyone wishing to receive the maximum continuing education credits for attending the conference MUST sign in at the registration desk BOTH mornings.
8 :30 - 9:15 a.m.
International Ballroom
A&B
Plenary 2: Catalyzing Change, Community Health Centers, Health Care Reform and Medical-Legal Partnership
Don Blanchon, MPH, MPA
Executive Director
Whitman-Walker Health
Bethany Hamilton, JD (co-moderator)
Program Specialist (Policy), Community HealthCorps
National Association of Community Health Centers
Vincent Keane
President and CEO
Unity Health Care
Ellen Lawton, JD (co-moderator)
Lead Research Scientist, Department of Health Policy
Co-Principal Investigator, The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
The George Washington University
Suma Nair, MS, RD
Director, Office of Quality Improvement
Human Resources and Services Administration
This session will share reflections from community health center and government leaders on the
state of the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) field, current fiscal challenges, and what lies
ahead. Panelists will offer reflections and insights on where medical-legal partnership fits into the
mission and activities of community health centers moving forward.
9:15 - 9:45 a.m.
International Ballroom
A&B
Plenary 3: Population Health: What is the Opportunity for Medical-Legal
Partnerships?
Jeffrey Levi, PhD
Executive Director, Trust for America’s Health
Megan Sandel, MD, MPH
Medical Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
This session will unpack what population health is and why health care reform is moving more in
that direction. It will define what population health means for different stakeholders, and how medical-legal partnerships can adapt their practices to address the civil legal needs of populations as a
way to increase their reach and capacity to serve vulnerable populations.
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9:45 - 10 a.m.
Break
10 - 11:15 a.m.
Break-out Rooms
Break-out Session: Applying the Medical-Legal Partnership Approach to
Population Health
Participants will
be pre-assigned
a session. Name
tags will have either a red, blue, silver, yellow
or green star sticker on them,
corresponding to room assignments.
Five identical break-out sessions will run concurrently. Room assignments and presenter info is on page 15.
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 - 11:45 a.m.
International Ballroom
A&B
Presentation of Medical-Legal Partnership Poster Award
Law, public health and health care have different approaches to population impact - from tertiary
prevention to litigation. This session will review case examples from the medical-legal partnership
field of how to bridge these different approaches to impact the health of populations. Through
structured exercises, participants will learn how medical-legal partnerships can identify opportunities for moving from patient to policy work, what capacity MLPs need to do this work, barriers to
adapting these practices, and how to measure and message the impact of addressing the civil legal
needs of populations.
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Plenary 4: Medical-Legal Partnerships: Advancing Health Equity, AdvancInternational Ballroom ing through Discovery
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Phillip Alberti, PhD
Senior Director, Health Equity Research & Policy
Association of American Medical Colleges
Malika Fair, MD, MPH
Director of Public Health Initiatives
Association of American Medical Colleges
To achieve health equity – a state where everyone has an equal opportunity, regardless of social
advantage or disadvantage, to achieve his or her full health potential – will require multiple sectors
and systems to address factors that contribute to health and health care inequities. Successfully addressing the social determinants of health will have the largest impact on systematic and avoidable
disparities in health between groups and academic medical centers routinely engage in practices
to achieve this aim. Medical-legal partnerships, service learning programs, and community-based
research experiences, for example, might be effective ways to reduce or eliminate inequities. Since
prospective, community-based health impact evaluations are often time consuming and underfunded, solid evidence demonstrating the impact of these practices are rare. This session will help
attendees understand the role that medical-legal partnerships can play in building community,
health system, and learner capacity to address community health needs and health inequities, and
apply a community health improvement framework for evaluations of similar programs.
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Friday, April 10 Agenda (continued)
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
International Ballroom C ,
Break-out Rooms & Atrium
Lunch, Affinity Groups & MLP Photo Booth
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Break-out Rooms
Break-out Sessions 19-24
2:45 p.m.
Meeting Adjourns
During lunch, optional affinity groups will meet. Details about Friday’s affinity groups are on
page 25. MLP teams are also encouraged to visit the MLP Photo Booth.
Session descriptions, presenters and room assignments are listed on pages 22-23.
“Applying the Medical-Legal Partnership Approach to
Population Health” Session Facilitators
RED TEAM
SILVER TEAM
GREEN TEAM
Jeffrey Martin, MD
Associate Director
Lancaster General Health
Daniel Atkins, JD
Legal Advocacy Director
Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.
Katie Schultz, JD
Staff Attorney
MidPenn Legal Services
Shannon Mace, JD, MPH
Director, Policy and Planning
Baltimore City Health Department
Adrienne Henize, JD
Program Coordinator, HeLP
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical
Center
BLUE TEAM
YELLOW TEAM
Room: Continental A
Room: Continental B
Paula Kaminow, JD
VP Framingham Operations
Edward M. Kennedy Community
Health Center
Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham, JD
Staff Attorney
Community Legal Aid
Room: Continental C
Room: Dallas
Lauren Onkeles-Klein, JD
Staff Attorney, Healthy Together
Children’s Law Center
TBD Washington D.C. Clinician
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Room: Beverly
Donita Parrish, JD
Senior Staff Attorney
Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati
Melissa Salamon, JD
Staff Attorney
Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati
Break-out Sessions 1-6
Thursday, 10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
B1: Three Decades of a Community Health
Center MLP: Achievements, Challenges and
Lessons Learned
member of the team to work at the top of their training/
license.
Room: Continental A
Dan Bruner, JD, MPP
Richard Elion, MD
Justin Goforth, RN, BSN
Erin Loubier, JD
This session
has a focus on
health centers.
Whitman-Walker Health (WWH) has one of the oldest MLPs
in the U.S. We are now an FQHC serving Washington, DC’s
diverse urban community, with specialties in HIV care and
LGBT health. WWH medical and legal professionals will
discuss lessons learned over the past three decades and
implications for other community health centers. We will
highlight our progress towards full integration of legal and
health care; innovations in service delivery and changes in
how we practice our respective professions; our strategies
for improving population health; and our sustainable business model in which legal as well as medical staff play critical roles.
B2: Expanding Medical-Legal Partnership Capacity -- Integrating Patient Navigation and
Resource Connections
B3: Identifying Legal Need in the Clinical Setting
Room: Continental C
Emily Boudreau
Tessa Geron
Braden Lang, JD
Jennie Light
Krista Teske
Katy Watters
In 2014, The Advisory Board Company, a health care strategic consulting firm, reviewed all of the existing tools being used by medical-legal partnerships to screen for legal
need in clinical settings. They then developed a common
screener that can be used by MLPs in a range of settings. In
this session, the ABC team will review the screening tool,
how they chose the questions and discuss how programs
can use it. Presenters will talk about validated versus internally developed questions, who should collect the data,
who should analyze it, and how it connects to service delivery and program objectives.
Room: Continental B
Sheila Hall, JD
Dennis Hsieh, MD, JD
Jennifer Newberry, MD, JD
Deborah Son, MSW
The medical-legal partnership attorney often serves as the
sole expert on the social determinants of health in resource
poor settings such as FQHCs or safety net hospitals. This
results in the MLP attorney helping with many non-legal
issues, such as assisting with food stamp applications, writing demand letters to landlords, and navigating specialty
care follow-up. Some MLP sites have co-existing patient resource connection programs, such as a HealthLeads desk.
However, few sites integrate these resources connection
program with the MLP to create a continuum of care for patients’ socioeconomic and legal needs. This panel explores
integrating the MLP with a resource desk, allowing each
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B4: Keep the Program Alive and Thriving Meeting the educational needs of the Health
Care and Legal teams
Room: Dallas
Carrie Brown, MD
Lori Chumbler, JD
Carol Frazier Maxwell, LCSW, ACSW
Krista Selnau, JD
In this session the Arkansas Children’s Hospital medical-legal partnership will share the six educational session types
that we use to keep people throughout the hospital and
in our ProBono locations engaging with our MLP. Interdisciplinary trainings as well as trainings for specific partners
(residents, physicians, attorneys, social workers, nurses) are
offered on a scheduled basis throughout the year. During
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the 75 minutes will discuss the timing of the events, the
selection process for topics, and allow time for open discussion about other session types and topics that other
programs around the county utilize.
B5: Creating a Model for Hospital-Funded
Medical-Legal Partnership
Room: Beverly
April Faith-Slaker, JD, MA
Ann Mangiameli, JD
Suzanne Nuss, PhD, RN
Erin Planalp, JD
Kerry Rodabaugh, MD
The Nebraska Medicine Medical-Legal Partnership is exclusively funded by Nebraska Medicine. In just a few years, the
MLP grew a $25,000 starting operating budget to several
hundred thousand dollars, expanding services and collaborating with multiple legal aid agencies to reach populations in both Nebraska and Iowa. This model has paved the
way for multiple other hospital-funded MLPs throughout
the Omaha, Nebraska metropolitan area. This session will
present the development and expansion of the Nebraska
Medicine Medical-Legal Partnership and how to replicate
the model in your own community.
B6: National Medicaid Delivery System Reform: An Opportunity to Expand the MLP Approach
Room: Hilton Amphitheater
Randye Retkin, JD
John Schneider, PhD
Victor Snyder, LCSW
Session focuses on Medicaid redesign and how, through
these programs, medical-legal partnerships play a role in
more broadly addressing social determinants of health,
therefore improving population health and affecting health
care cost savings. Prompted by the ACA and an overall interest in better patient outcomes, and reduced per capita
cost of care, states are implementing innovative programs
reforming how Medicaid care is delivered and paid for.
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Thursday, 1:15 - 2 p.m.
B7: Improving Patient Care in a Community
Health Center through Attorney-CHW Collaboration
cacy strategies to effectuate changes in the practices and
policies of state Medicaid agencies and school districts.
Room: Continental A
Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham, JD
(moderator)
Kathryn W. Condon, JD
Rebecca H. Donham, MPA
Paula Kaminow, JD
Medha Makhlouf, JD
B9: Collaborative Research Towards Improved
Patient & Population Health
This session
has a focus on
health centers.
Room: Continental C
Sally Bachofer, MD
Yael Zakai Cannon, JD
Andrew Hsi, MD, MPH
Ed Paul, MD
Identifying the key players in a medical-legal partnership is
an important task when structuring a new MLP or reforming an existing one. The panelists, all of whom are part of
a community health center-based MLP but who have different roles and professional backgrounds, will discuss the
unique role that Community Health Workers (CHWs) play
in the partnership. Specifically, they will share how a close
working relationship between CHWs and attorneys is a
natural and effective model for improving patient advocacy by ensuring each team member works at the upper
limit of their license ensuring efficient use of all available
resources.
Attorneys and health care professionals who partner to address the legal needs of patients can collaborate around
critical population health issues they identify in practice.
Presenters Andrew Hsi, MD and Yael Cannon, Esq. of the
UNM Medical Legal Alliance will present on their research
on the health and legal impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as child trauma. They will discuss the
population health research on this topic and a study they
are developing to identify the ACEs and outcomes experienced by a particular population-incarcerated youth. This
session explores how MLP partners can draw on their direct service work to engage in research to improve patient
health and broader population health.
B8: Practicing Law Upstream: Transforming
Legal Care
Room: Continental B
B10: Interprofessional Education Field Report
Room: Dallas
Dawn Bolyard, RN, MSN, CNS
L. Kate Mitchell, JD
George Thomas, JD
Joel Teitelbaum, JD, LLM
Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, JD
This session will discuss Upstreamist practices in the context of legal care. To effectively and systemically address
poverty and related legal and social issues, attorneys need
to transform legal practice to incorporate medical and public health concepts and change their professional framework and identity. We will discuss ways to incorporate social determinants of health considerations and population
health concepts like “hot-spotting” and “upstream practice”
in the development of systemic and preventative legal
practice strategies. We will also share some examples of
upstreamist advocacy initiatives including the use of medical data and GIS mapping to “hot-spot” communities and
legal issues of concern and the use of systemic policy advo-
This session will provide an overview of interprofessional
education (IPE) efforts occurring around the country that
include the Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) approach. It
will briefly describe the IPE movement, trends that integrate the MLP approach across a range of fields and disciplines, and the value added by including an MLP frame in
IPE. Session leaders Joel Teitelbaum and Liz Tobin Tyler conducted a separate Summit pre-meeting with several individuals at the leading edge of the IPE and MLP movement,
the results of which will form the basis for this field report.
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B11: Applying the Medical-Legal Partnership
Approach to the Management of Diabetes in
Youth
Room: Beverly
Lindy MacMillan, JD
Faisal Malik, MD, MS
Youth with diabetes often need more personalized, holistic
interventions that go beyond quarterly clinic visits to address home, school, and legal barriers to optimal care. Our
group developed an innovative intervention that addresses
diabetes management outside of the medical setting. The
“Diabetes Community Care Ambassador Program” trains
Care Ambassadors to deliver personalized, tailored care to
families that need additional support. This care is delivered
in the family home, school, and community, and integrates
personalized health information and legal counseling in
multiple settings. This presentation will discuss implementation and outcomes of this pilot program to improve care for
youth with diabetes.
B12: Developing and Implementing Quality Improvement Processes for Medical-Legal
Partnerships
Room: Hilton Amphitheater
Marsha Regenstein, PhD
This session will help participants develop an understanding
of the science of performance improvement and help participants identify cross-organizational goals for quality work
related to screening patients for health-harming civil legal
needs. Participants will be able to map data needs and available information to engage effectively in MLP-related quality improvement work.
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Thursday, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m.
B13: Outside the Four Walls: Aligning Medical-Legal Partnership and Enabling Services
in the Community Health Center Context
B15: A Charting [R]evolution
Room: Continental C
Diane Goffinet, JD
Lisa Nation, RN, BSN
Keegan Warren-Clem, JD
Andrew Weaver, JD
Room: Continental A
Ellen Lawton, JD
Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH
Kristen Stoimenoff, MPH
This session
has a focus on
health centers.
Both legal and health care partners from the Medical-Legal
Partnership of Southern Illinois will discuss the evolution
of their case charting system to now include LSC problem
codes, specific MLP social outcomes, ICD-9 codes, and MLP
health impacts. This charting revolution will allow MLPs
across the country to easily track legal and health outcomes for individual clients and health outcome trends
across provided services. Further discussion will include
the need for, and difficulties in, tracking interventions by
health care workers that do not result in an actual referral
to the legal partner.
Community health centers (CHCs) provide high-quality,
accessible, affordable, and comprehensive health care to
underserved populations, without regard for ability to pay.
Robust, community-driven outreach and enabling services
are critical for reaching populations with the greatest unmet need, connecting them to a broad scope of services,
and ensuring their ability to fully access health care and
achieve good health. During this session, facilitators will
describe a vision for what a comprehensive outreach and
enabling services model can achieve and introduce a strategic framework that identifies the potential return on investment for implementing such programs. Panelists will
lead a discussion on how medical-legal partnership synchronizes with outreach and enabling services in the CHC
context.
B16: Training Simulation: Teaching Students
to Explore Social Determinants of Health in an
Interprofessional Way
Room: Dallas
B14: Framing Legal Care as Health Care: An
MLP Messaging Challenge
Katie Cronin, JD, BSW
Jana Zaudke, MD, MA
Room: Continental B
This session will highlight a new simulation, created at the
University of Kansas (KU), in which law students engage
with medicine, nursing, and pharmacy students to explore
how we speak with patients about the social determinants
of health (SDH). The simulation will be included in a curriculum toolbox that KU is creating as a Nexus Innovations
Incubator site for the National Center for Interprofessional
Practice and Education (NCIPE), with support from the Josiah Macy Foundation (Macy). A NCIPE representative will
discuss the role MLP can play in furthering innovations in
interprofessional education and practice at the point of
care.
Kate Marple, MS
Partnering across sectors requires learning to describe
your mission and work in your partner’s framework and
language. A central challenge for medical-legal partnerships is articulating the value of civil legal aid interventions
in a way that will resonate with health care partners and
funders. In this session, participants will learn how to message common legal interventions in health and health care
teams, as well as how to cultivate stories that will align with
health care messaging. This session is open to all, but will
be particularly helpful for attorneys and legal staff.
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B17: MLP Innovation in the Era of Population
Health: Lessons Learned from the Founding
MLP Site
ing the health-harming civil legal access gap. This session
will discuss the MLP MCH model, cross-site evaluation, and
business case development.
Room: Beverly
Deborah Bondzie, JD, MA
Samantha Morton, JD
Genevieve Preer, MD
After almost 20 years of MLP incubation within Boston
Medical Center’s Pediatrics Department, MLP | Boston
reoriented its service delivery model through the lens of
population health and related health care workforce restructuring. Ambassadors from this initiative will share
insights on key aspects of the success of this new model,
including: 1. Negotiating an MLP service delivery menu
and related fiscal contract, 2. Re-organizing MLP service
delivery in ways that help to spotlight population health
impacts, and 3. Re-envisioning project structure and leadership in ways that foster innovative and deeply collaborative approaches. Speakers will discuss cross-disciplinary
communication, capacity building, and anticipating challenges that this new model might present.
B18: Securing Public Investments for MedicalLegal Partnership to Improve Maternal and
Child Health Outcomes
Room: Hilton Amphitheater
Daniel Atkins, JD
Shannon Mace, JD, MPH
James Teufel, MPH, PhD
Vikrum Vishnubhakta, MPH, MBA
Local, state and federal governments have a significant interest in improving maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes while reducing medical costs. Approximately half
of all births—and the proportion is much higher for people
who are poor-- are financed by Medicaid. Despite significant financial investments in Medicaid, alarming racial inequities in birth outcomes remain. Supported by public
investments, medical-legal partnerships (MLP) in Delaware and Pennsylvania aim to improve maternal and child
health outcomes by improving environments and reduc-
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Friday, 1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
B19: How One MLP is Impacting Population
Health by Addressing Toxic Stress in Young
Children
Room: Continental C
Luong Chau, JD
Kate Marr, JD
Elisa Nicholas, MD, MSPH
B21: How Do We Know We Are Helping? Findings and Lessons Learned from a Multi-Year
Medical Legal Partnership Evaluation
Room: Hilton Amphitheater
This session
has a focus on
health centers.
Tracy Goodman, JD
Abby Nerlinger, MD
Holly Stevens, PhD
Stephen Teach, MD, MPH
In recent years, much focus has been placed on issues
such as place-based gang violence and teenage drop-out.
However, the upstream approach requires also addressing
childhood trauma and toxic stress and how these issues
have lifelong effects on health and wellbeing. Through a
panel discussion, this session will highlight how the collaboration between an experienced attorney and pediatrician led to the funding and launching of “Everychild Bright
Beginnings Initiative,” focused on addressing the effects of
toxic stress in infants, toddlers and pregnant mothers at
The Children’s Clinic, a federally qualified health center.
Over the past five years, Children’s Law Center has invested heavily in evaluating their medical-legal partnership,
Healthy Together. This investment has taken the form of
process, outcome, and impact evaluation and a pilot project analyzing cost-avoidance and return on investment.
Healthy Together’s evaluation measures indicators of
various short- and long-term legal and health outcomes,
including legal disposition, length of sustained legal outcomes, and child and family medical, educational, and social health outcomes. Qualitative and quantitative data are
collected at various points in time pre- and post- legal case.
This session describes the path Healthy Together’s evaluation has taken, key lessons learned, and presents original
data from each phase of our evaluation. Healthy Together
has been able to use data from each phase of our evaluation
to improve legal practice and patient-family outcomes, as
well as to explore business relationships that may provide
sustainable funding for MLP services.
B20: Making a Competitive Business Case to
Nonprofit Hospitals to Improve Social Determinants of Health
Room: Continental B
Diane Goffinet, JD
Shannon Mace, JD, MPH
James Teufel, MPH, PhD
Andrew Weaver, JD
B22: Communication Skills for Legal Consultation for the Seriously Ill Patient
Room: Continental A
This workshop will focus on methods to develop a strategic business case that supports the initiation, maintenance, and scaling of civil legal aid and non-profit hospital
partnerships. First, Porter’s Five Forces and Shared Value
frameworks will be reviewed. This enables the construction of a more functional strategic plan and business case
than traditional methods like SWOT analysis. Second, a realistic policy analysis of laws, rules, and regulations regarding non-profit hospitals’ community benefit obligation will
be discussed. Third, an expansion of the MLP approach
through a legal aid network with the financial investment
of separate hospital systems will be described.
Lynn Hallarman, MD
Ed Paul, MD
Anne Ryan, JD
Denise Snow, JD, RN, CNM, NP
This session focuses on essential communication skills for
lawyers in effective bedside communication with the seriously ill hospitalized patient and their families. This session
will be dynamic and interactive with a focus on a structured approach to interacting with patients/families about
uncomfortable topics such as guardianships, will, advance
care planning, life-sustaining treatments and more. You will
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domains. Participants will glean particular value on the
subjects of (a) developing a coherent program evaluation
model in the context of advance care planning-related MLP
services, and (b) the unique and substantial needs of an especially vulnerable sub-population within the universe of
low-income older adults: socially isolated, mentally ill people over 50 who are not dual-eligibles because they lack
the requisite work history and other qualifications.
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learn fundamentals on how to effectively communicate
with hospital staff, patients and families surrounding difficult conversations and decisions.
B23: Understanding and Applying Ethics and
Confidentiality Rules in the Medical-Legal
Partnership Context
Room: Dallas
Marlee Gallant, JD
Daniel Graver, JD
Laura Hoffman, JD
This session will provide an update in hot topics in the application of ethics and confidentiality rules in medical-legal
partnership practice. Using the MLP casebook, Poverty,
Health and Law and the MLP Toolkit as foundations, panelists will offer insights and strategies to meet the goals of
MLP practice while adhering to institutional and professional obligations. Topics for discussion will include HIPAA,
attorney-client privilege, electronic health records, and information sharing across multiple platforms.
B24: Notes from the Field: MLP and Older
Adult Health and Stability
Room: Beverly
Tishra Beeson, DrPH, MPH
Sarah Hooper, JD
Samantha Morton, JD
Eileen O’Brien
Carolyn Welty, MD, MA
The need for comprehensive advance care planning for
vulnerable older adults has received renewed attention
recently, in part due to increased awareness of the disconnect between high costs of care at the end of life and the
quality of such care when measured by patient goals and
expectations. At the same time, older adult housing instability, with all attendant ripple effects on the health care
system, remains at crisis levels. Two MLP programs, one
based in San Francisco and the other based in Boston,
will share insights from pilots focused on these two legal
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Thursday Affinity Groups
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Strengthening Medical-Legal Partnership Practice
in Mental / Behavioral Health Care Settings
Room: Continental C
Bethany Hamilton, JD
Andrea Hope Howard
Kristen Stoimenoff, MPH
Open to all Summit participants
Room: Continental A
Mallory Curran, JD
Gilbert Nick, MSSW, MPA
This affinity group provides a platform to stimulate conversation
and share ideas, innovations and challenges regarding practicing
medical-legal partnership in community health center settings.
The goals of this session are to give practitioners in community
health center settings (1) an opportunity to meet and network;
and (2) space to strategize local responses to the common issues
facing MLPs in today’s health and legal climate including how to
involve a greater range of community partners and move from
patients toward policy interventions. The session will be facilitated by Kristen Stoimenoff, Deputy Director of Health Outreach
Partners, Andrea Hope Howard, Chief Operating Officer at Lee
Cooperative Clinic in Arkansas and Bethany Hamilton, Program
Specialist with Community HealthCorps.
This affinity group provides a platform to stimulate conversation
and share ideas, innovations and challenges regarding practicing medical-legal partnership in mental and behavioral health
care settings. The goals of this session are to give practitioners in
mental/behavioral health care settings (1) an opportunity to meet
and network; and (2) space to strategize local responses to the
common issues facing MLPs in today’s health and legal climate
including how to involve a greater range of community partners
and move from patients toward policy interventions. The session
will be facilitated by Mallory Curran, an attorney who works at behavioral health medical-legal partnerships at MFY Legal Services
and Gilbert Nick, a Policy and Research Analyst with the New York
City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Mental
Health.
Mobilizing Students to Advance the Medical-Legal
Partnership Movement
This session is open to students only!
Room: Dallas
Strengthening Medical-Legal Partnership Practice
in Veteran Health Care Settings
Mia Sussman, JD
Open to all Summit participants
Room: Continental B
This affinity group is an opportunity for students currently in
law, medical, public health, nursing, social work or undergraduate school to gather and discuss the potential role of students in
advancing the medical-legal partnership movement. This session
is a place for students to take the lead on thinking about ways to
organize students – through MLP student chapters, alumni networks, etc. This is NOT a forum for professors from these schools
to talk about student curriculum. This session will be facilitated
by Mia Sussman, Senior Manager for Pro Bono for Equal Justice
Works.
Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH
Margaret Middleton, JD
Randye Retkin, JD
This affinity group provides a platform to stimulate conversation
and share ideas, innovations and challenges regarding practicing medical-legal partnership in veteran health care settings. The
goals of this session are to give practitioners in veteran health
care settings (1) an opportunity to meet and network; and (2)
space to strategize local responses to the common issues facing
MLPs in today’s health and legal climate including how to involve
a greater range of community partners and move from patients
toward policy interventions. The session will be facilitated by Dr.
Rishi Manchanda, a physician with the Greater Los Angeles VA
Health System, Margaret Middleton, the director of The Connecticut Veterans Legal Center, and Randye Retkin, and attorney and
director of LegalHealth, a NYC-based medical-legal partnership
that works with veterans.
Strengthening Medical-Legal Partnership Practice
in Health Center Settings
Open to all Summit participants
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Friday Affinity Groups
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Strengthening Medical-Legal Partnership Practice
in Elder Health Care Settings
legal aid community to sustain the opportunities that medicallegal partnership creates, and what legal aid leadership at the
local, state and national level can do to support the transformation that MLP sparks in legal aid organizations. This session will be
facilitated by Steve Scudder, Counsel for the Standing Committee
on Pro Bono and Public Service at the American Bar Association,
and Joanne Wallace, President and CEO of the National Legal Aid
and Defender Association.
Open to all Summit participants
Room: Continental A
Charles Sabatino, JD
Carolyn Welty, MD, MA
This affinity group provides a platform to stimulate conversation
and share ideas, innovations and challenges regarding practicing
medical-legal partnership in elder health care settings. The goals
of this session are to give practitioners in elder health care settings (1) an opportunity to meet and network; and (2) space to
strategize local responses to the common issues facing MLPs in
today’s health and legal climate including how to involve a greater range of community partners and move from patients toward
policy interventions. The session will be facilitated by Charles
Sabatino who is the Direrctor of the American Bar Association’s
Commission on Law and Aging and Carolyn Welty, a clinical associate professor in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of
California San Francisco School of Medicine.
Patient Centered Medical Homes, Quality and
Medical-Legal Partnership: A Conversation for
Health Care and Public Health Team Members
This session is open to health care and public health team members
only!
Room: Dallas
Ed Paul, MD
Megan Sandel, MD, MPH
Open to all Summit participants
Room: Continental B
This affinity group is an opportunity to strategize about how to
align medical-legal partnership activities more closely with the
Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) movement and quality
activities in health care settings. This session will be facilitated
by Dr. Megan Sandel, Medical Director of the National Center for
Medical-Legal Partnership and Dr. Ed Paul, Residency Director at
Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona.
Marlee Gallant, JD
Daniel Graver, JD
Laura Hoffman, JD
Connecting and Strengthening Washington DC
Medical-Legal Partnerships
Unpacking Issues of Confidentiality and Privacy
for Medical-Legal Partnerships
This session is open to DC-based healthcare providers, legal service
providers, and community stakeholders only!
Room: Beverly
Forming partnerships across the health, public health and legal
sectors requires navigating issues of confidentiality and privacy.
This affinity group provides a forum for practitioners to discuss
the challenges and opportunities they observe in MLP practice
and to use a problem-solving approach to develop strategies for
sharing and protecting patient-client information. The session
will also tackle broader legal issues that might impact MLP practice and growth. Bring your thorniest HIPAA questions for discussion! The session will be led by Daniel Graver an associate at Akin
Gump, Marlee Gallant a law clerk at Akin Gump, and Laura Hoffman, JD, an associate at Feldesman Tucker.
Tracy Goodman, JD
Braden Lang, JD
Erin Loubier, JD
Holly Stevens, PhD
This affinity group meeting provides an opportunity for those
working in or interested in developing medical-legal partnerships
in the Washington, DC, area to discuss hot topics in the MLP world
in DC and kick-off a DC MLP learning group. Areas of discussion
include but are not limited to the following: (1) metrics and demonstrating MLP value--challenges and opportunities around data
gathering and sharing; and (2) what is important to DC health
care institutions (hospitals, community health centers, MCOs).
We will discuss how health-related outcomes data can help
health care centers that will be facing value-based payments in
the future under payment reform. The goals of the session are to
give DC-based practitioners a chance to network and brainstorm
about ways to synergize and capitalize on our diverse experiences
and develop a working plan for future collaboration in an effort
to advance the MLP movement and mission of improved health
outcomes.
Cultivating and Sustaining Innovation and Leadership in the Legal Aid Community: A Conversation for Legal Team Members
This session is open to legal team members only!
Room: Continental C
Steven Scudder, JD
Jo-Ann Wallace, JD
This affinity group is an opportunity for attorneys to gather and
talk about where medical-legal partnership fits into the broader
work of the legal aid community, what needs to change in the
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Accreditation Information
Course Director
ing discussed.
Megan Sandel, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Boston University Schools of Medicine and
Public Health
Medical Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
The speakers listed on the agenda have nothing to disclose with
regards to commercial support with the exception of:
The following speakers have the following disclose:
• Dawn Bolyard RN, MSN, CNS is on the speakers bureau for
MedImmune.
Nursing Advisor
• Richard Ellion, MD is a consultant for and on the speakers
bureau for Gilead Sciences, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GSK/ViiV
and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. He is on the speakers bureau
for Merck.
Patti Ann Collins, DNP, MSN/MBA, RN
Lead Nurse Planner, Boston University School of Medicine
Target Audience
• Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH receives grant support from
Novartis which supports NIH funded clinical trial by paying
funds to his institution.
Physicians, nurses, social workers, patient navigators, public
health professionals, attorneys and paralegals
• Barret Tenbarge receives support from Eli Lilly Co.
Learning Objectives
Richard Ellion, MD plans to discuss unlabeled/investigational
uses of a commercial product.
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
1. Summarize how legal professionals can enhance the services provided by doctors, nurses, social workers and other
clinic or health care team members for vulnerable populations.
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CARE.
2. Develop practical strategies for measuring and evaluating
the legal needs of patients in health care settings.
3. Describe two strategies for addressing population health
that can be addressed by a health care entity clinic partnering with a local civil legal aid entity.
Core Competencies
This activity has been developed with consideration given to
the American Board of Medical Specialties Six Core Competencies. This activity will increase your competency in the area of
Interpersonal & communication skills.
Conference Management
Invited Speakers
Claire P. Grimble, CMP
Conference Operations Manager
Office of Continuing Medical Education
Boston University School of Medicine
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617-638-4604
Is a minor stockholder of Amgen
Boston University School of Medicine asks all individuals involved in the development and presentation of Continuing
Medical Education/Continuing Education (CME/CE) activities
to disclose all relationships with commercial interests. This information is disclosed to activity participants. Boston University
School of Medicine has procedures to resolve apparent conflicts
of interest. In addition, faculty members are asked to disclose
when any unapproved use of pharmaceuticals and devices is be-
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Accreditation Information (continued)
Credit Hours by Profession
NURSES -- TWO DAY MEETING
PHYSICIANS -- THREE DAY MEETING (101 INTENSIVE PLUS
SUMMIT)
Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit, Boston University
School of Medicine is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance
with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Boston University School of Medicine and the National
Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the George Washington
University. Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by
the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Contact Hours: 11 of which 0 is eligible for pharmacology credit.
Nurses will receive contact hours for those sessions attended, after
completion of the evaluation.
SOCIAL WORKERS -- THREE DAY MEETING (101 INTENSIVE
PLUS SUMMIT)
Boston University School of Medicine designates this live activity
for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians
should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES), provider #1117, is approved as a Provider for Social Work Continuing Education by the
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through
the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. CES maintains
responsibility for the program. ASWB approval period: October 6,
2012- October 5, 2015. Social Workers should contact their regularity board to determine course approval.
This continuing medical education activity has been reviewed by
the American Academy of Pediatrics and is acceptable for a maximum of 15.00 AAP credits. These credits can be applied toward the
AAP CME/CPD Award available to Fellows and Candidate Members
of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Social Workers participating in this course will receive 15 clinical
continuing education clock hours.
PHYSICIANS -- TWO DAY MEETING
SOCIAL WORKERS -- TWO DAY MEETING
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance
with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Boston University School of Medicine and the National
Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the George Washington
University. Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by
the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES), provider #1117, is approved as a Provider for Social Work Continuing Education by the
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through
the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. CES maintains
responsibility for the program. ASWB approval period: October 6,
2012- October 5, 2015. Social Workers should contact their regularity board to determine course approval.
Boston University School of Medicine designates this live activity
for a maximum of 10.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians
should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.
Social Workers participating in this course will receive 10.5 clinical
continuing education clock hours.
ATTORNEYS
NURSES -- THREE DAY MEETING (101 INTENSIVE PLUS SUMMIT)
Attorneys seeking CLE credit will need to contact their individual
bar associations. For questions on the above continuing education
credits, please contact the Boston University CME office at cme@
bu.edu or 617-638-4605.
Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit, Boston University
School of Medicine is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Contact Hours: 15.75 of which 0 is eligible for pharmacology credit.
Nurses will receive contact hours for those sessions attended, after
completion of the evaluation.
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