2024 Member Conference

Expanding Health Workforce through Collaborative Partnerships

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 2024 Member Conference

This conference will empower you to more effectively collaborate with key stakeholders to build and sustain health pathway programs and systems to produce a well-educated, diverse health workforce. Those working as health workforce advocates; policymakers; funders, health pathway teachers, counselors, coordinators and administrators; faculty in K-16 and health professional schools; and health industry leaders are encouraged to attend.

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Dates

October 24 and 25, 2024
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Fees

$50 per person
 

Location

The California Endownment
1414 K Sreet, Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95814

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Day One Agenda

October 24, 2024

 
11:00am  Check In 
 
11:30am  Lunch Available
 
11:45am  Opening Remarks
  • Dr. Katherine Flores, Faculty, UCSF Fresno
  • Jeff Oxendine, MBA, MPH
 
11:50pm PANEL: Distinguished Health Pathway Alumni
  • Karina De León Montes, MSW, Bilingual Spanish MHFA Instructor, Cypress Resilience Project
  • Alfonso Molina, MD, MPH, Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Stanford Healthcare
  • Kyle Navarro, MSN Health Policy - Public Health, BSN, RN, PHN, RN, Home Care Supervisor - San Francisco Region, On Lok
  •  Alexander Stacy Alcantara, MS-1, UC Davis School of Medicine
  • Denzel Tongue, MPP, Program Specialist, Alameda County Department of Public Health
12:45pm  Keynote Speaker
Dr. Jeffrey Reynoso
Director, Region IX
US Dept of Health and Human Services
 
1:15pm  Building a Robust, Diverse physician Workforce for California
Lupe Alonzo Diaz
President and CEO
Physicians for a Health California

 

1:45pm  Addressing Health Workforce of California 
  • Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, MD
  • Angela Ramirez, Deputy Chief of Staff U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 
 
2:00  BREAK

 

2:15  PANEL: Innovative State Programs to Advance California’s Health Care, Behavioral Health and Public Health Workforce
  • Alicia Albornoz, MPPA, Regional Investment Initiative Program Manager, Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development
  • Hovik Khosrovian, Senior Policy Advisor, California Department of Health Care Access and Information
  • Jessica Pitt, Assistant Deputy Secretary of Healthcare Workforce, California Labor and Workforce Development Agency
3:00pm  PANEL: Health Plan Investments and Partnerships in Health Workforce and Health Pathways
  • Omar Guzman, MD, MPP,  Chief Health Equity Officer, Central California Alliance for Health
  • Mohamed Jalloh, PharmD, Directory of Health Equity, Partnership Health Plan
  • Glenda Monterroza, MPH, Community Health Lead, Kaiser Permanente
3:30pm  BREAK
 
3:45pm  PANEL: Effective Employer and Health Pathway Program Engagement
  • Rodney Black, Coordinator, Valley High School Health TECH Academy
  • Jana Hiraga, MPH, Vice President, Northern and Central California, Health Career Connection
  • Amy Kaufman, Senior Advisor-Talent Strategies, OneFuture Coachella Valley
  • Chad Seamon, MDP Program Manager, FACES for the Future, Public Health Institute
4:30 pm    Closing Remarks

Reception:

5pm to 6:30pm (Show your conference badge for drink tickets)
Cafeteria 15L
1116 15th St, Sacramento, CA 95814
 

Day Two Agenda

October 25, 2024

 
8:30am  Check In | Breakfast Available
 
8:50 am Opening Remarks
  • Jeff Oxendine, MBA, MPH
9:00am  California Regional Health Workforce Initiative: Path Forward, Best Practices, How to Engage
Jeff Oxendine, MBA, MPH
CEO
Health Career Connection
 
9:45am  PANEL: Promising Practices and Lessons from Regional Health Workforce Collaboratives or Partnering with Health Systems
  • Diana Fox, Executive Director, Reach Out
  • Hilary Tellesen, Workforce Development Director, Valley Vision
  • Keosha Partlow, PhD, MPH, Vice Provost-Student Affairs, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
10:45am BREAK

 

11:00am  Effective Story Telling to Enhance Your Program’s Scale and Sustainability By Concentric 360 

  • Brenna Humphreys, MFA, Owner and Creative Director
  • Stephen Royes, Director of Marketing and Strategy

12:00pm  Networking Lunch

12:30pm  PANEL: Needs and  Partnering Opportunities with Health Employers

  • Dana Beckton, MA Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Sutter Health
  • Colleen Conners, Divisional Talent Acquisition Manager, Dignity Health / CommonSpirit Health
  • Teraylan Hollingsworth, Vice President-HR & Education Services, Hospital Association of Southern California
1:30 pm Closing Remarks

 

 

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*No refunds.