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The MCOA team was excited to attend the GSA 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting. MCOA fellows Dr. Catherine Diaz-Asper and Dr. Uma Kelekar presented their work on brain health and oral health respectively. MCOA Director, Dr. Patricia Heyn led the GSA Diversity Mentoring & Career Development Technical Assistance Workshop and also presented her various research works in caregiving and cognition. Dr. Sara Pappa, NVFPA coordinator and MCOA Affiliate presented her pivotal research on “Advancing Gerontological Health Equity: Innovations and Insights from Hispanic Serving Institutions“. Furthermore, Mahederemariam Dagne and Erin Staker presented their work on Research Waste and Micro-Credentials in Hispanic Serving Institutions respectively.
Dr. Patricia C. Heyn, MCOA Founding Director, took part in several presentations at the 2024 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine annual conference from October 31st to November 4th in Dallas, Texas. Additionally, she co-hosted the highly competitive NIH-funded R13 Diversity Mentoring Workshop in Complementary Integrative Rehabilitation Medicine (CIRM) along with Dr. Sonya Kim, New York University, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, in collaboration with ACRM.
Furthemore, we were also excited to celebrate Dr. Shelly Aboagye’s selection as a CIRM Fellow.
We are delighted to have had Elizabeth Terhune attend the prestigious 2024 American Medical Writers Association Medical Writing and Communication conference, where she engaged with leading experts in the field of scientific writing! She also presented her work on definitions and terminology of “racial health equity,” within academic literature.
Ana Beatriz Pizarro, Cochrane Editorial Board, presented three abstracts on behalf of our MCOA team at the prestigious Global Evidence Summit. Co hosted by the Campbell corporation, JBI, Guidelines International Network (GIN) and Cochrane, the evidence summit brings together professionals from around the world to engage in evidence-based practices. With its mission to address critical issues affecting health and developing guidelines, the presentations on how the academic field defines racial health equity within the context of original peer-reviewed articles and public health websites fit the theme perfectly.
