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The Leadership Network is composed of all of the leaders who have graduated from, or are currently taking part in, the Center's leadership programs, as well as our own partners and external participants who would like to share their work with us.
Leaders Advance is a monthly update from one of the members of our network on how their leadership work is advancing. |
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Institute for Physician Leadership |
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| The Center is now accepting nominations for the inaugural class for the Institute for Physician Leadership, a nine-month program designed to improve the ability of physicians in junior positions to bring about change within their organization and improve job satisfaction. For more information, click here. |
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Luvenia Watson Cowart, Ed.D., RN, MSN, MS
Professor of Practice
Department of Health and Wellness
College of Human Ecology
Syracuse University
 Luvenia W. Cowart is a member of the 2003 cohort of the RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows Program. Dr. Cowart earned her Ed.D. in adult education/administration from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
Dr. Cowart’s academic specialties include public health and health education among minorities, community partnerships and interdisciplinary collaborations, health disparities and minority health. Her research interests include health literacy, culturally competent health care, prostate cancer among African American men and obesity in African Americans.
She is the principal investigator of the Prostate Cancer Education Project, which seeks to reduce prostate cancer deaths among African American men and the Genesis Health Project, an obesity and healthy lifestyles intervention program for African American families conducted in partnership with local churches and corporate sponsors. Cowart is a nationally and internationally known consultant for prostate cancer among African American men. She is also the editorial director of Healthy You, a student health newsmagazine published by the College of Human Ecology in collaboration with Syracuse University’s Division of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs. She is co-founder and president of Health Literacy Productions, Inc.
Cowart is a member of several professional associations, including the New York State Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society in Nursing and Pi Lambda Theta Honor and Professional Association in Education.
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Open Leaders Advance Archive
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Center for the Health Professions Seminar Series |
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The Center for the Health Professions Seminar Series is held the third Wednesday of every month and will feature presentations and discussions led by CHP staff and colleagues.
Center for the Health Professions Seminar Series
October 2008
Speaker :
Susan A Chapman, PhD, RN , Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Social and Behavioral Sciences and Center for Health Professions
Topic:
Who will care for 78 million baby boomers? A summary of the IOM Committee on Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans
Description:
In 2011 the first baby boomers will turn 65. That group grows as a proportion of the population to become about 20 percent is 2030. While this population surge has been forseen, little has been done to prepare the healthcare workforce. We need to enhance the competency of all caregivers, recruit and train more specialists in geriatric care, and redesign models of care in order to address this health workforce challenge.
Date:
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Time:
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Location:
UCSF Laurel Heights Conference room 410, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA, 94118
Questions:
For questions regarding The Center for the Health Professions Seminar Series, please contact Melissa Knox (mknox@thecenter.ucsf.edu). |
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Click links below for more information and to register.
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To read the case study, click here.
"Advancing Leadership Skills to Build a Safer Health System," a case study written by CPP, Inc, explores the Center’s leadership programs and their use of leadership assessments to advance broad improvement in the nation’s health care system.
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