Public Health

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Welcome to the
Public Health Maternal Child Health
Conference May 3-5, 2005
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Tuesday
4 Tracks to Choose From
Public Health Nursing Orientation Smoking
Cessation During Pregnancy Healthy Start/Home
Visitor Breakout Sessions
Dr Jennifer Lowry
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Wednesday
Betty Bekemeier - Deputy Director Turning Point
National Program Office School of Public Health
Community Medicine University of Washington,
Seattle Lunch Bryan Mann - Assistant Professor
at the Wichita State University School of
Nursing Breakout Sessions A, B,
C Dinner Entertainment
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Thursday
Breakfast Bernice Buresh - Journalist, Author
Breakout Session D
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Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Public Health Nursing
Orientation Consulate Room I
Public Health Theory Convictions presented by
Debbie Whitmer, ARNP, BSN, EMT I/D Fundamental of
Public Health Nursing presented by Anita Hodge,
RN, MA Core Functions of Public Health presented
by Ruth Wetta-Hall, RN, PhD, MPH,
MSN Governmental Authorities at the Federal,
State Local Levels presented by Jon Anderson,
RN, BSN Legal Aspects presented by Jon Anderson,
RN, BSN
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Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Treating Tobacco Use During
Pregnancy and Beyond Consulate Room II
Treating Tobacco Use During Pregnancy and
Beyond presented by Heather Fuller, MS and
Becky Pattison Tuttle, MA
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Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Healthy Start/Home
Visitor Multi-Media Room
Healthy Start/Home Visitor Sessions presented by
Christine Tuck, RN, BSN, MS, CSN and
Joseph Kotsch, RN, BSN, MS Breakout
Sessions Shaken Baby presented by Debi
Hatfield, LMSW The Role of Public Health in Fire
Prevention Strategies presented by R. Williams
and Elena Nuss Kansas State Fire Marshals
Office Youth Programs
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Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Maternal Child Health
Track Consulate III
All About Perinatal Outcome Data presented by
Joseph Kotsch, RN, BSN, MS A Community Approach
to Reduce Teen Traffic Crashes presented by
Dawson Grimsley and Mickey DeHook Are You an
Askable Nurse When it Comes to Human
Sexuality? presented by Darrel Lang, EdD,
FASHA Beyond Out Walls Using Technology to
Address Needs, Expand Services, and Building
Networks presented by Deborah L. Swirczynske, MA
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Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Jennifer Lowry, MD 345pm
500pm
Dr. Lowry is the Director of the Mid-America
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at
the University of Kansas Medical Center
(MAPEHSU). The center is dedicated to providing
expert clinical, consultative, educational, and
referral services to improve the recognition and
treatment of childrens environmental health
problems in the mid-America region. She is also
an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in the
Division of Pharmacy Practice at the University
of Missouri-Kansas City and has presented at a
variety of regional and state conferences. A
recent needs assessment performed shows that
children in the EPA Region 7 are exposed to
environmental toxins and parents and health care
professionals are concerned about these
exposures. Dr. Lowry will present information on
environmental toxins in Kansas, what the concerns
are for our children and how can we properly
prevent and treat these exposures.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005 Betty Bekemeier 830am
1000am
Betty Bekemeier serves as Deputy Director of the
Turning Point National Program Office where her
specialty lies in public health practice system
development. Her career has been in public
health practice at the local level. She is a
member of the Quad Council on Linkages and is the
chair of this years American Public Health
Association (APHA), Nursing Section. Betty will
describe ways in which public health leaders are
facilitating progressive changes to our public
health and nursing systems, public health nurses
are making changes that reflect a more
progressive and collaborative practice, and how
our discipline supports a responsibility to
health-promoting, social reforms.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005 Breakout Session
A 1030am 1145am
Managing Budgets of LHDs Salon I presented by
Sharon Patnode and Eileen Filbert, RN Childrens
Mental Health Issues R/T BT Salon II presented
by Gary Hawley, PsyD and Suzanne Hawley, PhD,
MPH Disease Surveillance Salon III presented
by Larry Garrett, BSN, MPH, and Amy Biel,
MPH CRV Documentation/Summary Data Collection
Salon IV presented by Ken Miller and Jamie
Klenklen, BPA, MCH Kids Exposure to
Methamphetamines Consulate III presented by
Maggie Meyers, MSN, RN
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005 J. Bryan Mann, MD,
FAAP 1215pm 115pm
Dr. Mann is an Assistant Professor at Wichita
State University School of Nursing and practices
as a pediatrician at the Great Bend Childrens
Clinic. Past honors include Nurse Practitioner
Advocate of the Year (1999), for the State of
Kansas by the American Academy of Nurse
Practitioners, and honorary member of FHSU-NuZeta
Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau in recognition for
contributions to nursing. This presentation will
make participants aware of the leading health
risks for adolescents in the USA, cognizant of
national recommendations on evidence of
effectiveness for selected interventions related
to adolescent health risks factors, and informed
of the 2004 Kansas State Child Death Review Board
public policy recommendations for adolescent
health and safety issues.
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Intimate Partner Violence Where are the
Shelters? Salon I presented by Sarah
MorrisonStressful Conversations Salon
II presented by Marvin Stottlemire, PhD,
JDPublic Health Ethics Salon III presented
by Shug Yagel McBay, Mdiv PhDPreparing for
Pandemic Influenza Salon IV presented by
Daniel Neises, MPHNutrition for Children
Adolescents Consulate III presented by Jeanne
Ritter, MS, RD, LD
Wednesday, May 4, 2005 Breakout Session B 130pm
245pm
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005 Breakout Session C 315pm
430pm
HIV/STDs Adolescences Salon I presented by
Pamela Barnum, Med Developing Screenings Love
(and other) Triangles Salon II presented by
Kathryn Ellerbeck, MD, MPH Public Health Ethics
Salon III presented by Shug Yagel McBay, Mdiv
PhD Motivation and Team Building Salon
IV presented by Jonathan Morris Smoking
Reduction in WIC Clients Consulate
III presented by Becky Pattison Tuttle, MA
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005 Entertainment 600pm
700pm
Michael Rebecca with COSMO The Hi-Tech
Washboard
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Thursday, May 5, 2005 Bernice Buresh 830am
945am
The work of public health nurses is
insufficiently known and understood when though
it is critical to the health and well being of
the public. Join this award-winning author and
nurse advocate as she demonstrates effective
communication techniques that nurses can use on
an immediate day-to-day basis to educate the
public and specific groups about their
work. Bernice was on the journalism faculty at
Boston University for may year and has taught at
Brandeis University and Harvard Universitys John
F. Kennedy school of Government. She recently
was inducted into the Milwaukee Press Clubs Hall
of Fame. Bernice lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where she engages in her favorite
hobby tap dancing - as frequently as possible.
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Thursday, May 5, 2005 Breakout Session D 1015am
1130pm
Diabetes Quality of Care Initiative Salon
I presented by T. Caudle, RN, BSN and F Ghouri,
MD, MPH Coordinated School Health Salon
II presented by Alison Koonce, RN, BSN and
Melissa Brooks, MEd KDOT High School and Middle
School Surveys Salon III presented by Michele
Cochran Reese and Cathy Savage, PhD LHD
Certification Salon IV presented by Kathleen
Wojciehowski, JD, MA and Melanie Glaus,
BS Isolation/Quarantine Consulate
III presented by Susan Kang, PhD and Gail Hansen
DVM, MPH
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Thank You for Attending
Public Health Maternal Child Health
Conference Music by Christopher Cross - Sailing