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IP 2021: Pre-Palooza Page

Welcome to the Pre-Palooza Page for CPQCC's (virtual) Improvement Palooza 2021: Advancing Anti-Racism in the NICU Through Teamwork and Family-Centeredness. Below you will find information and exercises that will help you make the most of your time at our virtual Improvement Palooza on March 5, 20201.  This page will be continuously updated as we get closer to Improvement Palooza, so keep checking back for more information!

Improvement Palooza Agenda

Our Keynote Panelists

Keynote Panel: Practicing Anti-Racism to Improve Outcomes for Black Infants

Moderator: Carmin Powell, MD

 

 

Dr. Carmin Powell is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Site Director for Pediatric Hospitalists at Watsonville Community Hospital.  Dr. Powell is passionate about increasing the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority (URM) physician leaders at all levels of academic medicine, using her skills, expertise, and networks to further this mission. She serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity (LEAD) Program at Stanford Medicine, which won the Stanford University President’s Award for Excellence through Diversity. In her clinical role at Watsonville Community Hospital, she oversees a team of pediatric hospitalists and implements strategic efforts to improve clinical pediatric and newborn care in a community setting.
 
Dr. Powell completed her medical education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and her residency and chief residency at Stanford Children’s Health, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.

Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH

 

 

Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman is a tenured Associate Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health and the Blue Cross Endowed Professor in Health and Racial Equity. A reproductive health equity researcher, she applies the tools of population health science and health services research to elucidate a critical and complex determinant of health inequity—racism. Dr. Hardeman leverages the frameworks of critical race theory and reproductive justice to inform her equity-centered work, aiming to build the empirical evidence of racism’s impact on health, particularly for Black birthing people and their babies. Her work also examines the potential mental health impacts for Black birthing people when living in a community that has experienced the killing of an unarmed Black person by police.

Published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Public Health, Dr. Hardeman’s research has elicited important conversations on culturally-centered care, police brutality, and structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities.

Dr. Hardeman earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry and Spanish from Xavier University of Louisiana, an MPH in Public Health Administration and Policy, and a Ph.D. in Health Services Research and Policy from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Tamorah Lewis, MD, PhD

 

 

Dr. Tamorah Lewis, currently based at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO, has been a physician-scientist practicing in academic medicine since 2014. She is active in clinical medicine, research, and teaching the next generation of physicians. She is passionate about improving racial health equity and eliminating health injustice. Dr. Lewis is dually trained in neonatal/perinatal medicine and clinical pharmacology. Her research program focuses on developmental pharmacology and pharmacogenetics in the neonatal population. As an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine, she practices clinical neonatology and works collaboratively to design, implement, and manage her clinical and translational research program in Neonatal Precision Therapeutics.

Dr. Lewis serves as the Director of Clinical Research Logistics for her Division. She has established the Maternal Neonatal Pharmacogenetic Repository at Children’s Mercy Hospital and has multiple prospective pharmacogenetic cohort studies enrolling and depositing diverse bio-samples to this repository. In addition, she has established research collaborations at UCSF (steroid pharmacogenetics), Vanderbilt (ductus arteriosus pharmacogenetics), and Univ of Buffalo (NSAID PK) and is actively engaged as site PI in multi-site studies assessing neonatal drug safety and efficacy. 

Dr. Lewis is actively engaged in research societies. She sits on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and is on the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Dr. Lewis is also a member of the International Neonatal Consortium, a multi-stakeholder collaboration run by the Critical Path Institute to advance neonatal therapeutics.

Pre-Palooza Activities

We invite Improvement Palooza attendees to complete a series of Pre-Palooza Activities designed to prime your team for conversations on how to create an anti-racist NICU. Pre-Palooza Activities are grouped into four tiers: ELBW, VLBW, Late Preterm, and Term. We encourage attendees to show up to Improvement Palooza "Full Term" by completing the activities from all four tiers! Download this activity tracker to record your progress. 

Attendees that complete all of the Pre-Palooza Activities and attend the Improvement Palooza virtual event will be eligible for 5 CME credits. For physicians, the activities have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. For nurses, the activities have been approved by the Perinatal Advisory Council: Leadership, Advocacy, and Consultation (PAC/LAC), an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider CEP 5862. 

The Pre-Palooza Activities were curated by members of the CPQCC QI Education Committee: Valencia Walker, MD; Jennifer Canvasser, MSW; and Elizabeth Rogers, MD.

Tier One: ELBW

Tier Two: VLBW

Part 1:

  • Using the 2020 March of Dimes Report Card, identify differences in preterm birth rates and infant mortality rates for various racial and ethnic identity groups in the U.S.
  • Explore information presented in the 2020 March of Dimes Report Card about other Social Determinants of Health that may contribute to adverse health outcomes

Part 2:

  • Identify differences in preterm birth rates and infant mortality rates for various racial and ethnic identity groups in the state where your NICU is located using the 2020 March of Dimes Report Card
  • Using your own NICU’s data, identify whether or not disparities in infant mortality rates exist for babies of different racial and ethnic identity groups
  • Using the 2020 March of Dimes Report Card or your local Department of Public Health’s data, determine whether or not differences in preterm birth rates and infant mortality rates vary by racial and ethnic identity groups in the state where your NICU is located

Part 3:

Tier 3: Late Preterm

Tier Four: Full Term

  • Read "When Antiracism Becomes Trauma" by Jessica Isom, MD, MPH
  • Learn by exploring "Beyond Labels: Doing Your Part to Reduce Stigma" from the March of Dimes
  • Apply what you've learned in real life and reflect on the experience
    • Part 1: What is a common way that you and/or your team members engage in stigmatizing behaviors/use stigmatizing language that can perpetuate bias and racism in the NICU?
    • Part 2: Make an effort to interrupt/redirect/extinguish these stigmatizing behaviors at least once prior to attending this conference
    • Part 3: Complete this reflection exercise 
  • Watch Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate and a former preterm infant from California, deliver a TEDEd talk on how "Using Your Voice is a Political Choice"

Take Action!

Photo of UCSF ICN Microaggression Board. 

Breakout Sessions

To enhance your learning at Improvement Palooza, CPQCC has designed a series of action-oriented breakout sessions.  The breakout sessions are designed to explore practical steps that that teams can take to address racism in their NICU and encourage discussion among attendees.

Breakout sessions will be held between 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM on March 5th during the session "How to Use CPQCC's Health Equity Dashboard to Advance Equity in Your NICU." Note: Due to a change in the agenda, not all breakout sessions will focus on the Health Equity Dashboard. 

We encourage teams to split their team members up to attend as many sessions as possible and share their breakout experiences with one another afterward.  You do not need to select your breakout session ahead of time. Sessions include:

  • Family-Centered Care in the NICU - Bill Rhine, MD & Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH
  • How to Start a Health Equity Taskforce Within the NICU - Kurlen Payton, MD & Jochen Profit, MD, MPH
  • Using CPQCC's Health Equity Dashboard - David Braun, MD & Rebecca Robinson, MFA
  • Improving Care for Families with Limited English Proficiency - Guadelupe (Lupe) Padilla, MD & Henry Lee, MD, MS
  • How to Start a Family Advisory Council - Jennifer Canvasser, MSW & Mindy Morris, DNP, NNP-BC, CNS
  • How to Involve Families in Anti-Racism Work - Lisa Bain, MD & Ravi Dhurjati, MS, PhD
  • How to Communicate Around Anti-Racism - Rachelle Sey, RNC, Phd(c), CNS & Anjali Chowfla, MPA
  • How to Use QI Tools for Health Equity - Pedro Paz, MD & Antoine (Tony) Soliman, MD
  • How to Implement a Parent Buddy Program - Malathi Balasundaram, MD & Caroline Toney-Noland, MSc

Access Instructions

All registered attendees will receive an email from our virtual event platform, Chime, with a link to access Improvement Palooza on March 5th. The email will come from mobilesolutions@chime.live approximately 48 hours prior to the start of the event and will contain a unique username and password tied to your registration. Please check your spam folders if you do not see the email in your inbox.

If you need assistance with accessing the platform or do not receive the email, please reach out to mobilesolutions@Encoreglobal.com. 

 

Improvement Palooza 2021 is being jointly provided by: