Special Lecture | CDC Public Health Workshop
Saturday, December 4, 2021
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OVERVIEW:
Limitations in the number and geographic distribution of epilepsy specialists are major reasons for delays in access to appropriate care for people with epilepsy. Varied community service providers remain insufficiently trained to provide epilepsy-specific support.
This session highlights two effective public health interventions (Project ECHO; Community Health Workers), adapted for epilepsy, aimed at ensuring an appropriately educated professional workforce to improve access to specialty and patient-centered care for people with epilepsy.
Learning Objectives:
Following participation in this activity, participants will be able to:
- Review how the University of Cincinnati effectively implemented Project ECHO for Epilepsy and Neurology to reach over 160 PCPs in OH and surrounding states through monthly telementoring sessions focused on epilepsy and non-epilepsy neurology topics
- Recognize the training and use of community-health workers (CHW) to support epilepsy self-management, and research underway to integrate CHW into clinical settings to improve health and social outcomes for people with epilepsy
Program:
Chair: Rosemarie Kobau, MPH
Introduction | Rosemarie Kobau, MPH
Developing Epilepsy Training Capacity for Primary Care Providers in the U.S. Midwest Using the Project ECHO Telementoring Model | Susan McDonald, M.A.
Expanding Community Health Worker Capacity to Improve Health and Social Outcomes for People with Epilepsy in New England | Elaine Kiriakopoulos, MD, MSc
A New MINDSET: Enabling Efficacious, Scalable, and Sustainable Community Health Worker-mediated Self-Management Support for People with Epilepsy in Texas | Ross Shegog, PhD
Panel Discussion | All Faculty