Statewide Quality Improvement Event Speakers

9AM

Welcome and Introductions 
‍Gabrielle Rude, PhD
WCHQ President and CEO

9:15AM

Recovery Stories: How One Provider Can Make the Difference
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Katinka Hooyer, PhD, Medical Anthropologist and Assistant Professor in Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin 
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Rene Livingston-DeTienne, SAC-IT, Certified Peer Specialist (CPS), CPS Trainer, as well as a published poet and a person in long-term recovery

Katinka Hooyer and Rene Livingston-DeTienne will talk about a community-academic partnership to implement behavioral health into primary care. Dr. Hooyer will introduce the arts-based method used to elevate patient voices that were used to identify opportunities to improve patient care. A participant in the project, Rene will speak to her video portrait, where she reflects on her experience surviving a recent suicide attempt. She speaks of the failures of forced psychiatric holds and the mental health system, and of how one mental health provider intervened to empower Rene to make her own choices. Rene’s story fundamentally illustrates that one person can make all the difference.

9:45AM

Presentation of the WCHQ 2023 Quality Leadership Award 
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‍Gabrielle Rude, PhD
Presentation of the WCHQ 2023 Quality Leadership Award

The WCHQ Quality Leadership Award recognizes one member organization that has demonstrated exceptional quality improvement, active engagement with WCHQ’s work and mentorship of other organizations.

10:15AM

Break

10:30AM

Maternal health in Wisconsin: Opportunities to Improve Outcomes and Reduce Inequities  

‍Angela Rohan, PhD
Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), assigned to the Wisconsin Division of Public Health.

This presentation will provide an overview of maternal health outcomes and inequities in Wisconsin and describe current efforts and opportunities to improve maternal health in the clinic and in the community. Programs and resources highlighted will include the Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Program, the Wisconsin Perinatal Quality Collaborative, and CDC’s Hear Her Campaign.

11:00AM

The Post-Pandemic Immunization Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities

In this presentation, we will discuss how the immunization landscape has evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic. We will review the emerging challenges that we must address to prevent vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. We will also introduce some of the important themes and opportunities to improve immunization rates throughout Wisconsin.

11:30AM- 12:30PM

Lunch
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‍Take the opportunity to network with colleagues from across the state, as well as connect with our event sponsors.

12:30PM

1:00PM

Addressing Medication Adherence Among Black Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: The Role of Beliefs and Peer Support
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Dr. Olayinka Shiyanbola, Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Administrative Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, and an Associate Director at the University of Wisconsin Collaborative Center for Health Equity

Black adults experience severe complications related to uncontrolled diabetes, and one of the reasons for this is their lower medication adherence rates compared to non-Hispanic whites. Despite national organizations’ calls to reduce diabetes disparities among Black adults, there remains a need to implement interventions that focus on sociocultural barriers to Black adults’ medication adherence,  including health beliefs. Black adults’ beliefs about diabetes and medicines,  influenced by discrimination experiences, provider distrust, and limited self-efficacy underly the reasons for non-adherence. Culturally tailored content reframing negative perceptions of diabetes and diabetes medicines, as well as race-congruent support from peers who are treatment adherent may address barriers to treatment adherence.  

1:30PM

Obesity, Obesity Diagnosis, and Social Determinants of Health 
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‍Dr. Christopher Weber, Internist, pediatrician, and obesity medicine specialist, as well as Medical Director, for Ascension-Wisconsin's  Bariatric service line.

Obesity is a major public health concern affecting a large proportion of the population worldwide. While a diagnosis of obesity is based on Body Mass Index (BMI), research has shown that not all patients with BMI ≥ 30 are diagnosed with obesity. This presentation will provide an in-depth analysis of the occurrence of diagnosed and undiagnosed obesity by demographic characteristics and a class of obesity. The session will also look at the relationship between obesity diagnosis and various social determinants of health and explore the implications of these findings for clinical practice and future research.

2:00PM

Break

2:15PM

Bellin Health Systems presentation on
pre-diabetes

2:45PM

Obesity: The Why and How of Treatment and Coverage
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David Skomo, RPh, Chief Operating Officer WellDyne
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Recognizing obesity as a chronic disease by all provider team members is of utmost importance. Treating obesity has the potential to decrease the incidence of 60 other diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and even 13 cancers. Utilizing medications and involving pharmacy staff in obesity treatment and management is an important tool to decrease chronic disease and improve patient quality of life.

3:30PM

Diabetes Data Update and Final Comments

Abbey Harburn, MPH, Director of Practice Transformation and Analytics WCHQ

4:00PM

Adjourn