W18--Bringing Health Equity into Care

Chair(s)

• 

  Leah Ratner, MD

  Pulmonary Medicine
  Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity
• 

  Olivia Stransky, MPH

  University of Pittsburgh

This session invites presenters to go beyond polished narratives and instead engage with the honest, uncomfortable, and often “unsexy” aspects of doing equity work in real-world CF care settings. We aim to create space for vulnerability, reflection, and growth by spotlighting lessons learned, blind spots uncovered, and the challenges of pushing for change within entrenched systems.

We hope each presenter will answer the following questions:
• What blind spots did you personally discover while doing this work?
• What personal, systems, and structural-level advocacy do you hope others will be able to implement because of your work?
• How do you and your team hold yourselves accountable to stay uncomfortable—and to keep moving this work forward?

Presentations:

• 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

  W18.1- Progression of Cystic Fibrosis Care in Egypt
  

  Speaker: Samya Nasr, MD – University of Michigan Health
• 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

  W18.2- Holding Complexity: Sustaining Equity Efforts in CF Care through Reflection, Accountability, and Adaptation
  

  Speaker: Lindsey McMahon, MPH – Boston Children's Hospital
• 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

  W18.3- Equitable care:  MyChart Spanish
  

  Speaker: Michelle McKinnon, MSN, CPNP-PC – Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
• 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

  W18.4- “But you’re Black and not Skinny”: Photovoice insights on racism and structural inequities among BIPOC individuals with CF
  

  Speaker: Brooke Jones, LCSW, PhD(c) – UNC
• 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

  W18.5- Intersectional lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ people with cystic fibrosis: A qualitative interview study
  

  Speaker: Rachel Salyer, PhD – West Virginia University Department of Pediatrics