Integrating Health Literacy, Cultural Competence, and Language Access Services Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Pages 89-96
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She has also been involved with media initiatives on the importance of identifying linguistic and cultural barriers in the provision of quality health care services. She works tirelessly to educate health care institutions on provision of quality language access services and has participated in efforts led by The Joint Commission, the American Medical Association, and the HHS Office of Minority Health.
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Previous work has included the creation of an Organizational Cultural Competence Assessment Protocol, which offers hospitals, community health centers, health plans, and health departments a tool to inventory and assess progress in meeting the needs of diverse patients and communities -- a tool that was approved by CMS for health plans in meeting Quality Assurance/P rformance Improvement e requirements in 2003. Work supported by HHS/Office of Minority Health included creation of a National Consensus Statement on Diversity and Preparedness.
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He has been a member of the IOM Committee on Future Directions of the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports, Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement, Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation, and chaired planning committees for IOM workshops on Integrating Health Literacy, Disparities Reduction, and Quality Improvement, and Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Electronic Health Records.
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Gold Professorship for Humanism in Medicine. She has served as an advisor to the RWJF, The California Endowment, the National Quality Forum, the Commonwealth Fund, the American Medical Association, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and other organizations on projects focused on health care disparities, Latino health, and populations with limited English proficiency.
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Ms. French served on the National CLAS Standards Advisory Committee and the National CLAS Standards Evaluation Project Advisory Group.
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She has received numerous teaching awards including the Ann Gottlieb Award for Excellence in teaching from North Shore–LIJ, awards for volunteer service from the American Heart Association, she and was voted one of Long Island's Top 50 Most Influential Women. She received the Cardiovascular Science Award from the American Heart Association at the 48th annual American Heart Ball for the Long Island region in 2011.
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Wong continues a small practice in Family Medicine at Asian Health Services, a federally qualified health center based in Oakland, where he previously served as Medical Director.
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