The 2021 FMEC Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA was a rousing success! from Larry Bauer, MSW, MEd
The 39th meeting of the Family Medicine Education Consortium was a live meeting attended by 261 faculty members, 174 residents, and 237 medical students. It was a vibrant meeting. So many approached and said thank you for taking the risk of holding a face to face meeting. There is no question there is a hunger for community.
While some in the region who wanted to attend the meeting we’re not able to do so because of travel bans imposed by their respective organizations, many were able to find a way to come together.
A number of precautions were in place including: showing proof of vaccination and wearing masks whenever possible. We created a safe environment for all of us who were present.
Many thanks to those who came to the meeting. It was a risky move, given the ongoing pandemic, but we did it!
2021 Award Winners
Congratulations to all of the award winners that were recognized and celebrated at the Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh!
Poster 18 - Experiences of Connecticut Community Health Center Providers with Telemedicine during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Roberta Delvy BS BA, Emil Coman PhD, Kelly Sanchez MPH, Thomas Agresta MD MBI
Poster 95 - Facilitators and Barriers to Safer Sex and Effective Contraception in Deaf Women: A Mixed Methods Study - Arielle Schecter BA, Tiffany Panko MD MBA
Poster 27 - Physician Inbasket Management: A Lean Six Sigma Approach - Verlaine L. Blaser DO
Second Place
Poster 68 - Pneumococcal Vaccination in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Community Education Study - Rebecca Bracken BA, Rebecca Plow BS
Poster 87 - Contextual Factors Impacting the Decision to Restrain and the Restraint Trajectory - Olivia Koury MD, MSc., Quinn Demarest, Sungsil Stacy Cho, Andrew Miele, Elizabeth Brondolo
Third Place
Poster 12 - Optimization of Heart Failure Management in the Ambulatory Care Setting - Neda Danniel MD, MBA, Ryan Flick MD, Xinyi Ge MD, Daniel Lan MD, Mary Lasher DO
Poster 77 - Empowering Arts: Linking Creative Arts Expression with Community Engagement to Support the Homeless Population in Albany, NY - Emily Avis BA, Shivali Gupta BS, MHS, Kaminaka Annette, Andrew Kwok BA
