2022 Health Care Symposium
A Conspectus of Women's History
Thursday, May 26th, 2022
10:00a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Lunch, Coffee, Refreshments

UNIDOSUS
Main Floor Conference Room
1126 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20036
CONFERENCE TOPICS

  • The Law of Health Care – the Latest Ups and Downs
  • Minority Health and Health Disparities
  • The Frontiers of Medical Research
  • The State of health Care — for Latino Professionals
  • The Administration of a Society-wide Health Care System, Issues in Women’s Health
CONFERENCE AGENDA
10:00 a.m. REGISTRATION
10:15 a.m.   GREETING AND OVERVIEW
New puzzles in a dangerous, changing social and biological scene.   Keeping an eye on the Real Problems.

Ma. Cristina Caballero
President / CEO, Dialogue on Diversity

Eduardo Perdomo
Director, Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs


Yuliza Encarnación
Emcee  
10:30 a.m.   
SENSITIVE HEALTH INFORMATION
Dr. Adrian Gropper, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer, Patient Privacy Rights

A Bureaucratic Stewardship -- by government and a solicitous medical establishment
11:00 a.m.  
MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES  

Dr. Sergio Rimola
OBGYN, NHMA
George Washington University

Racial Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19
and COVID-19 Vaccines
11:45 a.m.
KEYS TO QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR THE
TWIN ISLANDS FEDERATION

H.E. Thelma Phillip-Browne,
Ambassador from The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis
to the United States
12:15 p.m.
PRESENTATION OF GLOBAL EDUCATION AWARD


Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers
12:30 p.m. Lunch
 1:15 p.m.
HEALTH ISSUES AMONG LATINO DAY LABORERS
Silvia Martinez 
Professor Emerita, Howard University

“Great minds discus ideas, average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people.”   -- Eleanor Roosevelt
1:45 p.m.  
STATE OF HEALTH CARE -- FOR LATINO PROFESSIONALS  
Rebecca Vargas-Jackson , M.D.  
George Mason University
Board, National Hispanic Medical Association

State of Latina Health
2:15 p.m. 
THE ADMINISTRATION OF A SOCIETY-WIDE
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Dr. Maria Teresa McPhail,  
President, VIDA Senior Center, Washington, D.C. 

Combating Health Disparities in Hispanic
Senior Populations
2:30 p.m.   
PRESENTATION OF WOMENS' HISTORY AWARDS

Sonia Gutierrez
President Emeritus and Founder, Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School

Nelly Carrión
Periodista,Washington Hispanic Newspaper, Founder "Taste of Peru"
3:00 p.m. 
THE STATE OF HEALTH CARE IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND

Hon. Luis Borunda  
Deputy Secretary of State, Maryland 
3:30 p.m.   DISCUSSIONS
4:00 p.m.   ADJOURNMENT
Business Attire. Face masks are required during the conference in accordance with UNIDOS masking guidelines.
Collaborating Organizations
Dialogue on Diversity: Founded in 1991, Dialogue on Diversity, a §501(c)3 non-profit, is an international network of women, and men, entrepreneurs and professionals, NGO executives and staff, a non-profit civil society organization bringing together Latino and other diverse cultural traditions, for exploring Internet Privacy, Women’s History, Health Care & Wellness, Immigration, and other essential social and policy questions that are illuminated at the interface of the varied mind-sets and values and styles of our diverse audience of friends and members.
Dialogue on Diversity, Inc. 1629 K Street, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20006
Tel: (703) 631-0650 Fax: (703) 631-0617 Web: www.dialogueondiversity.org, Email: dialog.div@prodigy.net
Dialogue on Diversity, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Organization, Contributions are tax-deductible.