HEAC
NRS
Ryan Perkins, MD
Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Prigi Varghese, MSN, APRN, CPNP-PC
Cystic Fibrosis
UTSW/Children's Health
Health Equality is when individuals are given the same resources or opportunities regardless of need. Whereas health equity recognizes that each individual has different needs and strives to tailor resources to reach ideal outcomes. CF Care Delivery, Access to Care, and Health Equity all have significant implications for health outcomes for those within the CF community. Efforts to identify and reduce disparities, investigation into improving gender specific care delivery, continued optimization of telehealth, and exploration of remote monitoring applications have all shaped the landscape of investigative, policy, and advocacy efforts for care related to Cystic Fibrosis. This workshop will identify and discuss these current efforts and their impact on the CF community over the last year.
Speaker: Olivia Dieni, MPH – Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Speaker: Meghan E. McGarry, MD MAS – University of California San Francisco
Speaker: Sunjay R. Devarajan, n/a – Baylor College of Medicine
Speaker: Melissa Alao, LICSW (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital
Speaker: Cristen Clemm, MSW – Cystic Fibrosis Foundation