Скачать или смотреть Minority Maternal Mortality: Implementing the MOMMA's Act

The panel will focus on the successes on the implementation of the MOMMA'S Act and what still needs to be done.

Moderator:
Mia Keeys, MA, DrPH(c)
Director of Federal Affairs
Hologic, Inc.

Mia R. Keeys is the Director of Federal Affairs at Hologic, Inc. She's formerly the Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Robin L. Kelly, and also previously served as the Director of Health Equity Policy & Advocacy with the American Medical Association, after serving as the Policy Director of Congresswoman Robin Kelly's (D-IL) Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Health Braintrust, the premier health policy arm of the CBC.

In April 2017, The National Minority Quality Forum recognized Mia as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Health. The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences features Mia's children's book on health equity-titled Cole Blue, Full of Valor-in their national archives, "Visualizing Health Equity." Mia has been a Kaiser Family Foundation Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholar; a Fellow for the City of Philadelphia in the Deputy Mayor's Office for Health and Opportunity; and an HIV/AIDS researcher in South Africa. Mia was also a U.S. Fulbright Fellow to Indonesia, where she lived and worked in various teaching, public health service and research capacities for three years, while simultaneously learning the national language, Bahasa Indonesian.

Mia holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Psychology from Cheyney University, and a Master of Arts degree in Medical Sociology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where she was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow at Meharry Medical College. She is currently a doctoral of public health student at The George Washington University. Mia is also a creative non-fiction writer, with training from the University of Oxford. She is originally from Philadelphia, PA.

Panelists:
Garfield Ashford Dwight Clunie, M.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dr. Garfield Clunie earned his medical degree from Wake Forest School of Medicine. He completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at NYU Downtown Hospital, and went on to complete a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) at Tufts University Medical Center. Dr. Clunie is Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is double board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Dr. Clunie currently works for the Mount Sinai Health System, where he supervises MFM fellows, residents and medical students at the Outpatient High-Risk Pregnancy Clinic at Mount Sinai West, and is Director of Maternal- Fetal Medicine at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, an academic and clinical affiliate of the Mount Sinai Health System. In addition to caring for pregnant women with complex medical disorders, Dr. Clunie's special interests include prenatal diagnosis of fetal anatomic and genetic abnormalities, and preconception and inter-conception care, diabetes in pregnancy and fetal growth abnormalities. Dr. Clunie also is on the Board of Trustees of the National Medical Association, currently serving as the National Treasurer.


Daniel Bruzzini
National Medical Director
Centene Neonatal Center of Excellence
Dan is the National Medical Director for Centene’s Neonatal Center of Excellence, responsible for directing and coordinating maternal and neonatal health programs to help women be healthy, have healthy pregnancies, and enjoy their healthy babies. He is also an actively practicing Neonatologist in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Dan grew up in Northbrook, Illinois, and went to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He then attended the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), the military medical school in Bethesda, Maryland. Afterwards, he returned to the academic world, completing his pediatric residency at Wright-Patterson AFB/Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.

Throughout his 25-year military career, Dan participated in humanitarian missions in Haiti, Oman, and Indonesia, caring for children and training local healthcare providers in obstetrical, pediatric, and neonatal care.

Dan honorably served in the Air Force for 25 years, retiring at the rank of Colonel. Upon leaving the service, he earned his MBA, became a Certified Physician Executive, and joined a multi-state, private practice Neonatology group. He served as their medical director and executive director helping it expand to 9 states with 20 Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs).