9th Annual Coalition for Global Hearing Health
26-28 October 2018 • University of Cape Town, South Africa |
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26-28 October 2018
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Abstract Details10/27/2018 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Kramer Lecture Theater 2
Adapting a Community Health Worker Model for Accessible and Affordable Care to Address Age-Related Hearing Loss
Presentation:
Handouts:
Carrie Nieman (POC,Co-Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Dept. Otolaryngology-HNS, cnieman1@jhmi.edu;
Jonathan Suen, AuD, is an audiologist, research fellow in Dr. Frank Lin’s lab at the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health (Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health), and a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. He was previously an instructor for Gallaudet University’s Peer Mentor Program, a training program for individuals with hearing loss to serve as peer educators and liaisons between the public and aural rehabilitation professionals. Drawing upon experiences in community engagements for public health initiatives and clinical care, he is interested in studying innovative approaches for increasing the accessibility of hearing healthcare utilization by older adults.
Nicole Marrone, PhD, CCC-A holds the James S. and Dyan Pignatelli/Unisource Clinical Chair in Audiologic Rehabilitation for Adults at the University of Arizona and is an Assistant Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. Her research investigates hearing loss and rehabilitation in adults. Her specialty is how interventions, including hearing aids and group audiologic rehabilitation, can improve people’s quality of life and communication in everyday environments. Part of Dr. Marrone’s research focuses on increasing access to hearing healthcare in rural communities. This interdisciplinary work is in collaboration with faculty in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, as well as with community health providers at the Mariposa Community Health Center in Nogales, Arizona. Dr. Marrone and her collaborators were recently awarded a phased innovation grant (R21/R33) from NIH/NIDCD for this work: “Reducing Disparities in Access to Hearing Healthcare on the U.S.-Mexico Border”.
A number of years ago, while making house calls as a nurse practitioner to homebound, low-income elderly patients in West Baltimore, Dr. Sarah Szanton noticed that their environmental challenges were often as pressing as their health challenges. Since then she has developed a program of research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing on the role of the environment and stressors in health disparities in older adults, particularly those trying to “age in place” or stay out of a nursing home. Through a Robert Wood Johnson funded grant, a National Institutes of Health grant and a cooperative agreement from the Innovations office at the Center on Medicaid and Medicare Services, she is examining whether a program which combines handyman services with nursing and occupational therapy can improve mobility, reduce stress hormones, and decrease health care costs.
Hae-Ra Han’s multidisciplinary team research is focused on innovative intervention and methodological approaches to improve care and outcomes for traditionally underserved ethnic minority populations by improving health literacy. Her program of research has advanced thinking from the traditional paradigm of knowledge transfer from provider to patients to developing skills of patients to traverse the landscape of health screening and patient self-care to reduce health disparities. In particular, Dr. Han has developed and tested health literacy interventions delivered by trained community health workers that have contributed to reducing health disparities in chronic care. In recognition of her work, Dr. Han has received numerous awards from organizations that include the Southern Nursing Research Society, the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations, the American Public Health Association, the Asian American and Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, the League of Korean Americans, and Certificate of Congressional Recognition from U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski.
Frank Lin, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the Director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health. Dr. Lin's clinical practice is dedicated to otology and the medical and surgical management of hearing loss. His research is primarily focused on studying the interface between hearing loss and aging. In particular, Dr. Lin has established multiple collaborations with gerontologists, cognitive scientists, epidemiologists, and auditory scientists that form the basis for his current research program studying the impact of hearing loss on the cognitive and physical functioning of older adults and the potential role of aural rehabilitative strategies in mitigating these effects.
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