Healthcare (In-Person) Forum - 240918

"Project Management with a Clinical-Academic-Community-Corporate Partnership" presented by Erin Ferranti, PhD, MPH, RN, and Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Nursing

The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum has 9 planned sessions throughout 2024. Proposed topics include IT & IT PMO in Healthcare, Healthcare SME/Domain Forums such as Clinical, Laboratory, Research, Tomorrow's Healthcare & Government practices/law, Thought Leadership in Healthcare, and Innovation in Healthcare Technology.  

Presentation

The Farmworker Family Health Program (FWFHP) is an interprofessional collaboration between the Ellenton Farmworker Health Clinic, Public Health District 8-2, the local community, participating Georgia Universities and most recently, Philips Corporation. The program started in 1993, when one Public Health Nursing clinical group from Georgia State University School of Nursing traveled to Tifton, GA to work with farmworkers. Since then, the program has grown and expanded year after year. It moved to the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory in 2001, where it continues to thrive. The FWFHP has served over 17,000 individuals in its 31-year history.

Numerous community partners support the program including the Southwest Georgia Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Colquitt County Board of Education, the Southern Pine Migrant Education Agency (Georgia Board of Education), Department of Public Health Office of Women’s Health, Oral Health and Pharmacy, and owners of farms and packing houses in the Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, and Tift County area. Health professional programs include graduate nurse practitioner and undergraduate nursing, physical therapy, psychology, dental hygiene, and pharmacy programs. Student participants are supervised by their program faculty. Many students earn service learning or clinical hours providing community-based health services where the population is most accessible: in the fields, camps, and school settings.

This presentation will review the history and growth of the 31-year program, detailing the partnership and management of clinical-academic-community-corporate partnership.

Biography        

Erin Ferranti is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing with additional appointments in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory School of Medicine and in the Nutrition and Health Sciences Program at Emory University. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA).

Dr. Ferranti is a public health nurse scientist dedicated to prevention and health promotion science through three specific areas of emphasis: Factors contributing to cardiometabolic risk and nutrition patterns (gut microbiome and lipidome) in minority women to reduce inequities in maternal morbidity and mortality, farmworker health and nutrition, and diabetes and hypertension prevention. Her NIH-funded program of research is focused on identifying early risk profiles, using microbiome and lipidomic biomarkers, to mitigate cardiometabolic disease progression in disparate and at-risk perinatal and postnatal populations.

Dr. Ferranti serves as the Director of the Farmworker Family Health Program, which is a 31-year collaboration between the Emory School of Nursing and the Ellenton Migrant Farmworker Clinic in Colquitt County GA to expand health care access to migrant farmworkers and their families and to increase interprofessional clinical education for health professions students. Each summer she and her colleagues lead a team of nearly 100 students and serve over 1000 farmworker adults and children during the 2-week immersive clinic. Additionally, she co-directs a $4 million HRSA-funded project, called “Emory In Motion” to expand mobile health care access and health care professional training where she is expanding the Farmworker Family Health Program to a year-round clinic and training program.

When

Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM

Where

NTT Data, 5 Concourse Parkway, King Room-Lobby, Atlanta, GA 30328

Parking at Concourse 5&6 Deck

Fees

Members: $15, Early Bird Rate $12.00 through August 31st
Non-members:$18, Early Bird Rate $15.00 through August 31st

Meeting content, presenter, and location are subject to change. Refunds will not be made for changes in meeting content, presenters, or locations. 

PDUs

Earn 1 PDU
Talent Triangle Category: Business Acumen

PDUs can be claimed here.