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TB Education and Training Network – Eleventh Annual Conference

“Education, Training, and Evaluation:
Waves of Change, Oceans of Opportunity”
September 20-22, 2011
Westin Atlanta North at Perimeter – Atlanta, Georgia

Tuesday, September 20^th | Wednesday, September 21^st | Thursday, September 22^nd

Tuesday, September 20^th

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
7:15 – 8:30	Registration and Breakfast Poster set-up
7:45 – 9:00	First-Time Attendee and New Member Orientation New members and first-time conference attendees will learn about TB ETN and TB PEN and resources available to them. A short time for networking will also be included.	ETN: Sarah Segerlind Allison Maiuri Linette McElroy Sherry Carlson Marcee Mortensen	Concourse South
7:45 – 9:00		PEN: Jason Cummins	Concourse North
9:00 – 9:05	Welcome	Peri Hopkins Brandy Peterson Linette McElroy	Ballroom
9:05 – 10:15	Opening Plenary The Rapidly Changing Health Care System: A New Outlook for Public Health Workers This session will explore the rapidly changing health care system and its impact on public health workers who deliver TB education, training, and evaluation.	Sharon Thompson	Ballroom
10:15 -10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:45	Breakout Session I – Choose One
	ETN: Motivating Public Health Workers-Leadership 101 This session will highlight the importance of enhancing and sustaining staff motivation as the health care system changes.	Carl Hanson	Bernstein
	ETN: Doing More with Less: New Budget Realities and Implications for TB Education, Training, and Evaluation This session will focus on how local and state public health agencies are implementing TB education, training, and evaluation with diminishing resources.	Jane Moore Karen Simpson	Acacia
	ETN: Using Resourcefulness to Reach Communities in Need of TB Education This session will explore how health educators are reaching local communities with creative and resourceful strategies.	Jevon C. Gibson	Learning Center
	PEN: Evaluation 101 This session will introduce methods of program evaluation and focus on building simple evaluation action plans for TB programs.	Victor Balaban	Concourse North
	PEN: Basic Data Analysis-Statistics 101 This session will focus on statistical analysis for the non-epidemiologist. Participants will learn (1) basic statistical terms, (2) statistical calculations, and (3) qualitative and quantitative measures for evaluation.	Andrey Borisov	Concourse South
11:45 – 1:00	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – 2:15	ETN Plenary: Using Health Literacy to Get Your Message Across The session will inform and show participants how to create and deliver messages that address health literacy issues.	Cynthia Baur	Ballroom
1:00 – 2:15	PEN Plenary: Cohort Review Participants will hear about state TB program experiences implementing cohort review. Lessons learned and recommendations will be discussed.	Phil Griffin Ayesha Bashir	Bernstein
2:15 – 2:30	Break
2:30 – 3:45	Breakout Session II – Choose One
	ETN: Cultural Competency for Health Education This session will explore the importance of culturally competent health education and the role it plays in influencing the health of people of different cultures.	Bill Bower	Concourse North
	ETN: Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM): Implications for TB Education and Training This session will introduce ACSM and focus on its importance in the fight to eliminate TB.	Aditi Goenka Allison Maiuri	Acacia
	ETN: How to Design an Effective TB Education Intervention This session will engage participants in how to design an effective TB education intervention.	Jessica Quintero	Learning Center
	PEN: Basic Data Analysis-Statistics 101 (repeat session) This session will focus on statistical analysis for the non-epidemiologist. Participants will learn (1) basic statistical terms, (2) statistical calculations, and (3) qualitative and quantitative measures for evaluation.	Andrey Borisov	Concourse South
	PEN: Moving Forward from Evaluation Findings: Next Steps This session will engage participants in how to move forward from program evaluation findings.	Leonard Mukasa Cheryl Kearns Lakshmy Menon	Ballroom
3:45 – 4:00	Break
4:00 – 4:45	Poster Viewing and Exhibits		Kern-Porter-Rogers
5:00 – 7:00	Social & TB ETN Project Excellence and TB Educator of the Year Awards		Bernstein

Wednesday, September 21^st

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
7:15 – 8:30	Breakfast and Poster Viewing
8:30 – 9:45	Plenary: New Technology Tools for TB Health Education, Training, and Evaluation	Donna Wegener Donna Setzer	Ballroom
9:45 – 10:00	Break
10:00 – 11:30	Breakout Session III – Choose One
	ETN: Webinars 101 Participants will receive training on how to host and participate in webinars.	Kelly Musoke Heidi Behm	Learning Center
	ETN: Writing for the Web: From Content to Web Development Participants will learn the essentials of writing effectively for the Web.	Jesse Bradley Sharon McAleer Molly Dowling Ijeoma Agulefo Nicole Richardson-Smith Maria Fraire	Concourse South
	ETN: Social Media: Start the Conversation In this session participants will be equipped with tools on how to be proactive public health professionals through social media (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)	Jill Parker	Acacia
	PEN: Program Evaluation Plan Assessment and Panel with Local Focus Areas In this session participants will receive a brief overview on the assessment of all 68 evaluation plans submitted by cooperative agreement-funded program areas. The findings and recommendations from the evaluation will be provided. Participants will interact with the top four focus areas and individuals from program areas that are leading evaluation activities.	Brandy Peterson Kim Seechuk Pete Dupree Deborah Staley April King-Todd	Bernstein
11:30 – 1:00	Lunch (on your own) (ETN Workgroup Meet and Greet)
1:00 – 2:00	ETN: Regional Training and Medical Consultation Center (RTMCC) Highlights This session will showcase the activities of each of the four RTMCCs and highlight future plans.	Kelly Musoke Mary Long Nisha Ahamed Karen Simpson	Ballroom
1:00 – 2:00	PEN: CDC Guidance for Developing Plans and Reports This session will focus on providing participants with sample interim and annual reports and templates for reporting evaluation progress to CDC. Participants will learn of (1) the components of an evaluation report; and (2) how to provide an effective reporting update.	Awal Khan	Bernstein
2:00 – 2:15	Break
2:15 – 3:45	ETN: Roundtable Consultations A subject matter expert will be available in each of three topic areas (cultural competency, course development, web development) to share their expertise. Participants are asked to bring specific questions about products or plans they are developing. At the end of the session, participants will leave with a better understanding of their topic issues.	Course Development: Peri Hopkins Cheryl Tryon	Concourse North
		Cultural Competency: Bill Bower Nisha Ahamed Allison Maiuri	Acacia
		Web Development: Jesse Bradley Sharon McAleer Molly Dowling Ijeoma Agulefo Nicole Richardson-Smith Maria Fraire	Concourse South
	PEN: Focal Point Open Forum This session will incorporate a facilitated discussion and input from focal points to provide guidance to the CDC program evaluation team.	TB PEN Steering Committee FSEB Program Evaluation Team Evaluation Focal Points	Ballroom
3:45 – 4:00	Break
4:00 – 4:45	Special Session-Partnerships with Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)	Al Cortes	Ballroom
4:45 – 6:30	ETN: Focal Point Meeting	Allison Maiuri Amera Khan	Bernstein
4:45 – 6:30	PEN: Cooperative Agreements Q and A PEN: Program Evaluation Q and A	Program Consultants Evaluation Representatives	Ballroom

Thursday, September 22^nd

Time	Session	Speaker	Location
7:15 – 8:30	Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00	Plenary TB ETN and TB PEN: Local Presentations TB Knowledge and Prevention Partnership Project Elements in Developing Effective Evaluation for Tuberculosis Health Promotion on the Navajo Nation and Along the US/Mexico Border Evaluation of a new Health Code requirement for discharging infectious TB patients from New York City hospitals Challenges Associated with Decentralizing the Entry of Tuberculosis Surveillance Data	Ashley Edwards Diana Fortune Michelle Macaraig Sandra Matus	Ballroom
10:00 – 10:15	Break
10:15 – 11:30	RTMCC, International Breakouts
	Curry International Tuberculosis Center (AK, AS, CA, CO, HI, FM, GU, ID, MH, MP, MT, NV, OR, RP, UT, WA, WY)	Kelly Musoke	Acacia
	Heartland National Tuberculosis Center (AZ, IA, IL, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX, WI)	Mary Long	Concourse South
	NJ Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute (CT, DE, DC, IN, MA, ME, MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VT, WV)	Nisha Ahamed	Concourse North
	Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, PR, SC, TN, VA, VI)	Karen Simpson	Bernstein
	International	Linette McElroy	Private Dining Room
11:30 – 11:45	Break
11:45 – 12:45	Plenary Division of TB Elimination (DTBE) Updates The conference will end with a keynote address to include updates on DTBE education, training, and evaluation activities.	Kenneth Castro Wanda Walton Terry Chorba	Ballroom
12:45	Adjourned

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