The speaker, Dr. Elias Vasquez holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Nursing Research with a focus on maternal-child nursing. He is an experienced neonatal and pediatric nurse practitioner. His background and expertise is in providing primary health care and developmental assessments to HIV- and drug-exposed infants, children and adolescents. Vasquez is the former President of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). He uses that platform to disseminate his work and to advocate for improved care and compassion for poor, minority parents with substance use disorders. Vasquez is a former Fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Developing Leadership and Reducing Substance Abuse.
The Autumn Health Forums are a series of discussions that focus attention on health care topics of interest to both the general public and health care professionals. The forums are intended to provide an informative, interesting and sometimes provocative way to explore some of the leading health care issues of the day. An informative question-and-answer session follows each session.
The forums are from noon to 1 p.m. in the DeVos Center's Loosemore Auditorium on Grand Valley's Pew Grand Rapids Campus. They are open to media coverage. Information about the final forum is below.
Community Health Improvement: A Call to Action
Speaker: Kent
Bottles, MD, CEO
Wednesday, Dec. 8
The forums are hosted by Grand Rapids Medical Education and Research Center for Health Professions and Grand Valley State University Continuing Education. They are sponsored by Saint Mary's Mercy Medical Center and Spectrum Health
For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/ahf on the Web or call (800) 690-0314 or (616) 331-7180. The forums are free and open to the public.
