Description

The Iowa Healthcare Workforce Summit will bring together key stakeholders in Iowa's healthcare field for a collaborative, one-day event aimed at developing actionable solutions to address the healthcare workforce shortage. Participants will leave with concrete strategies for their organizations and a shared consensus on necessary actions to tackle the issue. A report showing the voted top overarching themes will be provided after the event.

Agenda

Welcome and Introductions                                             9:00-9:15 a.m.

*continental breakfast provided

Keynote Speaker                                                               9:15-10:15 a.m. 

Rural healthcare shortage with a focus on representation and research findings.      

Patrik Johansson, MD, MPH, Washington State University

Panel Discussion                                                              10:15-11:15 a.m.

Local view of healthcare workforce shortage and their organization’s tactics to improve and diversify their recruitment and retention tactics

Moderator: Christi Taylor, MD, Iowa Medical Society President 

Panelists:

• David Kermode, DO, Broadlawns
• Emily Shields, Iowa Community Colleges
• Jackie Barber, DNP, MSN, Dean of Morningside School of Nursing 
• Jason Misurac, MD, MS, Pediatrician-Nephrology at UIHC

Lunch                                                                                11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

*buffet style

Workgroup Session I – Education and Training           12:15-1:15 p.m.

Break                                                                                 1:15-1:20 p.m.

Workgroup Session II – Recruitment                             1:20-2:20 p.m.

Break                                                                                       2:20-2:25 p.m.

Workgroup Session III – Retention                                2:25-3:25 p.m.

Break                                                                                      3:25-3:30 p.m.

Voting and Closing Remarks                                         3:30-4:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Patrik Johansson, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in the Department of Medical Education and Clinical Sciences. An internal medicine primary care physician by training, his work focuses on promoting the health of rural communities through research, teaching, and service.  A past clinician in health professions shortage areas, he employs community-based participatory research methods to address chronic disease disparities in partnership with rural health clinics, critical access hospitals, American Indian-serving health care systems, rural public health departments, and other healthcare organizations. He also develops and implements public health curricula for practitioners and health-professions students while actively engaging them in research, not only to facilitate their learning about research methods but also to promote them to practice in health-professions shortage areas. Dr. Johansson received his M.D. from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine and his M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has received a number of awards for his service, research, and teaching, including the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Community Service Award, the University of Nebraska Campus Compact “Outstanding Community and Campus Collaboration Award for excellence in community-based teaching and scholarship,“ and the Excellence in leadership award from the Nebraska Rural Health Association for his service as the association’s secretary from 2013 to 2017.