EVENT OVERVIEW

In seeking to move the needle on the dire need for diversity in California's primary care physician workforce, the California Medicine Coalition Board of Directors is pleased to invite you to the April 15th California Medicine Convening at the UC Davis Conference Center.

Our Convening will feature:

Keynote Speaker Dr. Michael Drake, President of the University of California. 

Roundtable Panel Discussions 

K-12 Superintendent's Roundtable: The Opportunity and Challenges of Dual Enrollment to Facilitate Diverse Students' Early Success in Healthcare Career Pathways

featuring Superintendents across California school districts 

Learning from our Successes: A Roundtable of High Education Institutions and Medical Schools Pioneering System-level Changes to see Diverse Students Succeed at Scale

featuring leaders from the University of California Davis, Meharry Medical College and Charles R. Drew University President, Dr. David Carlisle

Since our last 2020 virtual convening, California has seen significant gains to make headway towards diversifying the primary care physician workforce. None less significant than the launch of the California Medicine Scholars Program, due in large part to you - our Coalition - to design, support and champion that effort into its implementation today.

Moving forward, our board recognizes the continuing need to address systemic barriers students of color and low income students in particular face along the K-12 to MD to practice continuum. What's more, multiple strategies are needed to achieve parity for primary care physicians, and ultimately see all California communities have access to the quality care they deserve. In this convening we will be looking at both ends of the spectrum, and the current opportunities and bright spots we can learn from to develop such strategies.

We therefore invite and look forward to your presence and input in our ongoing efforts to address these needs.

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CALIFORNIA MEDICINE COALITION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Chair, Coyness Ennix Jr., MD, FACS, Trustee, Board of Trustees of Meharry Medical College
• Vice Chair, Mark Henderson, MD, Dean of Admissions, University of California Davis Medical School 
• Secretary, Arianna Morales, MA, Education and Workforce Strategy Consultant
• Treasurer, Nathan Cox, MBA, President/CEO, InRoads Credit Union
• Lupe Alonzo-Diaz, MBA, President/CEO, Physicians for a Healthy California
• Jane Binger, EdD, Co-Founder, DeepTok;  Diplomat, UC Merced Foundation; Senior Advisor, Stanford Medicine Office of Diversity in Medical Education; Stanford Medicine Alumni Board of Governors
• Dena Bullard, MHS, Senior Director of Health Sciences and Workforce Innovation, UC Health
• Nataly Tellez, MBA, Director, California Primary Care Association
• Thuy Thi Nguyen, JD, Partner, Garcia, Hernández, Sawhney, LLP, Founder, California LAW Pathways
• Daniel Pellegrini, MD, MMM, Cardiovascular Surgeon, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group / Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
• Efrain Talamantes, MD, MBA, Chief Operating Officer, AltaMed Health Services

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