ETHEA is proud to offer:

Where: Bistro by the Tracks

When: February 22nd – networking and dinner begin at 5:30pm, panel discussion at 6pm.

Cost: $10 for ACHE member, $15 for non-members

This event offers 1.5 Face to Face education credits. 

Improving the Health Status of Your Community

Healthcare organizations exist to serve the communities in which they reside. Though community health has always been a focus for these organizations, new regulations require them to take an active role. The health of a community or geographic population has a critical impact on a healthcare organization’s planning, operations, financial sustainability, outcomes, and success.  Due to the implementation of the key components of the healthcare reform by legislation, it will be even more important that provider organizations are both aware of and responsive to the health status and disease states that are most prevalent in their communities. Not only is a population-based focus the right thing to do, but it may prove to be the financially astute course of action.

 Moderator:

Lindsey McCreary, Director of Business Development, Honest Medical Group

Lindsey has worked in healthcare for over eight years. She began her career with TeamHealth, fostering relationships with hospital executives to build hospital-based physician service arrangements. After leaving TeamHealth, she moved to Summit Medical Group in Knoxville where she aided in the growth strategy for one of the nation’s largest independent primary care practices. Through her work at Summit, Lindsey developed a passion for furthering value-based care initiatives across the county. In her current role at Honest Medical Group, a startup based in Nashville, TN, she builds long-term partnerships with hospitals and independent physician practices based on payment and clinical models that incentivize providers to focus on whole person care and social determinants of health.

Outside of work, Lindsey serves as the chair of Knoxville’s Community Health Council, which is charged with supporting and steering health improvement initiatives in Knoxville, Knox County and the Town of Farragut. She is also a volunteer on InterFaith Health Clinic’s Foundation Board, raising funds to support medical services for the working uninsured in the Greater Knoxville Area.

Lindsey holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from Centre College in Danville, KY and a Master of Business Administration from Carson-Newman University.

Panelists:

Dr. Caroline Cooley, Physician - President for Bike Walk Knoxville

Dr. Caroline Cooley helped form Bike Walk Knoxville (BWK) in 2012. She has served as President since 2014 while also serving as board chair for Bike Walk Tennessee. Caroline worked as a private practice physician of internal medicine and nephrology for over 30 years in Knoxville until she retired in 2015. She is active in the Knoxville community having founded the Knoxville Regional TPO Bicycle Advisory Committee and representing BWK on the Knox County Safe Routes to School Partnership. She served as the chair of Active Knox, a team focused on making Knoxville and Knox County a healthier place to live by promoting a healthier built environment that encourages active living and transportation choices. She also serves on Knoxville's Community Health Council, which is charged with supporting and steering health improvement initiatives in Knoxville, Knox County, and the Town of Farragut. Caroline has attended the National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. yearly since 2001 to advocate for bike and pedestrian inclusion in federal transportation funding. She is a League of American Bicyclists Cycling Instructor and a lifelong bicyclist for recreation, competitive racing, and transportation.

Liliana Burbano, Director Community Health Equity, UT Medical Center

Liliana Burbano is a Colombia native and a public health practitioner with more than a decade of experience in the Knoxville area. Since 2022, she has served as the Community Health Equity Director for UTMC focusing on internal and external-facing initiatives to address community factors that exacerbate health disparities at the community level.

Prior to her role at UTMC, she worked for over 11 years at the Knox County Health Department in many different capacities from which she gained relevant experience in public health, partnership and coalition building and facilitation, community engagement, program design, planning, implementation, and evaluation, as well as involvement in community health-equity-related initiatives.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Liliana served as the lead person for minority outreach initiatives developing significant partnerships with grassroots and non-profit organizations for the development of educational materials for minority groups, most of those, non-English speaking, and immigrant populations.

Dr. Megan Edwards, Knox County Public Health Officer

Dr. Megan Edwards has served as Knox County's Public Health Officer since April of 2023. Prior to her appointment with the Health Department, she worked at the University of Tennessee Medical Center as an Infectious Diseases physician.  She also worked closely with the University Of Tennessee Graduate School Of Medicine.

Dr. Edwards is a University of Tennessee graduate and earned her MD at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University in Massachusetts and completed her fellowship in Infectious Disease at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine.

In her role as Public Health Office, Dr. Edwards oversees interventions during public health emergencies/outbreaks and serves as a medical consultant to Knox County Schools. The health director also acts as the medical director for Knox County's Communicable Disease Clinic, Immunization program, Travel Clinic, and HIV Center of Excellence.  Additional responsibilities include evaluation of health programs, coordination with the Tennessee Department of Health, and development of community education interventions.

This program has been developed and is presented locally by ETHEA. The American College of Healthcare Executives has awarded 1.5 ACHE Face-to-Face Education hours to this program. To receive credit for this program, your name MUST appear on the sign-in sheet.

For any questions regarding this event, please contact Russ Peters at [email protected]