Patient Navigation: From Outreach to Survivorship
By completing this training program participants will be able to:
- Identify different models of navigation.
- Demonstrate effective patient interviewing and information gathering techniques.
- Identify common barriers to health care.
- Develop strategies to overcome common barriers to health care.
- Explain differences between patient navigation that enables patients compared to activating or empowering
patients.
- Identify three primary types of resources.
- Describe two strategies for resource acquisitions.
- Recognize patient navigator activities that cross professional boundaries.
- Develop method to describe navigator professional boundaries to audience.
- Describe role of the patient navigator in increasing awareness and understanding of clinical trials.
- Understand the role of navigation across the continuum of cancer care.
- Identify coaching and supportive strategies for patients prior to, during and after medical visits.
- Describe key aspects of national health reform legislation and its impact on cancer care throughout the
continuum.
- Demonstrate basic motivational interviewing techniques.
Trainer Bios:
Patricia Alvarez Valverde, MPH |
| Patricia Alvarez Valverde, MPH currently works on programs and research studies related to patient navigation, Latino cancer survivorship and more recently HPV awareness and uptake among Latinos in Colorado.
She is a trainer and the Associate Director of the Colorado Patient Navigator Training Program. Patricia is a commissioner on the Minority Health Advisory Commission (MHAC), appointed by the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The MHAC provides guidance to the state health department on issues of health disparities. Patricia is currently a doctoral student in clinical sciences in the health services research track. Patricia has managed programs serving uninsured and underserved populations for over 10 years in Colorado. She received her Masters of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She began her work in health care as a bilingual outreach worker in San Diego for uninsured pregnant women after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Larisa Caicedo, MA
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| Larisa Caicedo is Executive Director of Nueva Vida, an organization that provides culturally sensitive support services for Latinas living with cancer in the Washington metropolitan area. She represents Nueva Vida on the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) Board of Directors. She is also a member of the Komen National Hispanic/Latina Advisory Council and of the Latin American Cancer Research Coalition Advisory Board. Ms. Caicedo is an NBCC Project Lead graduate and also a graduate of the 2005 American Association for Cancer Research Scientist-Survivor Program. Her background includes project management, fundraising and outreach for the Latino community as well as involvement in Latin American international cooperation programs and economic development issues. As a volunteer, she developed successful fundraising strategies and took charge of event planning for other non-profit organizations that serve Latin American communities, such as Kidsave Internacional - for the Kids of Colombia, Fundación María Eugenia Belandia and Many Hats Institute (MHI). She studied in Colombia, her native country, and holds a Masters' degree in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. |
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Mandi Pratt Chapman, MA |
| Mandi Pratt Chapman is Co-Director of the GW Cancer Institute Center for the Advancement of Cancer Survivorship, Navigation and Policy (caSNP) and founding Director of the GWCI Office of Cancer Survivorship. She is responsible for creating a vision and strategic plan for coordinated survivorship care across the GW Medical Center. She is Chair of the GW Cancer Survivorship Task Force and provides high level direction for the GW Cancer Survivorship Center, the first adult survivorship clinic in Washington, DC. She is program director for the GWCI Cancer Survivorship Research Symposium to Create Health Equality, a biennial event for cancer survivorship researchers, clinicians and cancer survivors. She was Co-Investigator on a study entitled "Assessing Educational Resources and Barriers for Pediatric Cancer Survivors in the District of Columbia"; and Principal Investigator for an American Cancer Society Targeted Community Investment Grant entitled "Patient Resource Navigation Enhancement," which aimed to increase utilization of supportive care, improve care coordination and improve patient satisfaction through improved communication with patients. She also co-chairs the Survivorship Subcommittee of the DC Cancer Consortium, the body charged with implementing a cancer control plan for the District of Columbia. |
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Kathleen Garrett, MA |
| Kathleen Garrett is a member of the internationally recognized Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). Ms. Garrett has extensive experience with telephone-based intervention studies in behavioral science. She has served as co-investigator on eight NIH funded randomized studies testing the efficacy of telephone counseling in improving quality of life for cancer survivors and promoting healthy lifestyles in population at risk for cancer and other chronic illnesses. Several of these studies evaluated innovative MI telephone counseling interventions that were developed and supervised by Ms. Garrett. She has conducted numerous MI trainings and workshops in areas as diverse as cancer prevention, diabetes management, community health, and psychiatry. She currently serves as faculty with expertise in MI for the Center for African American Health of the Metro Black Church Initiative in Denver, Colorado and the Colorado state funded Patient Navigator and Community Health Worker Training Initiative. |
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Steven R. Patierno, PhD |
| As Executive Director of the GW Cancer Institute, Dr. Patierno oversees a comprehensive oncology center dedicated to advancing multi- and trans-disciplinary cancer research, expanding effective cancer outreach and education, and offering the highest quality of high-technology but compassionate cancer care to our patients. Dr. Patierno has over two decades of experience managing nearly $30 million of grants including large, complex biomedical research grants (both laboratory and population sciences), as well as community-base grants in cancer disparities, prevention and control, education and outreach, and survivorship. This includes patient care through a major grant from the National Cancer Institute to establish the DC City-Wide Patient Navigator Research Program (PNRP), to assist African American and Latina women overcome access barriers to cancer health care and evaluate the efficacy of patient navigation. Under Dr. Patierno's leadership the GWCI launched Offices of Cancer Prevention and Control, Cancer Education and Outreach and Cancer Survivorship. Dr. Patierno's Cancer Survivorship team is host to a major grant from Pfizer Inc/Pfizer Foundation for the GWCI's Center for the Advancement of Cancer Survivorship, Navigation and Policy (caSNP).
Dr. Patierno earned his doctoral degree at the Graduate School of Biomedical Science, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and the MD Anderson Cancer Institute, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California (USC) Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Carolyn Perry, MA, LCSW |
| Carolyn Perry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for the American Cancer Society, Illinois Division. She is the Director of Social Services for Patient Navigation Services and is responsible for the oversight of professional Navigators placed full time at area hospitals. Carolyn has been with the American Cancer Society for almost seven years, and originally started as a social worker working with patients and their families. Patient Navigation Services is a program that assists patients, caregivers and friends through the cancer continuum by reducing barriers to treatment. Carolyn supports and manages programs that have been created to assist patients such as transportation for appointments, lodging when traveling a distance to treatment, peer to peer support, and others. The Navigators at hospitals play an important role in assessing the needs of patients and linking them to the necessary resources. Carolyn also participates in the Patient Navigation Research Project that is funded by the National Cancer Institute until 2010. Currently there are two sites in Chicago that participate in the research.
Carolyn received her Bachelors in Social Work from Hope College in Holland, Michigan and her Masters in Arts from University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Oncology Social Workers.
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Elizabeth Whitley, PhD, RN |
| Elizabeth Whitley, PhD is Co-Principal Investigator for the Colorado Patient Navigator Training Program. She provides expertise and guidance for all aspects of the program.
As a curriculum designer, instructor and evaluator she has assumed a national role in patient navigator training for the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. She is currently the Director of Denver Health Community Voices (DHCV) and Co-Principal Investigator for the National Cancer Institute-funded Patient Navigation Research Program (PNRP). She has extensive experience in research and collaborative community-based programs in the areas of community outreach, case management and patient navigation. The outreach models she has created are used throughout Colorado and the nation.
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