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CE Credits Available for this Activity: .75
Release and Expiration Dates
10/12/2023 – 10/12/2026
Knowledge Gap: This activity aims to educate healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information on conducting trials and community engagement in the Indigenous people community.
Target Audience: The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals who would like to learn about community engagement in research in the Indigenous people community.
Program Overview: The purpose of this activity is to educate medical professionals on community engagement in research in the Indigenous people community.
Objectives
Summarize the background of historical treaties and abuses that inform current practices and policies for the tribal research review process.
Explain community engagement in research and the review process.
Provide examples of the tribal and community review processes.
References
Indian Health Service (IHS)
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
Foote, International Journal Circumpolar Health, 2015
Singleton, Indoor Air, 2015
Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health
Financial Disclosure Statement
The following planners, speakers, moderators, peer reviewers, and/or panelists of this CE activity have financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose:
Jessica Snowden, MD – Consultant: Pfizer
All financial relationships have been mitigated.
Planners: Jessica Snowden, MD; Lora Lawrence, RN; Catrice Banks-Johnson, MPA; DeAnn Hubberd, MA
Speaker(s): Rosalyn Singleton, MD, MPH & May Okihiro, MD, MS
Speaker(s) Bio
Rosalyn Singleton, MD, MPH
Dr. Singleton graduated from Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago in 1982, and completed a Pediatric residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, and an MPH from Loma Linda University. She worked as a pediatrician in the 1980s in a Navajo hospital. Since 1988 Ros has worked as a clinical pediatrician, immunization consultant and researcher for Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC). In 2015 Rosalyn worked for the State of Alaska on vaccine financing solutions. From 1988 to present she has been a guest researcher with Arctic Investigations Program – CDC, working on clinical studies with Alaska Native people related to vaccine-preventable infections, respiratory infections, vitamin D deficiency, indoor air quality, and bronchiectasis.
May Okihiro, MD, MS
Dr. Okihiro is a pediatrician at the Wai’anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center and the director of the Hawai’i Initiative for Childhood Obesity Research and Education (HICORE) and the chair for Hawai’i State Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition Healthcare Taskforce. Her clinical research is in childhood obesity and early metabolic risk. Dr. Okihiro is also the PI of a 3-year project to implement and evaluate policies and processes to address childhood obesity in pediatric clinics. She attended the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Washington. After residency, she spent three years at the UH Pacific Basin Medical Officers Training Program in Micronesia and two years as an instructor at the Fiji School of Medicine before returning to Hawaii.
Peer Reviewers: Jackie Boyd, RN, BSN; Robert Akins, PhD
Instructions to Obtain Credit
(1) Launch the activity
(2) View the module
(3) Take 1 post-test at the end
(4) Complete Evaluation and Print certificate
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation Statements
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of .75 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ACPE Credit Designation Statement
These knowledge-based activities will provide pharmacists with up to .75 contact hour or 1 CEU. CE credit information, based on participation and completion of the program evaluation, will be provided to NABP within 60 days after the activity completion.
ANCC Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of .75 ANCC contact hours. Nursing contact hours will be awarded for successful completion of program components based upon documented attendance and completion of evaluation materials.
AAPA Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for .75 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Disclosure Policy Statement
It is the policy of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Office of Continuing Education (OCE) to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all directly or jointly provided educational activities. All individuals who are in a position to control the content of the educational activity (course/activity directors, planning committee members, staff, teachers, or authors of CE) must disclose all relevant financial relationships they have with any commercial interest(s) as well as the nature of the relationship. The ACCME describes relevant financial relationships as those in any amount occurring within the past 24 months that create a conflict of interest. Individuals who refuse to disclose will be disqualified from participation in the development, management, presentation, or evaluation of the CE activity.
UAMS Office of Continuing Education (OCE) Contact Information
Email: cmeconf@uams.edu
Phone: 501-661-7962
DCOC Contact Information
Catrice Banks-Johnson
Email: crbanksjohnson@uams.edu
DeAnn Hubberd
Email: DEHubberd@uams.edu
