NCPHA Fall Conference 2014
From Evidence to Innovation: Full Spectrum Public Health
Please Note: The conference agenda is printed in alphabetical order by Section name. Please
refer to the Program at a Glance for a chronological listing of daily sessions.
Tuesday, September 16
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
NCPHA Governing Council Meeting
Carolina Room
2:00 – 4:00 pm
NCALHD Business Meeting
Salon B
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Pre-Registration
Cape Fear Lobby
3:00 – 4:30 pm
5K and 1-mile River Walk Packet Pick Up
Cape Fear Lobby
3:00 – 7:00 pm
NC Citizens for Public Health Meeting and Dinner
(For members of NCCPH and invited guests)
Salon A
7:30 – 11:00 pm
NCPHA Hospitality Reception
Sponsored by R. Allan Jones Home Health Hospice Consultant
Room 331, 3rd Floor
Wednesday, September 17
7:15 am – 5:00 pm
Conference Registration
Cape Fear Lobby
7:15 – 8:00 am
Breakfast
Sponsored by Patagonia Health
Cape Fear Ballroom
EHR Best Practices and New Apps
Dr. Cardra Burns, Health Director, Halifax County Health Department
Alisa Leonard, Director of Nursing, Cleveland County Health Department
Ashok Mathur, CEO, Patagonia Health
8:00 – 10:00 am
5K Registration and Packet Pickup
Opening Session
8:30 - 9:00 am
Cape Fear Ballroom
Call to Order
Joanne Rinker, President, NCPHA
Welcome
Chris Coudriet, County Manager, New Hanover County
Invocation
Dr. Gordon A. Wright, Jr., Masonboro Baptist Church
Welcome
Penny Slade-Sawyer, Director, NC Division of Public Health
9:30 – 9:15 am
Cape Fear Lobby
Slate of Officers
Phillip Tarte, Immediate Past President, NCPHA
Wednesday, September 17
Opening Session Continued
Cape Fear Ballroom
9:30 – 10:00 am
Service Awards, All-Star Awards, Recognition of New Members and New Life
Members
All-Star Awards sponsored by Advanced Imaging Solutions
10:00 – 11:00 am
Keynote
Public Health Leading Forward: Promoting a Culture of Health
Valda Boyd Ford, MPH, MS, RN, President and CEO, Center for Human Diversity
11:30 am – 1:00 pm GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Child Health Recognition Awards Lunch Grand Ballroom
Academic Practice-Based Research
Carolina Room
1:15 – 2:00 pm
Business Meeting
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Delivery and Cost Studies Update – Costing Environmental Health
Services in North Carolina
Nancy Winterbauer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, East
Carolina University
Lisa Macon Harrison, MPH, Health Director, Granville Vance Health District
Ashley Tucker, MPH, Social Clinical Research Assistant, Department of Public Health,
East Carolina University
3:00 – 4:00 pm
County Health Rankings
Ann Rafferty, Ashley Tucker, Nancy Winterbauer
Environmental Health
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Room B, Coastline Conference Center
Norovirus: A Foodborne Pathogen that is Here to Stay
Dr. Lee-Ann Jaykus, North Carolina State University
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Networking Break
3:15 – 4:15 pm
Electrolyzed Water: The Promise of a Better Way of Cleaning and
Sanitizing
Mark Stedelbauer, VP of Marketing and Technology, eWater Advantage
Public Health Leadership
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Bellamy Room
Business Meeting
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Wednesday, September 17
General Session with Wood Lecturer
3:00 – 3:45 pm
Cape Fear Ballroom
Wood Lecture
Heroes with Heart: Firefighters and Cardiovascular Disease
Public Health is on the front lines of fighting disease every day. Primary Care and
Public Health continue to seek new ways of connecting across NC community by
community as we all work toward a value-based system of health care delivery. Dr.
White has delivered this lecture widely to inspired audiences since his development of
the topic during the Kanof Institute for Physician Leadership.
Thomas Rhyne White, MD President Elect, NC Academy of Family Physicians
4:00 – 4:45 pm
Panel Discussion: North Carolina’s Response to the Ebola Outbreak in Africa
Facilitator: Zack Moore, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Communicable Disease
Branch, NC DHHS
4:45 – 5:00 pm
Q&A
Finance, Administration, Management Support, & Internet Technology Support
DeRosset Room
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Business Meeting
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Public Health Leadership/Yellow Fever Tour, Oakdale Cemetery
Eric Kozen, Superintendent of Oakdale Cemetery, David Rice, New Hanover
County Health Department, Dan Shingleton, Public Health Historian
Meet in lobby at 2:45 if you are interested in joining the tour. Rain or shine. No charge
6:00 – 7:00 pm
5K and 1-mile River Walk
Riverfront Park
7:00 – 10:00 pm
A BBQ Buffet and DJ
Coastline Conference Center
9:00 – 11:00 pm
NCPHA Hospitality Reception
Room 331, 3rd Floor
Thursday, September 18
7:15 – 8:15 am
Breakfast
Sponsored by AmeriHealth Caritas
Improving Birth Outcomes……One Baby at a Time
Tammy Richardson, BSN, RN
Manager, Prenatal and NICU Care
The AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies
Grand Ballroom
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Thursday, September 18
Academic Practice-Based Research
9:00 – 9:15 am
Carolina Room
Assessing Return on Investment for Public Health
Dorothy Cilenti, PhD, Anna Schenck, PhD
9:15 – 9:30 am
Predictors of Strategic Approaches Used by LHDs During the Economic
Downturn
Michele Issel, PhD, Arden Handler, DrPH
9:30 – 9:45 am
Say What? Assessing Health Literacy in a Public Health Setting
Michelle Ricci, MPH, Carla Piedrahita, MPH
9:45 – 10:00 am
Disparities in Access to Municipal Water Service in Wake County, NC
Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, PhD
10:00 – 10:15 am
Integrating Public Health and Primary Care
Dawn Morriston, MPH
10:15 – 10:30 am
The Ethics and Obstacles of Mapping Communicable Disease Surveillance
Data for Targeted Intervention in North Carolina
Jessica Southwell, MPH, Matthew C. Simon, MA, Kasey P. Decosimo, MPH, Rachel
Wilfert, MD, MPH, CPH
10:30 – 10:45 am
Break
10:45 – 11:00 am
Prostate Cancer in Indian Country: Lumbee Men Speak Out
Sarah Langdon, MPH, Ronny Bell, PhD
11:00 – 11:15 am
Public Health’s Role in Community-Based Food Systems & Food Councils
Christy Shi Day, MS
11:15 – 11:30 am
Using the Community Readiness Model to Improve Healthy Eating and
Physical Activity
Marjorie Lanier, MPH, Jamie Cousins, MPA
11:30 – 11:45 am
Applying Evidence for Success: A Collaboration to Enhance EBS Training
Resources for North Carolina Practitioners
Avia Mainor, MPH, Kasey Poole Decosimo, MPH, Jennifer Leeman, DrPH,
Laura Edwards, RN, MPA, Joanne Rinker, MS, RD, CDE, LDN, Amanda Cornett,
MPH, Beth Mainwaring, MPH, Lisa Macon Harrison, MPH
11:45 am – 12:00 pm
Disseminating UNC-Developed Interventions to NC’s Public Health and
Community-Based Practitioners
Jennifer Leeman, DrPH, Nancy Aycock, MSW, Alexis Moore, MPH,
Cecilia Gonzales
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Break for Lunch
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Thursday, September 18
Academic Practice-Based Research/Public Health Leadership/Epidemiology
Salon B
1:30 – 4:30 pm
Developing a Framework to Evaluate Evidence-Based Interventions from
Real Life Experiences
Marie Hemmen, Senior Environmental Health Specialist, Vector Control
Supervisor, New Hanover County Health Department
Marilyn Pearson, MD, Health and Medical Director, Johnston County Health
Department
Carmine F. Rocco, MS, Health Director, Public Health Services Division,
Haywood County Health & Human Service Agency
Stephanie D. Smith, PhD, RN, Director, Office of Community Engagement &
Impact, College of Health & Human Services, University of North Carolina
Wilmington
Edie Alfano-Sobsey, PhD, MT (ASCP), Epidemiologist/Laboratory Director, Wake
County Human Services
Nancy Winterbauer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, East
Carolina University
Ivey Wohlfeld, MPH, Project Management Associate- Membership & State
Partnerships, NACCHO
4:30 – 5:00 pm
Meet and Greet North Carolina’s Local Health Directors
Dental Health
9:00 – 10:30 am
Room A, Coastline Conference Center
Review of Clinical Intraoral Dental Pathology in Children
Dr. Michael W. Roberts, MScD., DDS, Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry,
UNC School of Dentistry
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
The Customized Approach to Preventive Dental Care for the Child
Dr. Michael W. Roberts, MScD, DDS
1:00 – 1:30 pm
Business Meeting
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Oral Health Inequities in North Carolina: How Our History Guides Our
Future
Dr. B. Alex White, DDS, DrPh, Associate Professor, The Gillings School of Global
Health and the UNC School of Dentistry
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Early Childhood Oral Health Update
Kelly Close, RDH, MHA, Preschool Oral Health Coordinator, NC Oral Health
Section, NCDPH
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Thursday, September 18
Environmental Health
8:30 – 9:30 am
Room B, Coastline Conference Center
Enhancing NC Environmental Health Preparedness and Response
Valerie Lott, MPH, REHS, NC DHHS
Keith Rowland, IH, REHS, NC DHHS
9:30 – 9:45 am
Networking Break
9:45 – 10:30 am
After the Mold Rush
Henry Slack, US Environmental Protection Agency Region 4
10:45 – 11:45 am
The Value to the Environmental Health Practitioner of Independent
Certification to an American National Standard
Ronald Grimes, RS, MPH, DAAS, National Sanitation Foundation
Noon – 1:10pm
Lunch and Networking Break
1:10 – 2:30 pm
Everything that Goes Down the Drain Has an Impact – Food Service
Establishments and Septic Systems
Trish Angoli, PE, NC Department of Health and Human Services
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Business Meeting
Epidemiology
9:00 -10:20 am
Latimer Room, Morning Sessions
Salon B, Afternoon Session
Moving Towards Zero: Bringing HIV Incidence Down in North Carolina
Dr. Peter Leone, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, UNC-CH
10:20 – 10:40 am
Break
10:40 am – 12:00 pm
Approaching Community Health through Worksites: Possible
Opportunities in Your Backyard
Dr. Jim Newhall, NIOSH/CDC, Total Worker Heath Program
12:00 – 1:15 pm
Business Lunch
1:30 – 4:30 pm
Developing a Framework to Evaluate Evidence-Based Interventions from
Real LifeThursday,
Experiences (for September
list of panelists, see18
Academic Practice-Based
Research Section on page ?
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Thursday, September 18
Finance, Administration, Management Support, & Internet Technology Support
DeRosset Room
8:30 – 11:30 am
Local Health Department Medicaid Cost Reporting and Settlement
Steven Gardner, NCDPH
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Managing the Accounts Receivables in Public Health
Debbie Widener, Senior Training and Implementation Specialist,
Patagonia Health
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Personnel Law Updates
Neal Alexander, State Human Resources Director, OSHR
Laboratory
McRae Room
9:00 – 10:30 am
Business Meeting
10:30 am – Noon
Update on CDC’s STD Laboratory Guidelines for the Detection of
Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis - 2014
Dr. Scott Zimmerman, Laboratory Director, NCSLPH
1:00 – 2:30 pm
A Recipe for a Successful CLIA Survey
Karen Sanderson, QA Manager, NCSLPH
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Tuberculosis Today: How We Diagnose and Treat Tuberculosis in NC
Dr. Matthew Johnson, Fellow, Infectious Disease, Duke Medical Center
Nursing
9:00 – 11:00 am
Salon A
Legislative Updates and Public Health Hot Topics
Chris Hoke, JD, Chief, Regulatory and Legal Affairs for NCDPH
Jill Moore, MPH, JD, Associate Professor of Public Law and Government,
NC Institute of Government
12:00 – 1:15
Lunch and Business Meeting – Update from Public Health Nursing and
Professional Development
Phyllis Rocco, MSN, RN
1:30 – 3:00
Risky Business: Creative, Courageous Leadership
Elizabeth Woodard, RN, PhD, Director of Nursing Research & EvidenceBased Practice
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Thursday, September 18
Public Health Leadership
9:00 – 10:00 am
Salon B
Quality Improvement for Public Health Leadership
Leah Mayo, Dorothy Cilenti, Ashley Stoop, Steve Orton
10:00 – 11:00 am
What is PHUND$? (Public Health Uniform National Data System)
PHUND$ is a web-based public health financial data collection and analysis portal.
Cheryll Lesneski, Public Health Finance Consultant, NACCHO
11:00 – Noon
A Day in the Life of a Local Health Director: Advice from the Front Lines
Moderator: Carmine Rocco, Health Director, Haywood County Health Department
Panelists:
Buck Wilson, Health Director, Cumberland County Health Department,
Colleen Bridger, Health Director, Orange County Health Department,
Jim Bruckner, Health Director, Macon County Health Department,
Gibbie Harris, Health Director, Buncombe County Health Department
Noon – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 – 4:30 pm
Developing a Framework to Evaluate Evidence-Based Interventions from
Real Life Experiences (for list of panelists, see Academic Practice-Based
Research Section on page ?)
4:30 – 5:00 pm
Meet and Greet North Carolina’s Local Health Directors
Public Information/Social Marketing
10:30 am – Noon
Dudley Room
Information at the Speed of NOW: Balancing Information and Media
Needs in Breaking News Situations
Yalonda Miller, MPA, CHES, Director of Emergency Response and
Communication, Forsyth County Department of Public Health
Eric Nickens, Jr., MA, CHES, Communications and Public Relations Manager,
Durham County Department of Public Health
Stacy Shelp, BS, Communications Manager and Public Information Officer,
Orange County Health Department
Noon – 1:00 pm
Lunch and Business Meeting
1:00 – 1:45 pm
Take 2 for Type 2: Creating and Implementing a Media Campaign
Marissa Mortiboy, MPH, Information and Communications Specialist,
Durham Diabetes Coalition
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Frameworks – Does Storytelling Create Support for Local Public Health?
Colleen Bridger, MPH, PhD, Health Director, Orange County Public Health
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Thursday, September 18
Social Work
9:00 - 11:00 am
Bellamy Room
What Is Good Leadership in the Changing Context of Health Care
Administration?
Reginald York, PhD, Professor of Social Work, UNC-Wilmington
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Business Meeting
Wellness and Prevention
8:45 – 9:00 am
Intro/Welcome
9:00 – 10:00 am
Report on Healthy NC 2020
Room C, Coastline Conference Center
Laura Emerson Edwards, RN MPA, Center for Healthy North Carolina
10:05 – 11:00 am
Evidence Based Strategies 101 & Selection
Joanne Rinker, MS, RD, CDE, LDN, Center for Healthy North Carolina
11:00 – 11:45 am
A Local View on Evidenced-Based Strategies: Project Lazarus
Anne Thomas, RN, MPA, Project Lazarus
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Lunch, Business Meeting and Awards
12:45 – 1:30 pm
Putting the “Meet” in Meetings
Randall Bergman, PhD, CHES, HFI, Lenoir-Rhyne University
1:40 – 2:40 pm
Incorporating Health and Wellness Considerations into the Planning
Process
Wes MacLeod, ASLA, Holland Consulting Planners
2:50 – 3:50 pm
Steps for Successful Smoke-Free/Tobacco-Free Policy Development
Ann Staples, MCHES, Pam Diggs, MPH, Tobacco Prevention & Control
Branch, NCDPH
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Thursday, September 18
Women and Children’s Health
9:00 – 11:00 am
Salon A, Morning Session
Carolina Room, Afternoon Sessions
Legislative Updates and Public Health Hot Topics
Chris Hoke, JD, Chief, Regulatory and Legal Affairs for NCDPH
Jill Moore, MPH, JD, Associate Professor of Public Law and Government,
NC Institute of Government
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Business Meeting
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Adverse Childhood Experiences Across the Lifespan
Anna Austin, MPH, CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellow,
Injury and Violence Prevention Branch, NCDPH
Adrienne Gilbert, MPH, Innovative Approaches Coordinator, Population
Health Division, Buncombe County Health and Human Services
Catherine Joyner, MSW, Child Maltreatment Prevention Leadership Team,
Women’s and Children’s Health Section, NCDPH
Martha Kaufman, Local Project Director, NC Project LAUNCH, Alamance
County Health Department
Cape Fear Lobby and 3rd Floor Lobby
12:00 pm
Buffet Lunch
6:00 – 7:00 pm
Poster Presentations, Silent Auction and Past President’s Reception
Poster Presentations
6:00 – 7:00 pm
Grand Concourse
Grand Concourse
Association between Classroom Relative Humidity Levels and Risk of Influenzalike Illness among Teachers
Kim Angelon-Gaetz, PhD, Sarah Radke, PhD
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Interventions, and Outcomes in a ClinicallyReferred Sample of North Carolina Children
Tracy D.H. Bethel, MPH & Robert C. Lee, MA, MS
Jurisdictional Mapping and Resources for Vulnerable and At-Risk Populations
Christine Bevc, PhD, MA; Manal Khan, MPA; Jeanine Schultz; Matthew C. Simon, MA,
GISP; and Julie Casani, MD, MPH
Implementing a Walk-in Clinic to Improve Access to Personal Health Services
Kimberly Broady Hardy, MSN, FNP-BC
Local Health Department Access to Academic Libraries: A Pilot Study
Jeff Coghill, Ashley Tucker, MPH, Nicole Crews, Aarti Sanghani,
Nancy Winterbauer, PhD
NC TraCS-HBCU Translational Research Initiative: A Collaborative Model
to Enhance Faculty Translational Research Capacity
Arlinda Ellison, MS
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Poster Presentations continued
Grand Concourse
It's Not My Place: Formative Evaluation Research to Design a Bystander
Intervention Campaign
Colby Gabel, Andrea DeMaria, PhD, MS
Premature Mortality in North Carolina: Progress, Regress, and
Disparities by County and Race, 2000-2010
Katherine Jones, PhD, Christopher Mansfield, PhD
Universal Systemic Medical Variables Correlating to Delayed Diagnosis
with Horses and Zebras
Kimberly H. Leonard, MPA, CPA
Characterization of Non-Occupational Pesticide Exposures among
Children in North Carolina, 2013
Adam Mannarino, Nirmalla Barros, PhD, Sheila Higgins, RN, MPH
The Continuum of Care and Early Initiation of Breastfeeding for Women in
Africa and Asia
Lindsay Parlberg
Environmental Impacts on Effectiveness of Permethrin-Treated Clothing Used
by Foresters to Prevent Mosquito Bites
Stephanie L. Richards, PhD; Jo Anne G. Balanay, PhD; Jonathan W. Harris, MA;
Victoria A. Banks, BSEH; Steven Meshnick, PhD
Engage, Refer, Retain: An Assessment of Teen Parent Support in Durham
County, NC
Elizabeth Stevens, RN, BSN
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Arthritis by Older Women
Elizabeth Tait, PhD, April Tallant, PhD, RD
Dissemination and Implementation of an Evidence-Based HPV Video
Intervention through the North Carolina Public Health Practice-Based
Research Network
Ashley Tucker, MPH, Nancy Winterbauer, PhD, Colleen Bridger, PhD,
Huabin Luo, PhD, Ann Rafferty, PhD
Hepatitis B Reactivation and Hemodialysis Related Transmission
Connie Weant, RN, BSN
Local Health Department - Media Engagement: Challenges to Communicating
Complex Health Information with Implications for Policy and Community
Health Improvement
Nancy Winterbauer, PhD, Ashley Tucker, MPH, Katherine Jones, PhD, Mary TuckerMcLaughlin, PhD, Ann Rafferty, PhD
Integrating Evidence-Based Behavioral Weight Management Interventions
(EBIs) in Health Departments to Prevent Excessive Gestational Weight Gain
SeonAe Yeo, PhD, Carmen Samual-Hodge, RD, MPH, PhD, Mary Kelly Henderson,
RN, BSN, Rachael Smith, RN, BSN
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7:00 – 9:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Banquet
North Carolina Public Health Association Awards
9:00 – 11:00 pm
DJ – Coastal Entertainment Services
Silent Auction closes at 10:00 pm
Riverview Terrace
(Grand Ballroom in the event of rain)
Friday, September 19
7:30 – 8:30 am
UNC Breakfast
Anna Schenck, PhD, MSPH
Professor of the Practice
Associate Dean for Practice
Director, Public Health Leadership Program and North Carolina
Institute for Public Health
8:30 – 9:00 am
Welcome, Joanne Rinker, President, NCPHA
9:00 – 10:00 am
General Session: The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years
Grand Ballroom
of Progress
Boris Lushniak, MD, MPH, Acting United States Surgeon General
10:00 – 11:30 am
Town Hall Meeting: North Carolina’s Response to the Surgeon
General’s Call to Action to Make the Next Generation Tobacco Free
Facilitator: Tom Campbell, Creator, Executive Producer, and Moderator of NC SPIN.
Panelists:
Doug Urland, President, NCALHD, Health Director, Catawba County Health Dept.
Erin Sutfin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Public Heatlh Sciences, Wake Forest School
of Medicine
Scott Wilkerson, CEO, Gingko Residential
Nancy Henley, MD, Chief Medical Officer, NC Division of Medical Assistance
Pam Seamans, Executive Director, NC Alliance for Health
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
NCPHA Business Meeting
12:00 pm
Door Prizes and Adjourn
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