1. Georgia Department of Public Health
Health Care Partnership/Collaboration Summit
Wesleyan College
4760 Forsyth Rd., Macon, GA, 31210
August 31, 2016
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Terri Dumas, MPH, Deputy Director, Division of District and County Operations – Presiding
Objectives:
1. Describe the importance and benefit of public health partnerships for improving access to care.
2. Identify the contributing factors that characterize meaningful and sustainable partnerships.
3. Recognize exemplary public health partnerships.
4. Foster the replication of partnerships which help to improve access to care.
8:00 am Registration and Coffee *Food and beverages are NOT allowed in the chapel area.
8:20 am Opening Remarks Terri Dumas, MPH, Deputy Director, Division of District and
County Operations
8:30 am Greetings from Partners Hosting the Summit Teresa Kochera, DNP, RN, PCCN, CN, Director of Nursing
Simulation, Wesleyan College
Sirena Fritz, RN, MS Nursing Division Director, Wesleyan
College
Anita L. Barkin, MSN, DrPH, APRN-C, District Nursing Director,
North Central Health District
8:45 am Greetings from the Commissioner Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., Commissioner, Georgia Department
of Public Health
8:55 am Keynote Address: Partnerships for Improving
Access to Care: Why They Are Critical
Introduction of Keynote Speaker by David Bayne
Keynote Speaker: Representative Larry J. (Butch) Parrish
9:25 am Georgia Department of Public Health Telehealth
Partnerships
Suleima Salgado, Director, DPH Telehealth Program
Suephy Chen, MD, Dermatologist, Emory University
9:50 am Break
10:05 am Panel 1 – Established and Long Term Partnerships (Moderator: Tom Wade)
Introductions
 Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb
 Northeast Georgia Medical Center/North
Health District/The Longstreet Clinic
 South Georgia Partnership for Health (SGPH)
 Albany Primary Health Care (FQHC) and
Southwest Health District
 House of Dawn, Inc./Clayton County BOH
 Madison County Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Coalition/Northeast Health District
Q&A
Austin Tull, Representative, Good Samaritan Health Center
Mimi Collins, Executive Director, The Longstreet Clinic
John Sparks, Executive Dir., South GA Partnership for Health
James Hotz, MD, Clinical Director, Albany Area Primary Health
Care
Dawn Murray, Founder and CEO, House of Dawn
Pam Smith, Northeast Health District, District Nursing
Director
11:20 am TRANSITION TO OVAL HALL
11:40 am Lunch
12:25 pm TRANSITION BACK TO THE CHAPEL
12:45 pm Keynote Address: CDC’s 6/18 Initiative and Introduction of Keynote Speaker by James Howgate,

2. Using Partnerships to Increase Access to Care Chief of Staff
Keynote Speaker: Laura Seeff, MD, Director of CDC’s Office of
Health System Collaboration, Office of the Associate Director
for Policy, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
1:15 pm Panel 2 – HIV, Prenatal and Oral Health Partnerships (Moderator: Brenda Greene)
Introductions
 Oral Health Partnership/South Central
Health District
 Comprehensive AIDS Resource (CARE),
Inc./Southeast Health District
 Mothers Offering Resources and Education
(MORE program)/DeKalb County BOH
Q&A
Debra Smith, MD, Oral Health Director, South Central Health
District
Shelby Freeman, Wellness Program Manager, Southeast
Health District
Kassie Bennett, MORE Supervisor, DeKalb County BOH
1:55 pm Panel 3 – Capacity Building Partnerships (Moderator: J. Patrick O’Neal, MD)
Introductions
 Gwinnett Medical Center Residency
Program
 Project LAUNCH: Maternal and Child Health
Program, West Central Health District,
Department of Behavioral Health and
Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) and
New Horizons
 GA Volunteer Health Care Program/East
Central Health District
Q&A
Alana Sulka, Director of Epidemiology and Infectious
Diseases, East Metro Health District
Jeannine Galloway, Project Director, Maternal and Child
Health
Linda Graves, County Nurse Manager, Columbia County
Health Department
2:35 pm Break
2:45 pm Panel 4 – New Partnerships (Moderator: Emily Eisenman)
Introductions
 West Central Georgia Community
Transformation Collective
 Primary Healthcare Center/Northwest
Health District
 Houston County Health Department
Prenatal Clinic
 The Georgia Clinical Transformation
Team/Chronic Disease
 Northwest Georgia Healthy Babies
 Fulton County/Partnerships to Improve
Community Health
 Curtis V. Cooper Primary Healthcare/Coastal
Health District
Q&A
Regina Abbott, Executive Director of Spalding County
Collaborative
Malindy Ely, Polk County Nurse Manager, Polk County Health
Department
Cristina Sikes, County Nurse Manager, Houston County Health
Department
Shana Scott, JD, MPH, Chronic Disease Health Systems
Program Manager, GA DPH
Gregory Dent, Exec. Dir. of the NW GA Healthcare Partnership
Lisa Goodin, Health Program Administrator, Fulton County
Health Department
Cristina Gibson, Chronic Disease Prevention Director, Coastal
Health District
4:10 pm Access to Care Advisory Group: Development of
State Health Improvement Plan
Introduction of Speaker by Carole Jakeway, Director, Chief
Nurse, Director of District and County Operations
Angela L. Haynes DNP, FNP-BC, MPH
Family Nurse Practitioner Consultant
4:20 pm Closing Remarks
4:30 pm Adjourn