April 28, 2014 – Linda Lacey, MA and David Garr, MD | Driving Policy with Data – Or Not
Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/28/2014
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
DeFriese Conference Room (Room 150) - Sheps Center
Category(ies)
Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy Seminar with David Garr, Executive Director, SC AHEC & Linda Lacey, Director, Office for Healthcare Workforce Analysis and Planning, SC AHEC
The Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy invites you to attend our final seminar of the year with David Garr, Executive Director of the South Carolina AHEC and Linda Lacey, Director of the Office for Healthcare Workforce Analysis and Planning for the South Carolina AHEC. David Garr, MD, and Linda Lacey, MA, will give a seminar entitled, “Driving Policy With Data – Or Not“, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in the DeFriese Conference Room (Room 150) at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. This seminar is part of the Program on Health Workforce Policy and Research’s Seminar Series.
Dr. Garr will discuss the role that data was intended to play in the development of a community health worker program in the South Carolina Medicaid office, and Ms. Lacey will discuss the Graduate Medical Education (GME) task force in South Carolina and how data played a role in that process.
David Garr is the Associate Dean for Community Medicine and Professor of Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina as well as the Executive Director of the South Carolina AHEC. He is a graduate of Duke University and Duke Medical School and completed his family medicine residency in Rochester, New York. Dr. Garr worked as a family physician in rural Utah and in Colorado before joining the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1985. His research and teaching focuses on prevention, population health, and primary care. He is a past president of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) and was the recipient of the F. Marian Bishop Outstanding Educator Award from APTR in 2009.
Linda Lacey is the Director of the Office for Healthcare Workforce Analysis & Planning within the South Carolina AHEC program office. She is responsible for developing data resources related to the South Carolina healthcare workforce and coordinating research efforts to address supply and demand issues for the wide variety of healthcare personnel in the state. Recent projects include a profile of the pharmacist workforce in the state, a supply and demand projection for RNs, and an examination of factors related to the graduate medical education system in South Carolina and their influence on the state’s primary care physician workforce. Ms. Lacey trained as a sociologist at Duke University, with an interest in occupations and organizational behavior.
Space is limited. Please RSVP to Steve Rutledge at srutledge@schsr.unc.edu. We look forward to seeing you at the seminar.
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