Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) and Vanderbilt University Diabetes Center (VUDC) are sponsoring a conference for health care providers titled “Community Based Disease Management Models for Culturally Diverse, Refugee, and Immigrant Populations” on Dec. 4-5 at the Marriott Vanderbilt Hotel.
The purpose of the conference is to examine selected community based chronic disease management models; identify strategies to assess the needs of culturally diverse, refugee and immigrant populations; describe barrier and facilitators to providing primary care services to culturally diverse refugees and immigrant populations; and develop strategies to meet the needs of culturally diverse, refugee, immigrant populations with diabetes.
The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. There is no fee for the conference as funding is provided through a grant received from Health Resource Service Administration, Division of Nursing. Lunch and continuing education units will also be provided.
For more information or to register for the workshop, contact Linda Norman, senior associate dean for Academics, at 343-3241.