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SESSION 6
Creative Career Pathways
A discussion on health care careers through the lens of Iowa’s newest and longest-term health care staff and to what extent technology can help ease workforce pressures. Are enough students progressing through the different disciplines as proponents suggested? What can be done to draw in the internationally-trained workforce?
October 12, 2023 at 10:10AM
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Anne Boesen
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Katie Lyman
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SESSION 7
Cancer in Iowa
Iowa’s cancer rate was second only to Kentucky, with more than 20,000 new instances of cancer expected to be diagnosed in Iowans this year. Why is the rate so high and what can be done to bring numbers lower? This discussion will include a look at the rates across population segments, access to treatments as well as a look at clinical trials being done within Iowa.
October 12, 2023 at 11:15AM
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Dr. Richard Deming
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Sarah Nash
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Dr. Michael Henry
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Mental Health
How should Iowa’s mental health system be reimagined to solve access, fragmented care and high out of pocket costs and create a system that operates more seamlessly? What are the main barriers that are impacting the adult system, and what needs to be done to help scale up a system focused on children?
October 12, 2023 at 1:20PM
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Leadership Roundtable
This session will feature a panel of Iowa’s health care leaders to talk about major health issues, including systems, facilities and patient care. Topics will include current trends and issues in the state’s hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities and what’s being done to address the challenges.
October 12, 2023 at 2:25PM
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Michelle Niermann
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Brent Willett
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Preventative care
This session will look at the shift to focus on preventative health care measures. Have the measures helped return to pre-COVID numbers, or has the pandemic shifted the trajectory? While cost of care are always identified as a challenge, what’s being done to shift mindset to focus on taking steps and changing patient behaviors to focus on things before they’re in response to a medical condition.
October 13, 2023 at 8:30AM
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Jared Kast
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Dr. Dustin Arnold
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Rural Health Care in Iowa
How will rural Iowans access health care close to home in 20 years? This session will look at the new emergency rural hospital designation and other steps that are being put into place in Iowa’s rural health system. The session will look at what steps may also be needed, as well as how folks can tell whether the programs are working.
October 13, 2023 at 9:40AM
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The Needs of Aging Iowans
Aging in place is something many older Iowans want to do. Are the supports necessary to help Iowans do it in place? This session will look at ideas being tried to help address concerns as well as what can be done in scalable ways in Iowa.
October 13, 2023 at 10:45AM
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Shelly Sindt
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Paige Yontz
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Angela Van Pelt
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