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The Future of Virtual Health Care

Thursday, Apr. 8, 8 a.m. PDT (Virtual)

Join us for face-to-face networking and a live panel presentation with Keith C. Norris, MD, PhD, Executive Vice Chair, UCLA Health Department of Medicine, Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Gabriella Sherman, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Los Robles Health System. Adina Nack, PhD, Professor of Sociology at Cal Lutheran will moderate.

Learn how healthcare is evolving to include virtual care based on the challenges and lessons from COVID-19, how to prevent inequities with technology access, and if these changes might result in lower health insurance costs for employers/employees.

Dr. Keith C. Norris

Dr. Gabriella Sherman

Speaker Bios

Keith C. Norris, MD, PhD

Keith C. Norris, MD, PhD, is executive vice chair of the UCLA Department of Medicine for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; and professor of medicine in the UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research. He has been instrumental in shaping national health policy and clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease, and has made major contributions to addressing diversity, equity and inclusion in society. He spent more than a decade helping to transform Medicare guidelines related to chronic kidney disease, and his research interests include hypertension and chronic kidney disease in disadvantaged populations. He was the principal investigator for the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension, and the founding principal investigator for the first national translational research network dedicated to reducing health disparities. In addition to a medical degree from the Howard University College of Medicine, he has a doctorate in religious, spiritual and metaphysical philosophy. He directs several NIH research and training grants; serves as editor-in-chief emeritus of the international journal Ethnicity and Disease; and has received numerous honors and awards from students, peers, and community and professional organizations.

Gabriella Sherman, MD, MBA

Gabriella Sherman, MD, MBA, has been Chief Medical Officer of Los Robles Medical System since April 2020, overseeing patient safety and quality, regulatory compliance, development and implementation of innovative clinical programs, and physician relations. She also serves as a liaison between the hospital’s administrative and medical staff. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, she graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, received her medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia and completed her internal medicine residency at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. She earned her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on finance and strategic management. Before coming to Los Robles, she served at Huntington Hospital as vice president of clinical innovation and performance improvement, and vice president of quality and clinical operations. Board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three children, and supports her community as a board member for the March of Dimes.

Adina Nack, PhD (Moderator)

Adina Nack, PhD, is professor of sociology and chair of the Sociology Department at Cal Lutheran. She also serves as associate director for the University Honors Program, and as an Administrative Fellow for Public Health. In the past, she served as director of Cal Lutheran’s Center for Equality and Justice, and director of the university’s Gender and Women's Studies Program. A medical sociologist, she received her PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and came to Cal Lutheran in 2003 from the University of Maine. Her research focuses on sexual health, social psychology, social inequality, gender and sexuality, and she is currently collaborating on an in-depth interview study of physically traumatic childbirth experience from the perspectives of the women, their significant others, and health care providers. A member of the HIV/AIDS Coalition of Ventura County since 2003, Nack chairs the county's World AIDS Day Committee, and has served as a research consultant for the ELCA Sexuality Studies Task Force, Western Institute of Hearing, United Women's Leadership Council, and AIDS Desk (Chennai, India). She has received numerous awards for research, teaching and community service.

Contact

Sharon Nelson
smnelso@callutheran.edu
(805) 493-3150

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