Penn Medicine’s 9th Annual Health Equity Week

A Nurse-Led Academic- Practice and Community Partnership: Fostering Community Health Worker and Nursing Student Dyad to improve Maternal Health Outcomes and Food Insecurity
Submitted by Sofia Carreno

Increasing Awareness and Access to Genetic Counseling and Testing for Underserved Patients
Submitted by Veronica Rodriguez

Physician Track: A Novel Wilderness Medicine Based Mentorship Program for Young Black Men
Submitted by Sanford Roberts

Costs And Clinical Outcomes Of A Surgical Navigation Program For Uninsured Patients
Submitted by Angela Chen

Transportation Assistance in Gynecologic Oncology: A Pilot Study
Submitted by Anna Jo Smith

Novel Program Connects Medical Students with Startups Focused on Social Determinants of Health
Submitted by Margaret Erdman

Impact of Real-Time Incentives on Fruit and Vegetable Purchases and Diet
Submitted by Karen Glanz

Associations of Race/Ethnicity and Patient Experiences of Access to Care within the University of Pennsulvania Health System
Submitted by Jeremy Gotschall

Assessing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in an HIV Primary Care Clinic: A Pilot Project in Quality Improvement
Submitted by Priyanka Anand

OB/GYN Internal Referral System to Enhance Access to Care for Refugee Women
Submitted by Neha Deshpande, MD

Text message remote blood pressure monitoring eliminated racial disparities in postpartum hypertension care
Submitted by Adi Hirshberg, MD

An Evaluation of a Multimedia Marketing Campaign for Recruiting African American Patients in Philadelphia
Submitted by Marquis Vaughn

A Novel Educational Framework for Identifying and Mitigating Implicit Bias in Ambulatory Care
Submitted by Amber Nicole Bird, MD

Improved Coordination of Care for the Underserved Population of Patients
Submitted by Jennifer Timony, BSN, RN and Heather Burton, BSN, RN

THRIVE: A Clinical Pathway Providing Personalized Care Coordination for Socially at-Risk Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Submitted by J. Margo Brooks Carthon, APRN, PhD, FAAN

Medical School and State Efforts Towards Physician Workforce Diversity: How Do They Rank?
Submitted by Heardley Moses Murdock, B.S.

Referral Rates after Failed Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Toddlers in a Large Primary Care Network
Submitted by Kate Wallis, MD

Using Patient Navigation to Impact Distrust in the Health Care System
Submitted by Emily Verderame, MPH

Translating Inpatient Discharge Instructions for Families with Limited English Proficiency: Notes from the Field
Submitted by Seethalakshmi H. Davis

Graduate Nurse Education: Teaching Social Determinants of Health Through Simulation
Submitted by Barbara Todd, DNP, CRNP, FAAN

Uncovering the Blind Spots: A Study of Advanced Practice Provider Implicit Bias Education
Submitted by Lauren Weaver, PA-C

The Sociodemographic Factors that Influence the Choice to Pursue Nasolveolar Molding: One Major Hospital’s Experience
Submitted by Isabella Guajardo

Improving Patients’ Understanding of Radiology Reports Using a Lay-Language Glossary of Radiology
Submitted by Teresa Martin- Carreras, MD

Decreasing the Perception of Examine Room Wait Time
Submitted by Adam Lyons, MD

Racial Disparities in Surgical Outcomes of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Submitted by Samuel Montgomery

Goodness Versus Fairness in Public Health Decision Making: Designing an Animated Bioethics Learning Module
Submitted by Hannah McClane, MD