Pediatric Grand Rounds in Recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Ivory Tower to Implementation: Community Engagement in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Initiatives
 

SPEAKER
Suzannah Iadarola, PhD, BCBA-D
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health
University of Rochester Medical Center
 

SESSION DESCRIPTION
Initiatives originating in academic medical centers often occur without full partnership of key stakeholders, including members of target populations. This talk will describe how community engagement processes can be utilized to advance new programs and research studies in both hospital and community settings, with an emphasis on initiatives for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.


EDUCATION GOALS

• Identify key features of community engagement and common barriers to engagement.
• Describe a hospital-based initiative to improve education for nurses on disabilities.
• Describe a community-partnered intervention to support caregivers whose children have a new developmental disability diagnosis.
   

LOCATION (in-person)
Center for Academic Medicine
Grand Rounds Room
453 Quarry Road, 
Palo Alto, CA 94304

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