Presentation Abstract

Title: Effective Patient Engagement Strategies to Improve Diabetes and Health Equity Goals in Large Healthcare Systems

This presentation will discuss approaches to screening for and addressing unmet health-related social needs, and social determinants of health, within health care systems.  These issues will be placed in the context of strategies that leverage community-based partnerships, encourage sustainability and dissemination, and seek to reduce disparities within vulnerable populations. The talk will also discuss health services research and policy approaches to measuring diabetes prevention efforts and disparities reduction that can learn from existing disease prevention metrics and reporting models.

About Dr. Schmittdiel

Julie Schmittdiel is a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.A. in biostatistics and a Ph.D. in health services and policy analysis from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Schmittdiel’s career focuses on translational research in diabetes and diabetes prevention, with a particular focus on leveraging stakeholder engagement and creating and sustaining learning health care systems. She has been principal or co-investigator on more than 30 delivery science and health policy research studies and has published more than 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Schmittdiel serves as Director of the NIH-funded Health Delivery Systems Center for Diabetes Translational Research, Co-Director of the T32 Training Program in Diabetes Translational Research, and Associate Director of the Kaiser Permanente Delivery Science Fellowship Program. She is currently a member of the Academy Health National Education Council.

Dr. Schmittdiel did not disclose any conflicts of interest for this workshop.