CHIP Lecture Series, Spring 2014
“Women in Control: virtual world diabetes self management education for African American women with DM”
Suzanne Mitchell, MD, MS, Boston University School of Medicine
12:30 - 1:30pm
Location
Video Conference Room 204, second floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
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Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
RSVP
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Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture -- or archived after the lecture -- at http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-4-17-14.
*NEW FEATURE: Live webcast viewers may submit questions in real time; simple instructions are posted at http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/qaforum-instructions/.
About the Speaker
Dr. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, a family physician and palliative medicine provider. She received her medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Masters of Science in Clinical Research from UCLA. Dr. Mitchell completed family medicine residency training at the White Memorial Medical Center Family Medicine Residency program in Los Angeles CA where she continued her work and research in cross cultural communication and cultural competency until 2006 when she relocated to Boston, MA. She completed the Boston University academic fellowship and is currently a federally funded clinical researcher studying the impact of patient-doctor communication on health disparities, health service utilization, end of life experiences and shared decision making behavior. Dr. Mitchell also has a special interest in the use of novel health technology to support patient engagement and enhance patient safety and shared decision making, with peer reviewed papers on the use of virtual reality and artificial intelligence agents for medical professional and patient education. She is an active member of the teaching faculty at the Boston University School of Medicine and continues to practice inpatient and palliative care in the Boston area.
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