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GHCM
  • Home/
  • Registration/
  • Schedule/
  • Speakers/
  • Research Symposium/
  • Great Plains Native American Health Symposium (GPNAHS)/
  • Community Fair/
  • Accommodations/
  • Past Conferences/
  • Meet the Team/
  • Accreditations/
  • Contact Us/
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GHCM

Schedule

GHCM
  • Home/
  • Registration/
  • Schedule/
  • Speakers/
  • Research Symposium/
  • Great Plains Native American Health Symposium (GPNAHS)/
  • Community Fair/
  • Accommodations/
  • Past Conferences/
  • Meet the Team/
  • Accreditations/
  • Contact Us/

Below is the finalized schedule for GHCM 2025! Please, feel free to explore our page and learn more about previous conferences and the Great Plains Native American Health Symposium (GPNAHS).
The following schedule may be subject to change.

 Friday, January 31 

4:30 Check-In/ Snacks Harper Center - 2nd Floor Atrium

5:00 Opening Remarks Dr. Michael Kavan, PhD
Associate Dean, Student Affairs
Creighton University School of Medicine
Harper Auditorium

5:20 Keynote Speaker #1 Home is Where the Heart is…But…What Does That Mean?
Dr. Kandis McCafferty, PhD, RN
Executive Consultant - Blue Cross Blue Shield Nebraska
Forensic Nurse Examiner - CHI Health
Harper Auditorium

6:30 Breakout A

Breakout 1 Home and Health
Dr. Charles Filipi, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Creighton University School of Medicine
Harper Auditorium 

Breakout 2 Beyond “Safe Spaces”: Implementing Evidence-Based IPV
Strategies for LGBTQ+ Youth
Andrew Aleman, MSW
Clinical Social Worker
Harper 2045

Breakout 3 ReThinking the Internet: Finding Our Homes on Social Media
Trisha Prabhu
Founder and CEO of ReThink
Harper
2072

7:30 Optional Networking

Saturday, February 1 

7:30 Check-In Harper Center - 2nd Floor Atrium

8:00 Opening Remarks Dr. Jane Stein, PharmD 
Assistant Professor
Creighton School of Pharmacy and Health Professions
Harper Auditorium
 

8:10 Keynote Speaker #2 Homelessness: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions
Dr. Margot Kushel, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of California - San Francisco
Director - UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
Harper Auditorium

9:20 Breakout B


Breakout #1 Healing on the Streets: Integrating Street Medicine to 
Reframe Health Equity, Housing, and Human Connection
Dr. Melissa Dittberner, PhD, CPS, PS, LMT
Executive Director - Midwest Street Medicine Lecturer - University of South Dakota
Harper Auditorium

Breakout #2 Homes Away from Home: Health through an Immigrant Perspective
Khenda Mustafa, Magda Batiz Salazar, and Monica Meier
Center for Immigrant and Refugee Advancement - Panel
Harper 2045

Breakout #3 Climate Solutions offer Health-Promoting Interventions
Dr. Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor & John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Harper 2072

10:20 Keynote Speaker #3 Planetary Health: The Urgency of Now
Dr. Megan Latshaw, PhD, MHS
Associate Scientist, Department of Environmental Health & Engineering
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Harper Auditorium

11:30 Breakout C

Breakout #1 Community & Staff Engagement: Our Way 
Dr. Mona Zuffante, PhD *GPNAHS
Chief Public Health Officer
Winnebago Public Health Department
Harper Auditorium

Breakout #2 Lead Poisoning Prevention in the Nation’s Largest Lead Residential Superfund Site
Naudia McCracken, MPH
Supervisor - Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Douglas County Health Department
Harper 2045

Breakout #3 Siena Francis House - The Cottages Project
Linda Twomey
  Executive Director/CEO of Siena Francis House

12:20 Lunch & IPE Event Harper - 2nd Floor Classrooms


1:20 Keynote Speaker #4 Unity of Community: Creating Transformational Healthcare 
Opportunities to Advance Tribal Health
Dr. Janelle Ali-Dinar, PhD *GPNAHS
CEO - SCHC Health
Harper Auditorium

2:30 Research Symposium Harper 2057/2058
Session 1: 2:30 - 3:15 pm
Session 2 : 3:30 - 4:15 pm

2:30 Community Fair Harper Main Level Atrium

*GPNAHS: Great Plains Native American Health Symposium