Chronic Disease Management
Using Geriatric Principles to Care for Aging Patients Living with HIV
Available On Demand: Webinar Recording and Slides
ABOUT
As the United States population ages and the survival rate of individuals living with HIV increases, there is a need to incorporate geriatric principles and assessments into the health center workflow when providing care for aging patients living with HIV. This webinar will provide recommendations on the optimal environment of care as well as how to assess a patient’s function and quality of life. This webinar aligns with the Health Center Performance Improvement domain of Quality, Patient Care, and Safety as it addresses healthcare for the population living with HIV. This training will be in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins Center for Infectious Disease and Nursing Innovation MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center.
PRESENTERS
Director, Clinical Services
Christina Mister has over 13 years of experience as a nurse leader in community, hospital, health insurance, and regulatory settings.
Christina has had a valuable impact on healthcare quality improvement. She has had positions in nursing leadership, nursing management, case management, payer quality programs, program management, regulatory compliance, and nursing education.
Most recently, as a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) nurse consultant, Christina has provided accreditation oversight to Medicare’s acute care programs. She serves as the program lead for Diabetes Self-Management Training and Home Infusion Therapy accreditation programs. Additionally, she is the clinical support for Rural Health and Federally Qualified Health Center programs. Christina provides oversight to national accreditation organizations and provides direction in the development of education material for state surveyors for those programs. Additionally, she is responsible for collaborating with other federal agencies and national associations.
As a program manager for Johns Hopkins Healthcare, LLC, Christina aligned measurable program goals with the organization’s mission and utilized quality improvement strategies and measurement to implement changes in the health plan’s programs. Christina has been instrumental in improving the health of the community; as a Program Manager, she collaborated with external stakeholders to improve health outcomes and decrease the high utilization of members within the Complex Case Management and Disease Management Program.
As an FQHC Clinical Manager, she has vast experience in health center operations, care management, health center budgeting, nursing management, and medical assistant supervision.
Christina has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Coppin State University (Baltimore, Maryland) and a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from Morgan State University (Baltimore, Maryland).
Dorcas Baker,
RN, BSN, ACRN, MA
Regional Coordinator
Dorcas Baker is a registered nurse of 49 years and is currently employed by the Johns Hopkins University Regional Performance Site as the Regional Coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (MAETC). She develops and monitors all training, consultation, and capacity-building activities of the JHU AETC Regional Partner (RP) She has worked in the field of HIV for 32 years.
Dorcas past experience as a research nurse for 14 years (1992 -2005), in AIDS Clinical Trials has also contributed to her vast knowledge and expertise in the field. She has given numerous presentations, workshops, and seminars on HIV/AIDS in Older Adults in various healthcare and community settings. She coordinated the first CME-approved “HIV Over Fifty” Conference at Johns Hopkins University in 2002, which became an Annual Conference starting in 2005. Dorcas coordinated the production of JHU’s “HIV and Older Adults” DVD in 2009 and she is a member of the JHU HIV and Aging Mentoring Research Group.
She is also a member of the scientific committee of the International Workshop on HIV and Aging and participated as an invited panelist for the White House Meeting on HIV and Aging, sponsored by the Office of National AIDS Policy in October 2010.
She participated in the Georgetown O’Neill Institute’s Integrating HIV and Aging Services to Increase HIV Quality of Life policy project as an invited panelist.
She holds professional membership with the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC), and a member of ANAC’s Expert HIV and Aging Advisory Panel. She is an active HIV presenter and educator and has provided numerous presentations and educational training, and on HIV and Aging. As a member of the Black Nurses Association Baltimore local chapter, she serves as the Chair of Community Outreach and also serves on the Community Advisory Board of the Black Women’s Learning Institute, and the Advisory Board of Shaping Health Equity (SHE).
She is the Co- founder of Older Women Embracing Life (OWEL) support group for women over the age of 50, living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, and the co-founder and coordinator of the Maryland Coalition on HIV and Aging (MCOHA).
The AAFP has reviewed Preventive Services and Chronic Disease Strategies for Health Centers and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. The term of approval is for one year. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Each live session is approved for 1.0 AAFP Elective credits. Elective credits are available for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and medical assistants.
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,485,711 with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.