TIPHER Annual Health Summit 2018 "A CommUnity Commitment to Mental Health Education and Advocacy"

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Dr. Carlos Campos, M.D., MPH is the founder and executive chair of TIPHER, The Institute for Public Health and Education Research. Dr. Campos would like to welcome you to a great education session in beautiful New Braunfels, TX! Dr. Carlos Campos was born and reared in New Braunfels, Texas, where he attended the public schools. He received an Associate of Arts degree from Schreiner University and a Bachelor's degree from Baylor University followed by medical school at Baylor College of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Campos also received a Master's of Public Health degree from the University of Texas School of Public Health. He completed his Family Medicine residency at the Bexar County Hospital District. He has been in private family medicine practice in New Braunfels since 1984 where he has run the gamut of family medicine, from delivering babies to seeing patients in the nursing home. Presently, he concentrates in disease states related to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and is a certified diabetes educator. Dr. Campos was appointed by the Governor to the Texas State of Medical Examiners and served from 1993 to 1999. In 1993, he was also Chief of Staff McKenna Memorial Hospital in New Braunfels. Currently, he serves as a Clinical Associate Professor for the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He has been active in his community both locally and regionally. He served on the board of the New Braunfels Independent School District as its Vice-President and was President of the Alamo Chapter of the American Diabetes Association. In 2000, Dr. Campos established The Institute for Public Health and Education Research Inc. (TIPHER), a non-profit corporation, for which he serves as Executive Chair. TIPHER's mission is to Improve the quality of life by addressing public health needs and critical education issues.

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Upon receiving her master’s degree in counseling at Loyola University in New Orleans Louisiana, Julie Moss worked as an admissions counselor for a residential substance abuse treatment program. She then relocated to Austin Texas, where she joined the team of Bluebonnet Trails Community Services. There she served as a counselor with the OSAR program, and was later promoted to Team Lead. Julie eventually joined Cross Creek Hospital in July 2017, where she currently serves as a clinical liaison.

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Zhan Yang is a Clinical lecturer in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Family Nurse Practitioner & Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner at the Psychiatric Association of Central Texas, in Austin, TX.

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Allison Vordenbaumen Benz is a graduate of the University of Texas, College of Pharmacy. She also completed a Master’s of Science degree in Pharmacy Administration at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to working at the Board, she worked as a community pharmacist in California and Texas. Allison has been an employee of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy since August 1994 and has served for 6-years as Senior Enforcement Officer, 3-years as Assistant Director of Enforcement, and 14-years as Director of Professional Services before being appointed to her present position on December 1, 2017. In her position as Executive Director, Allison serves as the chief executive officer of the agency and an ex-officio member and secretary of the Board.

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A former nurse and practicing attorney, Sarah Fontenot is a professional speaker who specializes in explaining how healthcare is changing and what those changes mean for healthcare providers. For the last decade, she has taught extensively for ACHE at the Congress on Healthcare Leadership, as faculty of the Board of Governor’s Review course and as the instructor of ACHE’s online course “A Review of Health Law.” Ms. Fontenot has taught for more than 20 years, teaching health law at Trinity University.

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Lunch time! Join us as we present the TIPHER award to one of our incredible sponsors.

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Ninfa, a public health educator at heart, has a strong passion to serve vulnerable populations. A native Texan, she lived in Georgia and Wisconsin as a young adult but returned to her home state in 1994. At that time, she relocated to El Paso, Texas, from Atlanta, Georgia, where her family made plans to settle down and put down roots. In 1997, she completed her masters in kinesiology with a focus in worksite health promotion from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Following her graduation, she secured an adjunct faculty position in the health science department at UTEP. Through this work, she was engaged in community health promotion programming that included addressing the health needs of a multi-ethnic community where nearly of 90% of the population are Hispanic/Latinos. This work spurred her desire to pursue a Ph.D. in health studies from Texas Woman’s University (TWU). Her first post-doctoral appointment was visiting Assistant Professor at TWU from 2005-2007. In 2007, she was awarded a one-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections fellowship and was among the first cohort to complete this program. Ninfa has focused most of her scholarship activities in chronic disease prevention and management, cultural competency, and health disparities research. Applying her expertise in curriculum development and adult learning, she created two culturally competent diabetes self-management education programs: ¡Si, Yo Puedo Controlar Mi Diabetes! (Si, Yo Puedo) and Wisdom, Power, Control. These programs are delivered through the leadership of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service county Extension agents and their community partners.

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