| Start Date: | 10/9/2013 | Start Time: | 12:15 PM |
| End Date: | 10/10/2013 | End Time: | 1:15 PM |
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Event Description
Drexel University Public Health & Medicine Seminar Series presents “Crowdsourcing, Social Media, and Public Health”: Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP
Lunch Provided before Seminar in Lobby area – First Come, First Served
Dr. Merchant is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Internal Medicine. She is also the Director of the inaugural University of Pennsylvania Social Media and Health Innovation Lab.
Her research interest is in diffusion of innovation, social media, public health, and resuscitation science. Her work involves development and testing of health related mobile apps and she has conducted several projects evaluating health communication on social/mobile media sites like Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, Gigwalk, and others. She additionally runs a Twitter lab which analyzes tweets related to resuscitation, critical care, and public health/policy. Much of her work bridges new technologies in the field of cardiovascular health. In this context, she is the Director of the MyHeartMap Challenge—a social media and crowdsourcing project aimed at improving AED access and awareness by engaging the public to serve as citizen scientist.
Target Audience: Public health professionals, physicians, nurses, and health care practitioners.
Learning Objectives - Participants will be able to:
• Gain a better understanding of the uses and adoption of social media tools for health care research
• Review opportunities and limitations for applying crowdsourcing methodologies to public health cardiovascular health challenges
• Evaluate lessons learned from using digital strategies for non healthcare disciplines to research and education projects related to health and healthcare
Accreditation Statement
Drexel University College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement: The Drexel University College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AOA: This program is eligible for 1 credit in Category 2A of the American Osteopathic Association.
PA Board of Nursing: This program is eligible for 1 credit from the PA Board of Nursing.
Faculty Disclosure Statement
Speakers at continuing medical education activities are required to disclose to the audience any financial relationships with the manufacturer(s) of any commercial products, goods or services. Any conflicts of interest must be resolved prior to the presentation and announced to the audience.
Faculty Disclosure: Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP has no commercial relationships to disclose.
The following Planning Committee members have no commercial relationships to disclose: Dr. Ted Corbin, Jennifer Kolker, MPH, and Eleanor Lippmann.
For information, please contact:
Ted Corbin, MD, MPP at tcorbin@drexelmed.edu
http://publichealth.drexel.edu/Events/Event-Detail/5043/eventid--1599/month--201310/ |
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Location:
New College Building, Alumni Hall |
Audience:
AlumniCurrent StudentsFacultyProspective StudentsPublicStaff |
Special Features:
Free Food |
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