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Capitol Hill Lunch Briefing - September 12, 2007

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As part of the Sept. 12, 2007 Health Professions Leadership Capitol Hill Day, HPNEC sponsored a lunch briefing, "Who Will Care for You? How the Title VII & VIII Programs Improve the Supply, Distribution, and Diversity of the Health Professions Workforce," for Congressional staff and Hill Day participants.	Angela Jackson, MD, describes the impact of a 54 percent cut to the Title VII primary care training grants in FY 2006, as fellow panelists, Evelyn Simpkins, MD, and Anthony Miller, MEd, PA-C, listen.	Panelists Anthony Miller, MEd, PA-C, Karen Capen Stearns, RN, CCRN, and Angela Jackson, MD, watch as Evelyn Simpkins, MD, describes how her participation in a Title VII HCOP program at Michigan State University helped guide her career.
The panel of speakers (from left), Evelyn Simpkins, MD, Anthony Miller, MEd, PA-C, Karen Capen Stearns, BS, BSN, RN, CCRN, and Angela Jackson, MD, described the importance of full funding to allow Title VII & VIII to continue to support the training of health professionals to meet the needs of our diverse population.	Offering her firsthand experience with the Title VII primary care training programs, Angela Jackson, MD, of Boston University Medcial Center spoke to the need for additional primary care providers and the role of Title VII in training such providers.	As the only nursing student at the University of Maryland, School of Nursing to receive funding through the Title VIII Nursing Faculty Loan Program, Karen Capen Stearns, BS, BSN, RN, CCRN, described how federal funding for Title VIII was instrumental to her career decisions.
Evelyn Simpkins, MD, a Fellow in Adolescent Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, shared the story of an aspiring physician who, like herself, could benefit from the mentorship and support offered through the Title VII HCOP and COE programs.	Anthony Miller, MEd, PA-C, Associate Professor and Director of Physician Assistant Studies at Shenandoah University, reflected on the negative impact of lost funding for the Title VII programs.