CenterNet Advisory Committee
C. Donald Combs, PhD, Chair,
Executive
Vice President for Planning and Program Development
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Roger J. Bulger, MD
President,
Association of Academic Health Centers
Marian Osterweis, PhD
Executive Vice President,
Association of Academic Health Centers
Clyde Evans, PhD
Vice President and Director,
American Network of Health Promoting Universities
Harold M. Mauer, MD
Chancellor,
University of Nebraska Medical
Center
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CenterNet, a resource and provider of education for clinicians,
patients, and their communities was established in 1994 by the
Association of Academic Health Centers (AHC). It provides timely
information on important topics of immediate interest, such as
developments in clinical practice, new emerging science technology,
managed care, healthcare and Medicare reform, privacy issues,
bioterrorism and other matters of federal and state health policy,
especially as they impact the health professions. CenterNet programs
consist of Key Opinion Leader forums conducted on a national, regional,
and local basis. In many cases these forums will also be distributed via
electronic means (television, audio, web), thereby fulfilling a core
mission of the Association of Academic Health Centers.
By linking academic health centers, community hospitals, veteran’s
hospitals, and other healthcare providers, CenterNet programs play a
vital role in enhancing interaction and the exchange of information
throughout the healthcare community. This initial concept was broadened
to include accredited Continuing Medical Education programming in the
form of special broadcasts and on-site symposia on currently relevant
topics, such as mental health, diabetes, asthma, pain management, HIV
and women's health. Clinician/patient communications, Clinical Grand
Rounds and Roundtables from the National Institutes of Health, and a
variety of "Partners" broadcasts originate at institutions from across
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CenterNet
works with organizations to establish and conduct healthcare
initiatives. It has engaged in productive working relationships with the
National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, VHA, the University Health System Consortium, the American
Association of Colleges of Nursing and numerous specialty societies. Key
links and participants in these initiatives are AHC university members.
In the
fall of 2001 the Association of Academic Health Centers established the
American Network of Health Promoting Universities for the purpose of
reaching out to communities especially those “underserved” with disease
prevention activities. CenterNet launched the Advances in Care™
physician/patient community model to best implement this mission of the
AHC and the Network.
Strategically located in the National Press Building in Washington, DC,
CenterNet in tandem with the AHC and its member university centers is
positioned to cover and react to national healthcare agendas and
developments that impact health professionals, patients, and their
communities.
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