UNIITE - Health Care & World Religions Series - Latino/a Christians & Health Care

UNIITE - Understanding the Need for
Interfaith / Intercultural Togetherness & Education

Latino/a Christians and Health Care

TUESDAY
OCTOBER 24, 2006

TIME
8:30 am to 12:30 pm

LOCATION
Hoppe Auditorium
St. Cloud Hospital
1406 6th Avenue N
St Cloud, MN 56303

Direction to Hoppe Auditorium
Park in the north parking lot (the main visitor parking lot on the north end of the hospital). Enter Entrance E and follow the main corridor to Lobby D and the D Elevator. Take the D Elevator down one level to Level A. Turn left out of the elevator bay and Hoppe Auditorium is directly in front of you.

PRESENTER
H. Giovanni Antunez, M.D., Dr. Ph., Professor of Health at the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sport Science, College of Education, St. Cloud State University

ROLE PLAY RESOURCE & VIDEO
Dr. Jesus Lopez

CULTURAL PERFORMANCE
Alex Lopez

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Accreditation
Each education offering has been designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements for four (4.0) contact hours. It is the personal responsibility of each participant to determine whether this activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education by the licensing organization.

Registration fee
$30 per session (pre-registration)
$35 per session (at the door)

50% discount for full time students. Please include photocopy of student ID with registration when mailing check

Continental breakfast included.

Registration form can be downloaded at:
www.uniite.org/brochure/HCWRregistration.pdf

EVALUATION OF THIS EVENT

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

8:30 – 9:00 am
Salient history, geography, of country of origin; demographics of Latino/a Christians in Minnesota and how they got here
Presenter: Dr. Giovanni Antunez

9:00 – 9:10 am
What is my experience being a Latino/a Christian in St. Cloud? What brought me here?
Presenter: Dr. Jesus Lopez

9:10 – 9:20 am
Questions and Answers
Antunez & Lopez

9:20 – 9:30 am
Break

9:30 – 10:00 am
Salient religious and cultural characteristics of Latino/a Christians in Minnesota
Presenter: Dr. Giovanni Antunez

10:00 – 10:10 am
What aspects of my culture are vitally important to me? What aspects of my religion are vitally important in my thinking and practice?
Presenter: Dr. Jesus Lopez

10:10 – 10:20 am
Questions and Answers
Antunez & Lopez

10:20 – 10:30 am
Break

10:30 – 11:00 am
What health care related concerns of Latino/a Christians do health care professionals need to be aware of?
Presenter: Dr. Giovanni Antunez

11:00 – 11:10 am
Role play: Simulating an actual situation of a Latino/a Christian patient in a health care facility; a volunteer from the audience comes up to deal with the situation; patient & volunteer give feedback to each other at the end
Presenter: Dr. Jesus Lopez

11:10 – 11:20 am
Questions and Answers
Antunez & Lopez

11:20 – 11:30 am
Break

11:30 am – 11:40 am
Cultural performance
Alejandro Lopez
Mexican songs on guitar

11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Video presentation
"Girl Coming of Age" Celebration

12:00 pm - 12:30pm
Questions and Answers
Dr. Jesus Lopez , Dr. Giovanni Antunez, & Alejandro Lopez

HEALTH CARE & WORLD RELIGION SERIES
RELATED LINKS
Series Planning Phase
Phase A
Cultural Healing Festival

DOWNLOADABLE BROCHURE & FLYER
All files are in pdf format

Flyer

Brochure

SPONSOR LIST
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation
CentraCare Health Foundation
St. Cloud Hospital

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Centro Hispano
Carol Virnig
Adela Gross
Don Ottenhoff
Ana Maria Studer
Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota
Hmong Cultural Resource Center, Inc.
SASSO
SEWA-AIWF
Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota
Sally Griffin
Jean Gunderson
Dan McKanan
Frank Lee
Jocelyn Ancheta
Kathy Twohy
David Zander
Angie Wilson
Bruce Corrie
Cindy Eskandary
Mary Beth Nehl
Peggy LaDue
Gwen Dahlhoff
Joan Wilcox
Hani Mohamed
Julie Collins
Shivanthi Sathanandan
Bette Schnettler
Diane Tuff
Hedy Tripp
Robert C. Johnson
Paul Knutson
Tom Pendergast
Sandra Robin
Dia Cha

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

H. Giovanni Antunez, M.D., Dr. Ph.

Professor of Health at the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sport Science,
College of Education, SCSU

Taught courses and conducted workshops to medical students and health care providers on Latino/a Health,
Cultural Sensitivity, and Traditional Healing at Tulane University School of Medicine from 2000-2005

Since fall 2005, teaching several subjects at SCSU, including “International Health” and “Principles of Nutrition”;
will teach “Consumer Health” in fall 2006

A Honduran who is has special expertise on Mexican indigenous healing practices, for example, he and his wife Leyda are serving the St. Cloud Branch of the NAACP, she as a branch officer, he as a committee chair. The Antunez's have two sons. The family is new to Central Minnesota, yet already fully engaged in St. Cloud's strivings for systemic change.

Dr. Jesus H. Lopez Moreno, M.D.

Dr. Lopez was born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico. He was trained in medicine in Durango, Mexico. He practiced several years as a rural doctor before emigrating to the United States in 2002. Currently he is studying to take his medical Board exams for licensure in Minnesota. He has also been working for two years in and around St. Cloud as an interpreter helping Latino/a people communicate with their medical providers.

Alejandro Lopez

Mr. Lopez was born in Minnesota and raised in Texas as a son of migrant farm workers. He has lived with his wife Irma in St. Cloud since 1999. They have a daughter. He has played guitar in Mariachi bands for more than 15 years in Texas. He has performed in several cultural events in St. Cloud. He plays and sings in the bilingual choir of St. Joseph’s Parish, Waite Park, MN.

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