Chronic Disease Management
Improving HIV Linkage to Care by Completing a Comprehensive Sexual History for Older Adults
Available On-demand Webinar Slides
ABOUT
This webinar addresses the impact of HIV linkage to care, barriers, and screening and assessment methods for older adults receiving comprehensive sexual histories, as well as the impact a delayed sexual history assessment has on HIV linkage to care. Participants will identify strategies to manage provider and patient barriers in completing comprehensive sexual history and identify screening questions and assessment methods to complete sexual history in older adults.
PRESENTERS
Christina Clayton, MS, BSN, RN
Director, Clinical Services, Renaye James Healthcare Advisors
As a dedicated healthcare leader, Christina has over 13 years’ experience as a nurse leader in community, hospital, health insurance, and regulatory settings.
Christina has had a valuable impact on healthcare quality improvement. She has had positions in nursing leadership, nursing management, case management, payer quality programs, program management, regulatory compliance, and nursing education.
Prior to Renaye James, as a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) nurse consultant, Christina provided accreditation oversight to Medicare’s acute care programs. She served as the program lead for Diabetes Self-Management Training and Home Infusion Therapy accreditation programs. Additionally, she was the clinical support for Rural Health and Federally Qualified Health Center programs. Christina provided oversight to national accreditation organizations and provides direction in the development of education material for state surveyors for those programs. Additionally, she was responsible for collaborating with other federal agencies and national associations.
As a program manager for Johns Hopkins Healthcare, LLC, Christina aligned measurable program goals with organization’s mission, and utilized quality improvement strategies and measurement to implement changes the health plan’s programs. Christina has been instrumental in improving the health of the community; as a Program Manager, she collaborated with external stakeholders to improve health outcomes and decrease high utilization of members within the Complex Case Management and Disease Management Program.
As a FQHC Clinical Manager, she has vast experience in health center operations, care management, health center budgeting, nursing management, and medical assistant supervision.
Christina has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Coppin State University (Baltimore, Maryland) and a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from Morgan State University (Baltimore, Maryland).
Sarah Schmalzle, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Sarah Schmalzle, MD, is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is also a hospitalist and consulting physician for the Baltimore County Department of Health Tuberculosis unit.
Dr. Schmalzle received her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College, which is now known as the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and completed an internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship training at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Dr. Schmalzle has 8 years of experience as the medical director of THRIVE, the adult HIV clinic at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and was instrumental in creating THRIVE’s HIV/Aging clinic models, ‘STRONG’ and ‘STRIVE to 100’. Interests include HIV care and prevention, HIV and aging, sexual health, tuberculosis, infections in people who inject drugs, and medical education.
The AAFP has reviewed this Physical Mental Wellness and Crisis Interventions for Health Centers training and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. The term of approval is for one year. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This live session is approved for 0.75 AAFP Elective credits. Elective credits are available for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and medical assistants. Attendance at the entire live training and the submission of a post-training evaluation are required to receive credit.
On-demand learning is not eligible for CME credits.
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,499,953 with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.