Health Literacy Conference
Date: October 18, 2024 - October 19, 2024
Patient Safety Through the Eyes of Health Literacy
The Health and Wellness Education department at Sidra Medicine is hosting its fourth Health Literacy Conference from 18 to 19 October 2024.
Themed as "Patient Safety through the eyes of health literacy”, this year’s conference, in recognition of October’s International Health Literacy month, will focus on the critical role of health literacy in ensuring patient safety among healthcare professionals, policymakers, educators, and patients themselves.
Health literacy is crucial for maintaining patient safety in healthcare settings as individuals with higher levels of health literacy are better equipped to comprehend medical information, navigate healthcare settings, and adhere to treatment plans effectively. Conversely, limited health literacy often leads to misunderstandings, errors in medication intake, missed appointments, and overall poorer health outcomes.
By fostering a culture of comprehensive health literacy, healthcare professionals can empower patients to make informed decisions about their health, thereby reducing medical errors and promoting safer healthcare practices.
Conference Objectives
- Discuss the critical role of health literacy in ensuring patient safety among healthcare professionals, policymakers, educators, and patients themselves.
- Discuss strategies to enhance patient safety thorough the implication of health literacy principles among patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers
- Facilitate collaboration between healthcare stakeholders, including providers, educators, universities researchers, policymakers, and patient advocates, to develop and implement effective strategies for improving health literacy and patient safety across the healthcare setting
Target Audience
- Physicians
- Nurses and midwives
- Allied Health professionals
- Health and wellness educators
- Pharmacists
- Public health experts
- Students from different Health sectors (Medical, Nursing, allied health, Pharmacy, and public health)
Scientific Committee
- Amal Al-Farsi - Manager- Health and Wellness Education(chair)
- Fatima Al-Maslamani- Health and Wellness educator (co-chair)
- Duane Wong Director - Allied Health Dept
- Maher M. Salem - Head - Inpatient Narcotic Pharmacy
- Sumera Farhan- Lead - Patient Safety
- Wisal Salih - Senior Lecturer-College of Health Sciences (UDST)
- Dr. Ghadir Fakhri Al Jayyousi-Alsalim- Assistant Professor of Public Health-College of Health Sciences (Qatar University)
- Dr. Abdulwahed Zainel- Attending Physician-Infectious Disease
- Ogra Marufu- Manager-Infection Prevention and Control
- Madeline Oliver- Clinical Nurse Manager - General Medicine
- Mohammed Amer- Clinical Nurse Educator - Practice Development
- Nqobile Sigola- Clinical Nurse Manager - NICU
- Dr. Manal Musallam Othman- Director of Patient Education-Diabetes (HMC)
- Dr. Amani Elkhatim- Health Promotion & Non - Communicable Diseases Division (Ministry of Public Health)
- Dr. Shimous Shamseldin- Lead -national for the Patient Safety Program (Ministry of Public Health)
- Dr. Murtada Hammad- Manager - Graduate Medical Education
- Alaa Shurrab- Specialist – Quality
Speakers
- Dr. Dina Schnurman. Executive Director - Quality, Patient Experience and Health
- Dr. Shimous Mohammed Elamin Shams Eldin. Lead -national for the Patient Safety Program (MOPH)
- Dhouha Hamdani. Lead, National Program for IPC Healthcare Quality Department (MOPH)
- Wisal Salih. Senior Lecturer-College of Health Sciences (UDST)
- Dr. Sandra Luebrata Holmes. Director - Nursing (Education, Prof Practice & Standards) (Sidra Medicine)
- Dr. Yazeed Eldos. Medical Director of the Qatar Poison Center) (Sidra Medicine)
- Prof. Mowafa Househ. Professor-College of Science and Engineering (HBKU)
- Dr. Hussain Alsharshani. Patient educator -Medicine (HMC)
- Dr. Hanadi AlHamad. Deputy Chief for Rehabilitation, Geriatric Long-Term Care, and Special education (HMC)
- Aljori Al-Ajji. Health and Wellness Educator (Sidra Medicine)
- Sumera Farhan. Manager- Patient Safety (Sidra Medicine)
- Jamie Marie Gray. Director of the Health Sciences Library (Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar)
- Dr. Ghadir Fakhri Al Jayyousi-Alsalim. Assistant Professor of Public Health (QU)