Long COVID Summit 2024
About the Summit Heading link
A Long COVID Summit, hosted by ASI Services, Bright Star Community Outreach, Illinois Unidos, and the UIC Office of Population Health Sciences is being convened on Thursday, September 12, 2024, from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm.
The summit will provide an update on the current research, strategies for raising public awareness and treating individuals with Long COVID, in addition to discussing the current federal programs and ideas for expansion.
The goals of the summit are to:
- Improve awareness by collecting, analyzing, reporting, and disseminating Long-COVID related public health data that drive change and track progress (Data)
- Improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of Long COVID by improving the quality of care delivered (Healthcare)
- Improve access to assistive services, including disability benefits (Policy)
- Build Capacity for Community Based Organizations to address Long COVID (Community)
Summit Agenda Heading link
| Time | Program | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00-8:05am | Welcome | Dr. Lynn Gerald (Assistant Vice Chancellor for Population Health Sciences, UI Health) |
| 8:05-8:15am | Opening Remarks from the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs | Dr. Robert A. Barish (Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, UI Health) |
| 8:15-8:30am | Welcome from Community Health Partners and Summit Goals | Marta Cerda (ASI Services), Felicia Davis Blakley, Alejandra L. Ibanez (Illinois Unidos), Elijah Kindred (Bright Star Community Outreach) |
| 8:30-9:00am | Definition of COVID-19 | Allison O'Donnell (Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, HHS) |
| 9:00-9:45am | Legislative Look at Long COVID | IL Senator Karina Villa |
| 9:45-10:00am | Long COVID: Lessons learned from the RECOVER observational study | Dr. Jerry Krishnan (UI Health) and Dr. Linda Sprague Martinez (UConn) |
| 10:00-10:30am | Long COVID: The RECOVER Clinical Trials | Dr. Kanecia Zimmerman (Duke) |
| 10:30-10:45am | Break | |
| 10:45-11:15am | Long COVID Data and Gaps | Dr. Olusimbo Ige (Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health) |
| 11:15-12:00pm | Panel: Long COVID Impact - Newly Disabled & systemic barriers to access services | Marta Cerda (Moderator, ASI Services) • Dr. Alba Azola (Johns Hopkins) • Dr. Zanthia Wiley (Emory) • Rahnee Patrick (Division for Rehab Services, IDHS) • Dr. Jonathan D. Klein (Stanford) • Dr. Catherine Counard (IDPH) • Beth Finta (Southern Illinois Center for Independent Living) |
| 12:00-12:45pm | Lunch Break - Conversation on Boston Community Recovery Cohort | Dr. Cheryl R. Clark (Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Harvard) |
| 12:45-1:30pm | Panel: Long COVID Impact on Minoritized communities | Felicia Davis-Blakley (Moderator) • Dr. Geraldine Luna (CDPH, UIC) • Teresa Akintonwa (Black COVID Survivors Group) • Dr. Neeta Thakur (UCSF) • Dr. Daniel Turner-Llovares (National Latino Coalition Against COVID) |
| 1:30-2:15pm | Impact of COVID on Medicaid Enrollment | Dr. Arvind Goyal (IL Medicaid Medical Director) |
| 2:15-2:45pm | AHRQ Long COVID Care Network | Poonam Pardasaney (AHRQ/CEPI) |