Dr. Donna K. Arnett, Dean of the University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health, is joining and presenting at the Right Care Initiative in their upcoming Virtual University of Best Practices event on Monday, Feb. 14, 12-3 p.m. (PST). Event registration can be found here.
The Right Care Initiative project is a collaborative expert-based, public-private, long-term effort that draws on leadership from key partners, advisors, and participants to spread clinical best practices.
This event offers two CME credits and invites medical directors; nursing, pharmacy, and public health leaders; Right Care enthusiasts, and clinical quality improvement leaders.
Dr. Arnett joins a distinguished leadership team of speakers in academia and research in the areas of public health and clinical best practices. Dr. Arnett is presenting on the topic “Family History as a Predictor of Cardiovascular (CVD) Events & Role of Genetics in Hypertension."
“The field of genomics has exploded since the launch of the Human Genome Project in 1990,” says Dr. Arnett. “While we have gained tremendous insight into the familial and genetic contributions to cardiovascular disease, including hypertension, there remains a need for public health to focus on collections of family history and maintaining healthy lifestyles for prevention.”
Established in 2007 by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, The Right Care Initiative’s goal has been to apply scientific evidence and outcomes improvement strategies to reduce patient morbidity and mortality through a collaborative focus on achieving quality goals where performance metrics indicate that evidence-based, life-saving practices are not fully deployed.
Furthermore, they want to significantly enhance and save lives while preventing disability including cardiovascular disease, with particular emphasis on hypertension and lipid control; and diabetes, focused on heart attack and stroke prevention.
Dr. Arnett became Dean of the UK College of Public Health in 2016 and is a professor in the department of epidemiology. Prior, Dr. Arnett was the Associate Dean and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. With 24 years of continuous NIH funding, Dr. Arnett studies genes related to hypertensive disorders and organ damage that results from hypertension -- an interest she developed early in her career while working as a clinical research nurse.
Dr. Arnett is the past president of the American Heart Association (AHA) and led the AHA's Research Committee and Scientific Publishing Committee. Dr. Arnett is also an elected fellow of the AHA, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American Epidemiological Society.
