Conference Speakers

Preparing for Care of All Kinds– 1.25 CEU Hours Pending

Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, is the Director of Health for the City of St. Louis. Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis received her medical degree from Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and a Master’s in Public Health from Case Western Reserve University. She completed her internal medicine residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. She went on to complete her Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), also completing a one-year dedicated non-ACGME HIV fellowship and a two-year dedicated Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) fellowship.

\She was a Clinical Instructor, Associate Program Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases fellowship program, and in the leadership of the Office of Inclusion and Diversity at the Washington University School of Medicine. She was also an Infectious Diseases physician at the John Cochran VA Medical Center, where she was the Lead HIV Clinician, Graduate Medical Education Coordinator, and Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy supervisor.

Her passion for community engagement, health equity, and patients living with HIV (PLWH), culminated in her becoming the co-chair of the Fast Track Cities initiative in St. Louis, and later appointed to the City of St. Louis Board of Health. Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis is now a national and international medical contributor on COVID-19, focusing on marginalized populations and has been featured in outlets such as CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, and Newsweek, among others. She is also an Associate Editor for Disparities and Competent Care for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

The Ethics of Running a Business Based on Human Lives-1.25 CEU Hours Pending

Doug Whitman earned a Doctor of Science in Healthcare Management from the University of Alabama Birmingham. He earned an MBA at Duke University and his undergraduate degree at the University of Arkansas. He is currently an MHA program lead and assistant professor of Health Administration in the Walker School of Business & Technology at Webster University in St. Louis. He began teaching Healthcare Management at the University of North Carolina in 2014.

Prior to entering academia, Whitman served in various healthcare leadership positions for 20 years, including president of small nonprofit healthcare organization, vice president of a large national healthcare company and director of strategic growth for a mid-sized regional healthcare company. Most recently, he was a healthcare consultant specializing in crisis change management. Professional licenses include licensed nursing home administrator and licensed assisted living administrator. Before entering healthcare, he was CEO of a technology startup, senior vice president of a broadcasting company, and managing director of an investment bank.

Empowering Your Staff to Provide the Best Care- How APRNs Can Influence Improved Care and Safeguard Older Adults-1 CEU Hour Pending

Dr. Alisha Harvey Johnson PhD, RN, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri, Sinclair School of Nursing and Director of Aging in Place Services at TigerPlace. She is proud to teach the next generation of Gerontological Nurses at MU and her research focuses on understanding the complex care of older adults and how nursing care models can improve the lives of an aging population. Using systems and team/organizational theories, she seeks to understand how the nursing profession can improve organizational environments such as long-term care settings as well as how nursing care models can improve the lives of aging adults to maximize healthy aging in the place of their choosing. She is specifically interested in understanding how utilization of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in care of older adults, inside and outside of the institutional setting, contributes to sustained positive outcomes, reduces hospitalizations, and positively influences all levels of nursing.