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Building Trust, Delivering Care: A Holistic Approach to Community-Based Health

Access to care is about more than just whether health care services are available. Where and how care is delivered shapes the relationships between clinicians and the communities they serve. ...

Through its Health-at Home Community Pop-Up Clinic, Southern Regional Medical Center is bringing preventative care, chronic disease support, medication counseling, and other health services directly to residents of high-density housing communities in Clayton County, Georgia.

This conversation explores what the Southern Regional Medical Center team is learning about meeting patients where they are, building trust through community-based care, and training the next generation of physicians. Drs. Claudia Fotzeu Toukam and Darra Edwards will share practical approaches to engaging patients, responding to community needs, and preparing the next generation of clinicians to deliver care grounded in trust.

Speakers:
Claudia Fotzeu Toukam, MD, MPH, FACP, the prime investigator on the HHCPC grant and is the Graduate Medical Education Program Director at Prime Healthcare

Darra Edwards, Pharm.D., MSOL/HCM, BCPS, BCCCP, supports the HHCPC grant and is the Corporate 340B Program Director at Prime Healthcare

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Building Trust, Delivering Care: A Holistic Approach to Community-Based Health
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Building Trust, Delivering Care: A Holistic Approach to Community-Based Health
Access to care is about more than just whether health care services are available. Where and how care is delivered shapes the relationships between clinicians and the communities they serve. ...

Through its Health-at Home Community Pop-Up Clinic, Southern Regional Medical Center is bringing preventative care, chronic disease support, medication counseling, and other health services directly to residents of high-density housing communities in Clayton County, Georgia.

This conversation explores what the Southern Regional Medical Center team is learning about meeting patients where they are, building trust through community-based care, and training the next generation of physicians. Drs. Claudia Fotzeu Toukam and Darra Edwards will share practical approaches to engaging patients, responding to community needs, and preparing the next generation of clinicians to deliver care grounded in trust.

Speakers:
Claudia Fotzeu Toukam, MD, MPH, FACP, the prime investigator on the HHCPC grant and is the Graduate Medical Education Program Director at Prime Healthcare

Darra Edwards, Pharm.D., MSOL/HCM, BCPS, BCCCP, supports the HHCPC grant and is the Corporate 340B Program Director at Prime Healthcare

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Bright Spots in Professionalism | Reclaiming Values Through Advocacy, Accountability, and Community
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Bright Spots in Professionalism | Reclaiming Values Through Advocacy, Accountability, and Community
What does professionalism in medicine mean in today’s health care system, and how must it evolve? In this inspiring ABIM Foundation Forum 2025 session, speakers explore the intersections of advocacy, ...moral injury, physician burnout, and medical professionalism.
They share personal stories of patients and clinicians, highlight the impact of silence from institutions, and call for a new vision of professionalism rooted in trust, equity, and collective action.

00:00 – Introduction
01:08 – Advocacy and Professionalism
02:20 – Professionalism in Practice
03:12 – Revolutionary Acts Once Considered Unprofessional
03:41 – Structural Factors in Medicine
07:25 – Kaiser Model & Governance
09:21 – Physicians and Unions
13:55 – Advocacy Story: Hilda’s Case
16:41 – Six Strategies for Policy Change
24:48 – Policy Challenges Today
25:12 – Dungeons & Dragons & Hospital Policy
27:01 – Three True Stories
30:47 – Policy Override Policy
34:01 – Good Trouble & Professionalism
42:14 – Advocacy as a Core Competency
46:17 – Administrator–Clinician Collaboration
47:41 – Moral Injury & Professionalism
50:59 – Innovation & Defining Problems
55:09 – Current Unprecedented Times
59:59 – Collective Advocacy & Hope
01:02:12 – The Role of Language & Narratives
01:07:12 – Can Physicians Unite?

Speakers
• LaShyra “Lash” Nolen, MD, MPP – We Got Us, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA – Stanford University
• Lilia Cervantes, MD – University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Brad Spellberg, MD, FIDSA, FACP – Los Angeles General Medical Center

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Trust Starts with Hello: Simplifying Health Conversations
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Trust Starts with Hello: Simplifying Health Conversations
With decades of experience in government, academia, and hospital medicine, Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick has witnessed the profound impact of mistrust and miscommunication in health care, particularly among Black Americans, who ...often face higher levels of earned mistrust and inequitable health outcomes.

Through her “Dr. Lisa on the Street” interview series, she was able to speak directly to community members to demystify health information and empower patients to make more informed health decisions.

Now at Grapevine Health, she continues to champion health literacy through accessible, engaging content that fosters trust between patients and the health care system.

Moderator: Jessica Perlo, MPH
Speaker: Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPA, MPH

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Building Trust at Scale | Sreekanth Chaguturu, MD
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Building Trust at Scale | Sreekanth Chaguturu, MD
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New Perspectives on Trust in American Health Care | Tony Mills, PhD, MA and Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH
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New Perspectives on Trust in American Health Care | Tony Mills, PhD, MA and Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH
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Learning Network Webinar – The Patient Affordability Framework
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Learning Network Webinar – The Patient Affordability Framework
Dr. Reshma Gupta and September Wallingford from Costs of Care shared information about the Patient Affordability Framework. This framework helps health systems and care teams develop strategies to make care ...more affordable for patients and avoid financial harm. Renee Firato, a patient affiliated with Family Reach, a nonprofit organization that provides financial support for families facing cancer, was our patient reactor.

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Bridging the Gap Between Medicine and Public Health
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Bridging the Gap Between Medicine and Public Health
Founded in 2025, the National Public Health Coalition is working to help the public and policymakers better understand the essential role of public health.

This conversation explores why clear, ...
digestible messaging – especially for the “moveable middle” – is necessary now more than ever, and what it takes to break down silos between medicine and public health. Speakers discuss practical strategies to more effectively engage patients and communities, how to translate complex health information into meaningful messages that resonate, and the importance of building trust and improving care during a time of growing uncertainty in health care.  

Speakers:
Abby Tighe, MPH, founder and Executive Director of the National Public Health Coalition

Laura Sessums, JD, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the American Board of Internal Medicine

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Trusted Partnerships: How Primary Care Can Navigate Mistrust in Medicine
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Trusted Partnerships: How Primary Care Can Navigate Mistrust in Medicine
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From Principles to Practice: Advancing Trustworthiness in Health Care
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From Principles to Practice: Advancing Trustworthiness in Health Care
Philip Alberti, PhD and Reggie Tucker-Seeley, MA, ScM, ScD, FASCO explore how and why the Principles of Trustworthiness use equity-focused language to help bridge the gap between health care institutions ...and the communities they serve. They also introduce a practical four-phase cycle—Listen, Reflect, Act, Revisit—and how it can guide institutions in becoming more trustworthy partners over time.

00:00 Introduction & Why Trust Matters
00:45 Trust Must Be Earned, Not Assumed
01:09 Why Invest in Trustworthiness
01:55 “Mistrust Is Data” Explained
03:03 Origins of the Trustworthiness Principles
05:09 Pandemic Lessons & Community Mistrust
07:27 Accountability Beyond “Checking the Box”
08:20 Declining Trust in Health Care
10:10 Professionalism & Trustworthiness
13:17 The Importance of Shared Language
16:20 Trustworthy vs. Untrustworthy Communication
18:44 Applying Trustworthiness in Clinical Practice
20:53 The 4-Step Framework: Listen, Reflect, Act, Revisit
22:16 “We Don’t Trust You Yet” – Listening First
24:08 From Talk to Action (Why Structure Matters)
25:25 Why “Statements Without Action” Fail
28:27 Why This Work Never Ends
31:23 Acknowledging Past Harm
35:58 Repairing Trust in Real Time
36:41 Moving at the Speed of Trust
41:40 Advice for Getting Started
44:56 Performative vs. Real Commitment
50:27 Rebuilding the Social Contract
52:45 Scaling Trust Beyond Individuals

Speaker:
Philip Alberti, PhD, founding director of the AAMC Center for Health Justice

Moderator:
Reggie Tucker-Seeley, MA, ScM, ScD, FASCO, principal and owner of Health Equity Strategies and Solutions and a member of the ABIM Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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Information Sick: Trust, Medicine, and Media
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Information Sick: Trust, Medicine, and Media
As the information environment becomes increasingly fragmented and polarized, misinformation is reshaping how the public understands health, medicine, and science. In this recorded conversation, speakers discuss how this “information sickness” ...— amplified by social media and limited accountability in digital spaces — affects patients, clinicians, and health care institutions alike. Speakers explore what it means to practice medicine in a climate of uncertainty and eroding trust, and emphasize the shared responsibility for addressing health misinformation. Reflections include how professionalism can help clinicians navigate challenging conversations, engage patients with humility and clarity, and strengthen trust as a foundation for better care.


SPEAKERS:
Joanne Kenen is a nationally recognized health journalist and Journalist in Residence at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who writes for Politico and frequently speaks on media, politics, and public health.

Joshua Sharfstein, MD is Vice Dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, former Maryland Health Secretary and FDA Deputy Commissioner, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP (Moderator) is Chief Medical Officer for Medicare at Aetna/CVS Health, a practicing internist, and a health care leader in value-based care and clinical strategy.

00:00 – Why “information sickness” is more than just misinformation.
02:30 – How health misinformation shows up in the exam room.
03:10 – How the collapse of local journalism and civic trust changed the information ecosystem.
05:25 – Why misinformation isn’t about intelligence — it’s about trust and information sources.
10:45 – What “Information Sickness” really means
15:20 – Why patients trust clinicians — but not institutions.
20:25 – What the data tells us about persuasion limits — and where to focus instead.
24:50 – The psychology of identity, belief, and resistance.
28:00 – How dismissiveness erodes credibility.
30:30 – What modern professionalism requires from clinicians.
35:40 – Why proactive communication is more effective than reactive correction.
41:15 – The role of Medical Professionalism
47:00 – Working with trusted community leaders and networks.
52:00 – How digital platforms reshape what we see — and what we believe.
56:10 – Rebuilding Trust in a Polarized Environment
59:00 – Final Reflections & Call to Action

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How to build trust at your organization (2022-02-15)
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How to build trust at your organization (2022-02-15)
Is your institution trying to rebuild trust, but you don’t know where to start? Or do you have success stories that would help others learn, but don’t know how to ...share them?

The ABIM Foundation’s Building Trust initiative was created to increase conversation, research and best practices to elevate trust as an essential organizing principle for improving health care. Hear from health care leaders about their efforts to build trust at their organizations. Micah T. Prochaska, MD, MSc, FHM, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Donna Cryer, JD, President & CEO of the Global Liver Institute, and Daniel Wolfson, MHSA, Executive Vice President & COO of the ABIM Foundation, will discuss the tools they used, challenges they faced, and the successes they saw.

Find our suite of free resources that can be customized for any organization here: https://buildingtrust.org/avenues-for-engagement-in-the-building-trust-initiative/

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Providing Support Following a Patient Harm Event
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Providing Support Following a Patient Harm Event
Thomas H. Gallagher, M.D., general internist, Associate Chair for Patient Care Quality, Safety, and Value, and Professor at the University of Washington, and Carole Hemmelgarn, MS, MS, Senior Director of ...Education for the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety, and Senior Director for the Executive Master’s program for Clinical Quality, Safety & Leadership at Georgetown University discuss how UW Medicine’s Communication and Resolution Program (CRP) seeks to provide support for patients, families, and involved clinicians following a patient harm event by promoting empathic, transparent, and ongoing communication about what happened and what patients and families most need in its wake.

(2021-12-14)

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