Sessions
Train the Trainer for Person-centered care
1:15 PM - 5:30 PM Wed
An Efficient PATH to Person-centered Care
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Thu
Patty Cason is a family nurse practitioner, trainer, and educator with a specialty in sexual and reproductive health. She has practiced for over 40 years in a wide variety of clinical and academic settings and is an Assistant Clinical Professor and lecturer at the UCLA School of Nursing. Her goal is centering patients with a sex-positive, trauma-informed, anti-racist lens. Patty is a contracted consultant to training agencies, non-profits, and state departments of health across the United States. She developed the PATH framework and ASA Cycles for person-centered communications and counseling. Patty serves on the board of directors for the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and the National Medical Committee for Planned Parenthood. She wrote a seminal chapter on person-centered counseling for the 21st Edition of Contraceptive Technology and is the lead author for the 22nd Edition. Other publications include research and opinion pieces in peer reviewed journals, instructional videos, nationally utilized on-line learning courses, textbook chapters, clinical protocols, job aids, and manuals.