Save the Date: Elaine Alpert MD MPH 7th Annual Lynne Stevens Speaker
Intimate Partner Violence
Speaker: Elaine Alpert MD, MPH
Tuesday May 24, 2016
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Boston University School of Medicine
72 East Concord Street
Room L110 first floor
Attendees are cordially invited for lunch at 11:45 and
Q & A discussion from 1-2 following the lecture
Elaine Alpert MD, MPH, trained in internal medicine and public health, is an internationally-respected scholar and consultant in family violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking with expertise and experience in trauma-informed care, interprofessional and innovative educational methods, and strengthening the health sector’s role in the coordinated community response to violence and abuse across the lifespan. The Founding Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Violence Intervention and Prevention, Dr Alpert is the lead author of Intimate Partner Violence: the Clinician’s Guide to Identification, Assessment, Intervention and Prevention (6 th edition, 2015), as well as Human Trafficking: A Guidebook on Identification, Assessment, and Response in the Health Care Setting (2014). She has authored numerous additional important articles, guidebooks, curricula, and book chapters about family violence, sexual assault and human trafficking for physicians and other health care providers, and developed online continuing medical education about domestic and sexual violence for the Massachusetts Medical Society. She also served on the U.S. Institute of Medicine Committee on the Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence
Dr. Alpert’s 25-year academic career at Boston University Medical Center as a general internist, medical educator, public health faculty member, and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, was followed in 2009 by a Fulbright Fellowship to develop and teach interprofessional courses in violence prevention and in intervention planning for improving public health at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where she served as the Director of the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Program, and created the UBC Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) Connector. She also continues as a consultant to the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston regarding their research and publications regarding human trafficking ,and has engaged in on-site teaching, research and/or consulting in Asia , Pacific Islands and Central America. Dr. Alpert has received honors and awards from the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, Futures Without Violence