Annual Lectures
Tenth Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecture
“A Strengths-Based Approach to Screening Patients and Families for Social Needs”
Guest presenters:
Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD
JoHanna Flacks, JD
Screening for health-related social needs presents unique opportunities as well as challenges for providers and patients alike. Identifying and
addressing social needs (e.g., like those included in BMC’s THRIVE screener) can promote health and stability for patients and families while
containing health care costs. Screening itself, however, can be awkward and is not risk-free. Dr. Renee Boynton-Jarrett and Attorney JoHanna
Flacks will be presenting a set of recommendations they have developed to guide health care teams in understanding how patients may
experience this type of screening, so that it can be done in a way that minimizes harm while supporting family strengths and access to
appropriate resources.
Tuesday October 1st, 2019
12:00 – 1:00 PM
FGH Conference Room
Lunch will be provided
Fifth & Sixth Annual Lynne Stevens Lecture
Sixth Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Mr. Juan Ramos
Core Trainer & Anti-Sexism Activist, A Call to Men
Executive Director, Domestic Violence Compliance Program, Community Driven Solutions
Former Senior Program Director, Domestic Violence Accountability Program, Safe Horizons
Tuesday April 21, 2015
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Boston University School of Medicine
72 East Concord Street
Heibert Lounge 14th floor
Attendees are cordially invited for lunch at 11:45 and
Q & A discussion from 1-2 with Mr. Ramos following the lecture
Mr. Juan Ramos is an anti-sexism activist and Core Trainer from the nationally known advocacy organization A CALL TO MEN. Mr. Ramos is the current and former director for leading batterer intervention programs and a long-time victim advocate, a community leader and activist regarding social change, education, housing, gang violence and community reentry, co-chair of New York City Congress for Puerto Rican Rights, and the 2008 winner of EL award in recognition of the most influential man in the Tri-State Latino community.
Lynne Stevens, LCSW, BCD (1946-2009) was the director of the Responding to Violence Against Women Program and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She was a clinician, activist and researcher who worked locally, nationally and internationally, specializing in evaluation of the quality of care offered to women who were victims of violence.
Fifh Annual Lynne Stevens Lecture
Fifth Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecturer
Carole Warshaw MD
Director of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
Executive Director of the Domestic Violence & Mental Health Policy Initiative in Chicago
Topic: Trauma-informed Services: Implications for Healthcare Providers and Systems
Carole Warshaw, M.D., an internist and a psychiatrist, chaired the committee that wrote the AMA Guidelines on Domestic Violence and has served on the National Research Council Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions, the Family Violence and Abuse and Childhood Trauma committees of the American Psychiatric Association and the AMA National Advisory Council on Family Violence and is currently a member of the SAMHSA Advisory Committee on Women’s Services. Dr. Warshaw speaks about domestic violence, trauma, mental health and psychiatric disabilities both nationally and internationally and has published numerous articles and chapters on these issues. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois
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Fourth Annual Lynne Stevens Lecture
Fourth Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecturer
Brigid McCaw MD, MPH, MS, FACP
Medical Director, Violence Prevention Program Kaiser-Permanente Northern California
Topic: Transforming the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence: Lessons from Kaiser Permanente
Dr. McCaw oversees the implementation of a comprehensive, coordinated approach for improving identification and services for intimate partner violence across all the Kaiser Permanente regions and participates in research and teaching. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, serves on the Institute of Medicine Forum on Global Violence Prevention, and is Chair-elect for the National Health Collaborative for Abuse and Violence. Dr. McCaw received her MS from the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, MPH from the UCB School of Public Health, MD from UCSF, and did her Internal Medicine residency at UC Davis.
Dr. McCaw also consulted regarding how Kaiser addresses DV among employees to a group ( including public safety, Occupational Health, Human Resources, BU FASAO, Wellness, Employee engagement, etc) convened for her visit to address the needs of BMC and BU employees who may be victims of DV
Third Annual Lynne Stevens Lecture
Third Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecturer
Elizabeth Miller, MD PhD
Chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Topic: Adolescent Relationship Abuse and Unintended Pregnancy: Rethinking Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Sexual Health Promotion.
Dr. Elizabeth Miller is Chief of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Trained in medical anthropology as well as Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Dr. Miller’s research has included examination of sex trafficking among adolescents in Asia, teen dating abuse, and reproductive health, with a focus on underserved youth populations including pregnant and parenting teens, foster, homeless, and gang-affiliated youth. Her current research focuses on the impact of gender-based violence on young women’s reproductive health. She has conducted NIH funded research pilot testing a brief clinical intervention to address partner violence and reproductive coercion in reproductive health care settings in collaboration with Planned Parenthood, leading to a large randomized controlled trial. She is also researching preventative interventions with high school coaches and male athletes, funded by the CDC. Internationally, she works to reduce gender-based violence and improve women’s health in India, Japan and Kenya.
Second Annual Lynne Stevens Lecture
Second Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecturer:
Karin Rhodes MD MS
Director, Division of Emergency Care Policy & Research , Dept of Emergency Medicine School of Social Policy & Practice University of Pennsylvania
Topic: What Are We Going To Do About What We Know?: Improving Healthcare’s Response To Patient-Disclosed Intimate Partner Violence And Other Psychosocial Risks
Karin Rhodes, MD MS, has been a principal investigator on a number of federally-funded projects targeted at intimate partner violence (IPV) and public health, including a RCT of computer screening that enrolled over 800 women patients at two emergency departments to assess provider-patient IPV communication outcomes and a study tracking the health and safety of women victims of domestic violence involved inthe criminal justice system. With an overall goal of developing an effective clinical response for IPV with both men and women, Dr. Rhodes is interested in both broader system-level interventions and the more contextual and cultural aspects of health among primarily urban men and women who are willing to disclose risk factors for IPV (both victimization and perpetration) in a health care setting.
First Annual Lynne Stevens Lecture
