{"id":60750,"date":"2019-07-26T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?p=60750"},"modified":"2019-10-29T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:39:43","slug":"pike-lecture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/2019\/07\/26\/pike-lecture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pike Lecture featuring Scott Allen, MD, FACP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-445x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\" wp-image-62053 alignright\" width=\"322\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-445x636.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-1433x2048.jpg 1433w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-578x826.jpg 578w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-477x682.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-722x1032.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-925x1321.jpg 925w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-241x344.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-370x529.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-482x688.jpg 482w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-740x1058.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-955x1364.jpg 955w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-1156x1652.jpg 1156w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-1445x2064.jpg 1445w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-1849x2642.jpg 1849w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-700x1000.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/07\/Borrego_Health-Riverside-Allen-scaled.jpg 1792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/>Family Detention and the Duty of the Medical Profession<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Monday, November 11th, 2019 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>12:45 &#8211; 2:00pm <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BU School of Law<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Barristers Hall<br \/>\n<\/strong><!-- You can customize this button any way you like --><br \/>\n<button id=\"eventbrite-widget-modal-trigger-74721011557\" type=\"button\">Register today<\/button><br \/>\n<noscript><\/a>Buy Tickets on Eventbrite<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/static\/widgets\/eb_widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    var exampleCallback = function() {\r\n        console.log('Order complete!');\r\n    };\r\n\r\n    window.EBWidgets.createWidget({\r\n        widgetType: 'checkout',\r\n        eventId: '74721011557',\r\n        modal: true,\r\n        modalTriggerElementId: 'eventbrite-widget-modal-trigger-74721011557',\r\n        onOrderComplete: exampleCallback\r\n    });\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scott Allen is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine where he was formerly Chair of the Department of Medicine and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>At age seventeen, responding to news reports of starving Cambodians at the Thai border, he quit high school and flew to Thailand where he found work in the border refugee camps, and where he worked for much of the next five years.\u00a0 After returning to the U.S. and completing medical studies and residency at Brown University, he served in the National Health Service Corps in community health centers in the Mississippi Delta and Rhode Island.\u00a0 He then worked at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, ultimately serving as state medical director for its jails and prisons, and later worked at the state psychiatric hospital.\u00a0 In 2011, he came to California as a founding faculty member of the new medical school at UC Riverside.<\/p>\n<p>He co-founded the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at Brown University and has served as a Medical Advisor for Physicians for Human Rights for over a decade.\u00a0 At PHR he helped uncover the medical participation in the U.S. torture program and co-authored a number of reports on the harms of the U.S. interrogation program in the post 9\/11 era.<\/p>\n<p>In California, inspired by the unmet needs of his own developmentally disabled son, he and his wife co-founded the Access Clinic, a novel primary care clinic for adults with developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>He currently serves as a medical consultant for the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security monitoring medical care in immigration detention facilities.\u00a0 In 2018, in response to the family separation and rapid expansion of family detention, he and colleague Dr. Pamela McPherson made protected disclosures to Congress regarding imminent threats to the health and safety of children with the assistance of the Government Accountability Project.\u00a0 For those efforts, he was co-recipient of the 2019 Ridenhour Prize and the 2019 Physicians for Human Rights Award.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Pike Lecture on Health Law is held in honor of BU Law alumnus Neal Pike (\u201837), a distinguished lawyer and lifelong advocate for individuals with disabilities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Detention and the Duty of the Medical Profession Monday, November 11th, 2019 12:45 &#8211; 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