| Start Date: | 5/30/2014 | Start Time: | 4:30 PM |
| End Date: | 5/30/2014 | End Time: | 6:00 PM |
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Event Description
A few well known medical professionals as well as the President of the HERS (Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services Foundation) are coming to speak about AMWA initiatives such as alcohol awareness, sexual trauma, and gender equity/female health. The speakers will each present for 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions afterward. International cuisine will be available as well. During the event, AMWA will be selling raffle tickets that will ultimately go to help fund AMWA missions which help pressing global issues with the help of trained residents in undeserved communities. More info about the missions can be found at: www.amwa-doc.org. Raffle baskets will be displayed and winners will be announced at the end. There will be also time at the end to network or ask personalized questions to the speakers. Please feel free to reach out to the organization with any questions you may have!
The following presenters:
Mrs. Nora Coffey, President HERS foundation: Nora W. Coffey is the president of the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation. She has been a guest lecturer at medical schools, nursing schools, universities, and conferences. She has been on numerous television and radio shows
including 20/20, Oprah Winfrey, National Public Radio's Fresh Air and The Today Show. The HERS Foundation has counseled over 1,000,000 women. The overwhelming majority of women HERS counseled after being told they needed hysterectomies discovered that, in fact, they did not need the surgery. Often no treatment was needed. Coffey established the HERS Foundation in 1982 to meet the enormous and rapidly growing need for complete, accurate information about the alternatives to and adverse effects of hysterectomy. Women all over the world are not being informed about the multiplicity of physical, social, economic and political issues that originate with hysterectomy.
Steven Sust, MD:
Is currently Chief Resident of Outpatient Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry. After graduating from the George Washington University with special honors in Psychology, he went on to work for 5 years at the National Institute of Mental Health studying genetic contributions to intermediate phenotypes in schizophrenia. Afterwards, he completed medical school within his home state at the University of Virginia before coming back to Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania for psychiatry residency. Some of his current work includes the University of Pennsylvania’s PHIICAPS team who specializes in treatment of local at-risk urban children who have been victims of abuse, serving as volunteer physician at Drexel’s Free Chinatown Clinic which caters to Non-English speaking Asian immigrants, and senior resident at the University of Pennsylvania’s Southeast Asian Mental Health Program which is Philadelphia’s only program serving non-English speaking Asian immigrants suffering from significant mental illness. His interests in community medicine, developmental neuroscience, and Asian Mental Health lead to his decision to pursue further training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, which will start at Stanford University in July 2014.
Dr. Vincent J. Zarro, MD, PhD:
is the BTG (Bridging the Gaps) Clinical Program’s Medical Faculty Director. He is Assistant Dean for Student Services and Community Outreach Projects and Associate Professor of Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Zarro is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Rheumatology. He has received much recognition over the years, including awards for teaching, the Drexel University Humanism in Medicine award, and Rheumatologist of the Year award from the Arthritis Foundation of Pennsylvania. Dr. Zarro received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (now University of the Sciences in Philadelphia). He received his MD and PhD degrees in pharmacology and trained in internal medicine at Hahnemann University College of Medicine (now Drexel University). For more than 10 years, Dr. Zarro has been medical director of the Chinatown Clinic at Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church. The Clinic serves uninsured underserved populations, especially those in which culture and language impede access to care. |
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Location:
PISB, Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Room #104 |
Audience:
AlumniInternational StudentsLGBTQACurrent StudentsFacultyProspective StudentsPublicStaffGraduate StudentsSenior ClassParents & Families |
Special Features:
Free FoodGiveaways |
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