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Session: Providing Quality and Culturally Sensitive Multidisciplinary Health Care for Refugees and Immigrants
4014.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Providing Quality and Culturally Sensitive Multidisciplinary Health Care for Refugees and Immigrants
Speakers will discuss multidisciplinary services required to treat survivors of torture inlcuding mental health, legal and social services, describe appropriate residency curriculum and training methodologies to improve physicians’ knowledge of the medical and psychological sequelae of torture and enable them to participate in the assylum process, identify the uses of GIS technology to inventory and improve access to community health resources, and explain how novel communication and arts strategies can improve the psychosocial wellbeing of older refugees.
Learning Objectives: Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. Identify multidisciplinary services required to treat survivors of torture, 2. Describe appropriate residency curriculum to improve physicians’ knowledge of the medical and psychological sequelae of torture, 3. Discuss the use of GIS technology to improve access to community health resources, 4. Explain how novel communication strategies can improve the psychosocial wellbeing of refugees.
Moderator(s):Scott Parsons, JD
8:30 AMTeaching doctors to evaluate asylum applicants and torture survivors: Experiences from the Bronx Human Rights Clinic  [ Recorded presentation ]
Eva Metalios, MD, Ramin G. Asgary, MD, MPH, MSc, Clyde L. Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Galit Sacajiu, MD, MPH
8:45 AMComing home: Connecting Liberian elders with friends and family back home  [ Recorded presentation ]
Serena Chaudhry, MPH, MSW
9:00 AMBridging the gap: An inventory of Latino health resources  [ Recorded presentation ]
Stephanie Skillman, Juan Carlos Belliard, PhD, MPH
9:15 AMUse of a Multidisciplinary Services Model to Treat Refugees and Survivors of Torture and Related Trauma in the United States and to Train Public Health Students: The Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights  [ Recorded presentation ]
Joya Lonsdale, BA, Linda Piwowarczyk, MD, MPH
9:30 AMAssessment of the knowledge of stroke and cardiovascular disease among West African immigrants in US  [ Recorded presentation ]
Anthony M. Sallar, MPH, PhD, MBA, Mathew Adeyanju, PhD, CHES, Stephen Howard, PhD, Dziedzom Kumodzie, MHA
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health
Endorsed by:Latino Caucus; Maternal and Child Health; Socialist Caucus

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