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Academy on Violence and Abuse 2024 Global Health Summit

September 12-13, 2024

Join us in Washington, DC, In-Person or Virtual

AAMC Learning Center

“Health Education About and Advocacy Against Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan”

For more information, Contact: Academy on Violence and Abuse

4505 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, Florida 32207

Phone: 952-974-3270

Email: info@avahealth.org

 

Global Health Summit Agenda

Day 1

September 12, 2024

Plenary Sessions

  • Opening Keynote – To be announced
  • ACES Health Champions Update
    • Faculty:  Tasneem Ismailji, MD
  • Innovations and Challenges in Trauma-Informed Medical Education:  Trauma Informed Health Care Education and Research Collaborative (TIHCER)
    • Faculty: Ellen Goldstein PhD, MFT, Taylor Brown MD,  Courtney Barr, PsyD, MS, Binny Chokshi MD, Martina Jelley, MD, MSPH
  • Vincent J. Felitti Distinguished Scholar Award presentation – To Be Announced
  • AVA Change Maker Award Presentation – To Be Announced  

Breakout Sessions & Posters

  • Intimate Partner Violence and Child Victims: Identifying Risk and Preventing Harm
    • Presenter(s): Kelly Champion, PhD, ABPP
  • The Intersection of Gun Violence, Gun Legislation, and Domestic Violence
    • Presenter(s): Micaela Deming, JD
  • Testing the Danger Assessment (DA)-5 for immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence
    • Presenter(s): Hsiu-Fen Lin, MSW, PhD
  • Supporting Chinese Immigrant Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
    • Presenter(s): Yang Li, PhD, RN
  • Bringing evidence to health policy: A case study in community relevant research impact and successful research translation
    • Presenter(s): Deborah Loxton, B Psych (Hons1), Dip Mgmt, PhD
  • Voices of Expectant Mothers: Exploring Preferences for Trauma-Informed Prenatal Care
    • Presenter(s): Mohammad Itani, MSN
  • Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): Comparing trauma burden for mom, dad, and child
    • Presenter(s): Christine Forke, PhD, MSN, CRNP, CPNP_PC
  • Reproductive and Sexual Coercion:  An Intimate form of Abuse
    • Presenter(s): Jane Straub
  • Child Maltreatment Prevention-Preventing Future Harm through Early Identification and Standardized Workup for Child Abuse
    • Presenter(s): DiGangi, Mercie, DO
  • Mandated Reporting Revisited: A Look at Rules and Reform Efforts in 2024
    • Presenter(s):  Alessandra Suuberg, JD

 

September 13, 2024

Day 2

Plenary Sessions

  • Geriatrics: Trauma and mental health
    • Faculty:  Beth Morrison, MSED, NCC, LCPC
  • Supporting IPV Survivors in Children's Hospitals
    • Faculty:  Lenore Jarvis, MD, MEd, Ashlee Murray, MD, MPH, Kimberly Randell, MD, MSc

Breakouts

  • Threading the Trauma Needle Within Primary Care: The Care Process Model for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPM-PTS)
    • Presenter(s): Shannon Chaplo, PhD
  • Support Over Silence: Preparing bystanders to offer support to caregivers and their children during challenging moments in public
    • Presenter(s): Nancy Weaver, PhD,  MPH
  • Interventions in Child Abuse and ACEs: The Role of the Health Care Provider
    • Presenter(s): Camille Cummings, PhD
  • Health Service Utilization Practices of Black Immigrant Women with Cumulative Trauma Experiences: A Mixed Methods Study
    • Presenter(s):  Jennifer Lee, PhD Candidate
  • Prescription for the District: A Preventive Approach to Violence
    • Presenter(s):  Nia Bodrick, MD, MPH, Jessica Weisz, MD
  • Leveraging a Community-Academic Partnered Research Model to Assess the Implementation of a Novel Athlete Abuse Helpline
    • Presenter(s): Bhavya Appana, Abigail Nita, and Robin Ortiz, MD, MS
  • Violence and Sleep
    • Presenter(s): Medha Somisetty, MD Candidate
  • Sexual violence against women: A national study of prevalence and health outcomes
    • Presenter(s):  Deborah Loxton, B Psych (Hons1), Dip Mgmt, PhD

AVA Change Maker Presentation and Closing Keynote – To Be Announced

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