Clinical Care of Survivors of Torture Grand Rounds: Gender-Based Violence
– Free to all attendees –
The Center for Victims of Torture and The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma are excited to announce the free “Clinical Care of Survivors of Torture” National Grand Rounds which will take place on September 18, 2024 with Kathleen Ecker, NP. This virtual, one-hour sessions are coming up soon and we want to ensure you can register for the final of this three-part series!
About the Program
Offering a holistic health care approach to survivors of torture, their family members, and their community can be challenging. This new national Grand Rounds course will present a series of lectures from leading experts on the best practices and evidence based medicine for the care of survivors of torture.
This three-part series is sponsored by the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, the Center for Victims of Torture’s National Capacity
Building Project and the Office of Refugee Resettlement and free of charge for attendees.
Target Audience
This program is intended for psychologists, physicians, nurses, social workers, and other staff who treat survivors of torture and refugee
populations. All health and mental health practitioners will get CEUs and physicians, psychologists, social workers, and non-clinical persons will receive a certificate of participation.
Registration
You will need to register for this virtual lecture, the first of which is on September 18th from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET (11:00 – 12:00 CT, 10:00 – 11:00 MT, 9:00 – 10:00 PT) with Kathleen Ecker, NP. The lecture is free, held virtually, an hour-long, and accredited for 1.0 CE. All attendees will have to register for an LMS account through the Psychiatry Academy in order to access/view the Zoom link and to claim CE:
About the Presenter
Kathleen Donlon Ecker MSN, graduated from Villanova University School of Nursing and the University of Pennsylvania Family Nurse Practitioner Program. With over four decades of nursing experience, Kathleen has cultivated expertise across various fields including Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry, and Sexual Assault Forensics.
For 25 years, Kathleen has served as a Certified pediatric, adolescent and adult Massachusetts Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE). She pioneered the role of Pediatric SANE at Children’s Cove, the Cape and Islands Child Advocacy Center and is the Regional Coordinator of the Cape and Islands Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program, a component of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Division of Violence and Injury Prevention.
In addition to her frontline work, Kathleen has actively contributed to various task forces, including the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Massachusetts DPH Pediatric Advisory Board, Massachusetts Governors Subcommittee on Pediatric and Adolescent Violence, Cape and Islands Maternal Depression Task Force and the Cape and Islands Committee on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and an elected member of the Orleans school committee. She is also a volunteer for the Boston Marathon Finish Line Medical Team since 2013.
She is committed to education and training, conducting frequent presentations for Massachusetts SANE Nurses, Emergency Room staff, Massachusetts Police Training Council, District Attorney’s Offices, EMS, and Rape Crisis Centers. She has also presented at Regional and National conferences on topics of sexual assault and trauma.
Grand Round Information
