Making Healthcare Responsive to Women Victimized by Violence, Lynne Stevens Lecture & Award May 31

The BUSM Department of Family Medicine, invites the BMC campus-wide Domestic Violence Advisory Committee as well as all members of the Boston University Medical Campus and BU and BMC affiliated health centers to attend the second annual Lynne Stevens Lecture on Tuesday, May 31. Lynne Stevens, MSW, served as an assistant professor of Family Medicine at BUSM and director of the Responding to Violence Against Women Program at BMC. Prior to her death in 2009, she was a clinician, tireless advocate and researcher dedicated to make healthcare responsive to women victimized by violence. In her memory generous donations have allowed for the creation of this annual lecture and research award.

Karin Rhodes
Karin Rhodes

Karin Rhodes
This year’s Lynne Stevens Lecturer is Karin Rhodes, MD, MS. Rhodes is an assistant professor and director of Health Care Policy Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her lecture is titled “What Are We Going to Do About What We Know? Improving Healthcare’s Response to Patient-Disclosed Intimate Partner Violence and Other Psychosocial Risks.”

Dr. Rhodes has been a principal investigator on a number of federally-funded projects targeted at intimate partner violence (IPV) and public health, including a RCT of computer screening that enrolled over 800 women patients at two emergency departments to assess provider-patient IPV communication outcomes and a study tracking the health and safety of women victims of domestic violence involved in the criminal justice system. With an overall goal of developing an effective clinical response for IPV with both men and women, Dr. Rhodes is interested in both broader system-level interventions and the more contextual and cultural aspects of health among primarily urban men and women who are willing to disclose risk factors for IPV (both victimization and perpetration) in a health care setting.

Katherine Iverson

Kate Iverson
Katherine Iverson

On May 31, the Department of Family Medicine will additionally announce the 2011 Lynne Stevens research award recipient, Katherine Iverson, PhD. Dr. Iverson is a Clinical Research psychologist at the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder at the VA Boston Healthcare System and assistant professor of Psychiatry at BUSM. Dr. Iverson’s research focuses on improving detection of intimate partner violence (IPV) among women and coordination of health care services, particularly mental health treatments to address the emotional wounds of IPV and reduce revictimization.Microsoft Word - Second Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecture _2

Lynne Stevens Lecture and Award

  • Tuesday, May 31
  • Lecture: 12-1 p.m.
  • Q&A:  1-2 p.m.
  • Dowling Amphitheatre, 771 Albany Street