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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 refugees and 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 is free of charge for attendees.
| Grand Rounds 1: Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness | May 15, 2024, 12 – 1 PM ET | Beth Frates, MD |
| Grand Rounds 2: Long Covid symptoms, identification, and treatment | June 12, 2024, 12 – 1 PM ET | George Alba, MD |
| Grand Rounds 3: Gender-Based Violence | September 18, 2024, 12 – 1 PM ET | Kathleen Ecker, NP |
To view livestream, please click on Zoom Link
To claim your CE, you must register for a free mghcme.org account and register for the course https://lms.mghcme.org/SOTGrandRounds
Each individual hour-long lecture in the series is accredited for 1.0 CE. Please note that you can only receive CE for live virtual viewing but no credit is awarded for viewing the archived webinar.
Target Audience
This program is intended for psychologists, physicians, nurses, social workers and other staff who treat survivors of torture and refugee populations.
Overall Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants should be able to:
- Identify and treat major medical problems in the Survivor of Torture (SOT) population, such as Traumatic Brain/Head Injury.
- Identify and utilize in patient care new findings of best care practices for wellness in the SOT population.
- Identify and treat the major medical problems of survivors of gender-based-violence
- Identify and treat the disability symptoms of Long-Covid
Individual learning objectives will be provided for each lecture.
User Guides
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1-866-644-7792
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Accreditation Information
In support of improving patient care, MGH Institute of Health Professions is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
- 1.00 Physicians
MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.
- 1.00 Nursing Contact Hours
MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 1.00 contact hours for nurses. 
- 1.00 Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, MGH Institute of Health Professions is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MGH Institute of Health Professions maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 clock hours for continuing education credits.
- 1.00 IPCE Credit
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Grand Rounds Speakers
Beth Frates, MD FACLM DipABLM
Beth Frates, MD is a trained physiatrist and a health and wellness coach, with expertise in Lifestyle Medicine. She has received several teaching accolades from Harvard Extension School and Harvard Medical School, where she is an assistant clinical professor. Dr. Frates is one of the first Fellows of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and a pioneer in lifestyle medicine. In 2008, Dr. Frates created the first Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group at Harvard Medical School. In 2014, she developed and taught a college Lifestyle Medicine curriculum at the Harvard Extension School, and it is still one of the most well-received courses offered at the school. She was voted president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine in August 2020. Dr. Frates serves as President until November 2024.
Dr. George Alba
Dr. George Alba is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-director of the Program for Advancing Critical Care Translational Science and associate director of the Coronavirus Recovery clinic in the division of pulmonary and critical care at MGH. His research focuses on pulmonary vascular dysfunction in acute lung injury and recovery from critical illness. He is a co-investigator on several studies of the long-term consequences of COVID-19 including a co-investigator in the Boston COVID-19 Recovery Cohort, part of the national multicenter NIH RECOVER study.
Kathleen Donlon Ecker
For 25 years, Kathleen Donlon Ecker 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. 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 and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.
Additional Resources
Please click on links for more information about caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture
Harvard Program for Refugee Trauma
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Customer Support Information
For questions regarding technical support or credit claim, please contact the MGH Psychiatry Academy at mghcme@mgh.harvard.edu or (866) 644-7792.