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September 22, 2016 Dinner Meeting
Topic: Human Trafficking
Speaker: Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos, MD, MPH
Date:
Thursday, September 22, 2016
5:30pm: Registration and Cocktail Reception
6:00pm: Dinner
Location:
Sheraton Needham Hotel
100 Cabot St
Needham, MA 02494
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Cost / Registration:
$35.00 / Person
Speaker Information:
Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos, MD, MPH is a board-certified practicing emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. An MPH graduate from the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Macias-Konstantopoulos completed a Global Health Fellowship at the MGH Center for Global Health and was instrumental in the development of anti-trafficking work as a core program of the MGH Emergency Department’s Division of Global Health & Human Rights. She is co-founding Director of the MGH Human Trafficking Initiative and founding Medical and Executive Director of the MGH Freedom Clinic, an innovative primary and preventative health care clinic for human trafficking survivors that won the 2014 Partnership for Freedom national competition. Previously, she worked with the International Organization for Migration’s Counter-Trafficking Unit in Indonesia and represented MGH at the 2008 UN Global Forum to Fight Human Trafficking in Vienna. She is active in policy advocacy efforts on behalf of trafficked individuals as a member of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Commission to Combat Human Trafficking, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Interagency Human Trafficking Task Force, the Leadership Advisory Board for the federal Massachusetts State Child Welfare Trafficking Grant, and the SOAR National Technical Working Group for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Macias-Konstantopoulos also serves as Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Violence Intervention and Prevention.
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