Jan

23

CDC Injury and Violence Prevention Grand Rounds Webcast

January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment

For those of you not able to make the live presentation of The Science Base for Prevention of Injury and Violence, it is now available as a webcast on the CDC’s site. You can also download a print-friendly PDF of the slides.

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Jan

11

Injury Grand Rounds from the CDC

January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Tuesday, January 17th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering the next in their Grand Rounds series: The Science Base for the Prevention of Injury and Violence. The live webcast will also be archived for 48 hours after the event. And if you’re interested in CEs, you can register for them here.

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Dec

2

Autoerotic Asphyxiation and Gender

December 2, 2011 | 2 Comments

I spend a great deal of time on the issue of strangulation: teaching, writing, reviewing cases and testifying in court. A common defense that I personally hear routinely presented is that the strangulation of the victim was consensual. That is to say the victim consented to it as a part of a sexual encounter with [...]

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Oct

27

CDC’s Response to Injury

October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The CDC is hosting a webinar Friday, November 4th at 2pm ET, The CDC’s Response to Injury: Update for Partners from the Division of Injury Response. The session will focus on traumatic brain injury, terrorism and disaster response. Register for the session here.

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Aug

18

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Natural Disasters

August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury has an upcoming webinar: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Natural Disasters. The session will be held August 25th from 1-2:30 pm ET.  Speakers include Dr. Robert Ursano, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress director, and Dr. Valerie Cole, American Red Cross, Disaster Mental Health senior [...]

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Jun

27

Healthy People 2020

June 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment

In the US, the Department of Health and Human Services provides science-based healthcare objectives for the country in a document called Healthy People. Healthy People 2020 was released at the end of last year, and if you haven’t had a chance to see it (made easier by a pretty decent website), it’s worth looking at. Struggling to [...]

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Jun

16

Anatomical and Physiological Changes Secondary to PTSD

June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The Defense Centers of Excellence are hosting a webinar June 23rd, from 1-2:30: Anatomical and Physiological Changes Secondary to PTSD. The session is free of charge, but preregistration is required. Even if you can’t attend, it’s worth checking out the enormous number of resources they list on the site’s page.

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Apr

18

Violence in Black and White

April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and the 2011 winner for featured photography is Barbara Davidson from the LA Times. She was awarded the prize for a series she did on the aftermath of gang violence, and the images are really quite moving.

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Feb

6

Abusive Head Trauma Article

February 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

For those of you who work with kids, check out today’s article in the NY Times. You’ll recognize Dr. Cindy Christian’s name in the article if you attended the 2010 Annual Assembly. It’s a very interesting read–I’ll look forward to hearing people’s opinions on it.

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Dec

28

Injury Surveillance

December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment

WHO has an upcoming webinar on Injury Surveillance,  January 13th at 10:00 CET (click here to convert this to your time zone). Participation is free, but requires signing up for their webinar mailing list in order to get an invite (instructions after the jump). You can also check out their archived offerings on child injury [...]

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