The 5th installment of Casey House’s mental health series of lectures for healthcare and support service providers
The current theme is: Approaches to HIV and Trauma
The Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Syndemic* with Dr. Reed Siemieniuk
Thursday March 24th – 12:00-1:30pm
The 519 Church Street Community Centre
Please email registration@caseyhouse.on.ca to confirm your attendance at this event.
Pizza will be provided.
*A syndemic is a set of linked health challenges that synergistically contribute to an excess burden of disease.
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Dr. Reed Siemieniuk is an internal medicine and clinician-investigator resident at the University of Toronto and PhD student in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University. He has been involved in HIV research for 10 years at the Southern Alberta HIV Clinic. Reed led the development of a successful domestic violence universal screening programme. The screening programme has led to several peer-reviewed publications and is being emulated in several clinics in the USA.