Medical-Legal Reports
SPEAKER
Lam Nguyen Ho, JD
RSVP HERE to join/view this session on 7/8/21, 1-2:30pm CST. Our sessions are free to join/view.
About the Speaker: Lam Nguyen Ho is the Executive Director of Beyond Legal Aid (Beyond). Its model, "community activism lawyering," shifts the power of the law into the hands of impacted communities by partnering with them to create community-located, community-operated, and community-directed “activism-law programs.” Beyond’s radical network of community programs unites lawyers and activists to brings free legal services to over 4000 people annually, including undocumented immigrants, sex workers, day laborers, and activists, while impacting thousands more through its support of grassroots organizing, advocacy, and activism. Lam graduated from Harvard Law School and holds additional graduate degrees from Brown University and Oxford University. He was previously Chairperson of the Illinois HIV/AIDS Response Review Panel and served on the boards of the Community Law Project and Vietnamese Association of Illinois.
Organizing for Immigrant Justice: Conversation with Doctors 4 Camp Closure
SPEAKERS
Dr. Bonnie Hope Arzuaga, MD; Co-founder, D4CC
Dr. Danielle A. Deines, DO; Co-founder, D4CC
RSVP HERE to join/view this session on 4/22/21, 6-8pm CST. Our sessions are free to join/view.
About the session: Join CPRC and CHC4BL for a conversation with D4CC founders on the ways in which healthcare professionals can (and do!) organize for immigration justice. We will discuss the varieties of organizing strategies the group uses, their organizing leadership, their partnerships with other community organizers and groups, and more.
Dr. Arzuaga: Dr. Arzuaga is a neonatologist and Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is one of the three co-founders of Doctors for Camp Closure and recently served as a Massachusetts delegate for the American Academy of Pediatrics Legislative Conference in Washington DC. Her academic interests include ethics in neonatology as well as physician activism in relation to issues that affect public health.
Dr. Deines: Danielle Deines is a co-founder of Doctors for Camp Closure and a neonatologist living and practicing in Peoria, Illinois. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in her role as a neonatologist with the Children's Hospital of Illinois and University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. She balances her clinical medicine and bedside teaching with time spent in advocacy and activism as well as being outdoors with her family of 5. She and her husband have included their 3 children in various D4CC events.
Co-Sponsored by CHC4BL
Trauma-Informed Care When Serving Asylum Seekers
As physicians and physicians in training, our work with asylum seekers can promote their healing while also help them successfully navigate the immigration system. By definition, asylum seekers have endured unspeakable traumas, both in their countries of origin, and then in their journey to the US and again once in the US, perhaps in ICE jails and then through a very adversarial immigration system. I have learned over the years how to be part of the healing process during this very difficult time in their lives.