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- Wednesday
- date:
- 10/09/2019
- time:
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- event:
- Unaccompanied: Central American Migrations and the Refuge of Poetry
- area:
- location:
- Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
- type:
- Medical Center Hour
- department:
- Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
- services:
- audience:
- Everyone
- details:
- This Medical Center Hour features Salvadoran poet Javier Zamora, who entered the US from Central America via the southern border as an unaccompanied minor, age nine. In reading selections from his book Unaccompanied and in conversation with UVA pediatrician and poet Irène Mathieu, Mr. Zamora will reflect on the experience of migrating to this country as a child and on how writing poetry has helped him to come to terms with that difficult journey, the idea of home, and his sense of self. At a time when the perils of migration and border-crossing, especially for children, are in the headlines, how can this presentation help health professionals and health care organizations to care better for immigrants in our midst?
Co-presented with the Department of Pediatrics
- URL:
- https://med.virginia.edu/biomedical-ethics/medical-center-hour/
- isCME:
- Yes, credit available
- speakers:
- Javier Zamora MFA, Salvadoran poet, author of Unaccompanied
Irène Mathieu MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UVA
- registration:
- No registration is necessary
- contact:
- Charlene Kaufman CMK2B@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
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