Event Details

Carla Diaz-Lewis Domestic Violence Lecture Series

Event Description

TUESDAY | OCTOBER 24 | 2023
CIZIK SCHOOL OF NURSING AUDITORIUM

6901 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX 77030
2-3 p.m. | Lecture | SON120
3-4 p.m. | Reception | SON140

Keynote Speaker:

Carie Pickering, PhD, RN | Elder Mistreatment in Community Settings
Professor, Department of Research, Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston

Dr. Pickering is a geriatric nurse scientist and former long-term care ombudsman. Her research and practice has focused on supporting family caregivers to provide high-quality safe care in order to prevent the use of abuse and neglect.

Panel discussion to follow.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Julia Hiner, MD

Program Director - Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, Assistant Professor and Attending Physician, Joan and Stanford Alexander Division of Geriatric & Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School

Manuel Leston | Elder Abuse
Community Outreach Officer
The University of Texas Police at Houston

Kindly register by Friday, Oct. 8 at https://go.uth.edu/rsvp-csonlecture.

To attend virtually, please visit https://go.uth.edu/virtualseries.

This lecture series provides 1.0 contact hours of Continuing Nursing Education. Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston is accredited as a provider of continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.