About the Symposium
The BTG Annual Symposium highlights the work of the Community Health Internship Program (CHIP). The Symposium is open to the broader community, and designed to provide a forum for dialogue and networking opportunities while engaging community representatives, public health officials, agency personnel, grant-makers, and university faculty, staff, and students in the work of the program. In 2020, the 30th Anniversary Annual Symposium will take place in a virtual format.
The 2020 BTGCHIP student work including Team Experience Summaries and Slide Presentations are available on the website and listed by Community Partner. Also, see the 2020 Student Created Resources and Storytelling Projects.
AGENDA
Welcome from Lucy Wolf Tuton, PhD, BTG Executive Director
2020 Student Coordinators present a summary of the Storytelling Projects
Keynote Address
Each year BTG gives an award to a person who represents the values and ideals of the program. This year the awardee is Rashad Robinson.
Rashad Robinson is the award-winning president of Color Of Change, a leading racial justice organization with more than seven million members. Color Of Change uses innovative strategies to effect systemic change that positively impacts black people’s lives. Tactics include forcing corporations to stop supporting Trump initiatives and white nationalists; framing net neutrality as a civil rights issue; holding local prosecutors accountable to end mass incarceration, police violence and financial exploitation across the justice system; forcing more than 100 corporations to abandon ALEC, the secretive right-wing policy shop; and forcing Bill O’Reilly off the air, among others. Fast Company has named Color Of Change three times to its Most Innovative list.
As the organization’s leader, Robinson also serves as a consultant, speaker, writer and media guest. The New York Times, Wired, The Root, The Washington Post and other major news outlets have profiled him. He was a member of the inaugural cohort of Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity and serves on the board of the Hazen Foundation.
BTG Alumni Panel: 30 Years
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Abby S. Letcher, MD
Alumni Panel Moderator
Current title: Faculty Associate/Medical Director of Caring Place Family Healthy Program
Discipline when participating in BTG: Medicine
School attending when participating in BTG: University of Pennsylvania
Year of BTG: 1991
Amanda A. Lyons, OTD,
Current title: Assistant Professor & Academic Fieldwork Coordinator for the OT Department at TJU
Discipline when participating in BTG: Occupational Therapy
School attending when participating in BTG: Thomas Jefferson University
Year of BTG: 2009
Joshua S. Coren, DO, MBA, FACOFP
Current title: Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, and Professor
Discipline when participating in BTG: Osteopathic Medicine
School attending when participating in BTG: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Year of BTG: 1998
Stacey Abraham, MSS, LICSW, LCSW-C
Current title: Supervisory Coordinator in the Behavioral Health Division @ Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA)
Discipline when participating in BTG: Social Work
School attending when participating in BTG: Bryn Mawr
Year of BTG: 1998
Seth Laucks, MA, MT-BC, LPC
Current title: Creative Arts Therapy Coordinator, Living Branches senior communities
Discipline when participating in BTG: Music Therapy & Counseling - Creative Arts Therapies Department
School attending when participating in BTG: Drexel University
Year of BTG: 2013
Marjorie Dejoie-Brewer, MD
Current title: COO of M.A.D, F.I.T.
Discipline when participating in BTG: Medicine
School attending when participating in BTG: University of Pennsylvania
Year of BTG: 1993
Roopali Kulkarni, DMD, MPH
Current title: Chief Resident, Department of Oral Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine / Health System
Discipline when participating in BTG: Dental Medicine
School attending when participating in BTG: University of Pennsylvania
Year of BTG: 2016
Mohammed Bu Saad, MS
Current title: DrPH Student, Department of Epidemiology & Lecturer at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU)
Discipline when participating in BTG: Medicine
School attending when participating in BTG: University of Pittsburgh
Year of BTG: 2018
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Nancy Brisbon, MD
Current title: Chief Medical Officer, Mazzoni Center
Discipline when participating in BTG: Medicine
School attending when participating in BTG: University of Pennsylvania
Year of BTG: 1998