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BUMC-VA Joining Forces Symposium
"Too frequently it's after the emergency responders and the newsmen leave that the real problems begin". This observation from the UN's office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs was a mandate to IMCRA at its inception and has been the mantra of our long-term Community Cyberspace program ever since.
What OCHA was referring to is underway very painfully in the Phillipines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan and in Connecticut as we approach the one-year anniversary of the Newtown Massacre.
Community Cyberspace has been reaching out to specialists in the nightmares, fear-reactions, personality changes and depression that accompany PTSD in both communities. Recently, Dr. Saclolo has recorded new educational modules in both English and Tagalog for healthcare workers dealing with populations still realling from the savage destruction in the Phillippines. Other bilingual faculty will be offering additional interactive resources shortly.
In the US, we have also recruited psychiatrists skilled in confidential interactions with both PTSD patients and their families. Community Cyberspace will be presenting its work in a Symposium in Boston on 11 December in coordination with the Second Annual BUMC/VA Joining Forces TBI/PTSD Conference.
Please help us to defray some of the expenses associated with recording our faculty, providing confidential access to patients using the system and the associated web-hosting and data processing costs. We want to make these Community Cyberspace medical resources accessible to the widest number of people who need them.
Thank you.
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Dr. John Bradly - Clinical Approaches to PTSD
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Dr. Mark Miller - PTSD research
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Community Cyberspace Poster and Presentation
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Dr. Ron Saclolo Phillipines Relief
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Newtown Police Facing PTSD Crisis
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is one sequel to the Great East Japan Earthquake - and other natural and manmade disasters - that does not fade away with time. Recognizing this, IMCRA's Community Cyberspace Program became an integral participant of the Second Annual BUMC/VA Joining Forces Conference, held at Boston University School of Medicine, December 11th 2013.
The conference was organized in the wake of a recent White House Initiative called Joining Forces, focused on education, research and the clinical care of people suffering with TBI and PTSD. In the US, this particularly includes military veterans with additional post-deployment complications such as generalized anxiety disorder, affective disorders, and comorbid substance abuse.
IMCRA presented data on the global need for PTSD awareness and therapy, - especially in communities like Fukushima,- hard-hit physically, socially and psychologically by problems (e.g. radiation exposure) that do NOT diminish with time. We also discussed recogition of the long-term symptomatology of the disorder and how both early-stage and continuing clinical interventions can be highly beneficial both to victims and their families.
We are pleased to announce that the IMCRA website has also just opened a new section on global PTSD with several key presentations by noted medical experts captured for subsequent use and study by clinicians in Japan and worldwide. (http://www.imcra.org/Video.aspx?ContentItem.ItemID=388)
Along with its continuing efforts in Japan, our Community Cyberspace program has now expanded to initiate partnerships with other organizations such as IsraAid, Feed My Sheep, and MTI to bring both knowledge to practioners and aid to people deeply impacted by devastating and life-altering crises. We ask you to help us to continue our private psychiatric outreach to those in need.
Please note that today and tomorrow morning ONLY all donations made to the IMCRA Community Cyberspace PTSD program will be doubled.