The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital are honored to be co-hosting Dr. Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School at our November 5th, 2019 Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds.
Drawing upon his own mother’s epic struggle with a range of chronic diseases in India, Dr. Patel will share the growing evidence on the economic and social consequences of poor-quality care for chronic diseases in the global context and his own work to improve the quality of care for people with chronic diseases.
Vikram Patel is a professor of global health and social medicine and psychiatrist whose work over the past two decades has focused on reducing the treatment gap for mental disorders in low resource countries. His work has addressed four major themes:
(1) generating policy relevant evidence on the burden and impact of mental disorders;
(2) developing and evaluating mental health interventions for delivery by non-specialist and lay health workers;
(3) developing training programs to build research capacity and leadership in global mental health; and
(4) communicating research to diverse audiences to act on this evidence.
“Dr Patel is the preeminent psychiatrist in the world today working for the promotion of global mental health. He has had an enormous impact so that it is now more understood that as David Satcher once said— ‘there can be no health without mental health.’” Gregory L. Fricchione, MD, Director, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Director, Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry
Dr. Patel’s remarkable work, ranging from elucidating the connections between socioeconomic factors and health to the interdependence of mental and physical well-being, is helping forge a more integrative model of health and healthcare.” Peter M. Wayne, PhD, Interim Director and Director of Research, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
In his Perspectives piece published in The Lancet, 2015, Dr. Patel explores the following themes: When considering personalised medicine for chronic diseases i) what comprises the intervention; ii) who provides it; iii) where is it provided; and iv) who is the target of the intervention. Read the full Lancet article here.
Speaker Bio
Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD, is The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. His work has focused on the burden of mental disorders, their association with social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for their prevention and treatment.
He holds Honorary Professorships at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the Public Health Foundation of India, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (where he co-founded the Centre for Global Mental Health in 2008), and is a co-founder of Sangath, an Indian NGO which won the MacArthur Foundation’s International Prize for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2008 and the WHO Public Health Champion of India award in 2016. He is a co-founder of the Movement for Global Mental Health. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences and has served on several WHO expert and Government of India committees, including the WHO High Level Independent Commission for Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health.
He has been awarded the Chalmers Medal (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, UK), the Sarnat Medal (US National Academy of Medicine), an Honorary Doctorate from Georgetown University, the Pardes Humanitarian Prize (the Brain & Behaviour Research Foundation), an Honorary OBE from the UK Government and the John Dirk Canada Gairdner Award in Global Health in 2019. He was listed in TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons of the year in 2015.
Event Details
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 5, | 8:00am – 9:00am (followed by coffee hour, 9:00am – 10:00am)
Venue: Bornstein Family Amphitheater, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 45 Francis St. Boston, MA
Cost: Free. CME credit available (for in-person and virtual attendance).
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Live Stream
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