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The 2020 Presidential Lecture “Violence, Syndemics, and the Biology of Trauma,” presented by Corinne Peek-Asa was held on Sunday, February 16, 2020. Peek-Asa is the associate dean for research for the University of Iowa College of Public Health and professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health. Her area of expertise is injury and violence prevention and she has conducted research in the areas of global road traffic safety, interpersonal violence, workplace violence, residential fire injuries, poisoning, and acute care. Peek-Asa is trained as an epidemiologist, and her expertise focuses on implementing and translating programs and policies to reduce the burden of injuries.
The 2019 Presidential Lecture “Violence Against Women: The Hidden Figures” presented by Dr. Karen Heimer was held on Sunday, February 24, 2019.
Dr. Heimer is a professor of sociology and Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a focus on the areas of gender and violence, juvenile delinquency, criminal punishment, and causes of crime and violence. She is currently conducting research on the violent victimization of women and minorities, motherhood narratives of women in prison, gender differences in juvenile delinquency, and gender and race differences in patterns of incarceration in the United States and Great Britain.
Hosted in the Carver Biomedical Research Building within the Roy J. and Lucille Carver College of Medicine, Ted Abel, PhD, director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, led a presentation about the impact of neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurological disorders on Monday, March 4, 2019.
Dr. Abel, and his team including, Ped Nepoulos, M.D., Dr. Aaron Boes, and Kumar Narayanan MD, PhD shared specifically how researchers at the Iowa Neuroscience Institute are pushing the boundaries of our understanding to further discovery and improve the lives of those suffering from brain disorders.