Event Description

On April 18th from 10:00am - 12:00pm Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, California’s inaugural Surgeon General, will join the LA Partnership to describe the state of early childhood trauma in California. 

With Dr. Burke Harris’ leadership as Surgeon General, California developed a national model to screen and treat children for adverse childhood experiences, otherwise known as ACEs. As a result, more than 1.5 million California children have been screened thus far, with Medical providing coverage for those pediatric visits.

Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris as she shares more about the success of the program and describes what more needs to be accomplished to sustain and expand California’s role as a national leader in treating early childhood trauma.

Speakers

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

California’s inaugural Surgeon General

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is an award-winning physician, researcher and public health leader who has spent her career on the front lines of some of our world’s most pressing public health challenges. As California’s first-ever Surgeon General, she helped guide the state’s COVID response to achieve the lowest cumulative mortality of any large U.S. state. Amid the throes of the COVID pandemic,
Dr. Burke Harris successfully launched a first-in-the-nation statewide effort to train over 20,000 primary care
providers on how to screen for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and respond with trauma-informed care.

Dr. Burke Harris’ career has been dedicated to serving vulnerable communities and combating the root causes of health disparities. After completing her MPH at Harvard and residency at Stanford, she founded a clinic in one of San Francisco’s most underserved communities, Bayview Hunters Point. It was there that Burke Harris identified Adverse Childhood Experiences as a major risk factor affecting the health of her patients and applied research from the CDC and Kaiser Permanente to develop a novel clinical screening protocol.

Her work has been profiled in best-selling books and award-winning films as well as on BBC, NPR, CNN, Fox News, USA Today and the New York Times. Dr. Burke Harris’ TED Talk, “How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across the Lifetime” has been viewed
more than 11 million times. Her book “The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity” was called “indispensable” by The New York Times.
Shannon Thyne

Shannon Thyne SCG Member

Los Angeles County Department of Health Services

Dr. Shannon Thyne is the Director of Pediatrics for the LA County Department of Health Services. In this role, she is charged with aligning clinical services, optimizing patient access, and fostering a rich educational environment for child health across the DHS hospitals and ambulatory care settings. She is also Professor and Vice-Chair of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine and serves as the Chief of Pediatrics at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, one of UCLA’s core training sites for Pediatrics. As a pediatrician in the safety net setting, Dr. Thyne has focused her clinical care, research, and leadership activities on addressing health disparities through health access, child development, pediatric asthma, and foster care.

Dr. Thyne has received numerous awards for her clinical, research, and leadership efforts, including the Health Care Delivery Award from the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, and the San Francisco General Hospital “Hero” Award for service and leadership at San Francisco General Hospital. She is also co-author on more than 40 peer reviewed publications.

She received her medical degree from Brown University and completed her residency and chief residency training at UCSF. Dr. Thyne has worked for LA County DHS since 2014. She lives in Pasadena with her physician husband, Chris, and their two sons, who are currently in the 8th and 10th grades at Polytechnic School.
Jackie

Jackie Thu-Huong Wong

Executive Director, First 5 California

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