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Internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse to speak at Yale

New Haven, CT — February 15, 2006

Ann Wolbert Burgess, RN, DNSc, FAAN, will be the keynote speaker at YSN's 2006 Sybil Bellos Lecture. Her talk is titled "Putting Trauma on the Radar Screen: Mapping Crime Victims and their Offenders." The event will take place on Monday, April 24, at 3:30 p.m. in the YSN Lecture Hall, 100 Church Street South, New Haven.

Dr. Burgess is an internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse. She has received numerous honors including the Sigma Theta Tau International Audrey Hepburn Award, the American Nurses' Association Hildegard Peplau Award, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Episteme Laureate Award. Her courtroom testimony has been described as "groundbreaking," and she has been called a "nursing pathfinder."

Her research with victims began when she co-founded, with Boston College sociologist Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, one of the first hospital-based crisis counseling programs at Boston City Hospital. She then worked with FBI Academy special agents to study serial offenders, and the links between child abuse, juvenile delinquency, and subsequent perpetration. Her work with Boston College nursing colleague Carol Hartman led to the study of very young victims and the impact of trauma on their growth and development, their families and communities. Her work continues in the study of elder abuse in nursing homes, cyberstalking, and Internet sex crimes. She will be teaching courses in Victimology, Forensic Science and Crime and Justice.

If you would like to attend this event, please r.s.v.p. to sydney.martin@yale.edu.

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