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Moral Injury, Resilience, and Post-Traumatic Growth Amidst the COVID Response | March 1, 2022

Date of Presentation: March 1, 2022

Type: Past Presentation  

Program: Grand Rounds  

Keywords: #covid  #moral injury  #resilience  #stress  #trauma-informed care  

In this presentation, Nomi Levy-Carrick, MD, MPhil, describes the difference between burnout and moral injury, provides examples of long-term consequences of toxic stress, and shares how Trauma-Informed Care and Psychological First Aid can support resilience among clinicians serving American Indian and Alaska Native people. The one-hour Grand Rounds session includes an opportunity to engage in a didactic presentation, become part of a learning community, and join an upcoming Journey to Health ECHO program.

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Dr. Nomi Levy-Carrick

Nomi Levy-Carrick, MD, MPhil, joined the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Medical Psychiatry in 2016, serving for over two years as a psychiatrist embedded in the medical ICU, as well as liaison to the Burn & Trauma unit, and continues to serve as psychiatric consultant to the Critical Illness Recovery Program.  She assumed the responsibilities of Associate Vice Chair for Ambulatory Services in September 2020, tapping her experience in outpatient psychiatric services and leadership first honed as Mental Health Director of the World Trade Center-Environmental Health Center in NYC (2011-2015).  Through the COVID pandemic, in addition to her clinical responsibilities, she focused on innovative work developing trauma-informed approaches to program development that advance mental health access and equity amidst the mental health pandemic still underway.  Since January 2022, Nomi serves as Vice Chair for Clinical Programs across the Department of Psychiatry at BWH, as well as co-Chair of the MGB Trauma-Informed Care Initiative and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Since 2018, Dr. Levy-Carrick has been at the center of mental health teaching and training for Navajo Area IHS sponsored by the Mass General Brigham Outreach Program with Indian Health Service.  She has visited on-site at the Northern Navajo Medical Center and led numerous remote CME talks to share her expertise in trauma informed care, moral injury, and resiliency to providers working in indigenous communities.   Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Levy-Carrick participated in Project ECHO speaker series, reaching a national IHS audience, to promote provider resiliency and wellness.

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Date added: February 25, 2022