Physician Training

Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024

Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm

Location: University of Pennsylvania

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/QNfrXP3gYRBTPJK17

There is no fee to attend, but pre-registration is required to receive the meeting links and materials!

Alisa Gutman, MD, PhD

Dr. Alisa Gutman completed a combined M.D., Ph.D. program at Emory University School of Medicine. Her Ph.D. work focused on underlying biological mechanisms related to fear and anxiety with findings that are particularly relevant to understanding posttraumatic stress disorder. She then continued her training as a psychiatry resident and forensic psychiatry fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gutman is the Founder and Medical Director of the Philadelphia Human Rights Clinic. She treats patients in the outpatient Behavioral Health clinic at the Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia where she serves as the Behavioral Health Service Outpatient Division Director. Additionally, she teaches residents and medical students as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Penn and lectures nationally about refugee trauma and the forensic evaluation of asylum seekers.

Jonah Eaton, JD

Mr. Jonah Eaton represents immigrants in a wide range of legal issues before USCIS, Immigration Court, and U.S. District Court and Court of Appeals. Mr. Eaton has been a clinical instructor and teaches the Crimes and Immigration course at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Temple Law School. Prior to joining NSC, he was a Bates Fellow at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Bureau for Europe in Brussels, Belgium, where he worked on impact litigation before the European Court of Justice and litigation involving refugee rights in the European Union. In a prior life, Jonah was a boat builder and carpenter. Mr. Eaton is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Michigan Law School.

Arno Vosk, MD

Dr. Arno Vosk is a retired emergency physician. He has been a volunteer asylum examiner for Physicians for Human Rights since 2009, and is a co-author of the on-line Asylum Medicine Training Initiative. He is vice president of “Health Care for All PA,” promoting a single payer medical care for Pennsylvania, and a former member of the state board of Pennsylvania ACLU. He plays bagpipes in the Nittany Highland Pipe Band, and bass in the Lycoming College Community Orchestra. He lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in Connecticut and Vermont with his partner Anne Hamilton and his dog Max.

Jasjit K. Beausang, MD

Dr. Beausang is an alumna of Jefferson Medical College, now Sidney Kimmel Medical College. She completed her residency at Jefferson, and practiced academic general Ob/Gyn at Drexel University for 6 years. Under the mentorship of Dr. Sandra Wolf, she developed an interest and expertise in immigrant health, specifically in caring for women with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. She helped develop the clinical services provided via Philadelphia International Women’s Project, a community-partnered collaboration between Drexel Women’s Care Center, African Family Health Organization, and Nationalities Service Center. This work, supported by a grant from the U.S. Office on Women’s Health, reached over 300 Philadelphian women living with FGMC to provide comprehensive patient-centered women’s health care while Hahnemann University Hospital and Drexel Women’s Care Center remained open. Dr. Beausang was inspired by this work to focus her clinical expertise on the surgical management of women’s health issues. She completed a fellowship in urogynecology at Cooper University Hospital. She has now joined Temple University Physicians and LKSOM as a urogynecologist, and hopes to renew her care for women survivors of FGM/C.