Webster Institute for Clinical Scholarship: 1st Annual Summer Symposium
About the Event
The Summer Symposium is an annual event that will address Health, Mental Health and Access from an Ecological Perspective. The theme for the 2022 Summer Symposium is: Access as a Social Justice Issue. The Symposium seeks to establish a diverse, supportive professional community, who contribute to the growth and development of the Scholars and build a sustainable pipeline into underserved communities. We seek to recognize, share, and celebrate the educational and clinical efforts, as well as community leadership within various interdisciplinary fields. Through the Symposium, scholars will have an opportunity to come together to share their experience in the field of health and mental health care for the high-need communities in the St. Louis metro area. WICS scholars at Webster and grant recipients at SIUE will showcase internship experiences through poster presentations, case study presentations, and/or panel discussions. The event also provides networking opportunities with site supervisors, community partners, and nearby HRSA-BHWET award recipients. The Summer Symposium will provide CEU opportunity for site supervisors, faculty, local counseling professionals and other HRSA-BHWET grantees.
Presented by:
The Summer Symposium is a collaboration between Webster University through the Webster Institute for Clinical Scholarship and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's HRSA-BHWET Scholars Program.
*The Webster Institute for Clinical Scholarship and the SIUE BHWET grant are supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,083,454 million with 0% percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, MD, MPH, is the Director of Health for the City of St. Louis. Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis received her medical degree from Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and a Master’s in Public Health Degree from Case Western Reserve University. She completed her internal medicine residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. She went on to complete her Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), also completing a one year dedicated non-ACGME HIV fellowship and a two-year dedicated Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) fellowship. She was a Clinical Instructor, Associate Program Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases fellowship program and in the leadership of the Office of Inclusion and Diversity at the Washington University School of Medicine. She was also an Infectious Diseases physician at the John Cochran VA Medical Center where she was the Lead HIV Clinician, Graduate Medical Education Coordinator and Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy supervisor. Her passion for community engagement, health equity and patients living with HIV (PLWH), culminated in her becoming the co-chair for the Fast Track Cities initiative in St. Louis, and later appointed to the City of St. Louis Board of Health. Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis is now a national and international medical contributor on COVID-19 with a particular focus on marginalized populations, and has been featured in outlets such as CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, and Newsweek, among others. She is also an Associate Editor for Disparities and Competent Care for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).