Join expert practitioners from across Columbia for a virtual program on stress, trauma, and self-care—designed especially for frontline health care workers of all kinds and drawing on the hard-earned wisdom of the University’s military community.

This special collaboration between the CAA, the Health Sciences Schools, the School of Social Work, and the Columbia Military Veterans (MilVets) community will address the impacts of the intense stressors that practitioners have faced during the past 14 months and offer ways to cope. The program will include a panel discussion between alumni and faculty members from across the University.

About the Speakers

Dr. Lourival Baptista-Neto is a bilingual and board certified child/adolescent and adult psychiatrist. Dr. Baptista joined the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University in 2008 as Director of Clinical Services in Pediatric Psychiatry. Prior to joining the Columbia staff, Dr. Baptista directed the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service at Children's Hospital Boston-Harvard Medical School.

Anthony Riello ’12SW is Director of the Worcester Vet Center, within the Department of Veterans Affairs in Worchester, MA. The Vet Center is a counseling center that provides trauma-focused counseling to combat veterans, military sexual trauma survivors, and bereaved family members of the fallen.

Amanda Burrill '14JRN is a lifestyle journalist, chef, endurance athlete and military veteran. She studied archaeology at Boston University before serving eight years in the United States Navy and later obtained a culinary arts Grand Diplome from Le Cordon Bleu, a Masters from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and studied wine while living in France. Amanda is an advocate for traumatic brain injury issues, mental health, and veteran issues.

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