Featuring guest speakers Trevor Gardner J.D., Ph.D. and Ji Seon Song, J.D., this first part of the webinar series will focus on balancing patient welfare and workplace safety. The webinar series will be moderated by Bob Cermak, Ph.D., Jayna Gardner-Gray, M.D., and Jackeline Iseler, DNP.

“Balancing Patient Welfare and Workplace Safety” Objectives:

• Participants will have a better sense of the challenges faced by at-risk communities and how these challenges might inform provider responses to patient violence. This includes at-risk communities and medicine, and at-risk communities and the criminalization of poverty.
• Participants will learn the criminal process as it relates to patient violence in the healthcare setting. They will learn the criminal rights of the patient, potential criminal liabilities for the patient, the costs and benefits of police assistance, and implications for medical ethics, patient privacy, and healthcare regulations.   
• Participants will receive proposals for making the health care setting safer for patients and providers. This includes balancing patient privacy interests, provider ethics, and workplace safety interests; police engagement, and behavioral response teams (pre-police).  

This virtual event is free, registration is required to participate. 

More About the Speakers

Trevor Gardner J.D., Ph.D., research addresses various issues in crime governance with a primary focus on police. He has written extensively on the relationship between federalism and police administration and is developing a separate line of research regarding disparate African American perspectives on police-administered criminal procedure. After completing his J.D., Gardner went on to work in the Trial Division of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, litigating juvenile and adult cases from presentment through disposition. Garnder received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as co-editor-in-chief of the Harvard Black Letter Law Journal, and later his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley with a primary focus on social theory.

Ji Seon Song, J.D. teaching and research focuses on criminal law, criminal procedure, and policing. Song’s scholarship examines the deployment of policing authority and its corresponding effects on racial minorities and other marginalized groups. Her research informs interventions that address race- and class-based disparities in policing practices. She regularly conducts trainings and provides consultation for medical providers on the intersection of medical care and policing. Song is also a well-known advocate for local, regional, and national juvenile justice reform. Song received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Continuing Education Credits

This Henry Ford + MSU webinar series offers up to 2 contact hours of CNE/CME credits. Upon successful completion of the webinar in its entirety and the post-session evaluation, learners will be electronically sent a CNE/CME certificate to the email address that they provide.

This activity also meets the Michigan Public Health Code General Rules content requirements for Implicit Bias licensure-training for healthcare providers.

Michigan State University College of Nursing is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. For any questions related to CNE, please contact MSU Nursing Continuing Education at CON.Nurse.CE@msu.edu.

Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. MSUCOM designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. For any questions related to CME, please contact the College of Osteopathic Medicine CME office at cme@com.msu.edu.