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Megan Gerber, MD, MPH is a general internist with a career-long focus on the medical care of trauma-exposed women. We start out defining trauma and then get introduced to trauma-informed care.\\xa0 Interfacing with the medical system and physicians can be traumatizing and triggering, so we discussed ways to minimize that, and why it actually isn\\u2019t important to identify who needs trauma informed care. We should be taking a \\u201cuniversal precautions\\u201d like approach.\\xa0 She teaches us how to incorporate a routine of respectful care and how we can get the staff involved.\\xa0 The approach to patients needs to change from questions like \\u201cwhat\\u2019s wrong with you?\\u201d to \\u201cwhat happened to you?\\u201d but this needs to happen within the confines of our time limited schedules, so Dr. Gerber teaches out how to be effective while still respecting the time of those in the waiting room.

She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University and Medical Director of Women\\u2019s Health at VA Boston. She holds an adjunct appointment as Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School.\\xa0 Her work focuses on optimizing medical outcomes for women who have experienced trauma as well as adapting systems of care to be \\u201ctrauma-informed\\u201d and sensitive to the needs of survivors.\\xa0 She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications on intimate partner violence and is the editor of the recently released Springer book, \\u201cTrauma-informed Healthcare Approaches: A Guide for Primary Care.\\u201d\\xa0\\xa0 After a brief hiatus, she is now back and very active on Twitter at @meggerber

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/profile/megan-gerber/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Megan_Gerber

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