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Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds: "Structural Violence, Vulnerability, and Disempowerment in the Treatment of Serious Injection Related Infections and Production of Physician Moral Injury"

The Yale Program in Addiction Medicine is pleased to welcome Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD, and Sid Ganesh, PhD, as guest speakers for Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds on February 10, 2026.

This event will be held in a virtual format.

Title: Structural Violence, Vulnerability, and Disempowerment in the Treatment of Serious Injection Related Infections and Production of Physician Moral Injury


Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand the relationship between structural violence and structural vulnerability in the treatment of injection drug use related infective endocarditis (IDU-IE)
  2. Recognize the ways in which structural disempowerment shapes physician moral injury in hospital settings
  3. Explore institutional pathways to intervention that address patient structural vulnerability and reduce physician moral injury


Addiction Medicine Rounds are CME accredited. Each session will be assigned 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM

        Speakers

        • Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California

          Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD
          Distinguished Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Chair of the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, and Flora L Thornton Chair in Preventive Medicine
        • Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California

          Sid Ganesh, PhD
          Postdoctoral Scholar, Population and Public Health Sciences

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        Lectures and Seminars