The Health of Communities of Color
A Discussion on Gun Violence
MARCH 21, 2024
*Note: Registration includes questions that may not be pertain to you. They can be skipped and the form can be submitted without filling in all spaces.
6:30 - 8:30 PM
STORMONT VAIL HEALTH AUDITORIUM
ONLINE OPTION WILL BE AVAILABLE
Join us for this evening of hope and healing. Dr. Williams discussion will be followed up by a community-led discussion on impact and action.
LOCATION AND PARKING
Pozez Education Center, Stormont Vail Hospital
1500 SW 10th Ave. Topeka, KS 66606
Enter the North Tower Main Entrance revolving doors at 9th and Horne, adjacent to the Parking Garage.
Dr. Brian H. Williams
Dr. Brian H. Williams is a trauma surgeon, Air Force Academy alumnus, and former congressional health policy advisor. As a frontline clinician, medical educator, and public speaker, Dr. Williams is a nationally recognized leader in structural racism, gun violence, and health equity.
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
In raw and intimate detail, trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams narrates not only the events of the night that thrust him into the national spotlight, but his grief and anger as a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Atul Gawande and Damon Tweedy, Williams diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us.
