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Faculty, students help write AMWA position paper on sex trafficking

May 22, 2014

Suzanne Harrison, M.D., is the lead author of the new American Medical Women’s Association position paper on “Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls in the United States.” The paper is designed to “provide information and recommendations for physicians and other healthcare providers who may be in a unique position to identify and care for these victims.” Harrison, associate professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, is co-chair of AMWA’s anti-trafficking committee, Physicians Against the Trafficking of Humans. Among the co-authors of the position paper are Joedrecka Brown Speights, M.D., also an associate professor in Family Medicine, and medical students Yaowaree Leavell (Class of 2015) and Daniel Miller (Class of 2016). (Read the AMWA press release.)