Of Street Psychiatry and Symposia with Dr. Liz Frye

Join us this week to listen to Dr. Liz Frye Chair of the Street Medicine Institute and Street Psychiatrist at the Center for Inclusion Health, Allegheny Health Network. Driven by a long-standing desire and commitment to connect deeply with and improve the health of people experiencing extreme poverty, Liz first began providing street-based psychiatric care in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 2008. Liz joined the Street Medicine Institute board in 2016 and has led the Institute’s annual international street medicine symposia since 2017. She brings the following skillset to the Street Medicine Institute board: founding and directing an Atlanta-based street medicine program; writing and managing street medicine specific grants; designing and guiding qualitative research with people sleeping rough; teaching students and medical residents clinically on the streets; assisting street medicine teams to develop and expand street-based psychiatric care in their communities; and a population-based public health approach to street medicine. Liz completed medical school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her general psychiatry residency, Community Psychiatry Fellowship, and Masters in Public Health at Emory University.Special thanks to Co-Host Michael Brennan. Don't forget to follow and share our podcast! Please send us suggestions at [email protected] to SMISC One-Pager: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Link to Show notes:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Street Medicine Institute Student Coalition is dedicated to promoting inclusive, reality-based, person-centered care for our unsheltered homeless community members worldwide. We strive to inspire and equip students to provide high-quality Street Medicine through transdisciplinary student, consumer, and community collaboration. Viewing the streets as a classroom for social justice with the privilege to empathetically learn from the people, we hope to instill the transcending principles of Street Medicine throughout healthcare systems.