Topic: Immigration and Migrant Health

Speaker: Stephen Carp, PT, PhD, GCS | Assistant Professor, DeSales University

Location: Chestnut Hill Hospital - 8835 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118 | The meeting will be held in the first floor ("main level") conference room.
There is no registration needed to attend in-person.

Directions & Parking:
Participants can park in the parking lot adjacent to the hospital and bring their parking tickets into the seminar to be stamped for free parking. Participants can enter the hospital via the 2nd floor bridge and take the elevator to the first floor or exit the lot and enter the hospital via the front entrance.

Participants from Center City will find travel via the SEPTA Chestnut Hill rail line convenient and easy.

Course Description:
Immigration medicine is a subset of global health.  This course provides an introduction to immigration medicine including its many challenges and opportunities. Students will gain an appreciation of the many factors related to this contemporary topic: the history of immigration medicine within the context of US foreign policy and current legislative climate, clinical concepts including the differentiation in treating the citizen versus non-citizen immigrant, and access/funding variables.  Students will be introduced to the world’s vast diversity of determinants of health. Students will analyze current and emerging global health priorities, including emerging infectious diseases, poverty, conflicts, environmental concerns, emergencies, health inequity, health systems’ reforms, and major global initiatives for disease prevention and health promotion.   The role of government and non-government care will be explored. This course is especially relevant to therapists and physical therapy students in southeastern Pennsylvania due to the comparative large number of non-citizen immigrants residing nearby.

The November SED meeting will be conducted both face-to-face and virtually. To attend virtually, registration in advance is required - register to attend virtually!
One contact hour will be provided for those attending virtually after completion of a post-test. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Contact Hours: 1 evaluative contact hour

More About the Speaker:
Stephen Carp PhD, PT, GCS is currently Assistant Professor for the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at DeSales University, Center Valley PA. His PhD is in Motor Control and he is also a Geriatric Certified Specialist. He teaches in the areas of Geriatrics, Motor Control, Motor Learning, Management of Physical Therapy Practices, Clinical Decision Making and Research Methodology. His areas of research interest include: effectiveness of non-government support of the poor, doctoral program admissions, immigration medicine, and exercise and its relationship to cognition and fall-risk. 

He has authored over 15 publications and has published three textbooks with the most recent: Foundations: An Introduction to Physical Therapy, published in January of 2019 by Thieme, Inc. He is an item writer for the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy and has developed three continuing education programs for the APTA. He has presented at numerous national meetings. He was awarded the 2019 Distinguished Educator Award by the Academy of Geriatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association
He is a journal reviewer for six journals including the Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association and is a grant reviewer for the U.S. Army and the Army Medical Research and Material Command and the Occupational, Safety and Health Administration.

He has a broad community service agenda including co-directing the Norristown Immigration Clinic with Kerstin Palombaro PT, PhD, CAPS of Widener University, the Society of Saint Vincent DePaul, and directing the pro bono rehabilitation clinic at St. Catherine’s Infirmary in Germantown, PA. For the past seven years he has led a physical therapy student-directed service trip to Guatemala.

Dr. Carp maintains a clinical practice at Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.