Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Dr. Terri Babineau to Present Two Lectures at USA College of Medicine

The University of South Alabama College of Medicine is hosting two lectures featuring Dr. Terri Babineau, former assistant dean of student affairs and global and service learning and associate professor of family medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, Va.

Dr. Babineau will present “Burnout in Healthcare and Mindfulness Tools” to first- and second-year medical students at noon on Jan. 5, 2017, in the Health Sciences Building, Room 1013.

She also will present a joint Grand Rounds lecture for the departments of obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics, titled “Narrative Medicine in Response to Burnout,” on Jan. 6, 2017, at 7:30 a.m. in the Atlantis Room in the CWEB-2 building behind USA Children's & Women's Hospital. The USA Department of Internal Medicine is sponsoring the Grand Rounds lecture.

Dr. Babineau earned her bachelor of science degree in nursing at the University of Virginia and her medical degree from EVMS, where she also completed a family medicine residency. She is currently pursuing a master of studies degree in mindfulness based cognitive therapy at the University of Oxford in Oxford, U.K.

While at EVMS, Dr. Babineau also served as medical director of the HOPES Student Run Free Clinic and director of community outreach and global learning. She has received numerous awards, including the EVMS President’s Faculty Award for Teaching in the Clinical Sciences and the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine.