Target Audience: Health professionals working with people experiencing homelessness

Duration:  42 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 0.75 CHES Credits

Recorded: 5/2023

Hosted by: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN, MCHES®

Guest Bios:

Robert Fauer, MD was a private practice family physician in Phoenix, Arizona for over 35 years. Retired from commercial medicine in Dec 2022, Dr. Fauer joined Street Medicine Phoenix in May 2021 where he serves as the Medical Director of Street Medicine Phoenix.

Brett J. Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C, is the Director and co-Founder of the Division of Street Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine (KSOM) of USC and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine. He has practiced homeless medicine since 2007 and founded programs at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) Street Medicine in Allentown, PA, and USC Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Feldman is the outgoing Vice Chair of the Street Medicine Institute. His main role is to provide technical assistance and consultation to members and affiliates on the topics of the social teaching of street medicine, program development and optimization. He had participated in the establishment or expansion of over 100 street medicine programs internationally. Mr. Feldman’s work has been featured on the BBC, Channel News Asia, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, the Associated Press and Telemundo. A PBS documentary featuring Brett and the street medicine program which he founded, Close to Home: Street Medicine, won an Emmy award in 2018.

Jeffery Hanna, MPH, MSc is an innovative community activist, trilingual in English, Arabic and Spanish with an extensive background in public health practice. Jeffery was the co-founder of Street Medicine Phoenix a multi-university collaboration between the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, Mayo Clinic, Creighton University, and Midwestern University, which provides primary care screening services to meet the unmet needs of individuals experiencing homelessness in downtown Phoenix. During the pandemic Jeffery worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator for The University of Arizona College of Public Health in Phoenix, where he led both COVID-19 testing and vaccine efforts on the Phoenix Bioscience Core and through the University of Arizona Primary Prevention Mobile Health Unit, which served many underserved and rural communities in addition to partnering with U.S. Customs Border Protection agency, to vaccinate along the U.S. Southern Borders in Arizona.

Catherine Miller is Lead of Street Medicine Phoenix at the University of Arizona College of Public Health in the Community Outreach and Engagement Program, where she is able to fulfill the vision of the organization by advocating for and improving the delivery of care for individuals experiencing homelessness. Her passion leads her to want to inspire the next generation of health services providers in order to improve quality of life, reduce stigma, and offer compassionate, person-centered care to those individuals experiencing homelessness. With a strong focus on inter-institutional and inter-agency collaboration, she is honored to be at the intersection of public health, social justice, and health equity.

Justin Zeien, MD, MPH is a 2nd year anesthesiology resident at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and a Captain in the United States Army Medical Corps. Dr. Zeien earned a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Arizona Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. He then attended The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix where he co-founded Street Medicine Phoenix as a 1st year medical student in 2017 and ultimately earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 2021. As a Phoenix native, his passion for street medicine stems from witnessing the rise in Phoenix’s homeless population and wanting to do more to help his community. He was inspired to develop Street Medicine Phoenix with Jeffery Hanna after learning about other street medicine programs nationwide.

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.