Keeping New Mexico from Becoming the Land of Entrapment by Andrew Hsi
When: Tue, Apr 09 2019 6:00pm
Where: University Club
The 21 Club wishes to thank our speaker, Andrew Hsi, M.D., MPH, Professor: Family and Community Medicine, for an excellent presentation.
New Mexico has moved toward a two-generation approach to reducing the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) in families, Social Determinants of Health, and support of early brain development in children. The approach includes identification of risk behaviors during pregnancy; connection to care coordination in the public and private sectors; continuity of care coordination for parents and their infants; and integration of early childhood services and behavioral health supports for infants and parents through the years leading to pre-school.
Andrew Hsi, M.D., MPH, directs the Institute for Resilience, Health, and Justice at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center. A native of Clovis, NM, he attended Stanford University, completed medical school at UC San Diego, obtained a public health degree at the University of Washington, and completed his pediatric residency at UNM. As a professor of Pediatrics and Family and Community Medicine, he has developed and sustained programs for 30 years to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and to redress health and justice disparities resulting for individuals who have experienced ACEs. He and faculty of the Department of Family and Community Medicine have developed innovative two-generation medical services for families. In 2017, Dr. Hsi created the ADOBE (Averting Disparities in Outcomes by Building Engagement) youth discharged from the Bernalillo County detention center. The ADOBE Program’s major outcome is to reduce future criminal justice encounters for youth enrolled. It strives to stabilize the health of the young person and the family around the youth. He has a career long dedication to the emotional, intellectual, and social development of young children especially those affected by ACEs.
In his spare time, he plays on the Paleozoic senior volleyball team, travels with his wife of 37 years, skis New Mexico when there’s snow, and enjoys the long friendships and the natural environment of New Mexico.
