Please join us for a Joint GWU/CTSI-CN/Washington DC VA Informatics Seminar taking place Wednesday, May 21st, 11:00am - 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time. Dr. Maryann Mason of Northwestern University will present:
Older Adult Suicide Prevention: Data and Action
This talk explores data on older adult suicide, reviews evidence-based interventions and presents guidance on the development of data-informed older adult suicide prevention programs. Attendees will gain understanding of who is affected, risk and protective factors, the range of existing interventions and key features to consider in the development of new interventions for the prevention of older adult suicide.
Dr. Mason is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and serves as Injury and Violence Research Director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics located in the Institute for Public Health and Medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Her work concentrates on injury control and violence prevention with significant experience in surveillance system management, population-based research in the areas of violent death, opioid overdose and community-engagement and qualitative methods.
Dr. Mason became Principal Investigator of the Illinois Violent Death Reporting System in 2014 when Illinois joined the National Violent Death Reporting System. In 2019, she established the Illinois Statewide Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System. Dr. Mason holds a doctorate in Sociology from Loyola University of Chicago.