Homelessness: Stories from the Shadows
An Evening with Dr. James O’Connell
The Provost’s Series on Wicked Problems

Reception and book signing to follow.

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Wednesday, September 28, at 9 a.m.

USC Students, Staff, and Faculty: RSVP
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General Public: RSVP

DESCRIPTION:
Dr. James O’Connell has been providing medical care to people who live on the streets for three decades. He is the founding physician of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which serves over 13,000 people each year, and a designer of the nation’s first computerized medical record for a program serving homeless people. The author of Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor and editor of The Health Care of Homeless Persons, he has served as the national program director of the Homeless Families Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He is the recipient of an Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and a nationally recognized expert on providing medical care to homeless people. With degrees in medicine and theology, O’Connell looks at the “wicked problem” of homelessness with both a medical doctor’s scientific expertise and a theological scholar’s spiritual perspective. O’Connell will inaugurate the Provost’s Series on Wicked Problems with an illuminating presentation exploring stories of struggle, survival, hope, and humanity, followed by a probing conversation with professor Suzanne Wenzel of the USC School of Social Work. Provost Michael Quick will introduce the event and the new series it inaugurates.

The Provost’s Series on Wicked Problems brings together special guests and USC faculty to discuss the most intractable, multifaceted problems of our time. The series was established by Provost Michael Quick in 2016 out of a belief that institutions of research and higher education must take on “wicked problems” through interdisciplinary collaboration and the education of a new generation of leaders and innovators who just might create the solutions the world needs.

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Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
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