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Recounting his nearly forty years of serving Boston\u2019s most vulnerable population, Dr. O\u2019Connell will illuminate the history of homelessness and the undue burden of co-occurring medical, psychiatric, and substance use disorders among chronically homeless persons.\u00a0 Most importantly, Dr. O\u2019Connell will reflect on the many lessons he\u2019s learned while caring for his patients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Provided by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and School of Nursing <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Lunch will be provided for the first 60 people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 12:00 to 1:00 In Person at the Claude Moore Medical Education Building Learning Studio and Zoom: https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/89105967067 UVA School of Medicine Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Continuity within Chaos: Caring for Individuals Living Chronically in Shelters and on the Streets Jim O&#8217;Connell, MD President and Founder of Boston Health Care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":13412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Medical Center Hour with Jim O&#039;Connell, MD President and Founder of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - Center for Health Humanities &amp; 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