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Health Care Special Session & Luncheon

From research to practice Addressing LGBTI population needs and best practices implementation

Brown University’s Assistant Professor Bradley W. Brockmann, JD, MDiv

T he Health Care Special Session and W. Brockmann, JD, MDiv, assistant professor at Brown University School of Public Health, Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice. Serving as a civil rights attorney, Brockmann focuses on raising awareness at the national and state levels about how mental health and substance use contribute to high levels of incarceration, and the many challenges that corrections professionals and inmates face in addressing that challenge. Luncheon, sponsored by Centurion LLC, featured a keynote speech given by Bradley

On Saturday, Jan. 12, Charlie Gee, director of Business Development at Centurion, intro- duced Brockmann. Brockmann took the stage and thanked Gee and a few others in his corner, “It’s a real honor to be speaking with you today. My Rhode Island colleague and friend, Dr. Jennifer Clarke, medical director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, couldn’t make it this year. When I asked her what I should know about you all, she told me that this gathering of the Health Care Network was her favorite annual gathering anywhere.” Brockmann thanked the

2019 Winter Conference

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