Past Events

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April 22, 2020

• USA Gymnastics & SafeSport webinar: "Recognizing the Symptoms of Sexual Trauma in Youth and How to Appropriately Respond to these Disclosures"

 

October 27, 2019

• Lifestyle Medicine 2019 (annual conference for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine) workshop: "From Clinic to Home: Empowering school-age kids to be healthy"

 

December 7, 2018

Johns Hopkins General Internal Medicine Housestaff Research Award

Becker Award for research in clinical epidemiology & prevention

• Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: "Type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic risk associated with increase in DNA methylation of FKBP5"

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November 3, 2018

National Med-Peds Residents Association (NMPRA) Meeting, Orlando, FL

• 2017-2018 NMPRA Research Grant Winner presentation: "Elucidating the Epigenetic Underpinnings of HPA Axis Dysfunction in Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk, Outcomes, and Comorbidities" 

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October 23, 2018

• Lifestyle Medicine 2018 (annual conference for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine) session: "Rise Up, Change Your Life & Reform Health Care: Building Resilience Against the Sequela of Adverse Childhood Experiences"

• Full lecture be viewed HERE (for purchase; NO financial proceeds go to Dr. Ortiz)

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2018 Strong City Baltimore, Neighborhood Institute, workshop leader, Baltimore, MD

• "Rising Up: How to Build Self and Neighborhood Resilience Against the Influence of Childhood Trauma"

Learn more: Neighborhood Institute 2018

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2018 American Physician Scientist Association,

Chicago, IL

• "Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Risk Associated with Increase in DNA Methylation of FKBP5"

Read about the conference on the Hopkins Medicine Blog

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March 2017

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Family Centered Car & Humanism Week

Grand Rounds Warm-Up, Baltimore, MD

• “Round Peg, Square Hole: Shaping Healthcare to Fit Families & Their Needs”

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May 2014

Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society Annual Meeting, Data Blitz, Philadelphia, PA

• “The association between childhood abuse and pain sensitivity in fibromyalgia”

 

May 2014

Medical Scholars Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

• “A pre-treatment biomarker of rapid antidepressant effects and its neural correlates”

 

January 2012 and January 2013

Integrate Chicago Annual Conference, planning committee chair and speaker, Chicago, IL

• “Clinical Hypnosis: Semantics?”