THIS FREE VIRTUAL SCREENING AND Q&A WILL BE AVAILABLE TO SCREEN DURING THE FESTIVAL (October 14 - 22)
It’s a simple fact that this country does little to address women’s healthcare needs.
Attention Must Be Paid: Women Lost in the Opioid Crisis, explores the stories of women who are battling opioid use disorder (OUD) and are casualties of this neglect. Through an intimate telling of their personal journeys, the film exposes deep-seated and deadly gender inequities within the American healthcare landscape. The opioid epidemic is a women’s issue. This film treats it as such.
The screening will include access to a virtual Q&A with Emmy Award winning Director Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik and a panel of distinguished experts at Northwell Health.
To RSVP - please click on the "RSVP" button on the top right of this page.
A link to the film screening and Q&A will be emailed to you before the start of the screening window.
ABOUT THE PANEL
Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik, PhD founded Diva Communications in 1985. She has produced and written 21 documentaries of which 12 have been nominated for Emmy awards and six have won the honors. Dr. Gonsher Vinik’s films have aired on ABC, PBS and at film festivals around the world. Her most recent film Attention Must Be Paid: Women Lost in the Opioid Crisis has been or is scheduled to screen at venues ranging from Hazelden Betty Ford Center to Washington State University and the 54thAnnual American Society of Addiction Medicine. It will be edited into a two-part documentary series entitled Listen to the Silence: Women Trapped in the Opioid Epidemic to air on PBS.
Dr. Gonsher Vinik began her career as a producer of Bravo Magazine and was head of production for both CBS/Fox Video and Scanline Video. For the last 20 years, Dr. Gonsher Vinik’s documentaries have concentrated on social justice issues seen from a multifaith perspective. Debra is also the secretary/treasurer of the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, a 501 (c)(3). Dr. Gonsher Vinik writes a very intermittent blog on the Mincha Moment: Taking Time to Be Grateful website, which is devoted to the daily practice of gratitude. The list of things Debra is grateful for is HUGE, including cats, malted milk balls, painless dentists, fresh sheets, strong lungs, pedicures, running, Valentine’s Day, old friends, and good health, to name a few.
Sandeep Kapoor, MD,
MS-HPPL
Vice President, Addiction Services
Emergency Medicine Service Line | Northwell Health
Director, SBIRT -
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment
General Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, & Psychiatry/Behavioral
Health | Northwell Health
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Emergency Medicine, & Science
Education
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies
Nancy Kwon MD, MPA
Vice
Chair of Emergency Medicine
Long
Island Jewish Medical Center/Northwell Health
Professor
of Emergency Medicine
The
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Central
Region Medical Director of Diversity and Health Equity | Northwell Health
Nina S. Vincoff, MD
Medical Director
Vice President, Clinical Initiatives and Patient Experience
Katz Institute for Women’s Health, Northwell Health
Division Chief, Breast Imaging, Northwell Health Imaging
Service Line
Associate Professor of Radiology, Zucker School of Medicine
at Hofstra/Northwell
THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED BY KATZ INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH, NORTHWELL HEALTH