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Matthew L. Edwards

@MattEdwardsMD

Assistant Professor @StanfordMedicine | Historian/Writer | Read about Freedom House @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/5CJbGjBLif

 Atlanta, GA
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Thanks to all those who have supported me in writing this history of race, medicine, and the Freedom House Ambulance Service in @NEJM. @jgreene2 @histgeoghealth @KeithNHumphreys @debbylevine @dsashin #histmed #aahmhistmed #BMIM nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Race, Policing, and History — Remembering the Freedom House Ambulance Service | NEJM

Race, Policing, and History — Remembering the Freedom House Ambulance Service | NEJM

In the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Freedom House Ambulance Service supplanted the police in a role in which they were not effective, reimagined the role of Black citizens in improving community health, and...

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Nnaoma Oji@nnaoma_oji18 Mar 2023
Beyond grateful for the opportunity to pursue orthopaedic surgery residency at @HSpecialSurgery! I couldn’t have achieved this milestone without the support of so many people, and I can’t thank them enough. Looking forward to this next chapter! #ortho #orthotwitter #match2023
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PRINCETON!!!!
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MedPage Today@medpagetoday6 Feb 2023
"The point that is often lost in biological and medical research is that race is not the stressor or the factor, structural racism is." -- @MattEdwardsMD of @StanfordMed medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/… @MedReporterMike
Childhood Adversity Tied to Race-Related Differences in Brain Development

Childhood Adversity Tied to Race-Related Differences in Brain Development

Exposure to trauma linked to lower gray matter volume in key brain regions in Black kids

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This article that I co-authored with Dr. Sonya M. Shadravan and Dr. Matthew L. Edwards was recently published in Psychiatric Services, a journal by @APAPsychiatric . Always grateful to continue this work with great colleagues! buff.ly/3zTaXtw
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HistMedJHU@ihmjhu1 May 2018
May 5: Matthew L. Edwards of @StanfordMed will present on #race and #EmergencyServices in #Pittsburgh during and after the #1968Riots at #medunrestconf18! #histmed #medhums #communityhealth @HopkinsMedicine @JohnsHopkinsSPH @JohnsHopkins @JohnsHopkinsEM tinyurl.com/medunrest18
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This article that I co-authored with Dr. Sonya M. Shadravan and Dr. Matthew L. Edwards was recently published in Psychiatric Services, a journal by @APAPsychiatric. Always grateful to continue this work with great colleagues! ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/…
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Addressing Shortages of Mental Health Professionals in U.S. Jails and Prisons | Journal of Correctional Health Care — Nathaniel P. Morris, MD and Matthew L. Edwards, MD. ucsfpsy.ch/3PkAeUL
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A wonderfully deep dive into residency clinics, one that exposes how the competing interests affecting marginalized communities can only truly be addressed when the “governing body and patient population [are] one and the same.” ⁦@moghulmowgli⁩ nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Dismantling Structural Racism in the Academic Residency Clinic | NEJM

Dismantling Structural Racism in the Academic Residency Clinic | NEJM

Physicians’ dual loyalties to their academic institutions and to patients may not only constrain their ability to act in patients’ best interests, they may also reflect and perpetuate structural ra...

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Began my studies at @Princeton in 2006 and now I can announce that I will begin my career as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at @StanfordMed this summer. Excited to continue working towards #equity in mental health! Special thanks to all my mentors and friends.
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Grateful to @Mical_Raz for hosting me and inviting me to speak about Freedom House at the Corner Society Lecture Series and @UofR!
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Great article by @Djeffreedom and @NatashaArcherMD. Addressing social determinants of health, not cultural assumptions, will be more helpful in addressing the racial disparities in clinical trial participation.
Jeffrey Edwards, MD MPH (@Djeffreedom) profile pictureJeffrey Edwards, MD MPH@Djeffreedom24 Feb 2022
Thrilled to share this piece reflecting on clinical trial participation by Black folks, written alongside my mentor, @NatashaArcherMD tl;dr We haven't asked the right questions. Let's make clinical trials more inclusive with meaningful intent. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…
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Proud to have contributed to this feature on “The legacy of Freedom House Ambulance Service” for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ⁦@PittsburghPG⁩ ⁦@BlackPsychiatry⁩ #blackhistorymonth #healthequity ⁦@Blackmeninmed⁩ post-gazette.com/news/health…
The legacy of Freedom House Ambulance Service

The legacy of Freedom House Ambulance Service

In the late 1960s, John Moon remembers seeing the Freedom House Ambulance Service vehicles rushing by with their sirens flashing and feeling called to...

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“Even though the program itself didn't endure, clearly the innovations and the lessons and standards that it set did,”said Dr. Matthew Edwards, psychiatrist and clinical fellow at Emory University School of Medicine who has written extensively about the history of Freedom House.”
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Check out this awesome interview on mental health in athletics featuring Stanford psychiatrist Dr. Roy Collins!
Dr. Roy (@rcQuattro) profile pictureDr. Roy@rcQuattro23 Feb 2022
Here’s my first news spot with @BNCNews where I get to speak about pressure from youth sports to the Olympics! #sportspsychiatry #MentalHealthAwareness #Beijing2022
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Honored to have been a part of LEAD!
Lahia Yemane, MD (@LahiaYemaneMD) profile pictureLahia Yemane, MD@LahiaYemaneMD16 Dec 2021
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So proud of the scholars that are now fellows, faculty, and more!! @doc_KJones @Doc_Vie @MattEdwardsMD And @Djeffreedom who was a @StanfordMed student @ the time (and honorary member!) and now peds intern!
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Congratulations and well deserved!
Nic John Ramos (@NicJohnRamos) profile pictureNic John Ramos@NicJohnRamos20 Dec 2021
A bit humbled to receive news my JHMAS Article, "Pathologizing the Crisis: Psychiatry, Policing, and Racial Liberalism" has won the 2021 Stanley Jackson Prize. Thanks Laura Hirschbein @steerewilliams @NanTomes and Kathleen Jones muse.jhu.edu/article/718953
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Excited to speak with emergency physicians at Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine about Freedom House and what it might teach us about how we provide mental health crisis services tomorrow. Hope you can join!
Health Humanities at Johns Hopkins EM (@HealthHumJHEM) profile pictureHealth Humanities at Johns Hopkins EM@HealthHumJHEM22 Nov 2021
THRILLED to announce our fall HumanisEM speaker - Dr Matthew Edwards - on Freedom House - historic emergency medical services program staffed by Black emergency medical technicians, & its intersections w/ #mentalhealth crisis care today. All are welcome! #healthhumanities #EMS
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THRILLED to announce our fall HumanisEM speaker - Dr Matthew Edwards - on Freedom House - historic emergency medical services program staffed by Black emergency medical technicians, & its intersections w/ #mentalhealth crisis care today. All are welcome! #healthhumanities #EMS
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Doug Thomas, Dir. of UT DSAMH, Debra Pinals, M.D., Chair of @NASMHPD Med. Dir. Council and Dir. of BH, For. Programs at @MichiganHHS and Matthew Edwards, M.D. Emory Univ., on Law Enforcement and Crisis Services: Past Lessons for New Partnerships and the Future of 988 #NASMHPD2021
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