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>> So I'm Susan Gray.
I'm the President of the New England Chapter for the Society
for Adolescent Health and Medicine.
I'd like to welcome you today to our conference,
Talking the Talk: Communicating with Adolescents
about Reproductive Health.
We picked this topic based on feedback from the NERCSAHM --
that's New England Regional Chapter for the Society
for Adolescent Health and Medicine --
listserv so we picked both the topic
and also the location based on feedback
from NERCSAHM membership.
And this was kind of an experiment for us doing this
on a Saturday, but also venturing away
from Massachusetts.
So I'm delighted to see so many people, and it shows us
that this is an experiment that really paid off well.
So we're delighted to be here, to be in Providence,
and I wanted to thank our exhibitors,
the Cambridge Eating Disorder Center and Merck,
as well as the Ratelle STD *** Prevention Training Center
of New England, who is our cosponsor.
I want to give a big thank you to Kathy Hsu,
who is the Medical Director who is here with us today and is one
of the program directors.
So we'd like to find out a little bit
about who is here today,
and we have some exciting toys next to you.
The little remote controls will enable us
to have you tell us who you are.
Tell which state are you coming from today?
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You can't vote twice.
[Laughter] All right, so we'll close the polls there,
and it should give us an answer.
All right, so 58% of us made the trip from Massachusetts,
35% is the home team, and thank you to the maybe one person
from Connecticut for making the trip.
And who is the 5% Other?
Oh, we have Dr. Bell from New York.
And maybe Dr. Zurbriggen -- the guest speakers.
All right, excellent.
Welcome to everybody.
And we're curious to hear what health setting do you practice
in most of the time?
[ Silence ]
We'll close it.
All right, so a lot of academicians with us today.
Lots of school-based clinics.
Excellent.
And -- oh, and lots of community health centers.
All right.
And how many adolescents do you typically see in a day?
This means clinically, not your own children.
[ Silence ]
There we go.
All right.
So we've got -- so we've got some really adolescent-intensive
providers here so the greatest number of you seeing more
than 10 adolescents in a day.
Excellent.
All right.
And what is your training background?
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Okay, so a lot of MDs in the audience,
a lot of students and trainees.
We're especially excited to have you here.
One of our regional chapter goals is to increase student
and trainee membership because you are the future,
and we want you.
We need you.
So thanks for being here.
A lot of social workers.
Excellent.
Lots of nurses.
Wonderful.
All right.
So without too much further ado, we do have an extensive program,
and I want to launch right into it.
We're so excited to have some really fantastic
and nationally known speakers here with us today.