Dinner with Dr. Jesse McCary

In February 2005, BUMC’s Outreach Van project hosted a special dinner event with Dr. Jesse McCary as the guest speaker. Dr. McCary has been working at Boston Health Care for the Homeless for the past 3 years and attends on the medicine wards at BMC. Her goal is to make an academic career out of homeless medicine, which will involve policy work, research, and education in addition to clinical medicine. Along with a small group of her colleagues, she has been writing a curriculum in Homeless Medicine that will pilot as an elective course at medical schools and residencies this coming year. Her presentation, entitled ‘Virtual Tour: Medicine on the Streets’, focused on homeless medicine and discussed her work with the homeless population in the Boston area, including Boston Healthcare for the Homeless and Long Island Shelter. The dinner included approximately 70 guests from the Boston University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Dental Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences, as well as physicians and administrators from Boston University Medical Center. The event was largely successful due to Dr. McCary’s well-received presentation, a high turnout of a very diverse and intercollegiate group of guests, and the recruitment of new volunteers for the coming year.