Erica Romero, MPH is a Californian turned Rhode Islander who graduated with her Masters in Public Health focusing on Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. She has been an Epidemiologist with the State of Rhode Island for six years, initially working at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families before accepting a role with the Rhode Island Department of Health on the Comprehensive Suicide Prevention grant where her work focuses on examining trends and evaluating programming geared to help males age 25-64 who are disproportionally impacted by suicide.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify population trends in suicide related emergency department visits over the past 5-years.
• Utilize suicide surveillance data to highlight high risk populations in healthcare settings.
• Describe suicide prevention training opportunities available for healthcare providers.

Continuing Education:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital. The Rhode Island Hospital is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Physicians: Rhode Island Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participations in this activity.

Intended Audience

Medical professionals. 

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