2024 Edification Meeting

Here are the details for the November Edification meeting. Just a reminder that you do not need to ask for an excused absence, but we do need an RSVP if you are attending (link below).

Topic: “How to Reduce Gun Violence”
Presenter: Dr. David Chen
When: Thursday November 9, 2023, 7:15 PM
Where: Renewal Presbyterian Church, 4633 Cedar Ave, Philadelphia
Invitees: All Elders, Candidates and Licentiates in the Philadelphia Presbytery and their spouses

Format: The evening will start with dessert at 7:15 PM with the presentation starting no later than 8 PM.  Q & A after Dr. Chen’s presentation.

Registration:  Attendees must register for this event so we can prepare the right number of desserts.  Please register at this link ASAP! 

Gun violence has surged to historic high levels in 2020 and has continued since to become the leading cause of death for persons 1-19 years of age. Yet the most current research we know of today point to principles from the very first homicide of Abel by Cain. Join us for a candid and Christ-centered conversation on theory and theology. Dr. David Chen will speak to us on what research has found in regard to reducing gun violence.
Join us on November 9th to hear more about this topic that is of vital interest to the people of the City of Philadelphia.  Please register as soon as possible so that we can estimate the size of the event.
 
Dr. David Chen is an internal medicine hospitalist at Christiana Care Health System. He is a board member of the Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence and an advisor to the Wilmington Community Advisory Council, which was created in 2016 to address youth gun violence in Wilmington.  He has received funding to study healthcare utilization and disparities in assault injured men and currently is the principal investigator for a study on community violence exposures and health related quality of life.  At Christiana Care Health system, he is a physician-scientist for the Institute for Research on Equity and Community Health (IREACH) and the founder and medical director for Empowering Victims of Lived Violence (EVOLV), a hospital violence intervention program.