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Luncheon Plenary

Friday, December 9, 2011

11:30 am – 1:15 pm

Vincent Felitti, MD, The California Institutes of Preventive Medicine, La Jolla, CA

Adverse Childhood Experiences

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is a long term, in-depth analysis of over 17,000 adult San Diego members of Kaiser Permanente, matching current health status against 10 categories of adverse childhood experiences a half-century earlier. We found that: adverse childhood experiences are common although typically concealed and unrecognized; they still have a profound effect 50 years later, although now transformed from psychosocial experience into organic disease and mental illness; and adverse childhood experiences are the main determinant of the health and social well-being of the nation.

Click here to watch an interview featuring Dr. Felitti describing the ACE Study and the effects of childhood trauma.