Tác giả: Elizabeth M. Datner

Janice Asher received her MD from Rush medical College in 1977. She is an assistant clinical professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is also the medical director of Women”s Health in the Student Health Service at the university. From 1966 to 2001, she was the clinical director for Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility. Currently, she is the clinical director for the Institute of Safe Families, a Philadelphia-based organization specializing in professional training, policy development, and multidisciplinary coordination of relationship violence victim services. Janice Asher has lectured widely on the subject of relationship violence and trained medical students and physicians across the United States in violence assessment and intervention in the medical setting.