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Curriculum Vitae
Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS),
Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists (ACBIS), 2010
Guest lecturer, Anthropology of Development.
Facilitated a 90-minute seminar on “Talking with Pictures: Concepts and Hands-on Experience” for researchers and clinicians at the 35th National Conference of AMERSA.
Guest lecturer, Introduction to Visual Literacy.
Guest speaker, Heller faculty research presentations.
HS 603c - Health Policy Doctoral Seminar. This seminar introduces PhD students and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Fellows to innovative health care policy and management researchers in the United States who are using organizational theory. The aim of the sessions is to acquaint students with how organizational theory and research methodologies are being used by leading researchers both inside and outside of Brandeis University.
SJSP 103b – Introduction to Social Policy: Frameworks and Analysis – This course will introduce frameworks for thinking about social policy and criteria for evaluating policy options, including efficiency, equity, security, and liberty. The semester will briefly cover several policy analysis techniques, both quantitative and qualitative. A focus on several contemporary social problems and policy challenges: poverty, disability, health, early childhood development, and housing will provide experience using frameworks and analysis techniques. The problem of brain injury and related social policies for children, adults, and military and veteran populations will serve as a running theme throughout the course EL 94a Practicum – A 2-credit course that may be taken in conjunction with SJSP103b. This supplemental course is designed to provide students with hands-on experience with policy advocacy and applying some of the frameworks and analysis methods they are learning about in SJSP103b. The practicum is also intended to provide students with an opportunity to realize a social justice aim by collaborating with an organization that is addressing community needs related to poverty, health, early childhood education, and other social justice/social policy issues of interest to them.
Facilitated a 90-minuted seminar on “Talking with Pictures: Concepts and Hands-on Experience” for researchers and clinicians attending the conference, held in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Facilitated a 90-minuted seminar on “Talking with Pictures: Concepts and Hands-on Experience” for AMERSA members (researchers and clinicians) at the AMERSA 2010 annual conference.
Faculty advisor for a doctoral student’s directed reading in visual methods of research and analysis. Co-developed learning plan includes reading and experiential components.
Facilitated a one-day photovoice workshop for researchers, physicians, nurses, psychologists, and social workers under the auspices of the Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Nebraska Medical School. Also presented a two-hour webinar “Talking with Pictures” for researchers and clinicians throughout the University system.
Faculty advisor for a doctoral student’s directed reading in traumatic brain injury. Outcome included dissertation proposal chapter on traumatic brain injury and US military service personnel.
Supervisor for a Brandeis senior’s internship in evaluation under the Heller Executive Education Program.
Facilitated two one-day workshops for health researchers and clinicians on foundations and applications of participatory visual methods in health, including approaches to data analysis at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC and Northern Health, a nonprofit health services organization in Prince George, BC under the auspices of the BCRRHRN.
Faculty advisor for a senior Schiff Undergraduate Fellows Program research grant recipient for her project using visual and other methods to understand caregiver perceptions of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Photovoice: Speaking with pictures. Guest lecturer for Visual Literacy Course, University of Massachusetts Boston, Professor Domenic Screnci, November 18, 2006 - Present..
Teaching assistant for two sections of Organizational Behavior and one section of Health Services Management for Dr. Jon Chilingerian, Heller MBA program. Graded papers and exams, lectured, developed the course web site, and provided emotional and academic support to 120 students.
With two brain injury survivor co-facilitators, designed and facilitated a 10-week photovoice project with 8 adult brain injury survivors in Framingham, MA that culminated in an exhibit of 50 photographs and captions grouped into 9 themes: The Journey, Lost Dreams, Chaos, Challenges, Strategies, My Advocacy Story, Comfort and Support, Acceptance, and Hope for the Future. Project sponsors were the Statewide Head Injury Program and the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts.
Designed and facilitated a 12-session photovoice project with 16 youth aged 18 to 32 in Mdantsane Township, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa under the auspices of the Youth Academy, US Agency for International Development, and South Africa’s Department of Health. Trained 4 youth as co-leaders. Project culminated in an exhibit of 50 photographs and captions grouped into 6 themes: Health and Welfare, Education and Training, Community Vision, Economic Opportunity, Security, and Township Life.
Designed and facilitated a 12-week photovoice project with 5 girls aged 12 to 16 years old through Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell that culminated in an exhibit at City Hall in June 2001. The project received a national program award from Girls Incorporated in 2002. |
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Author. (2011). A way into
empathy: A ‘case’ of photo-elicitation research. health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the
Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine,15(2), Special Number on
‘Another way of knowing: art, disease, and illness experience.’ Guest
Editors, Alan Radley and Susan Bell.
Author. (2011 March). Listening to brain injury survivors. Brandeis Magazine (Spring 2011). Co-author. (2011, March). Bartlett, S., Lorenz, L., Rankin, T., Elias, E., Mustafa, R. and K. Weider. Looking back, looking forward: Understanding the impact of using an assistive technology device (ATD) - Participatory visual methods. Exceptional Parent Magazine. TBI-ROC, Part Eight, b: pp 26-28 Co-Author. (2011, February). Bartlett, S., Lorenz, L., Rankin, T., Elias, E., Mustafa, R. and K. Weider. Traumatic brain injury: Looking back, looking forward. Exceptional Parent Magazine. TBI-ROC, Part Eight, a: pp 30-32 Author. (2010). Improving the lives altered by brain injury. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Thursday, May 27. Author. (2006). Girls Inc. Private Investigators. Lowell, MA and New York, NY: Girls Incorporated. Author/editor. (2003, 2002, 2001, 2000). The provider’s guide to quality and culture. Boston: Management Sciences for Health, Electronic Resources Center. (http://erc.msh.org). Author. (2003). Curriculum design basics. New York: Girls Incorporated. Author. (2003). Photovoice: Girls’ vision, girls’ voices: A community activism project for girls aged 12-15. Lowell, MA and New York, NY: Girls Incorporated. Author. (2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997). Case studies. The Manager, vols. 6-12. Boston: Management Sciences for Health. Author. (2003 in draft). Girls use photography to show they are resources for themselves, their families, and their communities. CYD Journal. Editor. (2002). A guide to planning local government health services: The matching grant program in the Philippines. Boston: Management Sciences for Health. Co-editor. (2002). Management strategies for improving health and family planning services: A compendium of The Manager Series, vols. V-IX. Boston: Management Sciences for Health. Author. (2002). Young people use cameras to speak out for change in South Africa. Global HealthLinks, July–August. Photographer. (2002). The Youth Academy photovoice project. Bisho, South Africa: EQUITY Project. Associate Editor. (1999, 1998, 1997). The Manager, vols. 6-8. Boston: Management Sciences for Health. Editor. (1999). CQI experiences in Latin America. Boston: Management Sciences for Health. Editor. (1998). CORE: A tool for cost and revenue analysis: User’s guide. Boston: Management Sciences for Health. Editor. (1997). Operations research summaries: Operations research and technical assistance projects. New York: Population Council. Author. (1997). Indiamix: Development of a low-cost blended food. New Delhi: World Food Programme, March. Author. (1997). Transition to India: New horizons community service relocation handbook. New Delhi: New Horizons. Editor. (1996). Research summaries: Asia Near East operations research and technical assistance project. New Delhi: Population Council. Editor. (1996 ). Food security scenario and role of supplementary feeding programs. New Delhi: CARE. Editor. (1996). Case studies: Community based organizations in India. New Delhi: Urban Institute.
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Curriculum Vitae, L.S. Lorenz, October 2011 Page 7 Author. (1996). In India, girls laborers quit work for school. UNICEF Feature No. 00168.IND. New York: UNICEF Division of Information, April. Author. (1996). School under the tamarind tree. UNICEF Feature. New York: UNICEF Division of Information, April. Writer/Editor. (1995). USAID/India: Office of Environment, Energy, and Enterprise. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, August. Writer/Editor. (1995, 1994). Alternatives, issues 1–5. Author/Photographer. (1995). IESC health and environmental advisers lay groundwork for future growth. Front Lines, April. Author/Photographer. (1995). Sugarcane power. SPAN, vol. XXVI, no. 1. New Delhi: US Information Service, January. Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID program empowers Indian women to improve family health. USAID Developments, vol. 1, no. 4 (Summer). Author/Photographer. (1995). Counting the tiger’s stripes: In India, USAID undertakes the largest demographic health survey ever. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID food program changes lives in rural India. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID PL–480 Title II food reaches rural Indian mothers and children with#F7EFD6 care and education. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID grant enables manufacture of measles vaccine in India. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). American support to India’s housing finance increases the system’s resources and sustainability. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Regional Housing and Urban Development Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). Increasing contraceptive use in northern India. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). Co-generated power in India: How sweet it is. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). Indo–US common agenda for the environment: Environmental cooperation benefits both countries. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). Saving biodiversity treasures: USAID expands India’s capacity to store and exchange plant genetic resources. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID project demonstrates India’s agribusiness potential. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). New dried flower business creates new Indian jobs and exports. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID projects help revolutionize India’s agribusiness sector: Loan funding and technical assistance empower local entrepreneurs. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). True potato seed: Changing the way India grows its food. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.
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Curriculum Vitae, L.S. Lorenz, October 2011 Page 8 Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID support for India’s economic reforms gets message to the grassroots. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office. Author/Photographer. (1995). IESC in India: Moving with the times. New London, CT: International Executive Service Corps. Author/Photographer. (1994). New spud technology may double India’s yield. Front Lines. Washington, DC: US Agency for International Development, December. Photographer. (1994). My name is today. Children in the News, vol. II, no. 1. New Delhi: Butterflies, Summer. Author/Photographer. (1994). The potato revolution. SPAN, vol. XXV, no. 6 (June). Author/Photographer. (1994). Blossoming into “butterflies” in India. UNICEF Feature No. 00103.IND. New York: UNICEF Division of Information, June. Author/Photographer. (1994). The plant genetics resources project, 1988–1997. New Delhi: Winrock International. Author. (1993). Appropriate technology in Senegal. Topic, no. 204. Author. (1993). Ghana’s future in exports. Topic, no. 204. Author/Photographer. (1993). Prevention is still the best medicine: Condom social marketing campaign changes attitudes and actions in Guinea. Front Lines, September. Author/Photographer. (1993). Guinea project sparks entrepreneurial spirit and pride. Front Lines. Washington, DC: US Agency for International Development, May. Author. (1993). Gambian memories. Topic, no. 203. Author. (1993). In Senegal: Education for life. Topic, no. 202. Author/Photographer. (1992). In Senegal, grassroots efforts illustrate development in action. Front Lines, November. Author/Photographer. (1992). Senegal sponsors governance seminar. Front Lines, July. Author. (1992). Guinea’s changing business climate. Topic, no. 201. Author. (1992). Private sector growth in Guinea Bissau. Topic, no. 201. Author/Photographer. (1992). Guinean health center reaches out. Conakry, Guinea: UNICEF. Author/Photographer. (1992). Lack of wells, latrines plagues refugee relief efforts in Guinea. Conakry, Guinea: UNICEF. Author. (1991). Fatumata: A Guinean girl. Conakry, Guinea: UNICEF. Writer/Editor. (1991, 1990). Africa Updates, issues 1–5. Author. (1991). North Shaba rural development project. Topic. Author. (1990). Agency encourages investment in Africa. Front Lines, August. Author. (1990). A strategy for diversification: Vanilla from Uganda. Topic, no. 196.
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Please note that some of these
presentations have repetitive theme. Using visual metaphors to
communicate lived experience with an invisible injury. Oral Paper.
8th Interdisciplinary Conference: Communication, Medicine and Ethics
Society (COMET), Boston University, School of Public Health and College
of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston, MA, June 28-30, 2010 Reaching multiple audiences: Process and product in participatory visual methods with brain injury survivors. Midwest Sociology Society, April 2009. Brain injury x-posed: Seeing life with brain injury through survivor’s eyes. Lunch and Learn presentation for BrainLine, www.brainline.org, February 4, 2009. Photovoice: Speaking with pictures. Guest talk for Sociology 315: Seeing Social Life, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Professor Susan Bell, December 4, 2008. A Way into Empathy: Seeing life from a brain injury patient’s perspective. Oral presentation with R.R. Sanders. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network, December 3, 2008. Living with brain injury: Through the eyes of a survivor. Advanced Seminar in “Emergent Seeing and Knowing: Mapping Practices of Participatory Visual Methods,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA, November 13-15, 2008. A Way into Empathy: Seeing Life from a Brain Injury Patient's Perspective, Oral Presentation: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network, Boston, MA, December 3, 2008. Living with brain injury: Through the eyes of a survivor. Advanced Seminar in “Emergent Seeing and Knowing: Mapping Practices of Participatory Visual Methods,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, November 13-15, 2008. Brain Injury X-posed: TBI and our Vets, Panel presentation, the Newton Free Library and the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts (click here for more info) November 3rd 2008 Living with brain injury: The survivor’s view. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, ACRM-ASNR Joint Educational Conference, Toronto, Ontario Canada, October 15-19, 2008 Discovering a new identity after brain injury: A visual illness narrative. Oral paper. European Health Psychology Society, Bath, England, September 9-12, 2008 Re-establishing a sense of coherence: A typology of brain injury survivor stories. Poster, European Health Psychology Society, Bath, England, September 9-12, 2008 Understanding lived experience with brain injury through a survivor’s visual illness narrative. Roundtable. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, MA July 31-August 2 Subjectivities of narrative and interaction: Learning from writing about acquired brain injury. Presented at the Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, May 14-17, 2008. Living with brain injury: The survivor’s view. Presented at the Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, May 14-17, 2008. Using Fair Process to Cross the Quality and Health Care Chasm: Eliciting the Perspective of Brain Injury Survivors. Brandeis Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference Metamorphoses: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Social Change and Transformation, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, April 5, 2008 Crossing the Quality and Health Care Chasm for Rehabilitation from Brain Injury: Applying Fair Process to Policy Development. Poster. 135th Annual Meeting and Exposition, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, November 3-7, 2007. X-posing Lived Experience with Brain Injury: A Photovoice Project with Long-term Survivors. Poster. 135th Annual Meeting and Exposition, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, November 3-7, 2007. Using fair process to cross the quality and health care chasm: Eliciting the perspective of brain injury survivors. Paper presentation, The Society for the Study of Social Problems, 57th Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 10-12, 2007. Making visible the invisible: Using Photovoice to elicit the perspective of brain injury survivors. Poster presentation, Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Beverly, MA, July 18-21, 2007 Using narrative analysis methods to gain insight into living with brain injury. Oral paper, Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Beverly, MA, July 18-21, 2007 Making visible the invisible: Using action research to understand living with brain injury. Oral and poster presentation, Annual Research Meeting 2007, Academy Health, Orlando, FL, June 3-5, 2007. Living with traumatic brain injury: A narrative analysis of a survivor’s photographs and interview. Poster Presentation, Annual Research Meeting 2007, Academy Health, Orlando, FL, June 3-5, 2007. Using fair process to cross the quality and healthcare chasm: Eliciting the perspective of traumatic brain injury survivors. 13th Annual NRSA Trainees Research Conference, US Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Orlando, FL June 2, 2007. Making visible the invisible: Using photography and narrative to understand living with brain injury. Oral presentation, Rehabilitation Hospital of The Pacific, Honolulu, HI, May 18, 2007. Making visible the invisible: Using participatory action research to understand living with brain injury. Works in Progress, 13th Annual Midwest Qualitative Research Conference, University of St. Thomas, School of Education, Minneapolis, MN, April 20-21, 2007. X-Posing lived experience with brain injury: A Photovoice project with long-term survivors, Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury State of the Science 2007, Pentagon City, VA, April 12-13, 2007 . Making visible the invisible: Using Photovoice to understand living with brain injury. Poster Presentation, 26th Annual Conference, Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts, Marlborough, MA, March 22, 2007. Living with traumatic brain injury: Narrative analysis of a survivor’s photographs and interview. Poster Presentation, 26th Annual Conference, Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts, Marlborough, MA, March 22, 2007 Living with traumatic brain injury: A narrative analysis of a survivor’s photographs and interview, the State-of-the-Science Symposium on Post-Acute Rehabilitation: Setting a Research Agenda and Developing an Evidence Base for Practice and Public Policy, Arlington, VA, February 12-13, 2007. Living with traumatic brain injury: Narrative analysis of a survivor’s perspective, Colloquium on Qualitative Research in Health, Boston, MA, December 13, 2006 Photovoice: Speaking with pictures. Guest lecturer for Visual Literacy Course, University of Massachusetts Boston, Professor Domenic Screnci, November 18, 2006 - Present. Living with traumatic brain injury: A narrative analysis of a survivor's photographs and interview, American Public Health Association, 134th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Poster Presentation, Boston, MA, November 6, 2006 Living without connections: Using narrative analysis of photographs and interview text to understand living with traumatic brain injury and facilitators and barriers to recovery from the patient’s perspective, European Sociological Association, Mid-term Conference, Cardiff, Wales, September 4, 2006 Leadership development: Using photography to develop activism and critical thinking skills in youth. Panel Presentation, International Visual Literacy Association Annual Conference, Newport, RI, October 2003 Giving youth a voice in health: Photovoice in a South African township. Panel Presentation, American Public Health, 130th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 2002 Girls Inc. Photovoice. Panel Presentation, Family Re-union 11, Nashville, TN, October 2002 Involving South African youth in community health. Poster Presentation, Global Health Council Annual Conference, Washington, DC, May 2002
AcademyHealth Addiction Health Services Research American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) American Public Health Association (APHA) American Sociology Society (ASA) Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts (BIA-MA) Eastern Sociological Society European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Forum for Qualitative Research in Health at Boston University International Society for Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS) Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Peer reviewer for the journals Medical Care, Progress in Community Health Partnerships, and Social Science & Medicine. Member, Community Based Partnerships Working
Group, Building Bridges to Support Military and Veteran Families
Collaborative Working Group, Defense Centers for Excellence (DCoE) for
Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury.
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