Mary Jo Fink, MD
Dr. Mary Jo Fink,
Family Physician, has focused on women’s health over the past 30 years
in the USA to serve marginal populations, including undocumented,
incarcerated and HIV sero-positive women in Brooklyn, Albany and
currently in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Until 2016, she included
intra-partum OB in her clinical practice. From 2008-2017, she was the
associate director of the clinical skills course that included teaching
the physical exam at Columbia University medical school. Currently, she
teaches and works with residents in women’s health at the Family
Medicine ambulatory care site in Manhattan. A focus on justice and
equity preceded her medical studies through civil rights campaigns, work
with anti-Vietnam war efforts and farm worker organizing with the
United Farm Workers’ Union. Having completed the training with
Physicians for Human Rights in 2014, she collaborates with the Asylum
group, including faculty and students at Columbia University Medical
Center, to evaluate and examine asylum applicants for the purpose of
writing affidavits for the court.
Amanda Payne,BSN, RN, CCRN, SANE-A
Amanda Payne is
a board certified Forensic Nurse Examiner currently working on
the Forensic Assessment and Consultation Team at Inova in Fairfax,
Virginia. She was trained in the medical-forensic examination of asylum
seekers through Physicians for Human Rights at the Yale Center for
Asylum Medicine. She is a member of IAFN’s Social Justice Committee and has served as a
representative on Georgia State Human Trafficking Task Force. She
recently authored the paper SANE Forensic Examinations for
Immigrant-Victims: A Case Study, published earlier this year in the
Journal of Forensic Nursing.