On February 3, 2012 the Mayor’s Office facilitated a meeting between the Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF) and the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture (PSOT). At the meeting, Mayor’s Office Survivors of Human Trafficking Working Group (Working Group) members Allen Keller, MD, Program Director, and Hawthorne “Hawk” Smith, PhD, Clinical Director, sat down with SMF founder, and survivor of human trafficking, Somaly Mam to share experiences in healing and rebuilding lives. “There is much we can learn from each other’s work,” noted Dr. Keller, who earlier in his career worked as a medical volunteer in Cambodia. “Somaly Mam’s journey from trafficking victim to empowered survivor and advocate is nothing less than inspirational.”

For more on the visit: http://www.somaly.org/news/bellevue-hospital-hosts-healing-experts