The Only Doctor

The Healthcare Ethics Consortium (HEC), in collaboration with Emory's Center for Ethics and The Primary Care Consortium at Emory's School of Medicine, and Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB), presents the screening and discussion of the documentary film The Only Doctor. By witnessing what can be accomplished by compassion and determination, we hope this program encourages participants to consider the power of community engagement and collaboration to address some of the most troubling health equity issues faced by rural communities. Ultimately, what can we learn from Dr. Kinsell’s experience and treatment of patients in Clay County, Georgia, and how can we integrate those lessons into how we think about and deliver care as community members, students, and health care professionals? The panel following the screening will explore broader questions of health access and invite further reflections by Dr. Kinsell and the filmmaker on healthcare availability in rural areas.

Doors will open at 5:00 pm for a brief reception including non-alcoholic beverages and heavy hors d'oeuvres.

Program will begin at 5:30 pm.

Karen Kinsell, MD, MPH
Dr. Karen Kinsell has been an internist in solo private practice in poor, rural Clay County GA for more than 25 years. The clinic has discounted fees for patients who are uninsured or underinsured. She is a graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and also holds a master’s degree in public health. She is also the medical director of a substance use disorder clinic.

Matthew Hashiguchi, MFA
Matthew is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and an Assistant Professor in Communication Arts at Georgia Southern University whose work focuses on the diverse cultural, social and ethnic stories of American society. After graduating from The Ohio State University in 2007 with a BA in Photojournalism, he went on to work and intern as a multimedia journalist for The Findlay Courier, The Lima News and The Washington Post. In 2008, he returned to school and graduated from Emerson College with an MFA in Visual and Media Art and has since been working as an independent documentary filmmaker and educator.

Beverly A. Tyler

Beverly A. Tyler has more than 30 years of experience working in rural communities and in non-profit management. She provides coaching in the development of community coalitions to address a wide range of health issues. As a consultant to the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy since 2005, she has supported more than 200 rural partnerships across the country in coalition building and program implementation. From 2017 – 2023, she led the coaching team for the Two Georgias Initiative funded by the Healthcare Georgia Foundation (now Georgia Health Initiative). The GHD coaches provided hands-on support to the 11 Two Georgias communities as they built community coalitions to address health equity. She served as Executive Director of Georgia Health Decisions from 1991 – 2023 where she had responsibility for developing and implementing a process to identify and understand Georgians’ values, priorities and opinions on health care issues. Ms. Tyler is an alumna of Leadership Atlanta and Leadership Georgia.:

Moderator:

Chelsea Hagopian, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC
Chelsea is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and serves as Executive Director for the Georgia Nursing Workforce Center. She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice in Health Systems Leadership, and her research and scholarship focus on informed consent and nursing ethics with authored peer-reviewed publications in the nursing literature on informed consent and ethical challenges with nonsurgical medical aesthetic devices and the plastic surgery literature on informed consent and patient decision aids in aesthetic plastic surgery. She has practiced clinically in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery as a registered nurse and an ANCC board-certified adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner for more than 10- and 7-years,respectively.

Her professional service activities include serving on the board of the Emory Nurses’ Alumni Association and as Immediate Past Chair of the Advanced Level Professional Identity in Nursing Interest Group for the International Society for Professional Identity in Nursing and working as a planning committee member for the Annual Conference of the Healthcare Ethics Consortium at Emory's Center for Ethics.

Host or Publisher Emory University Center for Ethics