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Volunteer Application <br />Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br />Amy Weil Page 1 of 2 <br />Home Address:5035 Old Clinic <br />Township of Residence: Chapel Hill <br />Zone of Residence: <br />Ethnic Background:white <br />Sex:Female <br />Phone (Day):919 445 6796 <br />Phone (Evening):919 259 5883 <br />Phone (Cell):919 259 5883 <br />Email:amy_weil@med.unc.edu <br />Name:Dr Amy Weil <br />Boards/Commissions applied for: <br />Chapel Hill NC 27599-7110 <br />Place of Employment: UNC School of Medicine <br />Job Title:Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine <br />Name Called: <br />Year of OC Residence:1998 <br />Community Activities/Organizational Memberships: <br />Fellow, American College of Physicians <br />Member, Society of General Internal Medicine <br />Member, Academy on Violence and Abuse <br />Prior Board Member of Kiran (South Asian nonprofit serving survivors of violence) <br />Quite a bit of service with my national organizations and within UNC - committees, <br />mentoring, advising (students individually, for projects and in groups - Gold Humanism <br />Honor Society, Intimate Partner Violence Awareness and Advocacy) <br />Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: <br />I have not served in these roles <br />Board of Health <br />Background, education and experience relevant to this board: <br />I am trained as a Primary Care Internal Medicine doctor and have been on UNC faculty for my <br />entire career, now 20 years. <br />Originally from New York City, I came to medicine by a circuitous path, with 2 humanities <br />majors, (history and psychology) searching for meaningful work that could incorporate active <br />care and social justice. I volunteered as a Rape Crisis Counselor before medical school and <br />worked in a psychiatric hospital. <br />Initially, my longstanding interest and concern for the rights of women and those with psychiatric <br />illness caused me to choose a primary care medicine path. <br />I have served as Medical Co-Director of UNC s Beacon Child and Family Program (serving <br />survivors of violence) and have taught and performed research in the field of intimate partner <br />violence and trauma informed care locally, nationally and internationally. <br />34