Click on the titles below to watch panel discussions and/or conversations related to suicide and suicidality. Keep scrolling to read a summary for each event as well.

Understanding Suicide Prevention, Conversation with Jill Harkavy_Friedman,PhD, Villanova University, March 11, 2025

Bringing Suicide Out of the Darkness, Conversation with Anthony Rostain, MD, MA, Villanova University, October 2, 2024

Systemic Issues Around Youth and Suicide Talk Series, Panel discussion, Villanova University, March 21, 2024

Author’s table, The Story Cafe, Nov. 11 & Dec. 2, 2024

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Systemic Issues Around Youth and Suicide Talk Series – Conversation with Jill Harkavy-Friedman, PhD, Villanova, PA, March 11, 2025

Understanding suicide prevention

Jill Harkavy-Friedman, PhD, talked with me about the ins and outs of suicide prevention. Dr. Harkavy-Friedman is Senior Vice President of Research at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This is the third talk in the Systemic Issues around Youth and Suicide talk series I created at Villanova University.

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Systemic Issues Around Youth and Suicide Talk Series – Conversation with Anthony Rostain, MD MA, Villanova, PA, October 2, 2024

Bringing suicide out of the darkness

For the second talk in the Systemic Issues around Youth and Suicide talk series, I engaged in a heart-felt, honest conversation with Anthony Rostain, MD MA, about the importance of talking about suicidality. Professor Rostain is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Cooper University Health Care, and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

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Systemic Issues Around Youth and Suicide Talk Series – Panel discussion, Villanova, PA, March 21, 2024

Systemic issues around youth and suicide

I conceived of and organized a talk series on systemic issues around youth and suicide. I also moderated the first panel on March 21, which you can watch in its entirety below.

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