Violence Medicine Unit (UMV)
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Presentation
The Violence Medicine unit (UMV) is present on 4 sites ; at the CHUV in Lausanne, at the Yverdon-les-bains Hospital, at the Rennaz Hospital center and in Nyon.
Tasks
The UMV has three missions:
- Provide victims of violence with medical-legal consultation
- Provide professionals with advice and training
- Conduct research on teh theme of interpersonal violence
Brochure with access map :
- French
- English
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Croatian
- German
- Italian
- Macedonian
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Serbian
- Spanish
- Tamil
- Turkish
Staff
- Head of unit : Nathalie Romain Glassey, forensic pathologist (Unisciences profile)
- Forensic pathologists
- Nurses
- Head of research : Anne Cattagni Kleiner, MA expert demographer, BA Sociology
- Secretaries
Presentation of 15 years Violence Medicine Unit
