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Gwenn Jensen introduces the Discover Nikkei program, "Japanese Hospital: Caring for the Pre-war Nikkei Community" at the Japanese American National Museum, Tateuchi Democracy Forum on Saturday, April 11, 2010. The program was co-sponsored by the Little Tokyo Historical Society. She then introduces the keynote speaker, Dr. Troy Kaji. Gwenn M. Jensen, Ph.D. is a consulting medical anthropologist and oral historian. She received her doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder, writing on the short term and long term health consequences of the WWII Japanese American incarceration. As an independent scholar, she continues to do research on the topic. With Naomi Hirahara, she is coauthor of Silent Scars of Healing Hands: Oral Histories of Japanese American Doctors in World War II Detention Camps.

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