Project TEACH Virtual Statewide Intensive Training Children’s Mental Health for New York State Primary Care Providers - Spring 2022
Virtual Live Training
This intensive training program enhances primary care clinicians’ skills to assess, treat and manage common mental health concerns in children and youth. This program includes the 1 ½ day training and six follow-up sessions and is presented by Project TEACH’s team of child and adolescent psychiatrists and pediatricians.
Project TEACH is funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health and all services and events, such as this intensive training, are offered at no-cost to clinicians in New York State.
Course Descriptions
- Trauma-Informed Care: This Intensive Training module addresses how to screen for and treat trauma in children and adolescents.
- Depression: This Intensive Training module addresses how to screen for and treat pediatric depression.
- Anxiety: This Intensive Training module addresses how to screen for and treat pediatric anxiety.
- Reimbursement: This Intensive Training module addresses how to get reimbursed for mental health visits in primary care.
- ADHD: This Intensive Training module addresses how to assess and treat ADHD, including adherence to treatment options.
- Aggression: This Intensive Training Module addresses how to assess and manage aggression.
Target Audience
New York State primary care and family practice physicians, pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nursing professionals, social workers, residents, and other mental health, primary care, and pediatric clinicians.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, learners will be able to:
- Recognize the presentation, diagnosis, comorbidity, neurobiology, and current treatment options available for individuals with ADHD.
- Assess depression in youth, and evaluate the treatment options for children and adolescents, including an assessment of the black box warning for SSRIs.
- Differentiate common anxiety disorders and describe their assessments and treatment.
- Recognize the behaviors resulting from trauma that require treatment, and evaluate the treatment options for children and adolescents.
PROGRAM AGENDA
Sunday, May 1st
Introduction & Overview
8:30 - 8:45 am Welcome, Introduction and Project TEACH Overview
David Kaye, MD
Module Topic 1: Trauma-Informed Care
8:45 - 9:05 am Assessment and Diagnosis
Nayla Khoury, MD
9:05 - 9:25 am Screening
Nayla Khoury, MD
9:25 - 9:45 am Treatment
Victor Fornari, MD
9:45 - 10:00 am Incorporation into Your Practice: Trauma-Informed Care
Amy Jerum, NP, DNP
10:00 - 10:30 am Question and Answer
Moderator: Mike Scharf, MD
Panelists: Nayla Khoury, MD, Victor Fornari, MD and
Amy Jerum, NP, DNP
10:30 - 10:45 am Break
Module Topic 2: Depression
10:45 - 11:05 am Assessment and Diagnosis
Eric MacMaster, MD
11:05 - 11:25 am Antidepressants, Youth and Suicide
Sourav Sengupta, MD
11:25 - 11:45 am Treatment
Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD
11:45 - 12:00 pm Incorporation into Your Practice: Depression
Jessica Grant, MD
12:00 - 12:30 pm Question and Answer
Moderator: James Wallace, MD[BI1]
Panelists: Eric MacMaster, MD, Sourav Sengupta, MD,
Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD, and Jessica Grant, MD
12:30 - 1:00 pm LUNCH
Module Topic 3: Anxiety
1:00 - 1:20 pm Assessment and Diagnosis
Nayla Khoury, MD
1:20 - 1:40 pm Treatment
Zoya Popivker, DO
1:40 - 2:00 pm Incorporation into Your Practice: Anxiety
Diane Bloomfield, MD
2:00 - 2:30 pm Question and Answer
Moderator: David Kaye, MD
Panelists: Nayla Khoury, MD, Zoya Popivker, DO and Diane Bloomfield, MD
2:30 – 2:45 pm Break
Module Topic 4: Reimbursement & Implementation
2:45 - 3:15 pm Reimbursement & Implementation
Marc Lashley, MD and Colleen Mattimore, MD
3:15 - 3:45 pm Question and Answer
Moderator/Panelists: Marc Lashley, MD and Colleen Mattimore, MD
3:45 pm Adjourn
Monday, May 2nd
Introduction & Overview
8:30 - 8:45 am Welcome, Introduction of the Liaison Coordinators
Victor Fornari, MD
Module Topic 5: ADHD
8:45 - 9:05 am Assessment and Diagnosis
Mike Scharf, MD
9:05 - 9:25 am Treatment
Carmel Foley, MD
9:25 - 9:45 am Incorporation into Your Practice: ADHD
Maureen Montgomery, MD
9:45 - 10:15 am Question and Answer
Moderator: Victor Fornari, MD
Panelists: Mike Scharf, MD, Carmel Foley, MD, and
Maureen Montgomery, MD
10:25
10:15 - 10:30 am Break
Module Topic 6: Aggression
10:30 - 11:10 am Assessment
Wanda Fremont, MD
11:10 - 11:30 am Treatment
Breck Borcherding, MD
11:30 - 11:50 pm Incorporation into Your Practice: Aggression
Maureen Montgomery, MD
11:50 - 12:15 pm Question and Answer
Moderator: James Wallace, MD[BI2]
Panelists: Wanda Fremont, MD, Breck Borcherding, MD
and Maureen Montgomery, MD
12:15 pm Adjourn
Virtual Follow-Up Sessions
Wednesdays from 12:00-1:00 p.m.
- May 11 - ADHD: What to Do When 1 Stimulant Fails
Carmel Foley, MD and Diane Bloomfield, MD
- May 18 - Unipolar/Bipolar Depression Simulation[BI3]
Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD, David Kaye, MD, Jessica Grant, MD
and Amy Jerum, NP, DNP
- June 1 - Eating Disorders for Primary Care Clinicians
Victor Fornari, MD and Rachel Kaufman, MD
- June 8 - Understanding and Collaborating with Schools
James Wallace, MD and Mary DeGuardi, MD
- June 15 - Self-Injurious Behavior
Eric MacMaster, MD and Maureen Montgomery, MD
Available Credit
- 9.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 9.00 Participation