Mental Health Care—How Are We Doing?

Under the impetus of the Affordable Care Act, and driven by increasing concern over accessibility and availability, mental health care is undergoing rapid and significant change designed to increase access and improve care. The Section on Health Care Delivery has assembled a distinguished panel of experts and practitioners to review developments in three of the most significant areas. The moderator will be Harold Pincus, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia and a major national figure in mental health policy, who will give us an overview of the current state of mental health policy. Sherry Glied, PhD, Dean of the Wagner School and author of several books and articles on mental health, will discuss how well parity between mental and physical health is being realized in practice; Henry Chung, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Montefiore’s Care Management Program, will talk about what we are learning about how to make collaborative models between mental and physical health care successful; and Paul Appelbaum, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law at Columbia University will talk about opportunities  and ethical questions opened up by technology, e.g., telemedicine and telemonitoring.











When: Thu., Feb. 11, 2016 at 5:15 pm - 7:30 pm

Under the impetus of the Affordable Care Act, and driven by increasing concern over accessibility and availability, mental health care is undergoing rapid and significant change designed to increase access and improve care. The Section on Health Care Delivery has assembled a distinguished panel of experts and practitioners to review developments in three of the most significant areas. The moderator will be Harold Pincus, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia and a major national figure in mental health policy, who will give us an overview of the current state of mental health policy. Sherry Glied, PhD, Dean of the Wagner School and author of several books and articles on mental health, will discuss how well parity between mental and physical health is being realized in practice; Henry Chung, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Montefiore’s Care Management Program, will talk about what we are learning about how to make collaborative models between mental and physical health care successful; and Paul Appelbaum, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law at Columbia University will talk about opportunities  and ethical questions opened up by technology, e.g., telemedicine and telemonitoring.

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