Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Symposium 2017

Please join us for the third annual Spectrum Health Medical Group Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine Symposium on Monday, November 27.  Presentation topics will include integrated care, addiction, ethics, and human trafficking.
The intended audience includes physicians, advance practice providers, psychologists, social workers, and nurses. 

Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners is accredited by the Michigan State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Agenda:
8:00-8:30              Registration and Breakfast

8:30-8:35              Welcome and Introduction
                                Kiran Taylor, MD (Program Director)
                               
8:35-9:35              Primary Care and Behavioral Health – Happy together!
                                Edward Millermaier, MD, MBA, FACP

Patients, families, caregivers, and payers are demanding greater value for what they support. The expectation is higher quality, lower cost, better health, and a great experience. Primary Care providers are front and center in this value based transformation. While a significant portion of the value proposition is financial, it plays out clinically with behavioral health and health behaviors of the population being key elements. Currently the behavioral health needs of the population are not being met and the health behaviors are inadequately addressed. Our chronic disease outcomes need improvement. Social determinants, outdated infrastructure, and unmet needs for the population served contribute to this. Few are happy with the way things currently are. The presentation focuses on progress to date on one solution, bringing Primary Care and Behavioral Health together creating a clinical partnership to promote health, vitality and happiness for patients, families, staff and providers.

 
9:35-9:50              Morning Break

9:50-10:50           Breakout #1
                                1A: Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for Treating Depression*
                                Aaron George, LMSW, CAADC & Kimberly Reynolds, LMSW, ACSW

This presentation will explore practical applications of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for treating patients with depressive disorders. Various interventions will be presented in the areas of behavioral activation and cognitive restructuring, utilizing a specific case example to increase understanding of how techniques are applied. The content is applicable to both brief- and extended-treatment setting. 

                                1B: Opioids in Historical Context to Modern Day Epidemiology*
                                Cara Poland, MD

 Opioids have been a part of human culture since the 3000s BC. We will enjoy a journey through the ages recounting the early cultivation of opioids to the advent of heroin as a treatment for morphine addiction to current trends in epidemiology of today's opioid epidemic.

 
10:50-11:00         Break

11:00-12:00            Human Trafficking: Role of Our Frontline Staff
                                Sarah Moultrie, MSN, CPNP-AC, CPEN

This presentation focuses on multiple elements around Human Trafficking. Specific objectives that it will focus on include increasing the awareness among healthcare professionals on the issue of human trafficking as it impacts not only globally but locally here in West Michigan, increasing the understanding of what defines Labor Trafficking and Sex Trafficking , increasing the understanding among healthcare professionals on what signs to look for when there is possible victim identification, and lastly the presentation will help individuals understand their role once a victim has been identified. It will also discuss some possible local and national resources that individuals can pursue if they believe they are caring for a victim of Human Trafficking.

 
12:00-1:00           Lunch   
                                12:15-12:30         be nice. | the Action Plan
                                                              Christy Buck, LBSW

During this course you will learn the be nice. action plan. be nice. is a mental health program that directly educates people with the tools to recognize a mental health disorder. be nice. is an action plan to help others notice, invite, challenge, and empower their peers. Your words and actions can have an effect on the way people think, act, and feel.

                                12:30-12:45         Opioid Safety and Overdose Prevention in Grand Rapids
                                                                 Steve Alsum

Emerging best practice presents community based take home naloxone kits as an emerging best practice in opioid safety and overdose prevention. The Grand Rapids Red Project has been a statewide leader in moving this programming forward. This presentation will present options or accessing naloxone rescue kits in Kent County, as well as target populations who should receive a kit.

 
1:00-2:00             Breakout #2
                            2A: Medications for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders*
                            Paul Trowbridge, MD

This presentation with review the evidence for medications for the treatment of substance use disorder – primarily opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder.

                                2B: Comorbid Substance Abuse and Mental Health*
                                Steve LaRowe, PhD

This presentation will discuss provision of psychiatric services to patients comorbid dually diagnosed with mental health and substance abuse disorders. The talk will discuss the services that are provided for these patients within the Spectrum Health System.

 
2:00-2:10              Break

2:10-3:10              Breakout #3
                                3A: Welcome to The New Age: Practicing Ethically While Doing Things that Didn’t Exist Last Week*
                                Jared Skillings, PhD, ABPP

Most professional ethics codes are revised only every 10 years or so. Yet, technology has advanced so rapidly that mental health clinicians are faced with new challenges about how to practice scientifically and ethically. This presentation will present updated information about contemporary challenges faced by mental health professionals in such areas as technology use in assessment and treatment, maintaining patient and clinician privacy, death with dignity, over-the-counter medication and holistic treatment recommendations by non-prescribers, and others. We will also review ethical decision-making principles that will enhance the attendees ability to navigate complex ethical situations in the future.

                                3B: The Ethics for Caring for the Vulnerable*
                                Ruth Sanborn, DBe, MA

Health care supports a basic human good:  health.  Health care providers strive to enable their patients to enjoy the highest standard of physical and mental health each individual patient is capable of achieving.  There are many factors, however, that influence each person’s capacity to experience “health”.  The vulnerability of patients is one of these factors.  This session will explore Kenneth Kipnis’ bioethical taxonomy of vulnerability as a framework for guiding ethical safeguards in order to ensure the dignity and well-being of patients.

 
3:10-3:25              Afternoon Break

3:25-4:25              New Horizons in Social Work: Integrating with Primary Care
                                Erica Auger, LMSW & Sarah Saunders, LMSW

 
4:25-4:30              Closing Remarks
                                Kiran Taylor, MD (Program Director)

 

Breakout Session Registration
*If you plan to attend the breakout presentations and receive credit for them, you must register below.