"Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Expansion for Children under Six in Massachusetts"
Yael Dvir, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Vice Chair and director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
U. MASS Chan Medical School/Umass Memorial Health
Yael Dvir is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at U. MASS Chan Medical School/U. Mass Memorial Health, where she is Vice Chair and director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her current clinical work focuses on enhancing access to pediatric behavioral health through collaborative care models, and includes directing the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Program MCPAP for Early Childhood Program statewide and the UMASS - MCPAP site as well as precepting psychiatry trainees in the child psychiatry bridging clinic, a short term stabilization clinic.
Her research interests include the association between childhood trauma and mood disorders, childhood psychosis, the associations between childhood psychosis and autism spectrum disorders, and medical education. She has published and presented on these topics locally, nationally, and internationally.
Dr. Dvir received her MD from Hadassah Medical School/Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed her residency in general psychiatry and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at UMASS, where she is currently associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics.
Objectives
The activity is designed to help the learner
- Describe the establishment of the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Early Childhood (EC)
- Utilize principals of providing training and case consultation on EC Mental Health (ECMH) to Primary Care Clinicians
- Describe preliminary data about usage and acceptance of the model
This talk is sponsored by the Barbara Gay Lecture Fund. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. This educational activity received no commercial support.