Power of Primary Care Champions in Collaborative Care

Join us Tuesday, July 22, 3-4 p.m. ET, for The Power of Primary Care Champions in Collaborative Care, the first session in a new online conversation series. This free session will explore real-world approaches for engaging and building trust with primary care providers to better serve people with mental health needs.

Participants will leave this session able to:  

• Recognize primary care providers’ pivotal role in whole-person care and identify strategies for overcoming common barriers to engage them. 
• Describe effective approaches to building trust and collaborative relationships between primary care providers and care teams. 
• Understand workflow innovations that align with primary care practice realities, promote engagement and support scalable, team-based behavioral health integration. 

Panelists: 

• Christine Amstadt, DO, Associate Medical Director for Primary Care, Northwestern Medicine
• Katie Doyle, Vice President of Operations, Northwestern Medicine 
• Garrett Raubolt, LCSW, Behavioral Care Coordinator, Collaborative Behavioral Health Program, Northwestern Medicine 
• Jon Zifferblatt, MD, Chief Strategy Officer, West Health Institute 

The Conversation Series, hosted with our partners at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute,focuses on how integrated health solutions are shaping the future of behavioral health care.  

This virtual session is supported by the CoE-IHS, funded by a grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. If you have questions about these sessions, please contact Integration@TheNationalCouncil.org.