Supporting Your Team in the Collaborative Care Model: Lessons from the Field

This interactive panel brings together a collaborative care team composed of a psychiatric consultant, a behavioral health care manager and a primary care physician to explore what effective collaboration looks like in the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM). Panelists will share practical insights on how they built strong working relationships, aligned their clinical approaches and created bidirectional communication that supports both patient care and team functioning.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify practical strategies to support and engage care team members when initiating or expanding Collaborative Care services.
• Describe best practices for establishing effective collaboration between psychiatric consultants, care managers and primary care physicians.
• Apply approaches to ongoing quality improvement (QI) within case review and team workflows to enhance patient outcomes and team efficiency.

Panel Moderator:

• Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD, Co-Director, UW AIMS Center

Panelists:

• Mary Beth Dixon Vo, MD, MPH, Primary Care Pediatrician and Physician Champion for CoCM
• Julia Jordan-Lake, MA, LCMHC, Behavioral Health Care Manager
• Ravi Anand, MD, Psychiatric Consultant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

This virtual session is supported by the Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions, 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.