Description

This “Updates” course supplements the core course, Building Bridges of Understanding: Behavioral Health Education for Pediatric Primary Care. In addition to providing updated information, Drs. Walter and DeMaso provide answers to questions they frequently receive from pediatricians in their live course, and illustrate those answers with case vignettes. Building Bridges of Understanding: Behavioral Health Education for Pediatric Primary Care is a prerequisite for this Updates course.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, learners will be able to:

• Describe recent updates in the management of mild to moderate presentations of anxiety, depression, and ADHD
• Describe the specific tasks to complete at the initial and follow-up assessments of anxiety, depression, and ADHD
• Describe trouble-shooting tips for common glitches in the treatment of anxiety, depression, and ADHD 

Suggested Audience

• Pediatric primary care practitioners
• Developmental behavioral pediatricians
• Adolescent medicine practitioners
• Family practice practitioners
• Nurse practitioners
• Physician assistants
• Pediatric trainees
• Psychiatry trainees
• Trainees from other medical disciplines

Course Director

Heather J. Walter, MD, MPH

Senior Attending Psychiatrist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Course Faculty

David R. DeMaso, MD

Psychiatrist-in-Chief Emeritus, Boston Children’s Hospital

George P. Gardner – Olga E. Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Erica Lee, PhD

Attending Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, PhD

Attending Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Disclosure Policy
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g., planners, faculty, authors, reviewers, and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials, along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves and their spouse or partner, have reported no relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients.

Heather J. Walter, MD, MPH	Erica Lee, PhD
David R. DeMaso, MD	Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, PhD

CME Reviewer

Lesley Niccolini No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose

Greg Durkin (Nursing) No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose or as appropriate

Crystal Tom (Pharmacy) No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose or as appropriate

Pamela Charmarro (Social Work) No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose or as appropriate

Eugene D’Angelo (Psychology) No Relevant Financial Relationships to Disclose or as appropriate