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Forward2025 TiPS Behavioral Health and Pediatric Primary Care Conference
Overview
Children's TiPS is a Pennsylvania HealthChoices program designed to increase the availability of child psychiatry consultation to pediatric primary care providers. Children’s TIPS is funded by HealthChoices (Pennsylvania’s Medical Assistance Program, or Medicaid), Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and UPMC HealthPlan to provide telephonic and real-time virtual assessments for youth with Medicaid, CHIP, and UPMC insurance, living in the Northwest and Southwest HealthChoice Zones. Children’s TiPS is hopeful expand child and adolescent services to include all insurances in the coming year.
This year, UPMC has piloted a Perinatal TIPS program to provide real-time consultation to any medical provider (primary care, OB-GYN, psychiatrist) working with individuals in the perinatal period. Providers can consult with perinatal psychiatry as well as perinatal substance use experts. This pilot is currently being funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.
In addition to real time peer to peer consultation, TiPS provides free training and education to practitioners on a variety of behavioral health topics.
This year’s conference is meant to be smaller and more interactive than past conferences, focusing on the stated needs of the core constituency of TiPS – Pediatric Primary Care Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers. All sessions will be interactive with small and large group discussions facilitated by experts.
This conference is being sponsored by the UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics Children’s TIPS Team and co-funded by Pennsylvania HealthChoices
Target Audience
Pediatric Primary Care Physicians, Family Practice Physicians, and Advanced Practice Providers (PA, DNP, CRNP) who practice in the northwestern and southwestern PA counties.
Learning Objectives
At the completion of the program, participants will be able to:
- Discuss how to utilize Children’s TiPS for psychiatric consultation
- Discuss methods of managing youth with mood disorders and ADHD
- Discuss specific strategies for treatment of behavioral health conditions when an adolescent is using substances
- Apply principles for assessment of youth with thoughts of harming others
- Describe the role of primary care physicians when perinatal depression is a concern during newborn visits
Program
Agenda
7:30- am - 8:00am Arrival / Sign in (Breakfast will be provided)
8:00 am – 9:30am Introduction and Challenges in the Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD
Abigail Schlesinger MD, Craig Coleman MD and Amy Landis CRNP, PMHS
9:30 am – 10:30am Treating Mental Health Problems in Adolescents with Substance Use
Rebecca Miller MD
10:30am 10:45am Break
10:45 am – 11:45am Help! How to Support Postpartum Individuals in the 4th Trimester During the Infant Well Child Check
Meredith Spada MD, Jacqueline Saladino MD
11:45am -12:45am Lunch (provided for participants)
12:45 pm—1:45pm Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Patricia McGuire MD, Gillian Carl MD
1:45- pm – 2:45pm Assessing Risk When Pediatric Patients Are Threatening to Harm Others
Abigail Schlesinger MD, Jack Rozel MD
2:45 pm--3:00 pm Wrap-up
Abigail Schlesinger MD
Venue
Faculty
Course Director
Abigail Boden Schlesinger, MD
Medical Director, Children’s TiPS
Clinical Chief, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and Integrated Care
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Pediatrics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Faculty
Gillian Carll, MD
Resident Physician, UPMC St Margaret’s Family Practice Residency
Craig Coleman, MD
Attending Psychiatrist UPMC Western Wellness, UPMC Behavioral Health of the Alleghenies, UPMC CCP TiPS
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Amy Landis, CRNP, PMHS
Community Provider, Children’s Community Pediatrics
Patricia McGuire, MD
Attending Psychiatrist, Children’s TiPS
Director, Psychiatric Education
UPMC St Margaret Family Medicine Residency
Rebecca Miller, MD
Attending Psychiatrist, TiPS and CPCDS
John Rozel, MD, JD
Medical Director, Re:Solve Crisis Services
Co-director, UPMC Systemwide Threat Assessment and Response Team
Professor of Psychiatry and Law, University of Pittsburgh
Jacqueline Saladino, MD
Director, Pediatric Primary Care, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Resident Education Director, Advanced Practice Provider Education Program in General Academic Pediatrics, UPMC Children's Hospital of
Pittsburgh
Meredith Spada, MD
Medical Director, Perinatal TiPS
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Conference Committee
Conference Chair
Colleen D. Gianneski, LCSW
Program Director, Children’s TiPS, Perinatal TiPS, and SMART Choices Programs
Integrated Behavioral Health Therapist, CCP – Butler
UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics
Committee Members
Meghan Stoehr, LCSW
Supervisor, Behavioral Health
UPMC CCP TiPS
Jennifer S. Iagnemma, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Senior Director, Clinical Operations
UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics
Devin Petit, MPAS, PA-C
Certified Physician Assistant (psychiatric)
UPMC Western Behavioral Health
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Healthcare Professionals
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Counselors
Education and Consultative Services of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5059. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Education and Consultative Services of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital is solely responsible for all aspects of this program. This program is being offered for 5.5 continuing education hours.
Licensed/Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: LSW/LCSW/LPC/LMFT
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 5.5 continuing education credits.
Other Professionals
Other professionals are awarded .55 Continuing Education Units (CEU's). One CEU is equal to 10 contact hours. Peer Specialists: This program fulfills requirements for Certified Peer Specialist continuing education.
- NBCC and General CEU – Participants will be awarded continuing education contact hour(s) certificate four to six weeks post-conference via e-mail. Please keep these certificates in a safe place. Replacements will cost $30.
- CME, AAPA, ANCC, CRNP, PA, and LSW/LCSW/LPC/LMFT certificates will be issued from the CCEHS registration site.
Available Credit
- 5.50 AAPA Category I CME
- 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 5.50 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 5.50 ASWB
- 5.50 Attendance