Breakout Session 4A: Integrating Behavioral Health, Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment With Rural Graduate Medical Education (Day 2)

Description:

Healthcare workforce shortages continue to persist across rural communities while current emerging trends have made it increasingly challenging to recruit physicians and other health care professionals. HRSA shared how one rural workforce initiative, the Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program, is increasing the rural physician pipeline, while featured RRPD grantees discussed how their programs are shaping the behavioral health workforce of the future.

Presenters:

• Jason Steele, MPH, Public Health Analyst, HRSA
• Lawrencia Afagbedzi, MSHA, Health Insurance Specialist, HRSA
• Remy Sirken, MD, Psychiatry Residency Program Director, Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine Rural Psychiatry Program, Charlotte Hungerford Hospital and St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Hartford HealthCare
• Louis Forouhar-Graff, MD, Associate Program Director, Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine Rural Psychiatry Program, Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Hartford HealthCare
• Jody McCloud Missmer, MBA, Network Administrator, Behavioral Health, St. Luke’s University Health Network
• Jennie Rose Serfass, BS, Manager of Behavioral Health and Rural Residency Programs, St. Luke’s University Health Network