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Why Improving Access to Mental Health Care is an Ethical Imperative

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Guest Speakers

Jamon Blood, DO

Medical Director
UT Health East Texas
Lake Street Pediatric Psychiatry Clinic, Tyler

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine,
The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center

Dr. Blood believes family has a great influence on a child’s mental health and outcomes. Therefore, he works with the whole family when treating a child. “I believe you treat the whole family and not just the child. Working within the family system allows me to address all the challenges my patients are facing.”

Inspired by a mission trip to Brazil, Dr. Blood’s desire is to help his patients make positive changes in their lives. “I want to be able to help change a child’s trajectory through their life,” he said. “I love working with very young children to young adults. I’m also interested in working with those who have special needs.”

When not working with patients, Dr. Blood enjoys woodworking, gardening, serving in his church, riding dirt bikes and all kinds of sports, especially basketball.

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Diana M. Robinson, MD

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Parkland Memorial Hospital

Associate Medical Director
Parkland Hospital Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Diana M. Robinson, MD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She has a passion for providing psychiatric care for acutely medically ill patients.

Dr. Robinson graduated from medical school at Texas A&M College of Medicine and performed her adult psychiatry residency at the University of Virginia. She completed her fellowship in consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry at Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital with a particular focus in cardiac transplantation psychiatry, oncology, and infectious disease.

Since 2019, she has worked on the UT Southwestern inpatient consult team with residents and medical students, and she provides psychiatric care in the co-located oncology clinic. In addition to direct patient care, Dr. Robinson is dedicated to improving psychiatric care through engagement with regional and national psychiatry organizations. She currently serves on the Medical Education and Lifelong Learning Committee for the American Psychiatry Association (APA). Since 2017, she has served as a member of the Annual Meeting Subcommittee for the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP). From 2016 to 2018, she served on the APA’s C-L Council and the ACLP Evidence-Based Medicine and Guidelines Subcommittee.

Her research interests include neuropsychiatry, global mental health, and psychiatry trainee education. Dr. Robinson is the author of over 30 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles.

Overview

One in four youth and one in five women have identifiable mental health concerns and disorders. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth (ages 12-24) and is a leading cause of mortality in the first year of giving birth. There are not enough trained mental health professionals to meet the clinical demand. Therefore, it is imperative that primary care physicians become more knowledgeable and skilled in managing mental health concerns in their clinical settings. This activity will first provide information on the serious and negative ramifications that stem from a delay in screening, assessing, and treating common mental health conditions before they become severe. The activity will also provide evidence of improved care with the implementation of collaborative care models within primary care practice utilizing consultative support of trained mental health professionals. Finally, the activity will provide real-time exposure to a consultation process to help provide scaffolding for participants to utilize the model outside of the activity.

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Objectives

At the conclusion of the session, the participants should have increased information to:

Discuss the rates of occurrence for common mental health disorders in youth.
Summarize the negative outcomes and ethical concerns that may result when youth and pre- and post-partum women are unable to access mental health care.

Recall the rates for common mental healthdisorders in pre- and post-partum women.
Identify the favorable outcomes that may result for youth and pre- and post-partum women when their primary care physicians engage in collaborative care models with mental health experts.

For more information, email CPANinfo@uttyler.edu.

The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center is accredited by the Texas Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credit™. Participants should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This program is also designated for 1.0 hour of medical ethics and/or professional responsibility credit.