CME Credit Hours: 1.25

Community Psychiatrists and other clinicians who may benefit by reviewing the public system of care and the requisite tools to manage the rapidly changing clinical, political and administrative landscape.

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Use knowledge of past developments in Community Psychiatry to inform policy development.
• Recognize the forces that shape the way services develop and underlie the dominant approaches to persons with mental illness in any era
• Incorporate lessons from the past into advocacy efforts and program development
• Discuss political and social issues that have had an impact on the perceptions of individuals with behavioral health problems and their civil rights


SPECIAL NOTE:



This ISER page is designed to enable participants to obtain CME for the Center for Public Service Psychiatry's program "The Evolution of Community Mental Health." There is no educational content provided here. If you need to review the content of the program, please click HERE to review the recording of the session. If you click on this link, it will redirect you to the WebEx website. In order to complete the CME training, you will need to review the content and then log onto the Internet-based Studies in Education in Research website again to complete the post-test and evaluation.

1. Kenneth Thompson, MD - Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, University of Pittsburgh; Medical Director, Pennsylvania Psychiatric Leadership Council; Chief Medical Officer, Recovery Innovations, Pittsburgh, PA
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

2. David Cutler, MD - Medical Director, Multnomah County Oregon Department of Human Services, Mental Health and Addiction Services Division, Portland, OR
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

3. Loren Roth, MD, MPH - Assoc. Sr. Vice Chancellor Health Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

4. Robert Marin, MD - Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UPMC
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

5. Wesley Sowers, MD - Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UPMC
Dr. Sowers is a consultant with Deerfield Behavioral Health, Inc.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals are awarded ( 0.125 ) continuing education units (CEU) which are equivalent to 1.25 contact hours.

Presenters for this program have been requested to identify financial or other relationships with manufacturer(s) of any commercial product(s) or with provider(s) of any commercial service(s) which, in the context of their topics, could be perceived as real or apparent conflicts of interest.

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.