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  Topical Call Agenda: 07 May 2008
 
 

One-Hour Phone Call

During the call, speakers will:
  1. Discuss efforts at the national level to support the medical home across the lifespan, including collaborative ventures involving the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association and others;
  2. Describe services provided by a State Title V CYSHCN program to support physicians as they put the medical home model into practice;
  3. Describe steps that have been taken—and the challenges faced—in educating pediatric and other primary care physicians to prepare YSCHN for transition and in recruiting adult-focused physicians to become the medical homes for young adults with special health care needs.
  4. Detailed Overview

Facilitators

  • Toni G. Wall - PI, HRTW National Resource Center; Director, Children with Special Health Needs Division of Family Health, Maine Department of Health & Human Services
  • Theresa Glore - HRTW Consultant - Title V, HRTW National Resource Center

Presenters/Affiliations

  • Healthy & Ready to Work National Resource Center:

    Richard (Rich) C. Antonelli, MD, FAAP, MS
    Director, Dept of General Pediatrics
    Chief, Provision of Primary CarDirector, Department of General Pediatrics
    Director, Department of General Pediatrics
    Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
    Co-Head, Academic Division of General Pediatrics
    University of Connecticut School of Medicine

    Patience H. White, MD, FAAP, MA
    Chief Public Health Officer
    Arthritis Foundation

  • Illinois State Title V CYSHCN Program:

    Charles N. Onufer, MD, FAAP
    Director
    University of Illinois – Chicago
    Division of Specialized Care for Children

    Gerri Clark, RN, MSN
    Associate Director for Program Services
    University of Illinois – Chicago
    Division of Specialized Care for Children

 

 

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The HRTW Center is headquartered at the Maine State Title V CSHN Program. Activities are coordinated through the Maine Support Network's Center for Self-Determination, Health and Policy. The Center is funded through a cooperative agreement (U39MC06899-01-00) from the Integrated Services Branch, Division of Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs (DSCSHN) in the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Elizabeth McGuire, HRSA/MCHB Project Officer.