Mental Health Barriers and Options during the Transition to Adult Services – Health Care Transition ECHO Training

Featuring: Christine Mirzaian, MD, MPH, IBCLC & Tim Markle

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@ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Topic: Mental Health Barriers and Options during the Transition to Adult Services

Christine Mirzaian
Christine Mirzaian, MD, MPH, IBCLC

Speakers: Christine Mirzaian, MD, MPH, IBCLC; Attending Physician
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC
and Tim Markle, Waisman Center

About the Series:

Project ECHO® is a learning framework designed to build capacity of professionals and community members to provide evidence-based services. Led by a multidisciplinary team of experts, ECHO participants engage in a virtual community with their peers where they share knowledge, support and feedback.

Tim Markle
Tim Markle

The Waisman Center’s Health Care Transition ECHO  is a virtual training series for health care providers across the US who work with youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This includes primary and specialty care providers, advanced practice providers (NP/PA), nurses, social workers, and any other provider interested in health care transition.

Participants will learn and share strategies to support youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to direct their own transition from pediatric to adult care and a healthy adulthood. Topics for this round include:

  • Working with Schools on Health Care Transition
  • Health Care Transition Services for those with Medical Complexity
  • Mental Health Barriers and Options during the Transition to Adult Services
  • Payment for Health Care Transition Services
  • Role of Families from Different Cultures in Health Care Transition

When: The Waisman Center’s Health Care Transition ECHO virtual training series is a free, national 5-session series will be offered January to May 2025 11:30am – 1:00pm CST on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. The first session will be on Tuesday, January 14th

Registration: Visit here to Register for Health Care Transition ECHO

Join the Training: Once you register for the Health Care Transition ECHO you will receive an email with session details.
Please contact transitionECHO@waisman.wisc.edu with any questions.

CEC: Continuing education credits will be available. Contact us at transitionECHO@waisman.wisc.edu

FFI: Please contact us at transitionECHO@waisman.wisc.edu or visit our training website: https://www.waisman.wisc.edu/echo/health-care-transition/.

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