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FRIDAY
04:45 PM
James L. Knight Convention Center (Third Floor)
Improving mental health and outcomes through integrated care
The Academy’s Katon Research Award Lecture Managing Complexity: Improving Mental Health and Medical Outcomes through Integrated Care in Low Resource Settings will be presented today by 2024 award winner Lydia Chwastiak MD, MPH, FACLP.
Dr. Chwastiak is a psychiatrist, internist, and health services researcher who is professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and adjunct professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.
Her research over the past 21 years has aimed to improve care and outcomes for people with complex needs in low-resource settings, such as low-barrier primary care clinics and community mental health centers in the US, and primary and secondary medical settings in India, Nepal, and Cambodia.
Dr. Chwastiak has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications and has been principal investigator or co-Investigator on eight federally-funded research projects to develop and implement integrated care interventions in low-resource settings.
She is the director of the WHO Collaborating Center at UW, and co-director of the UW Behavioral Research in HIV (BIRCH) Center, an NIMH-funded HIV and mental health research center.
Nearly a billion people globally live with a mental disorder; prevalence estimates are 2-3 times higher among individuals with chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes or HIV. Fewer than half of people with mental disorders receive treatment, leading to high costs, disability burden, and premature mortality.
Integration of mental health services into primary or specialty medical care is a feasible and efficient strategy for increasing access to effective mental health care, says Dr. Chwastiak, More than 40 integrated care models can improve mental health outcomes across diverse medical settings and populations.
Dr. Chwastiak will review evidence for the effectiveness of collaborative care in co-management of multi-morbidity across low-resource settings, describe key implementation challenges, and highlight promising approaches for scaling.