The Thirty-Ninth Annual Erich Lindemann Memorial Lecture
The Erich Lindemann Memorial Lecture Committee at William James College, in cooperation with the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital & the North Suffolk Mental Health Association Board of Directors
present
The Contentious Health Care System:
Is There a Place for Community Mental Health?
Friday, May 20, 2016 | 2:30 – 5:00 pm at William James College
The U.S. health care system has become ever more complex, confusing, incomplete, and expensive. This gives rise to much complaint, contention, differences in goals and values, and proposals for change. Is there a place for Community Mental Health now or in the various proposed futures? Is there a place for supporting mental health, preventing mental illness, care for populations in addition to individuals, and collaboration among agencies and professions? Are these aspects of Community Mental Health valued and beneficial enough to meet criteria such as “cost effectiveness”? Or do we not care enough about them to include them in our health care system now and in the future? A panel representing public health, government, and human service agencies will let us know how this figures in their priorities and plans.
Speakers
Mark Alexakos, MD, MPP, Chief Behavioral Health Officer, Lynn Community Health Center
Alan Sager, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Health Reform Program, Boston University School of Public Health
Marylou Sudders, MSW, Secretary, Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Moderator
David G. Satin, MD, DLFAPA, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Chairman, Erich Lindemann Memorial Lecture Committee
Location: William James College, One Wells Avenue, Newton, MA
EL39—2.5 CE Credits for psychologists, social workers, nurses, LMHCs, and educators —$35
Open to the professional community and public - No Admission Charge