Symposia & Meetings

June 2007 Symposium

Moving Forward: Designing and Financing Effective Mental Health Services in an Era of Transformation

A one-day symposium convened on Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Spurred by the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, ambitious efforts are underway in a number of states to transform the public mental health care delivery system. The Center for Health Program Development and Management sponsored a symposium on June 12, 2007, at UMBC to examine the evolving mental health system, how efforts to diffuse evidence-based practices and better coordinate services across agencies and branches of medicine are paying off, and the extent to which Medicaid managed care and other newer programming and financing strategies are helping transform the system. For a summary of the day’s proceedings, click here.

Symposium Brochure

Symposium Biographies

Keynote Session: Challenges to Designing an Effective Mental Health System
Speaker: Commentator:	Michael Hogan Steven Sharfstein	Presentation

Session 1: Recognizing, Accepting, and Adopting "Proven" Practices
Speakers: Moderator:	Anthony Lehman Neal Adams Ronald Manderscheid Michael Abrams	Presentation Presentation Presentation

Session 2: From Research to the Private Sector: How Private Sector Entities Make Coverage and Service Decisions
Speakers: Moderator:	Rick Lee Rhonda Robinson-Beale Michael Nolin	Presentation Presentation

Luncheon Presentation: Mental Health Systems Transformation: Imperatives and Pitfalls
Speaker:	A. Kathryn Power

Session 3: Bridging the Agency Gap: Coordinating State-Financed Mental Health Services
Speakers: Moderator:	Larry Fricks Richard Dougherty Brian Hepburn	Presentation Presentation

Session 4: Moving from "Silos" to Systems: Coordination of Somatic, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Services
Speakers: Moderator:	David Shern Allen Daniels Sally Kroner David Salkever	Presentation Presentation Presentation

Reflections
Conversant:	Howard Goldman