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

Speaker Biographies

Keynote Session: Challenges to Designing an Effective Mental Health System
Speaker:	Michael Hogan	Presentation
Reactor:	Steven Sharfstein
Session 1: Recognizing, Accepting, and Adopting "Proven" Practices
Speakers:	Anthony Lehman	Presentation
	Neal Adams	Presentation
	Ronald Manderscheid	Presentation
Moderator:	Michael Abrams
Session 2: From Research to the Private Sector: How Private Sector Entities Make Coverage and Service Decisions
Speakers:	Rick Lee	Presentation
	Rhonda Robinson-Beale	Presentation
Moderator:	Michael Nolin
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:	Larry Fricks	Presentation
	Richard Dougherty	Presentation
Moderator:	Brian Hepburn
Session 4: Moving from "Silos" to Systems: Coordination of Somatic, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Services
Speakers:	David Shern	Presentation
	Allen Daniels	Presentation
	Sally Kroner	Presentation
Moderator:	David Salkever
Reflections
Speaker:	Howard Goldman