CHC Grand Rounds 2023: Pharmacy Highlights (March 24, 2023)
Program Information
CHC Grand Rounds are designed to educate Community Health Center, Inc. faculty and trainees to foster opportunities for collaboration. This is a series of didactic presentations related to the complexities of the provision of mental health services including the treatment of mental health disorders; presentation of research on specific diagnosis and conditions; new and emerging interventions and data.
Target Audience
This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:
- Medical Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Pharmacists
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants/Associates
- Psychologists and Counselors
- Social Workers
Registration Information
CHC Grand Rounds is only open and available to clinical staff members of the Community Health Center, Inc. There is no fee associated with this program.
Learning Objectives
Medical
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:
- Support health care professionals in keeping up to date in evolving areas of health care practice and compliance
- Identify evidence-based standards of care
- Discuss best practices in high quality care delivery
- Review appropriate care and management of patients
- View subject matter through the lens of diversity and inclusion
Behavioral Health
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:
- Identify best practices for various behavioral health disorders
- Initiate appropriate intervention or be able to appropriately refer
- View subject matter through the lens of diversity and inclusion
Dental
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:
- Identify best practices to improve evidence-based care
- delivery
- View subject matter through the lens of diversity and
- inclusion
- Help oral healthcare professionals keep up to date in
- important evolving areas
Medical Grand Rounds
Medical Grand Rounds meets from 8:30-9:30am ET. Below are the dates for the remaining sessions of this activity.
January 27, 2023
February 24, 2023
March 24, 2023
April 28, 2023
May 26, 2023
June 23, 2023
July 28, 2023
August 25, 2023
September 22, 2023
October 27, 2023
November 24, 2023
December 22, 2023
Behavioral Health Grand Rounds
Behavioral Health Grand Rounds meets from 8:30-9:30am ET. Below are the dates for the remaining sessions of this activity
February 15, 2023
TBD
Dental Grand Rounds
Dental Grand Rounds meets from 8:30-9:30am ET. Below are the dates for the remaining sessions of this activity
TBD
Faculty
Medical
Veena Channamsetty, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer of Community Health Center, Inc. In this role, she is responsible for the clinical leadership of a large staff of medical providers and caregivers for Connecticut’s largest Federally Qualified Health Center. She is responsible for the delivery of evidence-based medical standards, the medical staff recruitment and retention, and provider affairs. Dr. Channamsetty oversees the clinical and non-clinical training, orientation, and onboarding for all new CHC medical providers. With the vision of a stable and solid medical staff, Dr. Channamsetty coordinates clinical care with provider professional interests, promoting provider well-being and work-life balance, overseeing clinical and non-clinical affairs of Physicians, APRNs, and Physician Assistants. Dr. Channamsetty is the President of the Medical Staff and the Chair of the Medical Quality Improvement Committee. She is a clinical preceptor for the APRN residency. Dr. Channamsetty works closely with the chiefs of Behavior Health, Dentistry, and Nursing to promote interprofessional and team based care. She is responsible for ensuring Joint Commission and Patient Centered Medical Home compliance throughout CHC.
Behavioral Health
R. Timothy Kearney, PhD, earned his BA with a combined major in Psychology and Spanish Literature at Yale University and pursued graduate work at Fuller Theological Seminary where he earned his MA (Theology) from the Graduate School of Theology and his PhD (Clinical Psychology) from the Graduate School of Psychology. He has also completed the post graduate Primary Care Behavioral Health training program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester. He is a licensed psychologist in Connecticut. He joined the Community Health Center behavioral health staff in 1998. He is the author of Caring for Sexually Abused Children: A Handbook for Families and Churches (Intervarsity Press, 2001). In addition to administrative and clinical leadership of the Behavioral Health programs at CHC, Dr. Kearney supervises and trains postdoctoral psychology residents, co-leads psychotherapy groups with students and younger staff to train them in the provision of child group therapy, and provides direct client care with the clinical focus of providing care to children and adolescents and their families, especially those impacted by medical illness, trauma, and abuse.
Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.
Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.
Faculty Disclosures
No faculty disclosed a relevant financial relationship for this program.
Kara Lewis
Kara Lewis
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Community Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Designation Statement
Through Joint Accreditation, Community Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Psychological Association (APA) credit to psychologists at its activities, and Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) credit to social workers at its activities.
By completing this activity you provide the Weitzman Institute permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).
Available Credit
- 1.00 AAPA Category I CMEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.00 ACE/ASWBThrough Joint Accreditation Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) credit to social workers at its activities.
- 1.00 ACPEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) credit to pharmacists at its activities.
- 1.00 ADA CERPThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
- 1.00 ANCCThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
- 1.00 APAThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Psychological Association (APA) credit to psychologists at its activities.
- 1.00 CDRThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide CDR credits to registered dieticians at its activities.
- 1.00 Participation Hour(s)You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
- 1.00 Pharmacology
CHC Grand Rounds is only open and available to clinical staff members of the Community Health Center, Inc. There is no fee associated with this program.
Required Hardware/Software
- This online activity requires use of a device connected to the Internet, such as a computer tablet or mobile device.
- The activity will take place over Zoom, which must be accessed directly from within the activity.