Weitzman ECHO Key Populations (June 27, 2025)
Program Information
Weitzman ECHO Key Populations connects primary care medical and behavioral health providers with a multidisciplinary expert faculty panel to form an inclusive learning community that provides guidance, support, and consultation to address questions and cases related to serving key patient populations.
The curriculum covers a wide variety of topics, including HIV prevention, screening, and management, viral hepatitis screening and treatment, substance use disorder management, LGB and Transgender health including gender-affirming therapy, STI screening and treatment, and more.
This ECHO program meets regularly on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Friday of each month at 1pm ET / 10am PT.
Acknowledgement of Support
The Weitzman Institute thanks the Kentucky AETC (Aids Education & Training Center) for supporting the Weitzman ECHO Key Populations program.
Target Audience
This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:
- Primary care providers
- Behavioral health providers
- Nurses
- Other members of the care team
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:
- Screen, diagnose, and manage HIV in primary care, including choosing, monitoring, switching HIV medication regimens and utilizing current evidence-based, patient-centered approaches
- Screen, diagnose, and treat viral hepatitis (B and C) in primary care
- Assess and manage psychiatric and substance use co-morbidities, including in patients with viral hepatitis and HIV
- Educate and counsel patients and staff on primary HIV prevention and treatment, including prescribing PrEP and PEP
- Provide LGBT-focused care for their patients
- Provide up-to-date STI screening, diagnosis, and treatment, including Doxy-PEP
AMA Designation Statement
Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. designates this Live activity for a maximum of 45 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Schedule
This activity meets the first, second, third, and fourth Friday of every month from 1-2pm ET. Below are the dates of the sessions:
- Friday, January 3, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, January 10, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, January 17, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, January 24, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, February 7, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, February 14, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, February 21, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, February 28, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, March 7, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, March 14, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, March 21, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, March 28, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, April 4, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, April 11, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, April 18, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, April 25, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, May 2, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, May 9, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, May 16, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, May 23, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, June 6, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, June 13, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, June 20, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, June 27, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, July 11, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, July 18, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, July 25, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, August 1, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, August 8, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, August 15, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, August 22, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, September 5, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, September 12, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, September 19, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, September 26, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, October 3, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, October 10, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, October 17, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, October 24, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, November 7, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, November 14, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, November 21, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, December 5, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Thursday, December 12, 2025, 1-2pm ET
- Friday, December 19, 2025, 1-2pm ET
Faculty
Kara Lewis, PharmD, AAHIVP, is a clinical pharmacist leader at Community Health Center, Inc. Dr. Lewis has experienced working directly with patients in past roles including CVS Pharmacy and a Walgreens Pharmacy embedded within Community Health Center, Inc. Dr. Lewis provides significant support to providers on Project ECHO Key Populations including discussions on medication adherence and recognizing drug-drug interactions. Dr. Lewis has served on the Project ECHO Key Populations faculty since 2017.
Matthew Huddleston, MD, AAHIVS, has worked as a Family Medicine Physician with a focus on HIV, Hepatitis C, and substance use disorders at Community Health Center, Inc. since 2001. Dr. Huddleston received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Huddleston has served as co-lead faculty member on Project ECHO Key Populations since the program’s development in 2012. Dr. Huddleston also serves as a preceptor for Community Health Center, Inc. 's Nurse Practitioner Residency Program.
Marwan Haddad, MD, MPH, AAHIVS, is currently the Medical Director of the Center for Key Populations at Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), the first center of its kind focused on engaging populations who traditionally experience barriers to comprehensive and respectful care. Dr. Haddad has over 15 years of experience as an HIV Specialist and 5 years of experience directing the Buprenorphine Maintenance Therapy Program at CHCI. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and his medical degree from McGill University. He completed his family medicine residency at University of Toronto and obtained his Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. He has served as the ECHO Faculty Lead for CHCI’s Project ECHO MAT sessions since their inception in February 2013. Dr. Haddad has also served as the ECHO Faculty Lead for CHCI’s Project ECHO Key Populations sessions since their inception in 2012, and was instrumental in the implementation of Project ECHO Key Populations at CHCI.
Mikveh Warshaw, RN, PMHNP, CARN-AP, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner with a specialty in advanced practice addiction medicine. Mikveh graduated from Yale School of Nursing with a focus in child psychiatry. She currently works at the Community Health Center, Inc. and is a faculty member for the Weitzman ECHO Key Populations program. Mikveh teaches classes to nurses, other health professionals, and lay people on; addiction medicine, trans related MH care, family therapy, strength based interviewing, health justice centered psychiatry, mental/emotional first aid, and harm reduction.
Jeannie McIntosh, APRN, FNP-C, AAHIVS, is a family nurse practitioner and a fellow with the Center for Key Populations (CKP) at Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI) in Connecticut. Prior to joining the CKP team, she completed a year-long primary care residency at CHCI. She holds a B.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College and an M.S.N. from Yale University. Jeannie’s clinical interests include infectious disease, addiction medicine, transgender care and women’s health. She served as co-lead faculty member on Project ECHO Key Populations.
Jamie Stevens, APRN, DNP, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, is currently the Director of Behavioral Health Services for Cabarrus Rowan Community Health Centers, Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in the Greater Charlotte, NC, area. Dr. Stevens is also the Former Chief of Preceptors for PMHNP Residency in Integrated Primary Care at CHC, Inc. He also maintains a part time, outpatient private practice for combined psychotherapy and medication management in Milford, CT. Dr. Stevens completed a DNP Program at Fairfield University (graduation August 2021), with a project focus of evaluating preparation of NP Preceptors.
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.
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. and its 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.
By completing this activity, you provide Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. the permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).
Please note that continuing education credit requirements differ by state, jurisdiction, and licensing agency. It is your responsibility to confirm if your licensing/credentialing agency will accept the credits offered by this activity.
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 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 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.
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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.