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"Working Together for Longer, Healthier Lives"
- Dr. Robert Glover, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD)
"Managed Care Impacts on State Mental Health Services"
- Virginia Trotter-Betts, MSN, JD, FAAN, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Mental Health, and President NASMHPD
"Developing the Mental Health Workforce: A Cornerstone in System
Transformation"
- Kevin Ann Huckshorn, RN, MSN, CAP, NASMHPD, Director of Office of Technical Assistance
"Vittles & Such: A Look at SSPHA’s Website and Other Vital Membership
Resources" (Presentation not available)
David Sofferin, SSPHA Treasurer &
- Jeff Aboumrad, SSPHA Webmaster
Keynote Address – "Mental Health and Wellness: The Role of the Hospital"
- Thomas H. Bornemann, Ed.D., Director of the Mental Health Program of the Carter Center, Atlanta, GA
"Electronic Records in a Behavioral Health Setting"
- E. Douglas Varney, President/CEO, Frontier Health, Northeast TN & Southwest VA
Operation Comparison Workgroup Presentation
- Ed Moughon, MPA, CEO, Big Spring State Hospital, Big Spring, TX will provide feedback on information collected from member hospitals. This will be an interactive presentation.
"The Surge of Involuntary Commitments and Forensic Bed Expansion"
- Tony McCoy, Ph.D., Psychological Services Director, Florida Department of Children and Families
- Joseph A. Infantino, MS, Hospital Administrator, Northeast Florida State Hospital
- More information from Florida: Please see below- Competency Toolkit, NEFSH Exclusion Criteria and Orange County Initiative
"Dispatches from the Land of Pig Candy" (Presentation not
available)
- Fred Sauceman, Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
"The Georgia Transformation to Recovery Initiative"
- Steve Smith, Administrator, East Central Regional Hospital, Augusta, GA
- David Stayner, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
"New Design Trends for Psychiatric Hospitals" (Panel Discussion)
- Joe Carobene, Deputy Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Mental Health, Nashville, TN
- Patsy Christian, Ph.D., Director, Central Regional Hospital, Raleigh, NC