Read the Proceedings of the Carter Center's Medical Home Summit (PDF)
Program Moderator:
John Bartlett, MD, MPH (senior project adviser, Primary Care Initiative, The Carter Center)
John Bartlett is the senior project adviser for the Carter Center's Primary Care Initiative activities. The Primary Care Initiative is intended to help identify ways to facilitate better recognition and treatment of mental health and substance abuse problems in primary care. Dr. Bartlett is a psychiatrist and a former treatment system manager who specializes in quality and accountability issues for mental health, substance abuse, and chronic health care. Prior to working at The Carter Center, he was a partner at The Avisa Group, a policy, research, and consulting firm that specializes in behavioral health care. Dr. Bartlett also has served as the senior medical director and vice president for CIGNA Behavioral Health and as an executive vice president for clinical strategy for Charter/Magellan Health Services. He received his medical training at Yale University and completed his psychiatric residency at the UCLA School of Medicine, where, following his residency, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
Panelists:
Wayne Cannon, MD (primary care clinical program leader, Intermountain Health Care)
Dr. Cannon attended medical school at the University of Utah and residency in pediatrics at the University of Utah/Primary Children's Medical Center. Dr. Cannon is a board-certified pediatrician. He currently is a pediatrician at Intermountain Medical Group's Bryner Health Center and also the primary care clinical programs leader at Intermountain, where he oversees the development, implementation, and coordination of system-wide primary care initiatives in Intermountain.
Nico Pronk, PhD, FASCM (vice president for health management, Health Partners)
Nicolaas Pronk is the vice president for Health Management at HealthPartners, a large nonprofit, member-governed integrated health system in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also is health science officer for JourneyWell, a division of HealthPartners focused on health and wellness solutions for employers and health plans across the United States and a senior research investigator at the HealthPartners Research Foundation where he conducts research in the area of health behavior change and population health. Dr. Pronk received his doctorate degree in exercise physiology at Texas A&M University and completed his post-doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Linda Rosenberg, MSW (president and CEO, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare)
With more than 30 years of distinguished service in mental health policy, services, and system reform, Mrs. Rosenberg is a leading mental health expert. In 2004, Mrs. Rosenberg was named president and CEO of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, a nonprofit advocacy and educational association of mental health and addiction treatment service organizations. Prior to joining the National Council, Mrs. Rosenberg was the senior deputy commissioner for the New York State Office of Mental Health. A certified social worker, as well as a trained family therapist and psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner, Mrs. Rosenberg has held faculty appointments at a number of schools of social work, serves on numerous agency and editorial boards, and writes and presents extensively on mental health and addiction issues including the impact of organizational and financing strategies on consumer outcomes.
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