Family, Community, & Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds

This meeting will be held in a hybrid format, either in person, or virtually via Teams (Meeting ID: 289 118 876 454 55, Passcode: Fi2sS2M5).

Presenters

Presentation Title

• Relationally Centered Integrated Care: Saving Lives and Retaining Providers

Bio

Dr. Angela Lamson, LMFT, a Nancy W. Darden Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University also serves as interim Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research. She co-created the first Medical Family Therapy PhD program in the nation. She has previously served as the program director for the Medical Family Therapy doctoral program and Marriage and Family Therapy master’s program, Director of the Medical Family Therapy Research Academy and Director of the Family Therapy Clinic at East Carolina University. She was Associate Dean for Research for the College of Health and Human Performance prior to holding the role of Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor for Economic & Community Engagement. She has secured about 8M in external funding through foundations, NSF, and DoD. She has funded more than 180 graduate students who have deployed integrated health practice and research, particularly in rural communities. Her collaborative, integrated care initiative with Contentnea Health earned ECU and Contentnea Health the 2024 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship award.  

Objectives

1. Describe integrated behavioral health care and at least one way it may influence care with my patients and with my work day.
2. Identify potential providers, departments, and/or champions to collaborate with toward initiating a model of integrated care.
3. Engage in a conversation about the evidence that supports the benefits of integrated behavioral health care for patients and providers.
4. Construct an early-stage plan for how to increase collaboration or integrated care into my practice.

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