Session information
Workshop
WONCA APR Conference 2019 » Workshop
[WS1-04A2] Improving Our Care of Patients with Depression and Anxiety
Wed. May 15, 2019 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Room 9 (2F Room I)
Organizer: Shelly Rodrigues(California Acaddemy of Family Physicians, USA)
Chair: Christopher Dowrick(Professor, Primary Medical Care, University of Liverpool and Chair, WONCA Working Party for Mental Health, UK), Ryuki Kassai(Professor and Chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Japan)
Presenter: Jay W. Lee(Director of Primary Care, CareMore Health, USA), Cindy Lo-Kuen Lam(Danny D.B Ho Professor, Family Medicine, and head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Jillian Benson(Medical Educator, GPEx, clinician at Doctors Health SA and member of the WONCA Working Party for Mental Health, Australia), Shelly Rodrigues(California Acaddemy of Family Physicians, USA), Christopher Larrison(Founder, Healthcare Performance Consulting, Inc., USA)
*Members only
This workshop is the second in a series. The first workshop was held at WONCA, Seoul, October 2018. Our master faculty, co-chaired by Drs. Christopher Dowrick, UK and Ryuki Kassai, Japan, will lead the workshops for 25 +/- trainees on improving care of patients with depression and anxiety. The workshops are interactive, with didactic content, small-group work, videos, exercises, practice and discussions. They include cases and tools. The trainees will then commit to teaching at least two one-hour clinical sessions in their home countries as a way to expand and improve mental health care. Our other faculty members inlcude Drs. Cindy Lam, Hong Kong; Jay Lee, USA; and Jillian Benson, Austrialia. Shelly Rodrigues and Chris Larrison will also faciliate sessions during the workshop. Our trainees will have at least four webianrs after this live workshop to support additional education for better care of patients.