Conferences, Events and Trainings
October 2019
October 24, 7:30am-3:45pm | CTC-RI Annual Conference: Advancing Integrated Primary Care: Innovations at Work
September 2019
September 13, 7:30am-9:00am | CTC-RI Breakfast of Champions
September 27, 7:30am-11:30am | Integrating Medication-Assisted Treatment and Primary Care Summit
May 2019
May 10, 7:30am-9:00am | CTC-RI Breakfast of Champions
- CTC-RI Clinician Well-Being Survey Results 2019, Pano Yeracaris, MD, MPH, CTC-RI Chief Clinical Strategist
- Combating Clinician Burnout with Community-Building, Evolution of Clinician Experience, Nicolas S. Nguyen, MD, Senior Medical Director Clinician Recruitment, Development, and Experience, Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare Clinical Instructor Harvard Medical School
- Teamwork 101: Core Skills for Effective Collaboration, Quick overview for high-functioning teams in clinical setting, Co-author of Healthcare Teamwork: Interprofessional Practice and Education, Phillip G. Clark, PhD, Professor and Director, Program in Gerontology and RI Geriatric Education Center, University of Rhode Island
February 2019
February 8, 7:30am-9:00am | CTC-RI Breakfast of Champions
Agenda and Presentations
- "Making Sense of the Madness": Focused discussions on social determinant of health screening and primary care specialist relationships. Which activities are best done through systems of care and which need to be done at the practice level, Andrew Saal MD MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Providence Community Health and Andrea Galgay, MBA, Director, ACO Development, RIPCPC
- Efforts to Improve Technology and Data Flow to Impact Care: Seeking feedback on roadblocks and which actions we can take together to meet common goals, Kim Paull, MPH, Director, RI EOHHS Data and Analytics
November 2018
November 1, 7:30am-3:30pm | CTC-RI Annual Conference
7:30–9:15 Morning Session:
- 7:30–7:40 Building Capacity for Better Care, Lower Costs: Care Transformation Collaborative Perspective, Debra Hurwitz, MBA, BSN, RN Executive Director, CTC-RI
- 7:40-7:50 Building Capacity: Better Care Lower Cost: Rhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner Perspective, Marie L. Ganim, PhD, MPA Commissioner, OHIC
- 7:50-8:00 Better Care Lower Cost: State Innovation Model Perspective, Marti Rosenberg, MA Project Director, SIM Test Grant
- 8:00–9:15 What Patients Want, Randi Redmond Oster, MBA
- Recording for Welcome, Building Capacity, and Better Care Lower Cost
- Recording for What Patients Want, Randi Redmond Oster, MBA
9:30–10:25 Concurrent Breakout Sessions I:
- Building Integrated Behavioral Health Capacity: Partnering with Psychiatry - Salon I & II, Mary Jean Mork, MSW
- Better Care: Providing What Patients Want I Handout Adult & Handout Kids - RotundaΦ, Randi Redmond Oster, MBA
- Not Your Mama's Care Team: Innovative Approaches to Patient Centered Care - Salon IV & V, Eilidh Pederson, MPH
- The First 1,000 Days: How New York State Medicaid is Investing in Early Childhood Development PPT & Recording - Salon III, Kate Breslin, MPH, MCRP Suzanne C. Brundage, MSc
10:25–11:20 Concurrent Breakout Sessions II
- Building Team Capacity: Utilizing Provider/RN Co-Visits, Pharmacy Technicians, & Patient Navigators PPT1, PPT2, PPT3, & Handout - Salon I & II, Wendy A. Chicoine, MSN, RN & Tara Higgins, PharmD, CDOE & Sarah Thompson, PharmD, CDOE
- Better Care: Providing What Patients Want II Handout Adult & Handout Kids - RotundaΦ, Randi Redmond Oster, MBA
- A Community Approach to Women's Health PPT, Handout & Recording - Salon III, Jodi B. Stack, MSN, BBA, RN
- Recognizing and Managing Patients with Trauma in the Primary Care Setting - Salon IV & V, Adam Pallant, MD, PhD & Elliot M. Ruggles, LCSW, PhD
11:35–12:30 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions III
- Financial Incentives and the Delivery of Low- and High-Value Care - Salon I & II, Orestis Panagiotou, MD, PhD
- Building Capacity for Goals of Care - Conversations in Serious Illness PPT and Handout - Rotunda⌂, Jennifer M. Ritzau, MD & Maria Aileen Soriano-Pisaturo, MD
- Better Care and Lower Costs: Partnering in the Community to Meet Health Related Social Needs PPT1 & PPT2 - Salon IV & V, Jeannine Casselman, JD, MA Michael Fine, MD Scott Hewitt, MA
- Partnering with Schools: Suicide Prevention Program: Working with Schools and Primary Care PPT & Recording - Salon III, Jeffrey Hill, MS & Jennifer W. Jencks, PhD
1:30–2:30 Concurrent Breakout Sessions IV
- Using Information to Improve Care: Neighborhood Risk Scores and Payment PPT1 & PPT2 - Salon I & II⌂, Arlene S. Ash, PhD & Elaine Fontaine, BS
- Better Care: Providing What Patients Want I Handout Adult & Handout Kids - RotundaΦ Randi Redmond Oster, MBA
- Using the Rhode Island Medical Home Portal for High Risk Children and Families - Salon IV & V⌂, Kathleen N. Kuiper, BS
2:30–3:30 Concurrent Breakout Sessions V
- Using a Health Information Exchange for Advance Care Planning and Assessing Patient Social Determinants of Health - Salon I & II⌂, Scott W. Young, MS, BS
- Better Care: Providing What Patients Want II Handout Adult & Handout Kids - RotundaΦ, Randi Redmond Oster, MBA
- Insights Into Your Patient Population From KIDSNET - Salon IV & V, Ellen Amore, MS
⌂ This session qualifies CME Credit in Risk Management or End of Life/Palliative Care, two of the required areas of section 6.0; 6.2.1 RI CME re-licensure requirements.
Φ Attendees registering for this session need to sign up for Sessions I and II.
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September 2018
September 14, 7:30am-9:30am | CTC Quarterly Champion Learning Session
CTC hosted another ‘Breakfast of Champions’ session on September 14 at the Shriners Imperial Room in Cranston with almost 60 participants. Pano Yeracaris, MD MPH led with a CTC program update on the integrated behavioral health qualitative evaluation and preliminary data from the All-Payer Claims Database (APCD). Matthew Salisbury, MD of CharterCARE Medical Associates, Pontiac Avenue office presented on their work with embedding the scribe function within the care team. Wrapping up the morning presentations, Jeannine Casselman of Medical-Legal Partnership Boston (MLPB) gave a talk on team-based social determinants of health (SDOH) care.
Please provide your feedback to the meeting via the Survey Monkey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NPS8ZG5
Agenda & Presentations:
CTC program update on IBH Qualitative Evaluation and All-Payer Claims Database (APCD)
May 2018
CTC held another ‘Breakfast of Champions’ session on May 11th at the Shriners Imperial Room in Cranston. The first part of the morning featured a joint presentation on the Integrated Approach to Diabetes Care by Marty Kerzer, DO and Kristin David, PsyD. Collectively, they shared Associates in Primary Care’s approach and results achieved in lowering A1C through group visits. Karyn Horowitz, MD, director of outpatient child psychiatry & behavioral health services at Lifespan and clinical associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University provided an overview of PediPRN’s services, next steps planned for PediPRN together with actual cases demonstrating the value PediPRN to Pediatric practices. Wrapping up the morning presentations, Nelly Burdette, PsyD gave a talk on “What’s integrated care got to do with it?”. The presentation provided an overview of the CTC IBH pilot programs in primary care, reviewed cost and quality data and shared lessons learned, challenges and opportunities.
Please provide your feedback to the meeting via the Survey Monkey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LTNJJHT
Agenda & Presentations:
Lowering A1C Through Group Visits
PediPRN: Pediatric Psychiatry Resource Network
What’s integrated care got to do with it? Looking back and forward in primary care for Rhode Island
March 2018
March 29, 7:30am-9:30am| State of Primary Care in Rhode Island Panel Discussion
Sponsored by Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island (CTC-RI), the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner (OHIC), and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), health care leaders -- within our CTC-RI community -- will explore key advancements that our state has made in primary care, and ways we can continue to advance our delivery system.
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February 2018
February 9, 7:30am-9:00am| CTC Quarterly Champion Learning Session
January 2018
January 4, 9:00am-10:30am | Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Issue Brief event, "Maternal Depression in Rhode Island: Two Generations at Risk"
January 15, 6:00 pm (doors open), 7:00pm start | "Owning Our Story" About the Overdose Epidemic
January 25, 5:00pm-8:15pm | Dealing with the Difficult Patient: Everything a Clinician Needs to Know
December 2017
December 6, 4:00pm-7:00pm| Rhode Island College Population Health Symposium
December 12, 7:30am-8:45am| Maternal and Child Health Collaborative Offices Rounds (COR)
December 14, 4:00pm-5:00pm| Screening for Falls: OT and PT Perspectives Prevention is the Best Medicine
November 2017
November 7, 7:30am-3:30pm | Annual CTC-RI Learning Collaborative
Primary Care Works: Effective Strategies to Improve Population Health and Patient Activation
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September 2017
September 29, 7:15am-3:45pm | Save the Date: 2017 CDOE Annual Symposium
June 2017
June 22, 6:00pm-8:00pm | TCPI Learning Series
June 29, 11:00am-12:00pm | Geriatric Education Series: Webinar: Diseases that Lead to Dementia: A Review with an Update on Potential New Therapies
April 2017
April 1, 7:00am-4:15pm | 5th Annual New England Sports & Orthopedic Rehabilitation Summit (Brown CME)
March 2017
March 4, 7:30am-5:00pm | Trangender Health Conference 2017 (Brown CME)
March 17-19 | The Patient, the Practitioner, and the Computer: Holding on to the Core of Our Healing Professions in a Time of Technological Change (Brown CME)
February 2017
February 1, 4:00pm-4:30pm | Treatment Across the Lifespan for Persons with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
January 2017
January 24, 12:00pm-1:00pm | Webinar: Crossing the Medication Safety Chasm with the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
January 25, 4:00pm-4:30pm | Free Webinar: Neurobehavioral Disorder associated with Prenatal Alcholo Exposure (ND-PAE)
Webinar now availabile: RI Geriatric Education Center Education Series
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December 2016
December 8, 8:30am-4:30pm | 2016 Health Equity Summit Health Equity in Action: Justice and Health For All
December 9, 7:30am-9:30am | Clinical Practice Champion Quarterly Learning Session
December 13, 8:30am-4:00pm | Opioid Prevention & Treatment in the Primary Care Setting (Summit)
November 2016
November 2, 5:30pm-7:00pm | RI Association of Certified Asthma Educators Annual Meeting
November 3, 5:30pm | Alzheimer's Association's Brian R. Ott M.D. Annual Research Symposium
November 4, 8:00am-3:00pm | RI Minority Elder Task Force Cultural Competency Conference for Caregivers
November 9, 1:00pm-2:00pm | Webinar: Care Planning for Children with Special Health Care Needs
November 12, 8:00am-12:00pm | Neurology Update: Dementia and Multiple Sclerosis
November 14, 11:30am-1:30pm | Rhode Island World Diabetes Day at State House
November 17 | Brown CME event: Vector Borne Emerging Infectious Diseases
November 19, 8:00am-5:00 pm | Brown Orthopedics Symposium Pediatric & Adolescent Sports Medicine
Nov. 30 + Dec. 1, 8:30am -5:00 pm | Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach Training
November 30, 5:00pm-7:00pm | Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict screening presented by BCBSRI
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The mission of the Care Transformation Collaborative is to lead the transformation of primary care in Rhode Island in the context of an integrated health care system; and to improve the quality of care, the patient experience of care, the affordability of care, and the health of the populations we serve.