Dr. Zach Bartochowski is a second-year psychiatry resident at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Dr. Bartochowski completed his Bachelor of Science in Biology at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, before going on to earn his M.D. at Saint Louis University. His areas of interest include geriatric psychiatry, dementia, and the interface between neurology and psychiatry.
Presentation(s):
Is it Incidental? Brain Lesions and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
Andy is the founder and a co-owner of Parenting and Child Conduct Counseling in St. Charles, MO. PCCC opened in 2009 as a single practitioner counseling service, and the staff currently consists of four licensed therapists, two PLPCs, and graduate interns.
Andy has over 40-years of experience working with children and adolescents as a teacher, school counselor, and private practitioner. Since opening PCCC, Andy has specialized in counseling children and adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorders such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and Conduct Disorder (CD).
Presentation(s):
Parent Training: Treatment for Childhood Oppositional Behavior
Individuals with special health care needs are those who have or are at increased risk for a disease, defect or medical condition that may hinder the achievement of normal physical growth and development and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by individuals generally.
It is estimated that 18 million children in the United States have special health needs, and an estimated 5.3 million Americans are currently living with disabilities resulting from traumatic brain injury, which is a little more than 2% of the U.S. population.
The Opioid Response Network provides free technical assistance and training to individuals and communities seeking to address the opioid epidemic and stimulant use disorders in the areas of evidence-based practice prevention, treatment and recovery.
Dr. Ranney is a practicing emergency physician, researcher, and national advocate for innovative approaches to public health. She holds the Warren Alpert Endowed Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, is Founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, and is Associate Dean of Strategy and Innovation at the School of Public Health at Brown University. Dr. Ranney’s funded research focuses on developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence, mental illness, and related epidemics. During the COVID-19 pandemic she has been a CNN Medical Analyst, as well as having frequent appearances on MSNBC, BBC, Good Morning America, NBC, PBS, NPR, and others. She has been published in print media ranging from the Atlantic to the New York Times regarding the value of a national public health strategy. She also developed and co-leads, with Dr. Ashish Jha, the “Surviving And Thriving in The Age of Pandemics” online course at the School of Public Health at Brown University.
She serves multiple national leadership roles, including as Chief Research Officer of AFFIRM Research, the country’s leading non-profit committed to ending the gun violence epidemic through a non-partisan public health approach, and Co-Founder and President of the Board of GetUsPPE.org, a start-up non-profit that is delivering donated personal protective equipment to those who need it most. She is a Fellow of the fifth class of the Aspen Institute’s Health Innovators Fellowship Program, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She has received numerous awards for technology innovation, public health, and research, including “Rhode Island Woman of the Year” (2021), the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Policy Pioneer Award (2018), and “50 Experts to Trust In A Pandemic” (Elemental/Medium, 2020).
Dr. Ranney earned her bachelor’s degree in History of Science, graduating summa cum laude, from Harvard University; her medical doctorate, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha, from One Gateway Center, Suite 751 | Newton, MA 02458 | Phone: 617.614.1600 | Fax: 617.965.6610 | apbspeakers.com Columbia University; and her master’s in public health from Brown University. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research at Brown University. She was previously a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote d’Ivoire. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and two children.
Presentation(s):
Keynote Address – Creating Change in a Divided World
Aging Best is the Area Agency on Aging covering 19 counties. We work to meet the needs of aging adults in our communities. Our goal is to provide the necessary resources and support to help our growing population of seniors remain active, healthy, and independent.
website: http://agingbest.org
Specializing in Adult Inpatient Behavioral Health
website: osagebeachbehavioralhealth.com
Under the auspices of the Division of Behavioral Health (DBH), DMH serves as the state lead for suicide prevention and crisis intervention services. DMH oversees and implements several evidence-based suicide prevention programs and initiatives, including the Missouri Suicide Prevention Network, an independent, non-partisan group of individuals and organizations that lead and coordinate statewide suicide prevention efforts. DMH is also leading statewide efforts to implement and enhance behavioral health crisis services that align with national best practices to ensure help is available for anyone, anywhere, and at any time. To achieve a truly integrated and comprehensive crisis system that is equipped to meet the needs of individuals in crisis, DMH and stakeholders are prioritizing the coordination of these three crisis components: 988 (Someone to talk to), ACI Mobile Crisis Response (Someone to respond), and Behavioral Health Crisis Centers (Somewhere to go).
For more information, please visit: https://dmh.mo.gov/behavioral-health/suicide/prevention
The Missouri Eating Disorders Council leads the development of eating disorders education, awareness, and research initiatives throughout the state and promotes increased access to empirically-supported prevention and treatment services.
website: http://moedc.org
MIMH has informed new knowledge that supports the mental health and wellbeing of persons with behavioral health problems through research and evaluation, policy development, technological innovation, and training. Today, MIMH is poised to become one of the country’s finest health services research organizations dedicated to serving the state and the nation by improving the delivery of behavioral health services.
