Events and Classes

Health Care Transitions: Person-Centered Partnerships and Practices

April 17, 2013
8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
O’Hara Student Center
4024 O’Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15214

The conference will serve to explore and promote a youth-centered approach to health care transition planning. The conference will not only serve as a call to action within the medical community regarding the necessity of person-centered transition planning, but will also be a launching off point for committees and workgroups that are focused on specific aspects of health care transitions. We hope to draw from stakeholders for youth centered transition including clinician and administrative leaders, transition coordinators and advocates from school and community settings, and individuals and family members. CME, CEU and Act 48 credits will be available.

Highlighted Lectures

Moving From Compliance to Person-Directed Health Care
Laurie E. Powers, PhD is a Professor of Social Work, Associate Dean for Research, and the Director of the Regional Research Institute at Portland State University.

Health Care Transition: A National Perspective
Patience White, MD is a Professor of medicine and Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the Chief Public Health officer at the Arthritis Foundation.

Learning to be the CHANGE
Josie Badger, MS, CRC is a LEND Fellow and a founding member of the CHANGE project.

Registration

Click here to register online.

Look for the Health Care Transitions conference link on April 17.

Questions

If you have questions, or need additional information, please contact:
Jonathan Pletcher at jonathan.pletcher@chp.edu.
Pauline Zorosak at 412-692-7711 or freep@upmc.edu.

This Conference is supported by The LEND Program at The University of Pittsburgh, The FISA Foundation, The United Way of Allegheny County’s 21 and Able Initiative, and the Division of Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.

Last Update
February 8, 2013

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