Allied health professionals, within the Lancaster General Health Practice who treat patients with major depressive disorder (MDD)
Major depressive disorder; primary care; collaborative care model; electronic health record; measurement-based care; PHQ-9
Michael R. Clark is the Director of the Adolf Meyer Chronic Pain Treatment Programs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and has joint appointments in the Departments of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery in the School of Medicine and of Mental Hygiene in the Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Caroline Thomas Barnhart is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over thirty years of health care related work experience. She is currently the Manager of Integrated Behavioral Health at Lancaster General Health/Penn Medicine, where she is leading the effort to integrate behavioral health in primary care settings.
Dr. Dougherty is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry of the Lancaster General Health System/ Penn Medicine and the managing physician for their Behavioral Health Specialty group. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the past president of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society, and has been voted a “Best Doctor in America” by her academic peers every year since 2005.| 1. | Identify patients whose MDD is not diagnosed or whose MDD is not being adequately treated in the primary care setting. | 2. | Create a comprehensive plan to work with patients in managing their MDD. |
| 3. | Evaluate specific patient cases to determine when mental health consult is necessary. | 4. | Describe the importance of including measurement tools in managing patients with MDD. |
| 1. | Identify patients whose MDD is not diagnosed or whose MDD is not being adequately treated in the primary care setting. |
| 2. | Create a comprehensive plan to work with patients in managing their MDD. |
| 3. | Evaluate specific patient cases to determine when mental health consult is necessary. |
| 4. | Describe the importance of including measurement tools in managing patients with MDD. |

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