Announcements
September Meeting Announcement!
Our next quarterly meeting will be held at Maggiano's in Old Orchard at 175 Old Orchard Shopping Ctr., Skokie, IL 60077-1478 (map) on September 21, 2011. We begin the evening with a directors' meeting at 5pm, open cash bar at 6pm, and dinner at 7pm. The highlight of this meeting will be the presentation of our Hirsch Award to Dr. Deepti Singh on her paper Weight Gain in Illinois Foster Children Treated with Second Generation Antipsychotics.
Please RSVP no later than Monday, September 19th. We look forward to seeing you there!
AACAP Annual Meeting in Toronto
Students and Residents Can Monitor for Admission
The AACAP/CCAP joint Annual Meeting will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 18-23, 2011! We would love to see any medical students and residents at the meeting. To facilitate this, students and residents can become event Monitors and ATTEND FOR FREE!
Medical students, residents, and trainees can monitor for one full day to receive free registration for the AACAP/CACAP Joint Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 18-23, 2011. Monitors will assist AACAP staff in running the meeting by checking badges and tickets to confirm attendance, assisting speakers as needed, and distributing and collecting evaluation forms and/or other materials that the speaker provides. In return for working as a monitor for either one full day or two half days, they will receive a complimentary registration for the meeting in addition to half-priced tickets for most ticketed events.
For more information about the Monitor Program visit: http://www.aacap.org/cs/
New! Medical Students' Corner on Website
Designed for medical students, residents, and fellows, we have a new section of our website dedicated to meeting the needs of our members in training. Suggestions on content are very welcome! Please send all comments to ICCAP.Thompson@gmail.com.
News
ICCAP Receives Advocacy Grant
ICCAP is honored to receive one of only a few Advocacy grants from AACAP for their project on advocacy. The purpose of this project is three-fold:
1) to improve communication and collaboration between Illinois child psychiatrists and primary care physicians with regards to pediatric mental health problems seen in primary care, with the specific goal of establishing a strong collaboration between the Illinois Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ICCAP) and the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics;
2) to compose a brief statement for publication and distribution describing the barriers to accessing mental health care for youth with a list of potential solutions, including changes in CPT codes to allow payment for phone consultations between pediatricians and child psychiatrists, to push for full parity, to push for Medicaid reimbursement to pediatricians and other PCPs for providing mental health services, and payment for case management services if possible;
3) to form an ongoing workgroup whose function is to design and pursue implementation of a proposed payment strategy.
For more information about the project, please email Amber Thompson at ICCAP.Thompson@gmail.com
Calendar
September 21, 2011 Quarterly Meeting at Maggiano's Little Italy in
Skokie, IL Topic: Hirsch Award Presentation
January 18, 2012 Quarterly Meeting Location: TBD Topic: TBD
and Beiser Award Presentation
March 21, 2012 Quarterly Meeting Location: TBD: Topic:
Hirsch Award Presentation
