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On Aug. 26, 2009, Leslie McGuire, deputy executive director of the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University, joined experts in adolescent and mental health to present a webinar titled:“Improving Early Identification & Treatment of Adolescent Depression: Considerations and Strategies for Health Plans”.

The webinar was sponsored by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation and focused on support for the early detection of mental illness and practical implementation of mental health checkups in primary care. The presenters discussed the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation to perform routine adolescent mental health screenings, and reviewed effective screening tools, including TeenScreen Primary Care, that primary care providers can implement to identify depression among adolescents.

Please visit the NIHCM Web site for more information and to access the Video Archive of this presentation.
Other speakers included:

• Jane Park, MPH, project coordinator of the National Adolescent Health Information and Innovation Center (NAHIIC) and Public Policy Analysis & Education Center at the University of California, San Francisco

• Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; Associate Professor of Family Medicine and of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; and Chair of the United States Preventive Services Task Force

• Chris Dennis, MD, MBA, chief medical officer of the commercial division at ValueOptions