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If you’re a primary care provider getting started with adolescent mental health screening – or if you’ve already begun and have questions – plan to join our June 30 webinar.

Karen Childs, MD, of the Mountain View Medical Group in Colorado Springs, and Magally Prosper, MD, a solo practitioner from Brooklyn, NY, will offer hands-on tips and lessons learned from their distinctly different perspectives.

The webinar will feature discussions on streamlining the screening process, communicating the value of screening with patients and parents, delivering screening results, and managing referrals from two distinctly different perspectives.  Christina Carro Newport, Program Manager, TeenScreen Primary Care, will discuss how best to use the resources and support available through the TeenScreen National Center.

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Speakers

Karen V. Childs, MD, FAAP

Dr. Karen Childs is currently president of Mountain View Medical Group in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she has maintained an active general pediatric practice since 1994.  Prior to her work at Mountain View, she served as Chief of Pediatrics at Penrose Community Hospital, and was a practicing pediatrician at St. Francis Medical Group in Colorado Springs.  Dr. Childs began her career as a pediatrician in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she also served on the pediatric residency teaching staff at Butterworth Hospital in Holland, Michigan.  In addition to her practice, she was named Secretary/Treasurer and President of the Western Michigan Pediatric Society.

A graduate of Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana, Dr. Childs earned her medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine at Indianapolis, and served her pediatric residency and internship at Butterworth Hospital in Michigan.

Magally Prosper, MD

Dr. Magally Prosper is a pediatrician in private practice and an attending physician at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.  Born in Haiti, she immigrated to Brooklyn as a child.  She is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and earned her medical degree at New York Medical College in Valhalla.

After completing her residency at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Dr. Prosper began her career at Woodhull Hospital in 1992.  She served as the Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit from 1994 to 1998. She has also served as an Inpatient and ER attending at Woodhull. She currently continues to see patients and to supervise residents in the Ambulatory Care Clinic.

Dr. Prosper has maintained a multicultural private practice in Brooklyn since 1996, and in Elmont since 2005. She is fluent in French, Spanish and Haitian Creole. She also serves as Chair on the Board of a not-for-profit organization,  Building Visions for Children and Families.

Christina Carro Newport, Program Manager, TeenScreen National Center

Christina Carro Newport is a Program Manager for the TeenScreen Primary Care program at the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University, where she began her career in 2003.

In this capacity, Christina acts as a consultant, working directly with healthcare professionals in primary care and medical settings to assist in the development, training and implementation of mental health checkup initiatives.

During her tenure with TeenScreen, Christina has been directly involved in the National Center’s work in schools, community-based and primary care settings, and has worked with hundreds of communities, providers and professionals to offer her expertise and guidance in the areas of program development and implementation.