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About the speaker

Barry Sarvet, MD, DLFAPA, DFAACAP is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, the Harold Greenspan Endowed Chair of Psychiatry at Baystate Health and Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate. He is a graduate of Northwestern University Medical School and completed residency training in General Psychiatry at Yale University and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center.  Dr. Sarvet’s work has focused on improving access to care for patients with psychiatric disorders and the dissemination of evidence-based practices in psychiatric treatment.  He serves as the Statewide Medical Director of the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP), an innovative public system for improving access to care for children with mental health needs throughout the state of MA. MCPAP has served as a national model for improving access to children’s mental health treatment and has been replicated in 48 states across the US and internationally.  Dr. Sarvet has written numerous articles regarding integrated mental health care, and has provided technical assistance for programs throughout the US striving to develop systems of collaboration between psychiatry and primary care.  His work has also been focused on addressing the needs of patients who have been impacted by traumatic stress and has led a series of federally funded projects for the dissemination and adaptation of evidence-based trauma-focused psychotherapy models within community mental health settings. 

Dr. Sarvet is Treasurer of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  He serves on the National Advisory Board for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the American Academy of Pediatrics National Advisory Group for the HRSA Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program.  He is a founding board member of the National Network for Child Psychiatry Access Programs.  He was recently awarded the Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Public Sector Psychiatry from the MA Psychiatric Society and the Simon Wile Award for Consultation Psychiatry from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for his work in development, implementation, and dissemination of collaborative models in child psychiatry practice..  He has previously served as the co-chair of the Mental Health Task Force for the MA Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the AACAP Healthcare Access and Economics Committee, and is a past president of the western MA chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

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Barry Sarvet, MD, DLFAPA, DFAACAP, reports serving in an executive role for Baystate Health, is a consultant for government agencies in South Carolina, Texas, California, and Ohio, and is a researcher for the National Institute of Health during the past 24 months. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review.

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Michael C. Hann, MD, MBA, Ronald Means, MD, Rajeev Krishna, MD, PhD, MBA, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Manan Shah, MD, Vittoria DeLucia, MD, Chad J. Lennon, MD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, MPH, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, MS, BCBA, LBA, LCPC, Paula Bostwick, MSN, RN, CENP, Alfredo Sagisi, DNP, MS, RN, FACHE, Maggie O'Neill MSN, RN, PMH-BC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.