This lecture was supported by Grant Number 6H79FG000999-01M001 from SAMHSA. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of SAMHSA. 

About the speakers

Sarah Frazell, LCSW-C is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland.  She is the Director of Behavioral Health at Primary Care Coalition in Montgomery County, and she oversees a Collaborative Care behavioral health program that provides behavioral health services for patients at safety-net primary care clinics in Montgomery County, utilizing the collaborative care model.  She is a registered clinical supervisor.  She has bachelors’ degrees in Spanish and Social Work from Wartburg College in Waverly Iowa, and a Masters’ degree from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus.  Sarah’s areas of interest and expertise include Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging; Health Equity; and Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma.  Sarah has given presentations for MedChi, The National Association of Social Workers-Maryland chapter, The MidAtlantic Path Forward, SAMSHA (Value Based Care Conference), and the American Public Health Association.

Ashley Maher, PhD, is the lead psychologist of Trauma Disorders Services at Sheppard Pratt. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. During her time at Rosalind Franklin University, she developed and coordinated the behavioral health program for the university’s interdisciplinary community care clinic serving an uninsured/under-insured and predominantly Latino and Spanish-speaking population. Dr. Maher completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, where she focused on posttraumatic stress disorder, military sexual trauma, and combat-related distress.

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has 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. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Sarah Frazell, LCSW-C & Ashley Maher, PhD,  report that they have no relationships 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. They will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation.

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: Larry Epp, EdD, Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD,  Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.