Using the Sequential Intercept Model to Address Disparities that Lead to Incarceration

Presentation Slides:

Introductory Slides

Dr. Hightower

Dr. Hanson

Judge Sabett

Dr. Hackman

Speaker Biographies:

Ann Hackman MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  She completed her psychiatry residency training at the University of Maryland in 1994.  She is a board certified psychiatrist with added qualifications in forensics and addictions.  She is the Division Director for Community Psychiatry, Medical Director for the University of Maryland’s Programs of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), Senior Education Consultant and Senior Psychiatrist for the Recovery after Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RA1SE) program.  She has longstanding interest in serious mental illness, in the treatment of people living with schizophrenia and in underserved populations including people experiencing homelessness

 

Annette Hanson MD is the director of the forensic psychiatry fellowship at the University of Maryland. She has thirty years of experience in the provision of psychiatric care to patients in Maryland’s Division of Correction and has served as chair of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law’s correctional psychiatry committee. Her correctional experience includes stints as a correctional health care administrator and as an expert witness in correctional litigation.

 

Tyler Hightower MD is the Director at the Office of Forensic Services at Springfield Hospital Center. She graduated from Morehouse School of Medicine in 2003 and completed her residency in 2008. She is Distinguished Fellow of The American Psychiatric Association and is a member of the MPS Council.

 

The Honorable Marina Lolley Sabett has been an Associate Judge with the District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County, since January 20, 2017. She is the Coordinating Judge as well as a presiding judge for the Montgomery County District Count Mental Health Court since June 2017.  She is a member of the Judicial Council’s Technology Committee,  the Behavioral Health Subcommittee, the Judicial Education Subcommittee and does educational programing on mental health issues for her judicial colleagues. She also is the Co-Chair of the Montgomery County Bar Foundation’s Continuing Legal Education Subcommittee. Previously, she was an Administrative Law Judge with the Office of Administrative Hearings, where she was a subject matter specialist in mental health (involuntary commitments, NCR, med panel, etc.).  She also was a former partner at the Venable law firm.  She received her law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law.  She also is a member of the Women’s Bar Association, Montgomery County Chapter and the president of the J. Dudley Digges Inns of Court in Baltimore, Maryland.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will examine the 6 intercepts in the SIM and the role of psychiatrists in each.
  2. Participants will analyze considerations for psychiatrists who evaluate patients involved within the criminal justice system and provide treatment while incarcerated.
  3. Participants will develop best strategies for advocating for patients with MH/SUD within the legal system.
  4. Participants will be able to distinguish and interpret the affects the criminal justice system has on an incarcerated person’s mental health, rehabilitation, and re-entry.

Financial Disclosures:

The American Psychiatric Association adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CME activity—including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others—are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Program Planners

The following planners no relevant financial relationships to disclose: 

Theodora Balis, M.D., Heidi Bunes, Meagan Floyd

Presenters

The following speakers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose: 

Ann Hackman, M.D., Annette Hanson, M.D., Tyler Hightower, M.D., Judge Marina Lolley Sabett

Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and The Maryland Psychiatric Society. The APA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation The APA designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits (TM). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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