Past Webinars

Thursday, May 23, 2024 - De-Stigmatizing Stigma: Bridging the Mental Health Equity Gap

This virtual (WebEx) webinar – focused on the key drivers and social determinants of inequity in mental healthcare and why all providers should be engaged in their patients' mental health.

Watch the webinar here (you may need to fill out the registration form to access it).

There has been increasing recognition that mental health is an integral component of overall health and wellbeing; psychological and behavioral health concerns are highly linked to other chronic conditions and patients with unaddressed mental health needs face worse physical health outcomes. While cultural acceptance of mental health and wellness has increased in recent years, significant stigma surrounding mental illness remains, which differs in magnitude and impact across geography, occupation, and cultural background.

Due to issues of stigma, access, cost, and provider shortages, many patients receive most of their mental healthcare from their primary care or other physical healthcare providers. Within the value-based care landscape, there have been increasing efforts to incorporate performance metrics related to mental health and a push toward behavioral health integration within alternative payment models.

The objective of this webinar is for providers to better understand how SDOH factors and stigma impact a patient’s ability to seek mental healthcare; which aspects of mental healthcare fall within the scope of non-mental behavioral health specialist providers; and why engagement in their patients’ mental health is important from the perspective of value-based care and healing.

Tuesday, August 29, 2023 - De-escalation: Recognizing and Mitigating Potentially Dangerous Encounters in Your Medical Setting

Watch the webinar here (you may need to fill out the registration form to access it).

This webinar featured Judy Arnetz, PhD, MPH, PT – professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine at Michigan State College of Human Medicine. Dr. Arnetz’s research focus and area of expertise is how the well-being and safety of health care workers impacts the quality of patient care and how to prevent/mitigate the effects of violence in healthcare settings. Attendees will gain:

• An understanding of the scope of workplace violence in healthcare and its impact on providers, organizations and patients
• Knowledge of key risk factors for situations becoming violent in a clinical setting
• Practical strategies for preventing, managing and de-escalating violence

Dr. Arnetz has also shared her PowerPoint presentation which she presented during the webinar. You can access that presentation here.

June 23, 2022 – Caring for the LGBTQ+ Community: Adding Equity and Inclusion to Your Practice

Watch the webinar here (you may need to fill out the registration form to access it).

This webinar focused on emphasizing the importance of furthering – or starting – the conversation related to caring for this fast-growing community of patients who are specifically seeking providers who acknowledge them and the differences in their care. Our speakers at this one-hour event included two of Henry Ford Health’s leaders in caring for LGBTQ+ patients and communicating this to fellow providers. Drs. Rachel Lee and Eunice Yu are both prolific and passionate about steps that can be taken to make this population feel accepted from the moment they walk through your door to the time when they receive care from you. Additionally, we will hear from Jay Kaplan, JD, who works closely with this community on behalf of the ACLU, revealing biases that blanket this community.

October 13, 2022 – The Medication Adherence: Addressing Cost and Patient Understanding

Watch the webinar here (you may need to fill out the registration form to access it).

This event was hosted by HFPN President and CEO Bruce Muma, MD, and brought to light the most common barriers to medication adherence with patients and offered conversation and solutions to positively affect this issue. Speakers included Henry Ford Vice President of Pharmacy Services Rox Gatia, PharmD, MHSA, BCPS, who shared insights into patient behaviors regarding adherence, with a focus on pharmacy-physician and pharmacy-patient relationships. This was followed by a Q&A with Rox, and then a panel discussion that included Manager of Henry Ford’s Medication Therapy Management team Sandra Nowak, PharmD and General Motors Healthcare Analyst Sarah Spannbauer, who discussed this issue as it relates to the GM ConnectedCare Henry Ford healthcare option for employees.

May 25, 2023 -  Relating to High-Weight Patients: Do You Show Unconscious Bias?

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As background, the keynote for this webinar is Kendrin Sonneville, ScD, RD, FAED, Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Sonneville has spoken extensively and conducted specific research on the topic of implicit bias with high-weight patients. Joining her are Henry Ford Health Director of Preventive Cardiology Weight Management Dennis Kerrigan, PhD and Medical Director of Henry Ford’s Weight Management Program Suki Singh, MD. Drs. Kerrigan and Singh share options for high-weight patients, while also offering techniques to approach these patients with compassion and understanding.