CMHPSR and CPHI Seminar with Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH

Dr. Larry Culpepper is a Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Culpepper has conducted federally funded studies of depression and anxiety, otitis media, and school-based and community interventions to improve pregnancy outcomes and to prevent teen pregnancies. He served as the principal investigator of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded developmental center for patient safety research devoted to the study of problems affecting low income and minority vulnerable populations in am-bulatory care settings, and is a co-investigator of the Primary Care Anxiety Project, a study of the course of anxiety disorders in primary care settings. 

Dr. Culpepper is presenting on the initial and ongoing rationale for the Community Health Center (CHC) system from a historical and developmental perspective. As part of this talk, Dr. Culpepper will present how the inpatient health system evolved to its current multidisciplinary team approach. He will also discuss how the Reengineered Hospital Discharge Program to decrease re-hospitalizations (RED) has evolved from its start as a randomized control trial, to its enhancements for depressed patients, and, ultimately, the data that has come out of this intervention. Included in this presentation will be a discussion about how data capacity has evolved to track and foster change since these interventions were implemented. 

Presented by The Center for Mental Health Policy & Services Research (CMHPSR) and The Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI)

If you would like to attend the talk, please RSVP to kathshea@upenn.edu.