Invitation: WIAAP Visiting Professor August 12, 2011
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Keith Mandel, MD, Vice President of Medical Affairs for Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, will meet with Wisconsin pediatricians Friday August 12 from 10:00am - 11:30am at Children's Corporate Center in Milwaukee to discuss enhancing medical homes and asthma management.
The meeting will occur after his presentation at 8:30am at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin pediatric grand rounds on medical homes and asthma.
If you or a colleague is interested in attending, please notify Kia LaBracke at KLaBracke@wiaap.org or 262.490.9075, no later than 5:00pm on Wednesday August 10.
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Join the WIAAP Foster Care Committee
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WIAAP's newly formed Foster Care committee stems from a national effort of the AAP to provide a network of pediatric foster care experts in each state who can work with fellow pediatricians and multidisciplinary peers to improve the health and well-being of children and teens in foster care. Find out more at the committee page at:
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Join the Wisconsin Alliance of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics (WACPP)
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WIAAP leads the way in providing assistance for physicians in the realm of mental health assessment, diagnosis and treatment. We have opportunities for members to become involved as follows:
WACPP (Wisconsin Alliance for Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics - This collaboration, which coordinated the monthly mental health teleconference. WACPP is a group of pediatricians and child and adolescent psychiatrists who are interested in working to strengthen working relationships between our specialties with the goal of improving the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders for children and adolescents within the State of Wisconsin.
Contact Jay O'Grady, MD, FAAP, jogrady@mcw.edu, 414.955.8935.
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Join the WIAAP Mental Health Committee
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The WIAAP Mental Health Committee will focus initially on working with pilot practices to implement the national AAP's Mental Health Toolkit.
Contact Jay O'Grady, MD, FAAP, jogrady@mcw.edu, 414.955.8935.
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Milwaukee Mental Health Task Force Planning Committee - Youth Mental Health Summit 2012
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The Milwaukee Mental Health Task force seeks a primary care MD representative who could be involved in the planning of the Youth Mental Health Summit to be held next spring. Duties would include monthly meetings for approximately two (2) hours on the first Friday of each month in Milwaukee.
The next meeting (ground floor opportunity) will be held on September 9, 2011 (off sequence because of the Labor Day holiday). Please contact Barbara Beckert barbara.beckert@drwi.org if you or someone you know may be interested.
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