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Project ECHO is designed to connect family medicine and primary care practitioners across Alabama with teams of experts to help them better care for patients suffering from depression.Project ECHO Depression, a partnership between the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Family and Community Medicine, the Department of Psychiatry, and the Depression and Suicide Prevention Center, is hosting a virtual presentation on suicide prevention to kick off its spring 2022 series.
Marissa Grayson, Ph.D., of the Alabama chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, will speak Thursday, Feb. 17, at noon. This event is open to any interested health care provider or worker. Those interested in attending can register here.
The talk will include the case-based discussion that is part of every Project ECHO session. The Project ECHO model is designed to connect family medicine and primary care practitioners across Alabama with teams of experts to help them better care for patients suffering from depression.
The project uses virtual tools to “move knowledge instead of people” and encourages open discussion about difficult cases to help health care teams provide even better care.
Participating physicians receive access to virtual monthly clinics, staffed by UAB psychiatrists, a family medicine physician, psychologists and patient advocates.
Find out more about Project ECHO Depression and see the full schedule of spring semester talks here.