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Massive new study locates genetic roots to schizophrenia
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John Gilmore, MD We are well into the summer, a nice time to take stock of where we are and look ahead to the new academic year. There are a lot of updates! The Wake STEP (Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program) clinic is a year old this summer and we look forward to continued …
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L-R Mebane Rash, JD, John Gilmore, MD, Lorna Moser, PhD, Emery Cowan, MS, Thava Mahaevan, MS and Shane Rau, MD, PhD The 21st Annual STEP (Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program) Symposium highlighted recovery programs and the latest policy changes that will impact individuals with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. Sponsored by the Center, the Symposium …
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Mahadevan receives Citizen’s Award Thava Mahadevan, MS, director of operations at the Center and director of The Farm at Penny Lane, received a Citizen’s Award from the Indy Magazine at the Cotton Room at the Golden Belt in Durham, N.C. on Feb. 22, 2014. The Indy award states that it honors “individuals who through long-term …
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John Gilmore, MD, Ureh “Nena” Lekwauwa, MD, and David Richard The Center presented its Fourth Annual Medical Directors’ Network Symposium “Leadership and Management: The Medical Director’s Role in Managing Outcomes” May 17, 2014. Nearly 70 medical directors from Critical Access Behavioral Health Agencies (CABHAs) and Managed Care Organizations (MC0s) as well as psychiatrists from …
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L-R Primary care team: Rupal Yu, MD, MPH, Kelly Smedley, RN, MSN, CNS, and Robin Reed, MD, MPH, Judith Causey, RN As part of a collaboration with Piedmont Health Services (PHS) and UNC Family Medicine, the Center has recently added a primary care physician to its Carr Mill Clinic staff in Carrboro. Rupal Yu, …
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The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health has created an advisory board, which held its first meeting May 29, 2014 at the Carolina Club at the Georges Watts Hill Alumni Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Center, part of the Department of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine, was created with a …
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L-R Ariel Reynolds, MSW, and Matt Diehl, MSW After being named a Dartmouth Research site last fall, the Center is launching an evidence-based supported employment program to assist individuals with serious mental illness to find and maintain a job. The Center is one of four North Carolina grant recipients selected to participate in North …
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Reality Check Spring 2014 Editor Alice Lockhart, BA Director of Communications alice_lockhart@med.unc.edu Photography Will Owen Photography Charles Thayer, MS Edward Binanay, BS Copyright UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health CB 7160 Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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In a collaboration between the UNC School of Social Work and the Duke Divinity School, Dustin Rawlins, who is in his fourth year in the program, completed his field placement this past spring with the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, where he worked in a critical time intervention (CTI) model with community partners such as psychiatrists and mental health workers.
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The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health was developed to help improve care in our local community and throughout the state.While change and uncertainty continues to define North Carolina’s mental health system, we at the Center continue to believe that the system should rely on treatment we know works, treatment that promotes individual recovery as much as possible, and in this fiscal environment, treatment that is cost- effective.The Center continues to grow to meet a variety of needs in central North Carolina and across the state.
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The Center's Annie Kelly, MD, heads the new psychiatric street medicine program that is a designated AHEC psychiatric training site. She and psychiatry residents Anisha Gulati, MD, and Alicia Watson, MD, spend Thursdays assisting the homeless with mental illness as they make rounds on and around Chapel Hill's Franklin Street.