Dr. Andres Barkil-Oteo is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and Medical Director of Acute Care Services at Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven, CT. He is involved in the coordination and provision of mental health services to a large Iraqi refugee population in New Haven. Dr. Barkil-Oteo's work focuses on using technology to increase capacity of non-specialists to deliver effective and high quality mental health care in low income settings.

 

Presentation: Behavioral health services within an immigrant community: A population health perspective from a student-run free clinic

 

The HAVEN Free Clinic Behavioral Health Program for Depression is an American Psychiatric Association-funded initiative (A Helping Hands grant) in which supervised health professional students provide psychoeducational interventions to an uninsured immigrant community. Participants can expect to learn about the role of a supervised medical student as facilitator of a psychoeducational intervention and gain awareness into the challenges and strategies for delivering behavioral health interventions within a student-run primary care free clinic.