COE Webinar Series: Building and Sustaining a Statewide Telepsychiatry Program: Lessons Learned from the NC Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-STeP)

Presenter:

Sy Atezaz Saeed, MD, MS, FACPsych

Professor and Chair Emeritus

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

Founding Director

ECU Center for Telepsychiatry and e-Behavioral Health

Founding Executive Director

North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-STeP)

Three Objectives:

1. Describe the magnitude of the mental health workforce shortage and how it impacts access to care.
2. Describe how North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-STeP) is addressing problems in areas of access to quality (evidence-based) mental health services.
3. Summarize the recent research findings regarding ED boarding, cost savings, technological advances, and race/gender differences from the NC Statewide Telepsychiatry program.