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Managing Anxiety and Depression in Your Practice

About this event

One of the many facets of healthcare that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted is just how intertwined one’s mental and physical health can be. When working with your patients, how often do you consider mental health as the cause of their symptoms? How do you go about determining a treatment plan that also includes care for their mental health? Maria Juarez-Reyes, MD, PhD, joins us to discuss the complex relationship between mental and physical health and how it can impact your diagnostic process, as well as best practices for caring for patients who may be struggling with their mental health.

Who can attend

Registration is limited to ISMIE and SEMPIC policyholders and their employed staff.

Learning objectives

At the conclusion of this learning activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Recognize the link between stress and chronic disease
  2. Identify severity of symptoms for anxiety and depression
  3. Summarize evidence-based behavioral treatment
  4. Discuss pharmacological treatment options

About the presenter

Maria Juarez-Reyes, MD, PhD, received her PhD in health psychology, MD, and internal medicine residency training from the University of California at San Francisco. Her focus during medical training was in behavioral medicine. Dr. Juarez-Reyes’ research has been in medication eligibility criteria effects in ethnic subgroups, tobacco cessation practices of community-based providers, breast cancer screening follow-up in Latinx women, Latinx adolescent reproductive behavior, and TB treatment in urban county jails. In 2010, she became board certified in integrative medicine through the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. Dr. Juarez-Reyes is currently Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, where she is also the Director of Behavioral Health Medical Group Visits. She serves as Site Director for the Internal Medicine Residency program at Stanford. Dr. Juarez-Reyes developed “Beyond Stress,” a six-week group behavioral health intervention for patients with stress, anxiety and depression. Her current research focuses on evaluating behavioral health interventions in primary care and reducing healthcare disparities in Spanish speaking community-based populations. She enjoys travel, walking with friends, anything science fiction and spending time with her family.

Accreditation

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Illinois State Medical Society and ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company. The Illinois State Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation

The Illinois State Medical Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure

There are no relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined commercial interests for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.

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