The Pediatrics SIG grows interest and enthusiasm, provides learning experiences, and promotes actionable dissemination activities among CFHA members regarding Pediatric Integrated Care delivery. Each meeting will include a presentation and facilitated discussion related to a topic in pediatric integrated care as well as a Research Corner presentation on a pediatric article related to the monthly topic.

This group meets on the 1st Monday of each month at 12pm ET // 11am CT // 10am MT // 9am PT.

This month’s topic: Pediatric Practice Management Module Developed by Dr’s Tolliver and Allmon Dixson

Speaker Bios:

Dr. Allison Allmon Dixson has multiple roles at Gundersen Health Region of Emplify Health. She is the Section Chair of Integrated Care, a Pediatric Psychologist and Behavioral Health Consultant in Pediatrics and Behavioral Medicine Faculty in the Family Medicine Residency. She practices psychology in pediatrics integrated primary care and supports behavioral health consultants across the health system integrating behavioral medicine into primary and specialty medical care clinics. In family medicine she precepts, teaches, and supports family medicine residents. She earned her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and specialized in pediatric psychology and integrated care during residency at Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT and fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center and Janet Weiss Children’s Hospital, Danville, PA. Dr. Allmon Dixson has a passion for primary care behavioral health and serving children, adolescents, and families who might not otherwise receive behavioral medicine services.

Dr. Matthew Tolliver is a primary care clinical psychologist by training. He was raised in rural Appalachia and has dedicated his professional career to providing clinical services to rural and underserved pediatric populations in primary care settings, and teaching and training interprofessional learners in those settings. He serves as the Assistant Director for the Institute for Integrated Behavioral Health and the Director of Behavioral Health in the Department of Pediatrics at East Tennessee State University. He works as a Behavioral Health Consultant and helps direct a HRSA workforce training grant aimed at training psychology, social work, counseling and psychiatric nurse practitioner students in integrated care. He is a former Peds SIG co-chair.

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