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: Measurement Based Care

Speaker Bios:

F. Lynne Merk, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center with more than 20 years’ experience specializing in child and adolescent mental health assessment and treatment. Clinical specialties include Anxiety, OCD, ADHD, and coping with difficult life circumstances.  Dr. Merk currently serves as the Director of Community Integrated Behavioral Health leading a team of master’s trained clinicians providing mental/behavioral health care in pediatric primary care practices throughout the Greater Cincinnati area. 

Megan Cassidy, Ph.D., L.P., ABPP – Dr. Cassidy is a board-certified child and adolescent psychologist who earned her doctorate in clinical and school psychology from the University of Virginia. She has previously worked as a private clinician specializing in pediatric anxiety disorders, as an integrated care psychologist for pediatricians in Massachusetts, and as a school psychologist in both Massachusetts and Minnesota. Dr. Cassidy currently works as part of the Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health team at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN assisting both Family Medicine and Pediatrics.

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