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.

Topic for this month: Early Relational Health

Join Aditi Subramaniam and Beril Bayrak from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) for a presentation on Building IECMH/Early Relational Health Capacities in Pediatrics. 

Aditi Subramaniam, LMHC, R-DMT, IECMH-E®, is a licensed mental health clinician and registered dance psychotherapist with more than twenty years of experience in the field of mental health, in India and Boston. She works as the Director of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Policy, at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) leading statewide infant and early childhood mental health workforce development efforts and a partnership between MSPCC and the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health (MassAIMH) focused on enhancing, diversifying, and supporting the infant and early childhood mental health workforce to improve access to services for children age birth – 6 and their families.

Under her leadership, Ms. Subramaniam collaborates with partners across the state to address gaps and opportunities in workforce needs in the early childhood system to result in better outcomes for all. Ms. Subramaniam is both a clinician at heart and a reflective systems leader, committed to justice-informed policy, implementation, and practice toward creating equitable systems to meet the needs of Massachusetts’ youngest children and their families. Her areas of interest include reflective practice; community and family-focused initiatives; workforce and systems development; healing-centered care; and the integration of the expressive arts in psychotherapy in working with families and systems.

She is a National Zero To Three Academy Fellow, a certified DC 0-5 trainer, and is endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Mentor- Clinical®. The principles and practices of liberation and the arts as healing are foundational in her everyday work and lens. She lives in Boston, MA with her husband and daughter. She is a trained Indian classical and folk dancer and continues to enjoy dancing, yoga, and making art. She is humbled by parenting and learning from the wonders of childhood with her daughter.

Beril Bayrak Bulucu, MD, IMH-E, is an experienced and board-certified pediatrician with an Infant Mental Health endorsement as a Clinical Mentor. Dr Bayrak is originally from Istanbul Türkiye. She completed her pediatric residency in NYC. She completed a post grad parent infant mental health certificate training in UMass Boston in 2017. Dr. Bayrak holds a certificate for NMT level 1. Dr Bayrak has more than 20 years of experience in primary care and continues to work as a primary care pediatrician in Lowell, MA.She also works remotely as an pediatric- infant mental health consultant to an early intervention agency in IL. Dr. Bayrak serves as Newborn Behavior Observation Training Faculty at Brazelton Institute at Boston Children’s Hospital .Additionally, Dr. Bayrak is a co-facilitator of the Infant Mental Health Special Interest Group through the Council of Early Childhood at the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is a part of a group aiming to cultivate reflective practice in medicine. She serves as a reflective consultant to Massachusetts Infant Mental Health association and provides reflective group consultations to early childhood professionals across different disciplines and systems of care. Dr. Bayrak is a co-founder of the Zeru Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving historically excluded young parents, children, and their communities. She is currently involved in earthquake relief projects in Turkey, focusing on trauma-informed caregiver training and community-wide collaborations for disaster relief in partnership with Gaziantep university. She has been providing trainings to professionals nationally and internationally in the area of infant and early childhood mental health resilience ,trauma prevention and reflective practice.

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