2020 Annual Forum - Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health

2020 Annual Forum

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The Maternal and Mental Health FORUM is the conference where change agents come to convene, collaborate and take in cutting edge content to close gaps in care.

2020 Annual Forum

2020 Mom Annual Maternal and Mental Health FORUM

This year’s FORUM theme was We Can Do More in celebration of reaching the year 2020. This year’s program focused on the work that is yet to be done to ensure women and families receive the maternity care and mental health care they deserve. Throughout the two day event, we addressed pathways to transform systems of care and access to the right care at the right time at the right price. This included discussions about technology, employer strategies, regulatory levers and more.

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Intro & Personal Story, Steven D’Achille

Clinical Keynote – Two Generations, One Future: How Mothers Brains Evolve During Early Parenting – Pilyoung Kim, PhD

Panel: Insurers and Employers – Mod: Blair Dudley, MPH – Rick Hecht, MBA – Pooja Mittal, MD – Pooja Mittal, MD – Jennifer Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN – Carole Men…

Panel: Peer Support for All of Us – Mod: Rebecca Alderfer, MPP – Lisa Melchior, PhD – Michelle Lacy, MA, LPC, PMH-C – Arne Beck – Sonya Young Aadam – Hasan…

Panel: Measuring Impact in Maternal Mental Health – Mod: Stephanie Teleki, PhD, MPH – Sepheen Byron – Christine Rinki, MPA – Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH

Closing Keynote: Motherly’s United State of Motherhood Report & 2020 the Year of the Mother – Jill Koziol – Joy Burkhard – Mary Beth Ferrante

2020 Annual Forum

Opening Keynote
Pilyoung Kim, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of psychology and the director of Family and Child Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Denver. Dr. Kim researches the structural and functional plasticity in mothers’ brains, and how such plasticity supports parents’ psychological adaptation to parenting and sensitive caregiving for their infants. As part of her keynote, she will discuss the early postpartum period as a window of vulnerabilities and opportunities when the parental brain is influenced by stress and psychopathology, but also susceptible to interventions.