Posts by The REACH Institute
Mollie FitzGerald, NP
Mollie FitzGerald is a nurse practitioner in a greater Boston clinic that serves a large immigrant population. To counteract long wait times for psychiatric care, Mollie wants to develop the skills and confidence to diagnose and treat basic mental health conditions. Specifically, she wants to learn medical management of patients with ADHD who also suffer…
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Nydia Hernandez Santana, MD
Lauren Melman, MD
Pedro Orta, MD
Catherine Pourdavoud, MD
Melissa Simkol, MD
Wendy Silverman, Ph.D.
Cross-titrating psychiatric medications
If you struggle with titrating psychiatric medications for your pediatric patients, you are not alone. Even for some alumni of the REACH program Patient-Centered Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care, lack of comfort with psychiatric medications can hamper effective treatment.
What does it take to dose and cross-titrate effectively? We asked two REACH faculty members: Peter S. Jensen, MD, REACH founder, and Amy Kryder, MD, education lead of the statewide REACH program in Virginia.
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