Session

Presentation Slides

Discussion of Current and Emerging Issues Related to Medicaid Financing, Coverage and Administration  Overview of Key Medicaid Issues

Victoria Wachino, Associate Director
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

Medicaid’s Federal-State Partnership: Alternatives for Improvement

Penny Thompson, Consultant
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

Five Years after Olmstead: Community-Based Care for Persons with Chronic Conditions

Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.
Hirsch Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy
The George Washington University Medical Center
School of Public Health and Health Services

PowerPoint 

Medicare Prescription Drug Act: State Roles and Responsibilities

Joy Johnson Wilson, Federal Affairs Counsel,
National Conference of State Legislatures

Medicaid’s Role in Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Patrick Barrie, Deputy Director
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Administration Michigan

Overview of Current and Emerging Issues in Mental Illness and Substance Abuse

Stephanie Colston, Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Robert DeMartino, M.D., Assistant Director
Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA, DHHS

PowerPoint 

The Economics of Treating Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Henrick Harwood, Ph.D., Vice-President
The Lewin Group

The Role of the Private Sector

Eric Goplerud, Executive Director
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems
George Washington University Medical Center
 

PowerPoint 

Cutting Edge Research on Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse

Nora Volkow, M.D., Director
National Institute on Drug Abuse 

PowerPoint 

Substance Abuse Prevention: Myths and Realities

Beverly Watts Davis, Director 
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, SAMHSA

Deinstitutionalization and Community-Based Care Supportive Housing

Carol Wilkins, Director of Intergovernmental Programs
The Corporation for Supportive Housing
Oakland, CA

PowerPoint 

Systems of Care for Children’s Mental Health

Gayle Porter, Psy.D., Mental Health Senior Advisor
Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health, 
The American Institute for Research
Washington, D.C.

Integration of Substance Abuse into Primary and Acute Care

Jeffrey H. Samet, M.D., MA, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine

PowerPoint 

Sentencing Reform: Balancing Treatment and Incarceration

Ed Vukich, Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Washington State

PowerPoint 

Substance Abuse: Acute Illness or Chronic Disease?

Tom McLellan, Ph.D., Director, Treatment
Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PowerPoint