Events and Workshops
Seminar 12: PWDF Seminar: Overcoming Barriers to Physical Health Care:
People with Mental Disabilities Have Shorter Life Spans
This seminar addressed methods to overcome barriers to health care access & continues from our 2005 seminar related to hospital assessments and referrals.
Segment 1 – Overview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH8vIE8S0DA
Segment 2 – Remedies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htTfHjkHWPI
Segment 3 – Substance Abuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptYmRJlgqpY
Segment 4 – People with Mental Disabilities Have Shorter Life Spans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I1yvT5Dm54
Segment 5 – Primary Care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ7LAZ8k0OQ
Please read the seminar introduction before watching the video.
This Seminar was held Monday, September 30, 2013 at the Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Speakers:
Hamilton Holt, M.D., Medical Director, Psychiatry Telemedicine Consultation, San Francisco Community Behavioral Health Services, San Francisco, California.
David Pating, M.D., Psychiatrist; Chief, Addiction Medicine, Medical Director, Chemical Dependency Recovery Program, Kaiser Medical Center – San Francisco, California.
Megha Miglani, M.D., Public Psychiatry Fellow, University of California San Francisco (UCSF); Clinical Instructor at UCSF School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine
Pamela Cohen, Staff Attorney, Disability Rights California, Oakland, California.
Rob Chittenden, Peer Self-Advocacy (PSA) Unit Manager, Disability Rights California.
Julian Plumadore, Community Advocate, Mental Health Association of San Francisco.
Moderated by Steven Bruce, Director, People With Disabilities Foundation
Handouts:
Access to Health Care Fact Sheet A Stereotype that Harms People with Mental Health Challenges
Definitions of Stigma and Discrimination People First Language in Mental Health
Template Letter from Psychiatrist to GP