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CME

Pediatric Grand Rounds: From Silos to Systems: Integrating Behavioral Health in Pediatrics

Location: Hybrid: Dell Children’s Medical Center Signe Auditorium & Zoom

Address: 4900 Mueller Blvd, Austin, Texas 78723 | View Map »

Date: Friday, August 21, 2026

Time: 7:30–8:30 a.m.

About the Event

Presented by Alba Pergjika, M.D., MPH, medical director, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Consultation Liaison Service, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Please contact Pam Knight for Zoom link at pam.knight@ascension.org

Learning objectives:

By the end of this presentation, the audience participant should be able to:

1. Summarize current landscape and models for managing acute behavioral health presentations in pediatric health systems.

2. Demonstrate the impact of multidisciplinary partnership and education in building programming for behavioral health support.

3. Describe how system wide proactive support can increase access and reduce stigma around the delivery of mental health care.

Target audience:

  • Primary: Pediatricians, pediatric subspecialists, family medicine physicians and pediatric residents
  • Secondary: Nursing and hospital staff

Attributes/competencies

This activity has been designed to promote some of the following desired physician attributes and competencies:

  • ACGME: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Practice-based Learning and Improvement; Interpersonal and Communications Skills, Professionalism, Systems-based practice
  • IOM: Provide Patient-centered Care, Work in Interdisciplinary Teams, Employ Evidence-based Practice, Apply Quality Improvement, Utilize Informatics
  • IECC: Interprofessional Teamwork & Team-based Practice

Disclosures

The speaker and planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

The CME Advisory Committee, reviewers of this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Accreditation statement

The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School designates this live course for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.