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Learning Objectives

• Evaluate approaches to youth mental health care that can improve access and outcomes for children from diverse backgrounds
• Assess ways to match children with the right care based on their individual needs, development, and response to treatment
• Identify practical, system, and equity challenges to delivering care across healthcare, schools, communities, and virtual settings
• Examine how AI and digital tools can expand access to youth mental health support while maintaining quality and safety

Agenda

Live event Instructor(s)

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  Peter Szatmari, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FRSC

  Co-Director, Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Senior Scientist, Campbell Family Research Institute CAMH

  Peter Szatmari, MD, MSc, well known for his work with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), has worked in the field of child and youth psychiatry for over 40 years. From 2013 to 2021, Dr. Szatmari was the Chief of the Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the Hospital for Sick Children, and the University of Toronto. More recently, his focus has been the design and evaluation of clinical interventions in child and youth mental health as well as epidemiological work, both nationally and internationally. Dr. Szatmari has over 500 publications in the field and has had continuous federal funding for over 30 years. In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his contributions to mental health.

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  Kathy Georgiades, PhD

  Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences; Core Member, Offord Centre for Child Studies

  Kathy Georgiades, PhD, holds the Dan Offord Chair in Child Studies and is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and the Offord Centre for Child Studies. Her integrated program of research, mentorship, and collaboration is focused on improving child and youth mental health at the population level and reducing inequities in access to mental health care. She leads major population-based studies in Canada to understand the mental health needs of children and youth and identify gaps and inequities in access to care. Evidence from these studies can inform decisions about how mental health resources and services are allocated and targeted. When repeated over time, these studies provide the foundation for tracking changes in child and youth mental health and evaluating the impact of policies and practices at a population level.

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  Stelios Georgiades, PhD

  Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences; Director, Offord Centre for Child Studies

  Stelios Georgiades, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. He is Scientific Lead, Children’s Health Research and Director of the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences. Dr. Georgiades is the inaugural holder of the McMaster Children’s Hospital Chair in Autism and Neurodevelopment, a McMaster University Scholar, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s 2025 College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. His research focuses on understanding the factors that shape developmental trajectories of children and youth with autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions, with the goal of improving evidence-based interventions, services, and outcomes for children and families.

  He is founder and co-director of the McMaster Autism Research Team (MacART) and has worked closely with government and community partners for more than a decade to advance autism research, care, and policy in Canada and around the world.

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  Mark Ghaly, MD, MPH

  Former Secretary California Health and Human Services Agency

  Mark Ghaly, MD, MPH, is a primary care pediatrician and former secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency. He has had a significant focus on children’s behavioral health needs, supporting many of California’s innovative investments to make mental health services more widely available to kids and their families.

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  David M. Levine MD MPH

  Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Director of R&D, Mass General Brigham Health Care at Home; Co-Director, Harvard General Internal Medicine Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

  David M. Levine, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, clinical director of Research and Development for Mass General Brigham Health Care at Home, and co-director of the Harvard General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is an internationally renowned expert in designing and implementing advanced home-based care, using digital health technology to drive health outcomes and evaluating the quality, safety, and experience of health care. Dr. Levine founded Brigham’s home hospital program. He also co-founded and co-chairs the Hospital at Home Users Group, a collaborative of home hospital programs throughout the United States and Canada. He is also a core faculty member at Ariadne Labs, a joint center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for health systems innovation. To decentralize care and optimize quality time at home, his teams examine and implement novel treatment pathways, machine learning and robotics approaches to care, and the quality and experience of these models at home. His vision is for all patients to achieve the right care at the right time in the right place by designing, implementing, and evaluating innovative interaction spaces among the care team, technology, caregiver, and patient.

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  Matthew Holve, MD

  Child/Adult Psychiatrist Chair of Chiefs for Outpatient Psychiatry Site Chief Fairfield Mental Health

  Dr. Matthew D. Holve, MD is a Child and Adult Psychiatrist in Fairfield for The Permanente Medical Group, Site Chief of Fairfield Mental Health and Chair of Chiefs for Outpatient Psychiatry for northern California Kaiser Permanente. He earned his medical degree from the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Psychiatric residency at UC Irvine, and Child and Adolescent Fellowship at Stanford University and has over a decade of experience in clinical practice. His expertise includes attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other mental health conditions, with a clinical focus spanning child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry.

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