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Past Presentation

Mental Health Apps | April 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation  

Program: Virtual Care Implementation  

In this presentation, Dr. Bud Vana provides an update on the latest digital app-based telehealth services, including describing features, advantages and disadvantages of mental health apps and issues that are emerging around their use, and frameworks for evaluating privacy and quality of apps currently available.

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Dr. Bud Vana

George ‘Bud’ Vana, MD, is a general pediatrician, adult psychiatrist, and child psychiatrist practicing at the Lummi Tribal Health Center in Bellingham, Washington. He and his psychiatric team are integrated into the medical clinic, substance use disorder treatment program, pediatrics department, school-based health clinic and behavioral health department. Bud is a graduate of Harvard University, and he completed medical school at the University of Vermont and his residency training at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He has worked to develop a telehealth infrastructure at the Lummi Tribal Health Center, as well as a child psychiatry consultation service for other tribal health clinics. His other professional interests include family-based psychiatry, acceptance and commitment therapy, treatment of co-occurring disorders, treatment of developmental disabilities, and integrated medical and behavioral healthcare.

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Date added: May 13, 2022