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ForwardECHO-Chicago: Behavioral Health: Adult Populations
October 6, 2026 to December 29, 2026
Strengthen Your Skills, Save Lives, Transform Care.
Join an interactive training series designed to empower primary care and behavioral health providers to recognize and respond confidently to suicide risk in adults. Through engaging, case-based sessions that blend expert insights, hands-on role-play, and peer discussion, you’ll learn how to help patients when they need you most.
Each session delivers practical, evidence-based strategies for addressing depression, anxiety, and suicide prevention -- tools you can apply immediately in your clinical practice. Strengthen your ability to collaborate across disciplines, reduce missed opportunities for intervention, and make a lasting impact on your patients’ lives.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for community-based primary care providers and behavioral health clinicians interested in providing care to patients who are at risk for suicide.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Recognize common behavioral health conditions and risk factors for suicide in adults presenting to primary care.
- Describe evidence-based screening tools and diagnostic criteria for depression, anxiety, substance use, and other behavioral health conditions.
- Apply patient-centered and trauma-informed strategies to manage behavioral health conditions in primary care.
- Analyze complex clinical presentations, including psychiatric emergencies and high-risk scenarios, to guide safe escalation of care.
- Evaluate prescribing practices and management strategies to reduce harm from diagnostic or treatment errors in behavioral health.
- Integrate awareness of social determinants of health and cultural factors into the design and delivery of behavioral health care for at-risk populations.
| Date | Session | Faculty |
| October 6 | Introduction to ECHO & Working With Treatment Non-Adherence | Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| October 13 | Anxiety & Insomnia | Susan Nasr, MD |
| October 20 | PTSD | Susan Nasr, MD |
| October 27 | Bipolar Disorder | Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| November 3 | Psychotic Illnesses | Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| November 10 | Alcohol & Tobacco Use Disorders | Susan Nasr, MD |
| November 17 | Personality Disorders | Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| No Session — November 24 | ||
| December 1 | Opioid Use Disorder | Susan Nasr, MD & Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| December 8 | Depression | Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| December 15 | Common Errors Made in Primary Care: Psychiatric Misdiagnosis & Mis-Medication | Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD & Susan Nasr, MD |
The agenda is subject to change.
Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
To learn more about the ECHO-Chicago curricula, visit our website!
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact ECHO-Chicago via email.
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, the University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FACULTY
Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Adult Psychiatry
Assistant Professor of Adult Psychiatry
Susan Nasr, MD
Clinical Associate of Medicine
Clinical Associate of Medicine
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Social Worker Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is a Registered Social Work Continuing Education Sponsor through the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and will offer continuing education units for ECHO-Chicago: Behavioral Health: Adult Populations for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.
10 social work continuing education units are provided for this live activity.
University of Chicago Medicine is a Registered Social Work Continuing Education Sponsor through the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and will offer continuing education units for ECHO-Chicago: Behavioral Health: Adult Populations for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.
10 social work continuing education units are provided for this live activity.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please note: The credit-claiming process closes 1 month after the activity ends. Requests submitted more than 1 month after the event date may incur additional fees.
Registration: For more information about ECHO, visit the program website below.
Claiming Credit: Enter the access code to unlock the credit-claiming process.
Please note: The credit-claiming process closes 1 month after the activity ends. Requests submitted more than 1 month after the event date may incur additional fees.
Please note: The credit-claiming process closes 1 month after the activity ends. Requests submitted more than 1 month after the event date may incur additional fees.
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