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ForwardECHO-Chicago: Behavioral Health: Adult Populations
April 7, 2026 to June 23, 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.
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| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| April 7 | Introduction to ECHO & Depression Facilitation Team: Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| April 14 | Anxiety & Insomnia Susan Nasr, MD |
| April 21 | Bipolar Disorder Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| April 28 | PTSD Susan Nasr, MD |
| May 5 | Psychotic Illnesses Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| May 12 | Alcohol & Tobacco Use Disorders Susan Nasr, MD |
| May 19 | Borderline Personality Disorder Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| May 26 | Opioid Use Disorder Susan Nasr, MD, and Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
| June 2 | Common Errors Made in Primary Care: Psychiatric Misdiagnosis & Mis-Medication Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD & Susan Nasr, MD |
| June 9 | Working With Treatment Non-Adherence Jennifer Ghandhi, MD, PhD |
The agenda is subject to change.
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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 COURSE 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 requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. This includes any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. The ACCME defines “relevant financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner that could create a conflict of interest. Mechanisms are in place to identify and resolve any potential conflict of interest 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 requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. This includes any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. The ACCME defines “relevant financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner that could create a conflict of interest. Mechanisms are in place to identify and resolve any potential conflict of interest 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 to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education 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 Population for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.
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 Population for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.
10 social work continuing education units are provided for this live activity.
Other Healthcare Professional Credit
Other healthcare professionals 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.
Other Healthcare Professional Credit
Other healthcare professionals 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.
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