Newly Added:
Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care
(The IBH-PC Trial)
A University of Vermont research team under the leadership of Benjamin Littenberg, M.D., Principal
Investigator, Rodger Kessler Ph.D. ABPP, Co-Principal investigator and Connie van Eeghen DrPH, coinvestigator, has received approval for $18.5 million in funding to study whether patients with both
medical and behavioral problems do better when their primary care physicians integrate patient care
with behavioral health professionals. The team has gathered colleagues across the country for their fiveyear research project, titled “Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care.”
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) selected the project as one of four out
of 124 original applications to receive funding. Based in Washington D.C., PCORI seeks to answer
questions that patients and their clinicians face daily and find approaches to health care that work best
for the end user.
Dr. Kessler will present the background and goals of this project during the conference. Collaborators
from across the country, including Dr. Kathol, will be available to discuss the project at greater length.
The discussions will echo many of the conference themes including models of integrated care, the key
role of the specialty care system, measurement or processes and outcomes of integration, and potential
for system wide workforce training and health policy.
Link to a video interview with Littenberg here. Please go to this link to read the
article: http://www.uvm.edu/medicine/?Page=news&storyID=21306&category=spot1