Implementation Success for Integrated Care: Apply Measurement and Understanding Culture Change

Dr. Lori Raney is a board-certified psychiatrist who is considered a leading authority on the collaborative care model and the bidirectional integration of primary care and behavioral health. Her work focuses on implementing evidence-based practices to improve the identification and treatment of mental illness in the primary care setting and improve the health status of patients with serious mental illness in behavioral health settings. She is the editor of the book Integrated Care: Working at the Interface of Primary Care and Behavioral HealthandIntegrated Care: A Guide for Effective Implementation. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to integration. She was selected as a Master Trainer for the American Psychiatric Association’s Support and Alignment grant to train 3,500 psychiatrists in the collaborative care model.

Dr. Raney served for 15 years as the medical director of a community mental health center, where she fostered the development of a full range of evidence-based services, including the development of a telepsychiatry program, working in and deploying psychiatric providers in correctional health settings, managing the psychiatric medical team in implementing prescribing best practices, including metabolic monitoring. She has worked with tribal populations with the Indian Health Service in remote clinics in the Southwest. She continues her clinical work with the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Towaco, Colorado.