Child Study Center Grand Rounds 01.04.2022
January 10, 2022Looking to 2022 and Beyond the Pandemic
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- 00:00So thanks everyone for joining and I am.
- 00:04I'm was really hoping that we could
- 00:06be together at least in hybrid mode,
- 00:08but I'm very glad that we can be together
- 00:11as we have learned our this time virtually.
- 00:16This is the beginning of our the new Year.
- 00:20None of our academic year,
- 00:21but the new year. So first,
- 00:24let me wish everyone a happy New Year and I
- 00:27really hope that you had a chance for some.
- 00:31Rest and relaxation in this this year.
- 00:35I know that last year,
- 00:36in December 2020, 2020,
- 00:40our holidays were much changed by COVID,
- 00:44so I do hope that you had a
- 00:46chance to be together.
- 00:47Perhaps this year with
- 00:48more family and friends.
- 00:50And that always this time the holiday
- 00:53break is always a time of reflection
- 00:56and sometimes resolutions and I'll
- 00:58return to that theme in a bit.
- 01:01But I'm just really glad that you're
- 01:02back and and hope that we could
- 01:05be in a in a more hybrid mode.
- 01:07But really glad that you're back.
- 01:10I think what none of us anticipated,
- 01:12quite frankly,
- 01:13is that where we would be is
- 01:17664 days since March the 12th.
- 01:21With the coronavirus with Covin 19
- 01:24really still dominating the new
- 01:27year and it's just important for
- 01:29us to acknowledge that that we are
- 01:32that we are back in a completely
- 01:34virtual mode for a few weeks.
- 01:36And that that this is a part of our reality.
- 01:40And it is also a part of reality
- 01:43that we are 664 days and I don't
- 01:46know if the counting has been helpful
- 01:49but but that's where we are.
- 01:52I wanted to begin today before talking
- 01:55about the department specifically,
- 01:58given that Omicron has so much
- 02:01dominated our last few weeks to give
- 02:05you just a sense of the current
- 02:08reality that we are in.
- 02:10And 1st to say that as of yesterday,
- 02:12as of yesterday and y'all,
- 02:13New Haven Hospital,
- 02:15just across the street from the department,
- 02:18the inpatient census was 338.
- 02:23And that was actually a dramatic
- 02:25increase from just a week ago a week ago.
- 02:27Monday, 143% increase.
- 02:32For a bit of context, on April 21st,
- 02:352020,
- 02:35when we were in the middle of the
- 02:38first surge, the first peak was at 450.
- 02:43In our second surge,
- 02:44the second peak was just a year ago
- 02:47on December the 8th and it was 241
- 02:50and we've already surpassed that.
- 02:53So this is a new and dramatic surge.
- 02:58The ICU and just the all New Haven
- 03:01Hospital is at 60 with 30 in
- 03:04intubated and on ventilators there's
- 03:06an 89% occupancy rate in Yale,
- 03:08New Haven which means that the
- 03:11hospital is actually extraordinarily
- 03:12stressed for beds and you're full which
- 03:15means that there are many patients
- 03:17sitting in the Ed waiting for beds.
- 03:19It's a tremendously high number
- 03:21and we are feeling that in the
- 03:23behavioral health world as well.
- 03:25And across the state,
- 03:27there are more than 800 patients hospitalized
- 03:30with about 70% of those unvaccinated.
- 03:35Now I'm going to show you one more
- 03:37reality and I understand that I'm really
- 03:39starting out with the kind that starkness.
- 03:42But I want the context in which we are,
- 03:45why we have gone virtual and why
- 03:48I'm a crime continues to haunt us.
- 03:52So the other current reality is
- 03:54that we are in vaccine plus booster
- 03:56plus mask are incredibly important,
- 03:58but we are seeing more breakthrough
- 04:01infections and so this graph
- 04:03right here is from Yale,
- 04:04New Haven Health and showing the
- 04:06rate of breakthrough infections.
- 04:08Now going around 20 to 25%,
- 04:11which was higher than before.
- 04:14On the other hand,
- 04:16the news is good in the sense that with
- 04:19vaccine plus booster it's a milder disease,
- 04:22but much more contagious.
- 04:25And then finally the positivity
- 04:26rate in our state is climbing.
- 04:28We are now about 20% as of yesterday
- 04:3421.5% sorry, we just go back a bit.
- 04:37So these are the stark realities
- 04:39of where we are in this moment.
- 04:41On January the 4th on why, again,
- 04:44we've gone to complete virtual.
- 04:46And one of the realities is that for a
- 04:48few more weeks than I would have hoped,
- 04:51and that I certainly would have
- 04:52hoped in 2022,
- 04:54we'll be dealing with continued uncertainty.
- 04:58I'm going to talk about how I'm very,
- 05:00very proud and the fact that we
- 05:02have all done this before and
- 05:04we're learning a lot of skills.
- 05:06And there is a bit of positivity
- 05:09in the landscape.
- 05:11Continue perhaps reasons for optimism that
- 05:14this particular surge won't last as long.
- 05:17That it's not as virulent.
- 05:19That we're increasing immunity
- 05:21across our communities and we have
- 05:24learned a tremendous amount which
- 05:26I'm going to continue to address.
- 05:29But that's the reality and why we're virtual,
- 05:32completely virtual,
- 05:32and why all of a sudden you're
- 05:35seeing more communications about
- 05:37Omicron coming from the department,
- 05:39and the various precautions
- 05:40that we need to take.
- 05:44We are as reality, though very
- 05:47likely going to move to an endemic.
- 05:50And I just want to make that point not
- 05:53so much from an infectious disease POV.
- 05:56But from a how we think about adapting to
- 05:59that and an endemic compared to a pandemic
- 06:02is that there is transmission still,
- 06:05but the number of cases remains relatively
- 06:08constant and present around the world.
- 06:10We're not there yet.
- 06:12We're still very much in pandemic stage.
- 06:15But there's no question.
- 06:16I think that COVID and many infectious
- 06:19disease experts talk about it,
- 06:21that COVID will be endemic,
- 06:23and it will be a part of our daily lives.
- 06:27And we will learn to adjust to it.
- 06:30So we will learn to live with COVID.
- 06:32We will learn to make adjustments.
- 06:34For example our workplace environment.
- 06:36We may have masks regularly
- 06:39wearing them in different settings.
- 06:41And I know currently we've changed
- 06:43some of them at or we the CDC and
- 06:46others have changed some of the
- 06:48mask requirements or suggestions,
- 06:49but will continue to be created
- 06:53in our mask wearing.
- 06:55It's likely that in public spaces we will
- 06:58continue to have masks and continue to
- 07:00think about how we are in public spaces,
- 07:03and very likely that there will continue
- 07:06to be this kind of push pull between
- 07:09variants and vaccines variants and vaccines.
- 07:12But coronavirus has really changed
- 07:14the way we work, and I suspect that
- 07:18that will be that will continue.
- 07:20And we'll talk about that a bit more.
- 07:22But remote work I think,
- 07:24will be a widely accepted across
- 07:27the world and across our community.
- 07:30Some of the advantages is it will
- 07:32actually help us find talent.
- 07:34We'll be able.
- 07:34Just as Kieran said,
- 07:36that he's been able to actually convert grand
- 07:38rounds over this next few weeks to virtual,
- 07:41and we'll have a speaker from London.
- 07:43We'll be able actually to access
- 07:45people in new and in new ways.
- 07:48Not so new 'cause it's been 600
- 07:51and however many days will continue
- 07:53to have virtual learning will even
- 07:55start to use virtual reality that
- 07:58will enhance our abilities to work.
- 08:00Across geographical locations and of course,
- 08:04telemedicine.
- 08:07But I want to also return to
- 08:10reflection to that third that third
- 08:13panel in my welcoming you back.
- 08:16And I have this quote here not
- 08:19actually to emphasize any particular
- 08:22religious tradition over the holiday
- 08:24break that we've just come through.
- 08:26But actually to the last
- 08:28phrase within this quote.
- 08:30It unveils the extraordinary
- 08:32that are hurried,
- 08:33our hurried and conceal and neglect.
- 08:37Because I think that's what has
- 08:39happened with the pandemic that we
- 08:41need to continue to remind ourselves.
- 08:44That we have lived and are living just as I
- 08:47began this talk deeply in reactionary mode.
- 08:52And in a hurried, pressured,
- 08:54stressed reactionary mode.
- 08:57And what that I think is
- 09:00the unintended effect.
- 09:01It's been very effective in many ways,
- 09:04but the unintended effect is it is not
- 09:07permitted us or sometimes concealed all
- 09:10the extraordinary things that everyone
- 09:13of you in this virtual room have done.
- 09:16You've cared for families,
- 09:18your own families.
- 09:20You care for the children coming to see us.
- 09:22You kept research programs going.
- 09:24You kept training programs going.
- 09:25We have been innovative.
- 09:27We have found new solutions and we have
- 09:31actually held together as a community
- 09:33and I'll continue to emphasize that.
- 09:36But I really hope that we regardless again
- 09:39of religious tradition but that we can
- 09:41take the spirit of this holiday break.
- 09:44To continue to reflect on the
- 09:47extraordinary that we have been through
- 09:50and that we are continuing to be in.
- 09:53And continuing to support one another in.
- 09:57I also want to return to
- 09:59the themes of September.
- 10:01It's only been a few months since
- 10:02September when we were actually talking
- 10:04about the state of the department then,
- 10:07and I wanted to remind you that in
- 10:10September we needed to acknowledge
- 10:12what we were going through while
- 10:15at the same time pushing forward.
- 10:17And in September we had a theme about
- 10:20acknowledging that there were many things
- 10:22going on in our hearts that were not
- 10:25necessarily expressly and explicitly stated.
- 10:27That is our collective loss
- 10:30that there have been many,
- 10:31many losses and not just to people,
- 10:34not just of loved ones and friends,
- 10:36but many losses for the
- 10:38department for our community,
- 10:39for the medical school to school,
- 10:41New Haven, and the nation,
- 10:43and the world.
- 10:44And that within that that we are
- 10:47in a collective continue to still
- 10:49be in a collective mourning,
- 10:51and everyone is extraordinarily tired.
- 10:55And I know that you are,
- 10:56and I know that we were even just
- 10:59before everyone got on virtually.
- 11:00Having extraordinarily long sighs of oh,
- 11:03not again. Didn't we do this in January 2021?
- 11:09But the other theme of September,
- 11:11which continues to be if not louder
- 11:14now as the importance of our coming
- 11:17together in the importance of gratitude.
- 11:20Gratitude for these moments together,
- 11:22whether they're virtual,
- 11:23hybrid,
- 11:24even those brief moments of in
- 11:27person waving across the room.
- 11:29The month that all the people that come
- 11:32into 350 George to support our practice.
- 11:34Security group that's there.
- 11:36That's everyone coming in to keep
- 11:38research. Going.
- 11:39Our gratitude for all that we're
- 11:42doing together. 'cause again,
- 11:44that is what holds us together.
- 11:47So it's really customary at this
- 11:49time in January to talk about
- 11:51the state of the department.
- 11:52So here's what I think the state of the
- 11:55department is and we can stop right there.
- 11:57But the state of the department
- 11:59is that we're doing well, though I
- 12:02think we're considerably stressed by COVID.
- 12:04We have some challenges.
- 12:06What I'll talk about,
- 12:07and we're in the midst of tremendous,
- 12:10tremendous change.
- 12:12Part of it brought on by COVID,
- 12:14part of it brought on by the change
- 12:16that we were already involved in when
- 12:18this pandemic in March 12th began.
- 12:22Customarily at this time one
- 12:24talks about accomplishments.
- 12:26You talk about the what I'm
- 12:29going to talk some about what,
- 12:31but I'm also going to talk
- 12:33about how and process,
- 12:34and I think some of that
- 12:36process that we're involved in,
- 12:37especially around culture and climate,
- 12:40that it is really important that
- 12:42we intend to. And again,
- 12:43it is a balance between the two.
- 12:47And so here's where we'll go.
- 12:50I want to do just a very
- 12:53short department snapshot.
- 12:54I want to touch touch a bit on
- 12:57carrying forward what I think we
- 12:59have learned during Kovid and what
- 13:01we need to continue to adapt to.
- 13:03To spend some time on the surge in
- 13:05mental health needs because that surge
- 13:06in child behavioral health needs is
- 13:08impacting every mission in this department,
- 13:11not just our clinical.
- 13:13It's impacting everything,
- 13:14climate and culture which
- 13:16relates to recruiting,
- 13:18developing and growing our our community.
- 13:21And then finally,
- 13:22where we're going.
- 13:23So that's in a nutshell,
- 13:25where we will go.
- 13:28So short department snapshots.
- 13:32Now some of these slides you have seen
- 13:34are some of you in different settings.
- 13:36Have seen one of the things I have
- 13:39actually learned not only during COVID,
- 13:41but over this course of time as as
- 13:44your chair is that communication,
- 13:47communication, communication that there
- 13:50is a virtue and repetition because it
- 13:52actually brings out additional points.
- 13:55But I want to remind you first about the
- 13:59structure of how we sit as a department.
- 14:02So we as the CHILD Study Center from
- 14:04one of the 19 clinical departments
- 14:06and the School of Medicine,
- 14:08the School of Medicine is in Yale University.
- 14:12But the other piece that also gives
- 14:14us another system within is that we
- 14:16our clinical practice is a part of
- 14:19the Yale Medicine clinical practice.
- 14:21Which is a part of the clinical
- 14:23efforts of the School of Medicine.
- 14:25So we are nested in that way,
- 14:28but we also have a relationship
- 14:30with the hospital,
- 14:31which is a totally different system,
- 14:34and the Yale New Haven Children's Hospital is
- 14:36a part of the Yale New Haven Health system.
- 14:38Across across the state of Connecticut.
- 14:41Two different systems.
- 14:43We collaborate.
- 14:44We care for patients in the hospital.
- 14:48We go back and forth.
- 14:49We do research.
- 14:50We have education, but two different systems,
- 14:53great advantages, great advantages to
- 14:55being a part of this large system.
- 14:58Great benefits.
- 14:58We could spend a lot of time talking about.
- 15:01The actual individual benefits
- 15:04are linked to resources,
- 15:06but it also has a constraint in some
- 15:08degrees of agreement of which decisions are.
- 15:12Hours in which decisions are
- 15:14a part of the system.
- 15:16Keep that in mind.
- 15:18And here is the state of the department
- 15:20in a glance in terms of who we are and
- 15:23and a number of you have seen this before,
- 15:25but I just want to keep
- 15:28emphasizing that we're big.
- 15:30We're about 520 people.
- 15:31If you if you include our voluntary
- 15:35faculty or community faculty as well.
- 15:38We are we are a large department and
- 15:41we were growing pretty rapidly pre
- 15:44COVID and are continuing to grow not
- 15:47so rapidly at this point as is true of
- 15:50every department across the medical school.
- 15:52You can see the distribution
- 15:54in terms of gender and race,
- 15:57but we are actually a pretty big department.
- 16:00One thing to call attention to here
- 16:03in terms of assistant associated
- 16:05full professors is that we are also
- 16:08a bit of an aging department and we
- 16:11need to work considerably on growing
- 16:13our number of assistant professors
- 16:15and many of our assistant professors
- 16:18are many of our clinical faculty
- 16:20are assistant professors and live
- 16:22in this 102 here.
- 16:26Financially,
- 16:26I'm not going to go through all of this,
- 16:28but I just want to give
- 16:29you a by the numbers link.
- 16:31Look at the department.
- 16:33Our annual budget is about
- 16:3546.1 million right here,
- 16:36but there is a difference.
- 16:38A delta here that's covered
- 16:41actually by Yale Medicine.
- 16:42We'll get to that in a bit.
- 16:46Everyone in our grant world has been
- 16:48extraordinarily busy and fiscal.
- 16:49Year 21, we had 120 proposals
- 16:53submitted and we have a number 172
- 16:55active awards across the department.
- 16:58Just think of them and I don't actually have
- 17:01to remind you of the amount of work that
- 17:04that reflects on all levels of individual.
- 17:07Principal investigators,
- 17:08your teams our business office.
- 17:11Everyone looking at our annual
- 17:14buildings and patient care,
- 17:16you can see the the between the inpatient our
- 17:19hospital based services and our outpatient.
- 17:22We bill about 13 million.
- 17:25But you look at what we collect.
- 17:28And not going to perseverate on that.
- 17:31Many of you have heard me say before
- 17:33that that delta has nothing to do
- 17:36with the considerable amount of
- 17:38effort that people are putting in,
- 17:40but has to do with the structural
- 17:43nature of behavioral health and the
- 17:45reimbursement will come back to that.
- 17:48And then you see here the volume of patients.
- 17:50Then this number will actually
- 17:51be higher now if we bring in the
- 17:54current or the current months,
- 17:55I'll show you a bit more about that,
- 17:57but we do. A tremendous amount of work.
- 18:01And if you're curious about these,
- 18:03this particular age range or
- 18:05this particular length of stay,
- 18:07so we have a tradition actually
- 18:09of caring for families,
- 18:10especially families with developmental
- 18:12disabilities well into adulthood,
- 18:14and for following them across the lifespan.
- 18:19Sources of income for the department.
- 18:21I just want to show you this again
- 18:24to remind you that nearly 1/4 of
- 18:27our actual revenue that we very much
- 18:29depend on is from Gibson Endowments,
- 18:32so that's why we focus so much on our
- 18:35child Study Center Associates and on
- 18:38on bringing in and being sure that
- 18:40we are good stewards to the donors
- 18:42of the department and then nearly
- 18:4560% from our grants and contracts.
- 18:48One other kind of financial piece
- 18:51just to show you.
- 18:53Is the finances by mission now
- 18:55a number of you have heard this,
- 18:56but I can't emphasize it enough.
- 18:59That, in contrast to every
- 19:01other clinical department.
- 19:02We actually cover our education and
- 19:06research missions through our endowments,
- 19:09our grants, our gifts.
- 19:10Every other department does
- 19:12it in the reverse,
- 19:13the clinical revenue goes to support that,
- 19:16but the nature of behavioral health
- 19:18means that that's not possible.
- 19:20So far in the clinical side,
- 19:22we have a 7.1 million unfunded gap
- 19:25that is supported by Yale Medicine,
- 19:29and 90% of those expenses
- 19:32are made up of salaries.
- 19:35So it's really important this is
- 19:38actually the structural issue in
- 19:41behavioral health that I want to
- 19:43continue to bring everyone into in
- 19:45your roles as members of the faculty.
- 19:47Your roles is in training with us as
- 19:50our members of our Community and as
- 19:52members of the greater community,
- 19:54and to help you be advocates for this issue.
- 20:01So let's go forward to carrying forward
- 20:04what we've learned during copin.
- 20:07Just to to talk about that briefly.
- 20:111st, I'm actually not going to talk
- 20:14about the various technical things.
- 20:16I'm gonna talk about what
- 20:17we have actually learned.
- 20:18I think from these 22 months psychologically.
- 20:22No surprise that we've learned
- 20:24that things change unexpectedly,
- 20:26just like in the last few weeks.
- 20:29But I can't emphasize enough.
- 20:32But we've also learned that as a community,
- 20:34we're adaptable and we can be flexible.
- 20:37Back to that quote that I
- 20:40gave you from from about the.
- 20:42Her edness keeping us from talking
- 20:45or seeing the extraordinary.
- 20:47There's been an extraordinary examples of
- 20:50tremendous adaptability across our missions,
- 20:52and by education and research on the
- 20:55clinical through all of this and
- 20:57enormous flexibility peeping at people,
- 20:59being able to turn on a dime to do what
- 21:02they have are here and committed to doing.
- 21:05I think we should celebrate that,
- 21:07but I also think we need to be reflective
- 21:09of what made it possible for us to do that.
- 21:12So that we don't lose that capacity
- 21:14when we come back, whatever,
- 21:17come back means.
- 21:19I think we've learned also that we need
- 21:22to be extraordinarily intentional about
- 21:23holding our community together as strong
- 21:26as our Community as a department was,
- 21:29it does not stay together when
- 21:31we are simply apart and virtual.
- 21:33And with this degree of stress.
- 21:36It takes intentionality and I again
- 21:39celebrate and I'm grateful for how many
- 21:42good ideas have come out to actually
- 21:44hold us together from small gatherings
- 21:47when we can gather to tusum book hours,
- 21:512 coffees zoom,
- 21:53we need to be intentional to
- 21:54continue to hold us together.
- 21:58We've also learned that we can actually
- 22:00be accepting and we can work together
- 22:03to make change to move forward even when
- 22:05we're in the middle of uncertainty.
- 22:07But we need to again think
- 22:10about how we've done that.
- 22:12And what we've learned is that we people
- 22:15have learned to work in different ways.
- 22:18They've learned the possibilities
- 22:19of working from home,
- 22:21so we now need going forward to
- 22:24understand and accept individual needs.
- 22:26While at the same time having
- 22:29expectations and best practices
- 22:31that we can share as a community.
- 22:33And finally,
- 22:34we can absolutely never communicate enough.
- 22:37As I said earlier, I was.
- 22:38I was learning this before,
- 22:40but I have learned this tremendously
- 22:43that we have a tremendous amount to say.
- 22:46There's always more to say,
- 22:47and there is tremendous virtue in
- 22:50repeating it across different modalities.
- 22:55So what do I think our new working
- 22:57environment will look like?
- 22:58Best is a crystal ball, can tell is.
- 23:00I think we will likely once we get past all
- 23:04mycron I'll continue the hybrid grand rounds.
- 23:07There are tremendous advantages to this
- 23:09'cause we can invite speakers from all
- 23:11over the world who can join us remotely.
- 23:14Easier for them cost effective,
- 23:17tremendous ways of sharing ideas.
- 23:21I think we'll actually start to use virtual
- 23:24interviews for faculty and fellows,
- 23:26which which actually levels the playing
- 23:28field in case someone either can't
- 23:30afford to come or the cost is just
- 23:33too high to bring them for interviews.
- 23:35Initial virtual interviews truly
- 23:38levels the playing field.
- 23:40I think we'll continue to use the
- 23:42virtual platform for faculty meetings,
- 23:44but be smart about it and so
- 23:46it's more participatory.
- 23:47Obviously hybrid Tele health.
- 23:49And I hope that people across
- 23:52your various groups will also can
- 23:54begin to use hybrid participation,
- 23:57even when we can be in person and
- 23:59again be really smart about how
- 24:02to make everyone feel included.
- 24:04And finally we need to have be very
- 24:06thoughtful about work schedules that
- 24:08allow some time for working from home.
- 24:10The world has changed and that
- 24:13is where we are.
- 24:15And to the point of communication,
- 24:17I just really need to celebrate and
- 24:19talk really gratefully to our new.
- 24:22Let me emphasize full-time
- 24:24communications officer Krista Krista
- 24:27hit the ground running in November.
- 24:30I'm sure for Krista it feels
- 24:32like it's been a Millennium,
- 24:34but it's been a wonderful two months,
- 24:36and Krista has already, as you know,
- 24:38very much up the game of the insider.
- 24:41And it's coming out regularly
- 24:42has put out an associates.
- 24:44Newsletter is building a
- 24:47communication strategy.
- 24:48A regular communications calendar,
- 24:50and is very open to input from everyone,
- 24:53but I think Krista Krista's presence
- 24:55is going to greatly add to a number
- 24:57of these things that I'm going to
- 24:59talk about later, but just has truly,
- 25:02truly already shifted the gain in these
- 25:04two months. So thank you, Krista.
- 25:09But to use a metaphor,
- 25:11we are in a continually evolving situation.
- 25:13Just just recently, Dean Brown in a
- 25:17meeting with the chairs was talking
- 25:19about how this metaphor was one that
- 25:22she had come to not like at all.
- 25:24But it is the fact of our reality
- 25:26and I just want to remind us though
- 25:29about our capacity for adapting and
- 25:31flexibility and staying in touch
- 25:33because we are in an evolving situation.
- 25:39So let's turn to the behavioral health surge.
- 25:42And in many ways this graphic
- 25:45does not accurately represent it,
- 25:46because it suggests that a physical
- 25:48health crisis ends in wave one.
- 25:50You have an economic crisis and
- 25:52then a mental health crisis.
- 25:54This would actually be better represented
- 25:56by waves that are the lighter blue
- 25:58is still with the darker blue.
- 26:00'cause obviously we're in
- 26:02different surges from the virus.
- 26:04But it is true that this particular
- 26:08pandemic has not caused a surge
- 26:11or this behavioral health surge,
- 26:13although it certainly has
- 26:15added tremendous stress,
- 26:16but that we are in the middle of if you will,
- 26:19a mental health be child
- 26:21behavioral health pandemic.
- 26:23So let me just give you some information.
- 26:29Reports of this started even well over
- 26:32now a year ago in the summer of 2021,
- 26:37and these are just a few of the
- 26:39headlines that Amanda Lowell gather.
- 26:41But it's been as you know,
- 26:44the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- 26:47American Academy of Pediatrics
- 26:49and our own society.
- 26:52A camp has declared a national emergency
- 26:55in child and adolescent mental health.
- 26:58Noting, as did the surgeon General recently,
- 27:01noting that there are
- 27:03increasing numbers of cases,
- 27:05there's increasing need
- 27:07and a workforce shortage.
- 27:09And just in the last week and actually
- 27:12just this morning and the New York Times,
- 27:152 editorials on not only children's
- 27:19behavioral health needs,
- 27:21but the tremendous tremendous stresses
- 27:23that families across the country
- 27:26are experiencing and what people are
- 27:29calling a crisis for American children.
- 27:32Now let me say one thing about this kind
- 27:34of reporting and those kind of data.
- 27:36And then I'll show you data from us locally.
- 27:40Creating a sense of urgency by these kinds
- 27:43of headlines is only as effective as if,
- 27:46as when we propose solutions to it.
- 27:50So I am incredibly pleased that this
- 27:54has been gaining national attention
- 27:56and people are talking about this,
- 27:58and it is now.
- 28:00It is now a headline issue that there
- 28:02is a child behavioral health crisis.
- 28:05But I would say that there was a child
- 28:08behavioral health crisis before the pandemic.
- 28:11There was already a fractured
- 28:13delivery system before the pandemic.
- 28:15And what the pandemic has shown
- 28:18is how fractured it is,
- 28:19and we're creating a sense of urgency
- 28:22now about that great framing strategy.
- 28:24But the thing that has to go hand
- 28:27in hand is to create solutions,
- 28:29and that's what I hope that is our
- 28:31responsibility, and we do well.
- 28:34What does it look like for us?
- 28:37So these actually are this.
- 28:38These are data from Aaron who
- 28:40actually show our requests for
- 28:42clinical services from July 2019.
- 28:45So about a little more than six months
- 28:47before the pandemic before we went out
- 28:50and March to the end of November 2021.
- 28:54And I want you to note right
- 28:57here in January 20. This peak.
- 29:00So referrals for some unexplainable reason
- 29:03had a peak right there in January 2020.
- 29:06I don't think it's so inexplicable.
- 29:08I think things were starting to
- 29:10to go on the upswing for a whole
- 29:13host of non pandemic reasons.
- 29:15Then here's the pandemic tremendous drop.
- 29:18And then you can see the steady
- 29:21steady increase ever since.
- 29:23So basically at this point we take.
- 29:26This is the that January peak
- 29:28showing you that something was
- 29:30happening before the pandemic.
- 29:32But if you look now with pre
- 29:34pandemic way out here in 1819 we
- 29:37had about 150 referrals per month.
- 29:41Now we're averaging about 250 referrals
- 29:44per month, and that's an average.
- 29:47So there are months where that's more peaked.
- 29:50Make sure your data from our
- 29:53hospital side of things now.
- 29:55Our hospital colleagues operate on a
- 29:57fiscal year that begins in October.
- 30:00So these data from 2022 is fiscal year
- 30:032022, starting in October 2021
- 30:07and basically covering 3 months.
- 30:10That's what you want to hold in mind.
- 30:142022, three months compared to right here.
- 30:172021 a full fiscal year.
- 30:19And three months in the Ed and
- 30:22I short presentation here,
- 30:24a fiscal year 2022.
- 30:26There's already been 600 visits
- 30:28for child behavioral health needs.
- 30:31There have been 239 and
- 30:33missions in that period of time,
- 30:36and these borders means the number
- 30:39of children sitting in the Ed waiting
- 30:42for a bed waiting for admission.
- 30:44And just look at the difference
- 30:46here between 2021-2022.
- 30:50And the number of hours that
- 30:52those children have been sitting
- 30:55waiting cumulatively.
- 30:56I will add the lighter to show
- 30:59UED visits and the light light
- 31:02blue line is October,
- 31:03November,
- 31:04December so you can see this
- 31:06peak compared to the other years
- 31:09and then in missions right here.
- 31:14So this has been a tremendous,
- 31:17tremendous behavioral health surge.
- 31:18But the other point at the bottom of
- 31:21the slide is again borders border hours.
- 31:24If you take those as a proxy of need,
- 31:26have really been on the
- 31:28rise since fiscal year 17.
- 31:30But the pandemic has.
- 31:32Perhaps widen the fracture,
- 31:35but certainly shown us the fracture.
- 31:38And those are the two points I wanted
- 31:40that I already called your attention to.
- 31:43So what we're seeing is referrals or
- 31:46dramatically increasing across services.
- 31:48There's an increase in anxiety,
- 31:50depression, suicidal ideations,
- 31:52eating disorders.
- 31:54There's a tremendously greater severity that
- 31:56requires more intensive and longer treatment,
- 31:58so it's not just that there's more children,
- 32:00they're actually sicker.
- 32:02They need more help,
- 32:04so they're staying in treatment longer.
- 32:07Then there's fewer programs that
- 32:09are available if you think about
- 32:11continuum of care and getting
- 32:12children back into the community.
- 32:14And there's a huge workforce shortage.
- 32:17So it looks like this increased referrals,
- 32:19greater severity, longer time,
- 32:21and treatment,
- 32:22fewer openings longer wait time
- 32:24than the system becomes backlogged.
- 32:27Which is exactly what we're what,
- 32:29not only we are seeing,
- 32:31but you are all experiencing.
- 32:36So it's a behavioralhealth
- 32:38kind of perfect storm.
- 32:40And how do we do it?
- 32:41How are we meeting this surge?
- 32:42We're trying to add resources
- 32:44to the emergency room
- 32:45restricting our catchment areas.
- 32:47Working with Yale Medicine and Yale
- 32:49New Haven for additional support,
- 32:51but also advocating with our
- 32:53state colleagues to think
- 32:55about a continuum of care.
- 32:57More support on the prevention
- 32:59side for pediatricians for school
- 33:02based services as well as support
- 33:04for intensive outpatient programs.
- 33:06And outpatient services,
- 33:08and also how do we develop
- 33:10this workforce in a way that
- 33:13is sustainable and all entices
- 33:14people to come into the field.
- 33:20If you're going to be talking to anyone
- 33:23really, even your colleagues in the center,
- 33:26your colleagues in the School of Medicine,
- 33:28your neighbors here are some key
- 33:30points that I want you to keep in mind.
- 33:33This is not a single solution.
- 33:36This is not a.
- 33:38More beds, more emergency services.
- 33:41More acts. This is a continuum.
- 33:44Think about how children get into the system.
- 33:47And think about how they get out
- 33:49of the system and the system.
- 33:50In this case, is all the services
- 33:53that we provide here in the middle.
- 33:55Think about it as a continuum and continue
- 33:58to advocate that it is a continuum.
- 34:01The second point to make.
- 34:03If you were going to do it is that's
- 34:05the one I've already been making.
- 34:06Is that behavioral health referrals
- 34:08were already on the rise?
- 34:10This is not a simple pandemic caused issue.
- 34:14That this tremendous stresses of the pandemic
- 34:17certainly have highlighted the issue,
- 34:19but they were already on the rise.
- 34:22And perhaps one point
- 34:24that is maybe more subtle.
- 34:26Is that workforce shortages are just much
- 34:29more than getting more people to the field.
- 34:31They're actually about making a field
- 34:33that is better reimbursed for services.
- 34:35So remember that that we build nearly
- 34:3913 million and we collect about 6.
- 34:43That's a structural built-in issue about
- 34:46reimbursement for child behavioral health.
- 34:48Which makes it really hard.
- 34:51Unless you're a part of that nested
- 34:53system that I showed you really hard
- 34:56to build and sustain a practice.
- 34:58Parody for support for behavioral health
- 35:00services is what we need to be pushing.
- 35:05So let me go back to this point
- 35:07that I showed you and let me just
- 35:09actually show you the reality here.
- 35:11Not to be depressing.
- 35:12But that for each dollar of clinical revenue
- 35:15and a number of you have seen this before.
- 35:18It cost us a dollar and a half
- 35:21and expenses because again,
- 35:22of the low reimbursement rates.
- 35:26So here's a metaphor for you to use.
- 35:28Let me let me just pause right here though.
- 35:31Is that what?
- 35:32We've increasing the clinical
- 35:34volume is not the answer.
- 35:35Regulating it,
- 35:36and all these things are things we're doing.
- 35:39Working on philanthropy.
- 35:40Trying to increase the self pay.
- 35:43Working toward more contracts.
- 35:45Advocating with our health system and
- 35:47Yale Medicine colleagues for more.
- 35:49Support all of those things.
- 35:51But here's some metaphor.
- 35:54And this is the metaphor that
- 35:55I want you to think about,
- 35:57that I want us to be able to use.
- 35:59So if you think about the
- 36:00bucket of needs over here,
- 36:01and you think about a A balance
- 36:04beam with a fulcrum in the middle,
- 36:06the child behavioral health
- 36:07and family needs are huge,
- 36:09and they're pulling that weight
- 36:11down and they come from a whole
- 36:14host of issues and resources.
- 36:15Don't meet the needs,
- 36:17and so there's an imbalance.
- 36:20One solution is obviously to do prevention.
- 36:24To decrease that light blue bucket by
- 36:27access mental health school based programs,
- 36:30controlling the waitlist
- 36:32controlling catchment.
- 36:33The latter, I would say,
- 36:34is a reactionary solution.
- 36:36The top one is a more sustained 1.
- 36:40The other is to increase the
- 36:42resources so you again try to bring
- 36:44it a bit more balanced and you
- 36:46increase the resources by having
- 36:48number of people delivering care,
- 36:49increasing the funding networks
- 36:52and contracts. With the 3rd way.
- 36:55The 3rd way where we as a department
- 36:58can make a huge difference
- 37:00is to move the fulcrum.
- 37:04And when you move the fulcrum,
- 37:05you do things like thinking
- 37:07about different payer models.
- 37:08You link physical and child,
- 37:10be physical and behavioral health
- 37:11so that you're talking about one.
- 37:13You talk about parity,
- 37:15you invest in a continuum of services,
- 37:17and then when you move the fulcrum.
- 37:20You can do a lot more with actually the
- 37:22same potentially resources that you have.
- 37:27So that is actually the reason that
- 37:29we are engaged with a number of.
- 37:30You have participated already in this
- 37:33consultation around with Wellspring
- 37:34Consulting around building a child.
- 37:36Behavioral Health policy consortium.
- 37:40And we're asking Wellspring to
- 37:41help us talk about how we can bring
- 37:44individuals across the university
- 37:45that are folks on child behavioral
- 37:48health around this hub idea.
- 37:49How can we more effectively disseminate what
- 37:53we know to actually work collaboratively
- 37:56with policymakers and with agencies to
- 37:58impact the delivery of these services?
- 38:00How can we use ourselves and our
- 38:03resources to move the fulcrum?
- 38:05And that is what we need to do.
- 38:10But at the same time,
- 38:11with all of those data that I've
- 38:12showed you about where we're at
- 38:13in the behavioral health search,
- 38:14who I most also concerned about,
- 38:16besides the families coming
- 38:18to us is us is all of you.
- 38:21And these are data that look about health
- 38:24care workers that includes behavioral
- 38:26health and what they report now about
- 38:29their own health in the pandemic.
- 38:33And you can see that nearly
- 38:34half in a national survey.
- 38:37Nearly half report that their
- 38:39mental health has gotten worse.
- 38:41And a third report.
- 38:43These other impacts on other aspects of
- 38:46physical health, work, life, finances, etc.
- 38:49So that worries me a lot.
- 38:53Which brings me then to culture and climate.
- 38:55And how do we begin to address our
- 38:58climate and our department culture?
- 39:00How do we begin to address
- 39:02even more intentionally?
- 39:03What makes us us?
- 39:05And we've done a lot of talking
- 39:07about purposes and values,
- 39:08but I want to highlight
- 39:10these two things in red.
- 39:12That how do we begin to even more
- 39:15in the and the words that all
- 39:17of us say whatever programs were
- 39:20leading to exemplify the values
- 39:22that we have for this culture?
- 39:25And how do we put into place
- 39:27some organizational practices
- 39:29and processes that will help us
- 39:31actually move the culture forward?
- 39:35So I'm very grateful to Tara
- 39:36for for creating this slide.
- 39:38In developing this slide.
- 39:39This is totally her work and
- 39:42the work of her committee,
- 39:43but showing us that culture
- 39:45change is a process.
- 39:47It's a process that we are starting
- 39:49some work and rest restorative practice
- 39:53with our colleague Jasmine Davis
- 39:54whom you've had a chance to meet.
- 39:56We're starting work around racial
- 39:58equity training with Ingrid Kennedy and
- 40:01the search team and that this kind of work.
- 40:04Actually begins to create us as a
- 40:06professional learning community
- 40:07that we are learning from each
- 40:09other and we are making changes,
- 40:10learning how those changes
- 40:12work that leads us to change,
- 40:14which then gets us back into more training.
- 40:17What is really,
- 40:18really important about this besides
- 40:20the fact that this represents a
- 40:22tremendous amount of work by Tara
- 40:24and her team and and everyone else?
- 40:27But what's really important is
- 40:29that we need engagement in this
- 40:32activity and these activities across.
- 40:34All the departments. This is our culture.
- 40:37This is our community.
- 40:40And we all need to be engaged in this
- 40:43change as a part we're all weary.
- 40:45We're all impacting the pandemic.
- 40:48This is important change for
- 40:50us to be involved in.
- 40:52So here's some upcoming events,
- 40:55again with Ingrid and her team.
- 40:56Just so you have those dates.
- 40:58And in the spirit of communicate,
- 41:00communicate, communicate,
- 41:00we will send these dates out for everyone.
- 41:04But just so you have them,
- 41:05you can see there's one coming up in January,
- 41:07then February and April and May.
- 41:10But again,
- 41:11we are need this together and
- 41:13we need full participation.
- 41:15Engagement is a key part of
- 41:18citizenship of this community,
- 41:19and our annual appraisal of
- 41:21how we're doing together.
- 41:23And I would just underscore
- 41:25that by our participation.
- 41:26We also send a message among
- 41:28all of us I support for the
- 41:30culture we want to build.
- 41:35Then there's an equity issue that
- 41:36I feel strongly about that we have
- 41:38to address in this upcoming year,
- 41:39and I hope that sooner in the year
- 41:42than later that we need to address
- 41:44the great inequity in our masters
- 41:47level and APRN clinicians in their
- 41:49starting salaries and in salaries that
- 41:51reflect their experience in the amount
- 41:54of time that they've been with us.
- 41:55So I'm in regular conversations
- 41:57with our Yale Medicine and Yale
- 42:00Hospital colleagues about doing
- 42:01that is high high priority.
- 42:03For me and continuing to work also on
- 42:06advocating for ways that same clinicians
- 42:10can progress academically as faculty.
- 42:15I wanna apart began culture change is
- 42:18continuing to think about how we develop.
- 42:20We recruit, we retain our faculty and how
- 42:24we do all of this together more seamlessly.
- 42:27And again, terrorist group is working
- 42:29on a number of components of this,
- 42:31but I just want to highlight a few.
- 42:35So one and our search is going forward.
- 42:38We're going to announce all positions
- 42:40or even internal opportunities
- 42:42for new responsibilities,
- 42:44and I hope you've noticed that we're trying
- 42:46to do that on the website more consistently,
- 42:49but we'll be very vigilant now that we have
- 42:51our new full-time communications officer.
- 42:53Did I mention Christmas presents?
- 42:56And then for new jobs we'll have
- 42:58postings and sites that I hope will
- 43:01reach more diverse candidates.
- 43:02We're working with Dean Lattimore.
- 43:04A standard interview review process,
- 43:07and, as I mentioned earlier,
- 43:08virtual options to improve people's
- 43:10ability to come for interviews.
- 43:13Unconscious bias training for everybody
- 43:16that participates in searches.
- 43:18And then in the spirit of being
- 43:20a learning community to try and
- 43:21learn from best practices,
- 43:22not only are at Yale,
- 43:24but in other places,
- 43:25and we're putting this in place.
- 43:27Some of these changes in the current
- 43:30internal search for new social work,
- 43:32direct training director position.
- 43:36Several areas of growth and recruitment that,
- 43:39while that we're that are happening,
- 43:41uh, largely because some of them,
- 43:42largely because of again pandemic
- 43:45and with a new physician scientist,
- 43:47office at Yale or clinician
- 43:48scientist in the medical school.
- 43:50We now have the opportunity to build
- 43:53up our cadre of clinician scientists.
- 43:55We're continuing to grow our embedded
- 43:58pediatric psychology program with Pediatrics,
- 44:01so making for more better delivery
- 44:03of services in pediatric in
- 44:06the context of pediatric care.
- 44:08As you saw from our hospital
- 44:10growth and behavioral health,
- 44:11we need to increase the depth of our
- 44:14hospital child behavioral health team.
- 44:17Eating disorders have dramatically
- 44:19increased with this on behavioral
- 44:21health surge and our hospital
- 44:23colleagues now are committed to
- 44:24building an eating disorders program,
- 44:26and I'm very pleased that Rebecca
- 44:28Comedy has brought her expertise
- 44:30and will help build that.
- 44:32And then finally,
- 44:33we're starting to see a freeze our
- 44:36run by thawing rather a thawing of
- 44:39the freeze on faculty positions,
- 44:41and clinically and opening up
- 44:44for replacing those positions.
- 44:46I've given a fair amount of
- 44:48sad news with the pandemic,
- 44:49so I just actually want to
- 44:51give you one bit of good news.
- 44:53And that is through our Yale Child Study
- 44:55Center Collaborative with scholastic,
- 44:57scholastic,
- 44:57and our partnership with Scholastic.
- 45:00They have very good relationships with
- 45:02the now outgoing First Lady of New York,
- 45:05Chirlane McCray.
- 45:05And Charlene did a tremendous
- 45:07amount of work on behavioral
- 45:09health delivery in schools in New
- 45:11York City on through her program.
- 45:14Thrive NYC.
- 45:16And so it's plastic has made a
- 45:18partnership with Charlene and Charlene
- 45:19will be coming to do some work in
- 45:21the collaborative beginning in March.
- 45:24I'm very looking very much forward
- 45:26to learning from her seeing what she
- 45:28did in New York and we we can borrow
- 45:31innovative ideas and she will also
- 45:33be working with Dean Latimore around
- 45:35some of his efforts in diversity,
- 45:37equity and inclusion.
- 45:41There are additional efforts though that I
- 45:43want to really point out around performing,
- 45:45assessing, developing and deploying.
- 45:49So here's from HANA.
- 45:51Darren Davids work on on creating a number
- 45:56of courses that I hope people will take
- 46:00advantage of around leadership development.
- 46:02Our leadership from the beginning
- 46:04course we are running again in January.
- 46:06Very grateful about pure coaching
- 46:08groups and grateful that four members
- 46:11of our faculty have now stepped up
- 46:13to be pure coaches to actually help
- 46:16people in development around these.
- 46:17These areas listed on the slide.
- 46:20We will have some career development
- 46:23workshops beginning in the spring
- 46:25around grant writing about negotiation,
- 46:27some aspects of leading.
- 46:30And then Barron is available for
- 46:33ongoing consultation and support.
- 46:34Again about lab development etc
- 46:37and just always to remind people
- 46:40about the Faculty Support fund.
- 46:43We'll have more leadership
- 46:45workshop opportunities.
- 46:46This has become a topic of
- 46:47discussion in the faculty meetings,
- 46:49and I'm hoping that in by the spring,
- 46:50if not a little earlier.
- 46:52We'll have some workshops on building
- 46:54a shared understanding of leadership
- 46:56styles and effective approaches.
- 46:58And for methods for defining
- 47:01our responsibilities and how we
- 47:03then talk about accountability.
- 47:05And finding and developing more
- 47:08opportunities for leadership
- 47:09across the department.
- 47:11Not just in this kind of hierarchical sense,
- 47:13but across the department.
- 47:17And this is something we
- 47:18brought up in September.
- 47:20The difference between
- 47:21mentorship and sponsorship.
- 47:23And I would just highlight that Tara's
- 47:25team again is working to really build
- 47:28out our mentoring and sponsoring plans.
- 47:30As is Dean Lattimore's office.
- 47:33And to emphasize that everybody,
- 47:35all of us have a responsibility
- 47:38for sponsorship for finding the
- 47:41career opportunities to help our
- 47:43colleagues in this Community.
- 47:45Just paying attention to time.
- 47:48I think what I'm going to do.
- 47:52I'm going to make one point about
- 47:54this slide and that is that there are
- 47:57a number of things that we need to
- 47:59be doing about improving onboarding.
- 48:01Again, Terrace Team is working on it.
- 48:05But I want to make .2 points right
- 48:08here on the last two bullets.
- 48:10Routine exit interviews are fine.
- 48:12I just would hope that we never have
- 48:14to do exit interviews 'cause I want
- 48:16to retain people, not have them leave.
- 48:19But we get into the practice,
- 48:21not just during annual assessments,
- 48:23but get into the practice of
- 48:24what we call stay interviews,
- 48:26what they eat with,
- 48:27what does everyone need to meet,
- 48:29the goals you have for being
- 48:30a member of this Community,
- 48:32whether it's your research goals?
- 48:34It's your clinical goals.
- 48:35What do you need?
- 48:36We shouldn't learn about that
- 48:38at the time of an exit.
- 48:40We should be thinking about it
- 48:42proactively as we go forward.
- 48:44And to that, how do we bring resources
- 48:47together to facilitate success?
- 48:48So I'm very grateful to Tom.
- 48:51I'll show you just this one
- 48:53example that Tom Fernandez brought
- 48:55together as many of you know,
- 48:57our researchers to ask what might they
- 49:00need to actually make their work better?
- 49:04More successful.
- 49:06And some of the things that came
- 49:08out are things that we can do.
- 49:09We can create a grant library.
- 49:11We can create a library of
- 49:14of sample IRB protocols.
- 49:16We can actually create a
- 49:18shared recruitment process.
- 49:19We just need to think through
- 49:21how how that would work best.
- 49:23There were some very innovative
- 49:25ideas about sharing lab equipment
- 49:28so that that one piece could be
- 49:30shared across data management.
- 49:32Can we actually share data
- 49:35processing data data folks?
- 49:37Can we create shared resources that unite?
- 49:40Our research groups,
- 49:41but at the same time just strengthen and
- 49:44allow people to do the work they need to do.
- 49:46So this is the kind of thing that
- 49:48we have in mind when I talk about
- 49:51sharing and and how we create
- 49:54these kinds of ways of uniting us.
- 49:58I'm gonna skip that and I'm actually
- 50:01gonna just briefly focus on this.
- 50:03That what you're going to be
- 50:05hearing over the next few weeks is
- 50:07bringing together some work groups,
- 50:10and I wanted to hand to highlight
- 50:12the difference between a standing
- 50:14committee and a work group.
- 50:16Work groups will be brought together
- 50:18to handle very specific issues.
- 50:19Disband their submit to work
- 50:22efficiently to provide an actionable
- 50:25plan that we can work on,
- 50:27and three of those will be
- 50:28around strategic goals.
- 50:29Onboarding, mentoring,
- 50:31and annual assessments,
- 50:33and stay tuned for more about that.
- 50:35But we're going to start using
- 50:37this work group strategy or
- 50:39ad hoc committee strategy.
- 50:42And I want to just conclude in the last
- 50:45few minutes just to briefly talk about
- 50:47how we update our strategic goals.
- 50:50So this just is a pretty I hope familiar
- 50:54kind of triangle about strategy and
- 50:57vision at the top mission values,
- 50:59goals and we've been working
- 51:01a lot in this blue box.
- 51:04We have our clearly our mission
- 51:06statement might need to be updated.
- 51:08Don't know, but we've been working
- 51:10a lot in this blue box as we think
- 51:13about what are the projects and
- 51:15strategic goal areas that we have.
- 51:19And these have been the ones for
- 51:20the last few years that we've had
- 51:23stress and development stress and
- 51:24its impact on ongoing development.
- 51:26And we've had strategic recruits
- 51:29in this area.
- 51:30Child behavioral health services.
- 51:31This is why we had the integrated
- 51:34practice at 3:50.
- 51:35George the the blue one here is quite
- 51:38frankly why we're in the middle of
- 51:42the consultation with Wellspring.
- 51:44But as she may remember from the faculty
- 51:46meeting a few back in late summer,
- 51:49we actually started talking about this
- 51:52before about how do we refresh it?
- 51:56And here are some of the ideas that
- 51:58came out and the ones with with
- 52:00Red Stars beside them are ones
- 52:01that actually were putting into
- 52:03place in one way or another,
- 52:05and that are actually already starting.
- 52:09And some of those ideas were programmatic,
- 52:11some were operational and
- 52:13some were cultural climate.
- 52:15But one of the things that was actually
- 52:18quite missing from this was more focused
- 52:20on what directions do we want to take.
- 52:23Some of our basic science research efforts.
- 52:27So to that I've asked Tom to put
- 52:30together one of these workgroups.
- 52:32To really focus on what are the
- 52:35strategic areas or goals in our research,
- 52:37what are the gaps?
- 52:39What are the things we need to strengthen
- 52:41and to report back to us in March?
- 52:44And we'll have parallel work groups on
- 52:46education in our clinical missions.
- 52:48And as we hear more from Wellspring,
- 52:50we'll probably have a work group on
- 52:52how we put all of that into place.
- 52:57I've said a lot.
- 52:59And what I want to do to conclude though.
- 53:04And is with a return to gratitude
- 53:07and thoughts about leading teams
- 53:09and service and stewardship.
- 53:12We've been through a lot and
- 53:14we're going through even more.
- 53:16And we will come out the other side.
- 53:20I can't express enough my gratitude
- 53:22to everyone in this virtual room to
- 53:24everyone that's not here at the time.
- 53:26I can't express my grant enough.
- 53:28My gratitude to all of you.
- 53:30For not just what you have done the what
- 53:34you've done, but how you've done it.
- 53:37You've done it with grace.
- 53:39You've done it with tremendous generosity
- 53:42and caring for not just the families,
- 53:45but for your colleagues.
- 53:47And I have seen great professionalism.
- 53:50I know we're going to come
- 53:52through this current surge.
- 53:53We've done it before.
- 53:54We've been adaptable and flexible and
- 53:56know we will will come through a bit more.
- 53:58Weary perhaps,
- 53:59but we will come through as a community
- 54:02working together to help others.
- 54:05And I thank you very much for that.
- 54:08I would also say that I am
- 54:11tremendously honored to be your chair.
- 54:13But I would want to emphasize that I
- 54:16don't do this work as your chair alone.
- 54:19We've discarded this discussions in the
- 54:21faculty meeting about the infrastructure
- 54:22of our department and organizational charts,
- 54:25etc.
- 54:25But what I really want to say is that I
- 54:29actually have a team that works side by side.
- 54:33And they helped me do the job and all of you
- 54:36in this virtual room helped me do this job.
- 54:39All of you,
- 54:41we're all working together.
- 54:43And we will focus on the organizational
- 54:45details in our future faculty meetings.
- 54:47We will focus on organizational
- 54:49details for the department.
- 54:51But I just want to say that I'm very grateful
- 54:53to this team for all the responsibility
- 54:56that they shoulder and working with me.
- 54:59And then to the final point,
- 55:00I want to make is about
- 55:03service and stewardship.
- 55:05We've also started in faculty meetings,
- 55:06discussions of different models
- 55:08of leadership and how we how we
- 55:11move from a very top down model.
- 55:14A very hierarchical model to one
- 55:16where the leader and the leaders
- 55:18serve the good of the team.
- 55:20The good of the community,
- 55:21and they're always thinking about
- 55:23how to steward all of our resources,
- 55:26our human resources,
- 55:28our financial resources,
- 55:29everything to steward it for the
- 55:31future and the next generation
- 55:33that will come after us.
- 55:35So that we can help everyone thrive.
- 55:38We're going to continue to
- 55:39build out that idea,
- 55:40and the faculty and we'll dive
- 55:42deeper in it over the next weeks
- 55:45to think about that particular
- 55:46way of leading what what's the
- 55:49most effective ways of leading.
- 55:51But I just really want to conclude now
- 55:53is saying that you have my commitment.
- 55:55And the commitment of that leadership
- 55:57team to serve and to steward.
- 56:00And the needs of our department as
- 56:02we steer through these next weeks
- 56:04with Omicron these next months.
- 56:06We've got a tremendously amount
- 56:08of good work ahead of us.
- 56:09We've got a lot of change ahead
- 56:11of us to make us a thriving,
- 56:13creative place for the next generation.
- 56:16And so I really appreciate again the
- 56:18opportunity to do it together to
- 56:20work with you and to work for you.
- 56:23So thank you very much and
- 56:25I'll stop sharing and.
- 56:27We can have some discussion.
- 56:28Thank you.
- 56:39Thank you so much, Linda.
- 56:40I think there was a couple of
- 56:43questions in the chat as well.
- 56:50I think a question of clarification from
- 56:53Megan Goslin about those MDI sessions.
- 56:55If they're a repeat of what has
- 56:57gone previously, or if they're
- 56:58they're new sessions coming up,
- 57:00maybe it's a question for Tara.
- 57:02They are repeat, but I'm sure there will be
- 57:04things added from being learned. Terrell,
- 57:06yeah, they they so each pair were
- 57:09offering them two per session
- 57:11so they build on one another.
- 57:14So we have the first one.
- 57:15So the next ones will sort
- 57:17of go a little bit deeper.
- 57:19So there are different content.
- 57:21To answer your question and you
- 57:23should plan on just attending one of
- 57:25each pair so in the fall excuse me,
- 57:27in the winter there's the
- 57:29January February dyad.
- 57:30So just one of them of each
- 57:32would be helpful in the same.
- 57:34In this, in the spring you
- 57:36don't have to attend all four.
- 57:38So I hope that answers.
- 57:42I see looking for other questions here.
- 57:46Carol, thank you for answering.
- 57:49Mendez question? About blinded applications
- 57:58that's it. OK, I'm very glad by the way too.
- 58:03I would just say that we had some open open
- 58:06office hours on the schedule last year.
- 58:08I'm glad to continue those
- 58:10that they would be helpful.
- 58:11Also, glad we will have time in the faculty
- 58:14meeting tomorrow for more discussion
- 58:15but but I'm glad to have anytime to
- 58:18discuss any of these ideas with you.
- 58:35Alright, but about yeah,
- 58:36about peer support services.
- 58:38Absolutely. I know Darren had to be
- 58:40in a training so that she's not here.
- 58:42But Yep, agree Larry. Just
- 58:44a thought. You know,
- 58:45for all of us you know we sometimes
- 58:48forget who's sitting right next
- 58:49to us who's really hurting and and
- 58:52just important and and you know.
- 58:54Very often they're just enough of
- 58:56us around 2:00 to be available,
- 58:58and you know a way to think
- 59:00about that together and to,
- 59:01you know, take care of each each
- 59:03other as we take care of others,
- 59:05and I've just gotten a lot and
- 59:07I've been talking with Dorothy's
- 59:09to be a lot about this.
- 59:11You know how we can be available
- 59:13for each other and for our
- 59:15colleagues who you know,
- 59:16in the Ed and other places,
- 59:17are really hurting?
- 59:20I mean not that you know really,
- 59:22it gets back to the point of we
- 59:24have to be intentional about holding
- 59:27or holding us together. Thank you.
- 59:35I have to say personally
- 59:36that I am really feeling the
- 59:38virtual environment right now,
- 59:40'cause otherwise we'd just be
- 59:41standing in the room and you know,
- 59:43talking back and forth and but.
- 59:46But I'm still glad that you're all here.
- 59:47Virtually that's great.
- 59:51And so many people still on the line
- 59:53exactly right. Glad to take any
- 59:56other thoughts on anything.
- 59:59Surprised you anything you'd
- 01:00:01like to have. More explicated
- 01:00:14OK. So Karen, you announced last week
- 01:00:17and last week you announced next week.
- 01:00:21Next week we'll have doctor Jenny Chung
- 01:00:23will be presenting to us virtually on
- 01:00:26how social status and non human primates
- 01:00:28can influence immune function health and
- 01:00:30well being with findings that are really
- 01:00:33relevant for for human research as well.
- 01:00:35And then I just like to thank you for really
- 01:00:37kicking off this grand rounds series of
- 01:00:39the New Year and with the sole brewing,
- 01:00:41but hopefully optimistic presentation.
- 01:00:44So thank you very much and I'd like to.
- 01:00:47I'm sure everyone on the call will
- 01:00:49join me in thanking you for giving
- 01:00:51such a compelling talk today.
- 01:00:52Thank you.
- 01:00:53You're welcome. I hope not too
- 01:00:56sobering. Ristic, realistic
- 01:00:58still, hopeful and optimistic exactly
- 01:01:00right, exactly right.
- 01:01:04OK. Thank you, thanks everybody.