Washington State Telehealth COVID-19 Series #8: Telemedicine with Children and Adolescents

Week 4

Training #8: Telemedicine with Children and Families

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the use of telemedicine for children and adolescents
• Review consenting and privacy issues for telemedicine with children 
• This event conveys information applicable to rural settings.

Presenter:

Robert Hilt, MD, Professor UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Seattle Children's Hospital; Program Director, Partnership Access Line (PAL)

Robert Hilt, MD is a Professor in the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a psychiatrist at Seattle Children's Hospital. He is the program director for the Partnership Access Line (PAL), a child mental health consultation service for primary care providers in both Washington and Wyoming. He is the Program Director for the Medicaid Medication Second Opinion Programs of Wyoming, Washington and Alaska, and Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Psychiatric Consult Service in Wyoming for children in foster care. His primary interest is to increase professional collaboration between child psychiatrists and pediatric medical providers, and to increase access to high quality care.