*This is a hybrid event: limited to 80 people in-person at Home2Suites by Hilton in South Portland, ME. Only Full-Day registration for in-person registrants.
**Live Streaming for virtual attendees. This event will be recorded and available for purchase afterward.

Morning Keynote and Presentation (3 CEUs): 8am – 12noon

• Welcome by President Thomas Cooper, PsyD
• Keynote: Katherine B. McGuire, APA’s Chief Advocacy Officer
• Presentation by Robert P. Franks, PhD, CEO Judge Baker Children’s Center (JBCC) and faculty member at Harvard Medical School:
  Addressing Psychological Impacts of the Pandemic on the Family and Policies that Guide Practice

Bios

Dr. Robert P. Franks

Dr. Robert P. Franks is president and Chief Executive Officer of the Judge Baker Children’s Center (JBCC) and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Franks, a leader in the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based practices in children’s mental health, holds a master’s degree from George Washington University and a Ph.D. from Boston College. He completed his clinical training and doctoral fellowship in child psychology at the Yale University Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Franks has served on the faculties of the Yale University School of Medicine, the University of Connecticut Health Center, and the Duke University Medical Center.

Dr. Franks has worked in academic settings, non-profit institutions, medical centers, and the community to improve the quality of behavioral health care for children and families.  He has worked across multiple child-serving sectors at the local and national level, including pediatrics, behavioral health, education, juvenile justice, and child welfare.  Over the course of his career, he has led numerous statewide workforce development initiatives to implement a wide range of best and evidence-based practices and programs.  His work has helped bridge the gap between research and practice and improved access to high-quality care for thousands of families.  Dr. Franks is recognized as a national expert on the dissemination, implementation, and sustainment of best practices in behavioral health.

As CEO of the Judge Baker Children’s Center, Dr. Franks works at the policy, systems, and practice levels to create sustainable change and improve access to quality behavioral health care leading to lifelong positive outcomes for children and families in Massachusetts and beyond. Dr. Franks is further establishing the Judge Baker Children’s Center as a national leader in children’s mental health and works collaboratively with partners locally and nationally at the policy, systems and practice levels to advance quality care that has been proven to help children and families.

Moderated by Elise Magnuson, PsyD, Past President of the Maine Psychological Association and currently on the APA Council of Representatives.

Kathryn Graff Low, PhD, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Psychology at Bates College, is a clinical health psychologist with expertise in pediatric, emerging adult, and women’s health.  She completed her Ph.D. in counseling and health psychology at Stanford University, and her internship in behavioral medicine at Brown University.  She is currently on sabbatical from her faculty position at Bates College working as an associate trainee at Brown on a pediatric med-psych unit, and finishing several research projects. Kathy has been a faculty member at Bates since 1991, and has served as an associate dean and interim Vice President of Academic Affairs. Her publications include research on eating and body image, flourishing in college students, sexual health, pediatric health and mental health, and psychological factors in cardiovascular health. She has also served in clinical roles at both St. Mary’s Hospital and CMMC. Her work on an inpatient unit this year, and her ongoing work with adolescents, has provided a unique opportunity to learn about the effects of the COVID pandemic on vulnerable children and adolescents.

Karen Levine, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice, and a Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. She was the co-founder and co-director of the Autism program at Boston Children’s Hospital in the late 1990s, and later of the Autism Center at Cambridge Health Alliance. She works primarily with young children with Autism or other developmental disorders and/or with anxiety, and their parents. She co-founded Building Blocks, an intensive home-based program for children with ASD, through the Northeast ARC in Massachusetts. She developed an approach integrating gradual exposure and playful humor, to treat specific phobias in young children. This is currently being piloted and manualized by a research team at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  She co-authored three books and many articles.  She is the recipient of the 2012 Lesley University Autism Heroes Award, the 2010 Federation for Children with Special Needs Founders Award, the 2000 BIDIP (Boston Institute for the Development of Infants and Parents) Award for Excellence.

Susan Maataoui, PhD, Chair of the Maine Psychological Association’s Continuing Education Committee, is a Geropsychologist who has spent most of her career in clinical and consulting work in both geriatrics and health psychology. As a Clinical Psychologist at the VA New England Healthcare System, Dr. Maataoui specializes in geriatrics, extended care, and caregiver support, serving Maine’s Veterans, many of whom served in previous World Wars. As a former consulting psychologist at Maine Medical Partners Endocrinology and Diabetes Center, a multidisciplinary clinic that provides a wide spectrum of services to adults with diabetes, Dr. Maataoui  provided program development, consultation to other providers, patient education, staff training, and direct patient care. She received her BA from Wheaton College and PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Ian Yaffe, MPA, is the first director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Population Health Equity. Central to Yaffe’s work will be implementing a $32 million federal grant awarded to Maine CDC in June to address COVID-19-related health disparities and advance health equity among underserved populations at higher risk, including racial and ethnic minority groups and people living in rural communities. Previously, Yaffe led Mano en Mano, a statewide nonprofit serving immigrant and farmworker communities through educational, health, housing and advocacy support. Yaffe also serves in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve as a chief boatswain’s mate. He holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College.