Speaker: Kent Corso, PsyD, BCBA-D

This one-hour webinar aims to increase the quality of suicide prevention and management skills among primary care clinical staff. It will improve primary care staff members’ understanding of their role in managing suicidal patients in primary care and advance their skills in evidence-based risk assessment.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Speaker: Kent Corso, PsyD, BCBA-D

Kent Corso is a licensed clinical psychologist and board-certified behavior analyst. He is an Air Force OEF veteran with almost 20 years of consulting, training, and research experience in university, medical, and military settings. Dr. Corso holds an adjunct assistant professor position in the Department of Family Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and a consulting position for the Division of Recovery & Resilience, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He has published 50 peer-reviewed papers including some of the earliest primary care behavioral health research. As president of NCR Behavioral Health, Dr. Corso leads an international training and consulting group for healthcare organizations that are integrating behavioral health into their systems. He is the author of Integrating Behavioral Health into the Medical Home: A Rapid Implementation Guide and co-founder of the agile software firm, Xcelerate Innovations, which leverages behavioral sciences and iOS applications to conduct predictive analytics in military, healthcare, and other industries.