Article archive / June 1, 2016
Originally published: . Volume 7, No. 6. Source pages: 10.
Psychologists Speak at Louisiana Primary Care Assn June 3–4
Dr. Melissa Bonnell, Dr. William (Gig) Costelloe, and Dr. Karen Slaton will present at the 3rd Annual Clinical Summit of the Louisiana Primary Care Association, this week. The summit will be hosted in collaboration with the Louisiana Rural Health Association and held June 3-4, in New Orleans at the Downtown Marriott Convention Center.
Drs. Bonnell and Slaton will present “Three Behaviors = Four Disease Processes = 50% of All Mortality: How to Help Patients Change the Big Three.”
Dr. Gig Costelloe will present at the ummit on Friday, speaking on “Creating Effective Teamwork and Collaboration in Integrated Settings.” Dr. Costelloe is president of Costelloe & Associates in New Orleans and a licensed Industrial-Organizational Psychologist.
Dr. Melissa Bonnell is with the Veterans Health Care System in New Orleans, and also a member of the Southern Pain Society.
Dr. Karen Slaton is also a health psychologist at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. She is currently the Program Manager for Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology and serves as Health Behavior Coordinator in the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention program.
The theme is “Big Ideas in the Big Easy: Uniting Rural and Urban Providers.” The Louisiana Primary Care Association (LPCA) is a non-profit state trade association whose purpose is to promote accessible, affordable, quality primary health care for the uninsured and medically underserved populations in Louisiana, noted Shannon Robertson, Clinical Education Coordinator. The LPCA represents 34 organizations with over 170 health care sites, private non-profit and public FQHCs across Louisiana that serves more than 300,000 patients annually, she said.
Psychologists speaking at the conference are coordinated through the Speakers’ Bureau of the Louisiana Psychological Association, serving the public interest through psychological science.
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