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Integrated Primary Care Advisory Group

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The Integrated Primary Care (IPC) Advisory Group leads APA’s advocacy and promotion of integrated behavioral health in primary care.

Psychologists play a crucial role in integrated primary care by providing comprehensive care through collaboration with other disciplines to meet the behavioral, physical, and mental health needs of patients.

Effective primary care behavioral health services are an essential part of the national response to the Covid-19 public health emergency and will continue to be an important part of health care beyond the pandemic. Changing care standards, payment reform, a focus on population health, and value-based payment models are driving efforts to integrate behavioral health services into health care systems. However, barriers (e.g., feasibility and financial sustainability) impede progress toward the integration of behavioral health.

The virtual working group addresses primary care model articulation, payment structures, new billing codes, and more, to work toward the successful integration of psychologists into primary care.

Group members

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Andrew Champine, PsyD Andrew Champine, PsyD, is the director of behavioral medicine education at McLaren Flint. He also holds appointments as an assistant professor in the departments of psychiatry, family medicine, and internal medicine at Michigan State University. In his role, Champine serves as a clinician, educator, administrator, and scholarly leader. He also serves as the chief psychologist and a faculty supervisor for the Michigan Center for Advanced Psychology Training program, which is an APA accredited two-year health psychology postdoctoral fellowship. Champine was appointed to serve as the Michigan Psychological Association Integrated Care Committee chair in January 2021.

Champine has developed extensive subject matter expertise in the areas of behavioral integration, population health strategies, and quality improvement. His interests more recently have focused on value propositions, behavioral health financing, and business models for integrated primary care.

Brenda J. Huber, PhD Brenda J. Huber, PhD, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Rush University Medical Center, serves as the executive director of Rush NeuroBehavioral Center. As part of Rush’s Social Care and Health Equity work group, she is leading patient-centered efforts to coordinate multiple maternal and pediatric initiatives in primary care: social determinants of health (social work), collaborative care (psychiatry), multigenerational trauma interventions (obstetrics/pediatrics), and integrated behavioral health (community behavioral health/pediatric psychology).

Prior to coming to Rush, Huber launched integrated behavioral health programs in two other health care systems, developed and taught in an interdisciplinary integrated behavioral health training program at a public university, and supervised psychology interns in primary care. She has experience leading systems change in underresourced communities, approaching children’s well-being through a public health lens, and subsequently working with legislators and state agencies to make and implement policy changes to improve access to care.

Paul T. Korte, PhD Paul T. Korte, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital where he serves as the team lead of the behavioral medicine and neuropsychology services with clinical responsibilities in the Primary Care-Mental Health Integration program. He cochairs the facility’s Primary Care-Patient Aligned Care Team Committee, is a member of the Research and Development Committee, and member of the training committee for the facility’s APA-accredited psychology internship training program. He also serves the VA as a consultant to the national Motivational Interviewing training program.

Korte is a past president of the Missouri Psychological Association and previously chaired the Integrated Care Committee and Media/Publications Committee and now serves as the state association’s Legislative Chair/Federal Advocacy Coordinator and representative to APA Council of Representatives. In addition to serving the profession through APA and state psychological association, he has served as cochair of the Early Career Special Interest Group of the Association of VA Psychology Leaders.

Korte received the 2018 Psychologist of the Year Award from the Missouri Psychological Association and the 2019 Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award for Advocacy. Korte is a 2011 graduate of Palo Alto University and maintains clinical and research interests in health psychology, integrated care, substance abuse, and behavioral addictions.

Ryan R. Landoll, PhD Ryan R. Landoll, PhD, is the assistant dean for preclinical sciences in the Office for Student Affairs at the Uniformed Services University (USU) of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He is an assistant professor of family medicine and medical and clinical psychology at USU. He has held adjunct appointments as adjunct assistant professor of clinical community psychology at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina and as an instructor at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology. Landoll earned his BS in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and subsequently received his MS and PhD from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Landoll completed his Internship in clinical psychology at the Malcolm Grow Medical Clinic at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. He is dual board certified in clinical psychology and clinical child and adolescent psychology. He is also a Department of Defense Internal Behavioral Health Consultant Expert Trainer and earned his master’s in health professions education from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2019.

Prior to being stationed at USU, Landoll held several positions within the 20th Medical Group at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina. He served as the Chief, Mental Health Clinic, and the Behavioral Health Optimization Program Manager. He has also deployed as a Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) Psychologist at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Freedom’s Sentinel.

Landoll’s research interest spans several areas in child, pediatric, and health psychology. He has more than 70 publications and presentations on these topics, as well as areas including school mental health and supervision of clinical assessment. His research broadly focuses on two main topic areas: primary care behavioral health and adolescent peer relationships (i.e., romantic relationships, friendships, and peer victimization, including cyber victimization) and internalizing disorders (i.e., social anxiety, depression). He is the principal investigator for the Military Active-Duty Reproductive + Sexual Health (MARSH) Research Program and conducts funded research on both sexual and reproductive health and medical education.

He is a member of APA, the Collaborative on Healthy Parenting in Primary Care, the Society for Military Psychology, and the Society of Pediatric Psychology. He has held various leadership positions in APA Division 19 (Society for Military Psychology), including chair, Early Career Psychology Committee; chair, APA Convention Program, and is currently the treasurer for the society. Landoll’s awards and recognition include a presidential citation and the Arthur W. Melton Early Achievement Award from the Society for Military Psychology, and his work on primary care behavioral health was recognized for improved access as part of the Defense Health Agency’s Advancement Toward High Reliability in Healthcare.

Meghan McAuliffe Lines, PhD Meghan McAuliffe Lines, PhD, is the clinical director of integrated primary care psychology at Nemours A.I. duPont Hospital for Children and holds a faculty appointment as clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Lines received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Delaware and completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Nemours A.I. duPont Hospital for Children. As clinical director for integrated primary care at Nemours, Lines coordinates all of the primary care psychology providers and programs across Nemours duPont Pediatrics and works with the primary care leadership team within the Nemours Value Based Services Organization to integrate psychology as part of the medical home in the 12 Nemours primary care clinics in Delaware. Lines also provides direct clinical service to patients and families as well as clinical supervision for predoctoral interns and postdoctoral fellows in primary care.

Lines has been a principal investigator and coinvestigator on several HRSA grants focused on psychology training and workforce development in the primary care setting. She has presented on her work nationally and has published in edited books and peer-reviewed journals. Lines is cochair of the Developing and Researching Advanced Models of Integrated Primary Care (DREAM IPC) Conference, and is an associate editor for the journal Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology.

Stacy A. Ogbeide, PsyD, ABPP Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD, MS, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical health psychologist and a board-certified specialist in obesity and weight management. She is the director of behavioral health education in the family medicine residency and an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine with UT Health San Antonio. She also has a cross appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and serves as the primary care track coordinator for the Psychology Internship Program. Ogbeide serves as a consultant for the Integrated Health Care Initiative of Mental Health America of Greater Houston, which focuses on engaging and increasing the delivery of integrated primary care behavioral health services in Greater Houston and throughout the state of Texas.

She is the 2018 recipient of the Wingspread Honoree Award through the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, the 2019 recipient of the Association for Psychologists in Academic Health Centers’ Early Career Psychologist Contributions Award, the 2019 recipient of the Integrated Care Champion Award of the Missouri Psychological Association, and the 2020 recipient of the Excellence in Clinical Health Psychology by an Early Career Professional Award through the APA Division 38 (Society for Health Psychology). She currently serves on the board of directors for Collaborative Family Healthcare Association as well.

Ogbeide has published in integrated primary care and behavioral medicine, has more than 120 conference presentations, and teaches doctoral level courses in behavioral medicine and integrated primary care behavioral health at Our Lady of the Lake University (San Antonio, Texas) and graduate level courses at the University of Texas San Antonio. Her professional areas of interest include the primary care behavioral health consultation model, behavioral medicine/health psychology, and primary care workforce development.

Lisa Powell Lisa Powell, PhD, is a licensed pediatric psychologist specializing in integrated pediatric primary care. She currently serves as growth manager for HealthySteps, a national program of ZERO TO THREE, where she leads efforts to expand the reach of the HealthySteps model, including behavioral health promotion, prevention, and dyadic services within pediatric primary care settings.

Before joining HealthySteps in January 2020, Powell was the director of Integrated Care at Open Arms Children’s Health, where she designed and launched a fully integrated, team-based pediatric health care program to support children’s overall wellness. In that role, she provided behavioral health consultation and brief interventions for children with medical, developmental, emotional, and behavioral needs—working closely with primary care providers, care coordinators, and community health workers. She also co-delivered routine well-child visits as a HealthySteps Specialist, focusing on prevention, developmental guidance, and family support.

Previously, Powell served as director of Outpatient Psychological Services at Open Arms, overseeing behavioral health operations, supervising staff and doctoral trainees, and offering direct clinical services to children and families.

With over three decades of experience, Powell has provided clinical care in hospitals, community mental health centers, homes, and schools; trained and supervised doctoral-level students; and maintained a private practice. She earned her master’s degree from George Washington University and her doctoral degree from Northeastern University. Her clinical training includes both a pre-doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at the University of Louisville Medical School, Department of Psychiatry.

Erin F. Swedish, PhD, MBA, is a licensed pediatric psychologist. Swedish serves as the director of health integration in the Office of Health and Health Care Finance. In this role Swedish leads initiatives regarding health care services and integrated care with the goal to position psychologists as leaders in their specialty and the industry at large. Swedish received her clinical training in pediatric psychology and previously worked at Boston Children’s Hospital in the gastroenterology department. She completed her fellowship at Dana Farber Cancer Institute specializing in pediatric oncology. Swedish has also received a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University.

Ayelet Talmi, PhD Ayelet Talmi, PhD, is a professor in the departments of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a licensed clinical psychologist. Talmi is the director of the Section of Integrated Behavioral Health in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division of the Department of Psychiatry, a director of the Irving Harris Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health, and the director of Project Climb.

Talmi has been engaged in early childhood and integrated behavioral health systems building efforts, direct service, advocacy, and policy in Colorado and nationally. Her primary clinical and research interests focus on behavioral health service delivery systems for children and families, integrated behavioral health in primary care and community settings, early childhood mental health, and young children with special health care needs. Talmi is a past president of the Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health and a graduate fellow of Zero to Three’s Leader’s for the 21st Century Fellowship.

Kavitha D. Venkateswaran, PhD, is currently a clinical assistant professor at Marquette University in the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology. She formerly worked as a primary care mental health integration psychologist within a VA medical center focusing specifically on women's health. Her clinical and research interests involve perinatal mental health, integrated health, trauma, and training and supervision. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Psychological Association and is the chair-elect for Division 17's Health Psychology Section.

Barbara V. Ward-Zimmerman, PhD Barbara Ward-Zimmerman, PhD, child and adolescent psychologist, integrated care consultant, Connecticut Psychological Association’s health care reform chair, and American Academy of Pediatrics’ Connecticut chapter’s integration cochair, works to improve the coordination of behavioral health and pediatric primary care across Connecticut. Ward-Zimmerman served as a collaboratively colocated psychologist in a pediatric practice and now advocates for system changes facilitating integration. In consultation with the Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut and other educational institutions and organizations, she trains pediatric providers, behavioral health professionals, graduate students, school personnel, and care coordinators about integrated care.

Ward-Zimmerman is a member of APA’s Board of Professional Affairs and cochairs the Integrated Primary Care Interest Group of the Society for Health Psychology, leading the development of a widely disseminated introductory graduate curriculum on primary care integration. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Virginia, her internship at the Yale Child Study Center, and a certificate program in primary care behavioral health sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Ward-Zimmerman, a fellow of APA, received the Society for Health Psychology’s 2018 Excellence in Clinical Health Psychology award and was honored by the Connecticut Psychological Association in 2016 for her Distinguished Contribution to the Health and Welfare of Connecticut’s Children and in 2013 for her Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology.

Last updated: July 2026Date created: April 2021