PAL: Partnership Access Line

PAL has a core group of individuals who provide its consultation work, pictured below. The organization also receives planning advice from many others in HRSA, Children’s Administration, DSHS, UW DBHJP, and Seattle Children’s Hospital Dept. of Psychiatry.


		Robert Hilt, MD Child Psychiatrist, Pediatrician, Program Director and PAL Consultant

		Alison Golombek, MD Child Psychiatrist, PAL Consultant

		Kari Hancock, MD Child Psychiatrist, PAL Consultant

		David Camenish, MD, MPH Child Psychiatrist, PAL Consultant

		Eric Trupin, PhD Child Psychologist, Director Evidence Based Practice Institute at UW

		Jim Myers, MBA Adminstrative Director, PAL

		Catherine Bradley, BA Program Assistant, PAL

		Meghan Oberg, BA Program Assistant, PAL

		Amy Barragann, BA Program Assistant, PAL

		Lauren Weisert, MSW, SWAIC Social Worker, PAL

		Mollie Shirman, MSW, SWAIC Social Worker, PAL

The following are just some of the ways the PAL team has been sharing our experiences:

Hilt R, McDonell MG, Rockhill C, Golombek A, Thompson J. “The Partnership Access Line: establishing an empirically based child psychiatry consultation program for Washington State.” Report on Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Youth. 9(1) Winter 2009: 9-12.

Abstract: Hilt R, McDonell MG, Trupin E, Thompson J, Myers J, Rockhill C, Golombek A, Hancock K, Varley C, King B, Collett B, Kellogg R. The Partnership Access Line: establishing an empirically based child psychiatry consultation program for Washington State at Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education meeting, Denver CO, 3/5/09

Hilt R. “The Partnership Access Line: State Telemedicine Consultation Service for Primary Care Providers.” AACAP News. 40(3) 2009, 147-148.

Hilt, R. in collaboration with the Committee on Collaboration with Medical Professions. “The Partnership Access Line: A State Telemedicine Consultation Service for Primary Care Providers” AACAP News, February 2009

Hilt, R. “A Child Mental Health PAL.” Washington State Psychiatric Association Journal, Winter 2009, 45(1), 3.

Hilt, R. "When in Doubt, Call Your PAL." Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Care, Official newsletter of ARNPs United of Washington State, December 2008, 19:12, 1.

Hilt, R. "New access to psychiatrists for children with mental health needs." AFAAP's Fables, official newsletter of Washington Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics, September 2008, 2.

Selected Presentations:
A collaborative community approach to the management of mental health disorders, lecture by Dr. Hilt at Pediatrics at the Red Rocks Conference, Sedona Arizona 6/13/09

The Partnership Access Line: A Child Mental Health Consultation Program Using Telehealth Technology, lecture by Dr. Hilt at Madigan Center of Excellence National Conference, Tacoma WA 6/5/09

The Washington State Partnership Access Line: One year evaluation results of a Medicaid funded child mental health hotline and consultation service. lecture by Dr. Hilt and Jim Myers at NASMHPD Meeting, Washington DC 4/15/09

Partnership Access Line: presentation by Dr. Hilt for Oregon state mental health workgroup 2/6/09