Dr. Angela Diaz and Joey Martinez hosted a Learning Session for past and present Upswing grant recipients on September 16, 2022 about integrated health care models.

Integrated care models are marked by comprehensive, inter-disciplinary, and patient-centered approaches to health care and well-being. In the presentation above, Joey provides a detailed overview of the history of integrated care and benefits to youth mental health.

Angela goes on to share how integrated care models help to close equity gaps in service to diverse communities and provides both patient and provider examples of this model in action at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center.

About Our Advisors
Dr. Angela Diaz is the Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, a unique program that provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary, integrated primary care, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, optical and legal services to young people. Under her leadership, the Center has become one of the largest adolescent-specific health centers in the U.S., serving more than 12,000 young people every year – all at no cost to patients. The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center is a major training site in the field of adolescent health and medicine, with research funded by NIH.

Joseph (Joey) Martinez (he/they) is a clinical research assistant at the Center for Gender Surgery in the Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, working with Drs. Oren Ganor and Elizabeth Boskey. They received their B.S in Biology and Society, and Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University in 2021. He is interested in pursuing an MD/PhD, with his research interests being rooted in Social Epidemiology. He aims to push forward the current knowledge regarding how various systems inform health disparities afflicting gender and racial minorities.