2025 ACCp Annual Conference

Thursday, September 18th

Pearls on Coordination of Mental Health and Physical Health

Objectives

  1. Identify common medical conditions that present as psychiatric complaints
  2. Detail ways to improve differential diagnosis to make workups more efficient
  3. Highlight the importance of multi-disciplinary collaboration in catching these types of cases

Dr. Scott Eliason

Dr. Scott Eliason, MD studied at Brigham Young University and completed his MD at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Washington, and a forensic psychiatry fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. He currently serves as the Director of Psychiatry for the Idaho Department of Correction contract for Centurion. Dr. Eliason has been working in correctional psychiatry for 14 years.

Amanda Tillemans

Amanda Tillemans, APRN, DNP, PMHNP-BC, CCHP, holds a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Idaho State University and is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She has worked in correctional healthcare at the Idaho Department of Correction for 12 years.