AzAAP Project ECHO

ECHO FACILITATOR: Lara Yoblonski, MD, FAAP, MPH, Pediatrician, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee Chair

Dr. Yoblonski has worked at Phoenix Childrens Hospital in the Homeless Youth Outreach program and the Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing for the past eleven years. She currently works with homeless youth and families, foster children and youth, and survivors of sex trafficking. Trauma informed care is an area of interest due to the patients she works with. She has been working with the AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee for the past two years.

ECHO EXPERT FACULTY: Raymond Bunch, MD, FASAM, Child & Adolescent and Addiction Psychiatry, Phoenix Children's Hospital

Dr. Bunch completed school of medicine, residency training in psychiatry, fellowships in child & adolescent psychiatry and addiction psychiatry at the University of Colorado and Health Sciences center. Since 2006, he has worked clinically and taught pediatric and psychiatric residents, medical students, and fellows during rotations in consultation liaison, inpatient psychiatry, and in various ambulatory settings such as homeless clinics. This has involved students from Banner, Maricopa, University of Arizona, Mayo Clinic and Creighton School of Medicine, as well as pediatric residents from Phoenix Children’s. He assisted and continues to assist with the successful launch of the Child Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and development of the addiction component. He has expanded his interest into addictions and has assisted staff at UMOM, emergency room physicians, and adolescent medicine physicians in establishing and increasing services in the homeless setting.

His research experience is primarily in substance abuse, where he developed his honors thesis in undergraduate concerning the molecular biology of cigarette smoking and subsequently helped develop a study concerning physician advice and nicotine use in the pediatric population. In August, a trial was approved by our IRB concerning: Phoenix Children’s IRB # IRB-23-418: Substance Use and Problematic Electronic Use and Referral to Treatment in Patients Evaluated for Danger to Self and/or Suicidality in the Emergency Department. He most recently presented for PALS (Parents of Addicted Loved Ones).

ECHO EXPERT FACULTY: Catherine Riley, MD, FAAP, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician, Banner – University Medical Center Tucson

Dr. Catherine Riley is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona, Department of Pediatrics. She holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University, a master's degree in education from Western Maryland College, and a doctoral degree from Mayo Medical School. She completed a fellowship in developmental behavioral pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.  

She has been here in Arizona for 8 years. She teaches in the UA Medical School in both the basic science and the clinical medical curricula. The majority of her time is spent clinically evaluating and diagnosing children with developmental and behavioral concerns. Dr. Riley is the program director for the Developmental Behavioral Pediatric Fellowship. She is a member of the board, along with being the leader of the professional advisory committee for the Autism Society of Southern Arizona. Dr. Riley also serves as the Medical Director for Early Brain and Child Development Section of the AzAAP and chairs the Developmental Screening Committee. 

ECHO FACILITATOR: Lara Yoblonski, MD, FAAP, MPH, Pediatrician, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee Chair

Dr. Yoblonski has worked at Phoenix Childrens Hospital in the Homeless Youth Outreach program and the Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing for the past eleven years. She currently works with homeless youth and families, foster children and youth, and survivors of sex trafficking. Trauma informed care is an area of interest due to the patients she works with. She has been working with the AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee for the past two years.

ECHO FACILITATOR: Lara Yoblonski, MD, FAAP, MPH, Pediatrician, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee Chair

Dr. Yoblonski has worked at Phoenix Childrens Hospital in the Homeless Youth Outreach program and the Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing for the past eleven years. She currently works with homeless youth and families, foster children and youth, and survivors of sex trafficking. Trauma informed care is an area of interest due to the patients she works with. She has been working with the AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee for the past two years.

ECHO EXPERT FACULTY: Michael Dobbs, MD, Adolescent Medicine Valleywise Health

Michael Dobbs completed his undergraduate studies and MD at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He completed his residency in General Pediatrics and fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is Board-Certified in both Adolescent Medicine and General Pediatrics. Dr. Dobbs has worked for over a decade at Valleywise Health, working with adolescents and young adults, primarily from a low-income background. He has also served as an Associate Program Director for the Phoenix Children's Pediatric Residency Alliance and works extensively with residents and other learners.  Dr. Dobbs’ areas of clinical focus include general adolescent health, sports medicine, endocrinology/diabetes prevention, reproductive health, HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention with special attention to the needs of LGBTQ youth.