John P. McGovern Award for Excellence in Medical Education
Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH
Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH, is the Muriel and George Singer Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center. The focus of Dr. Gourevitch’s work is on developing approaches that leverage both healthcare delivery and policy- and community-level interventions to advance the health of populations. Dr. Gourevitch leads the City Health Dashboard initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to equip city and community leaders with an accurate understanding of the health of their populations, including its social, economic, and environmental drivers, to support population health improvement. He directs NYU Langone’s participation in the New York City Clinical Data Research Network, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Dr. Gourevitch previously served as founding Director of NYU Langone’s Division of General Internal Medicine, and led NYU Langone’s CDC-funded Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research. Before joining NYU in 2004, Dr. Gourevitch served as the Medical Director of the Division of Substance Abuse at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His research interests continue to include improving health outcomes among drug users, including by integrating pharmacologic treatments for opioid and alcohol dependence into primary care.
Betty Ford Award
Colleen Corte, PhD, RN, FAAN
Colleen Corte, PhD, RN, FAAN is Associate Professor, Department Head, and Director of the PhD program in the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. Corte’s research is focused on the influence of a drinking-related identity on alcohol use and alcohol problems in children, adolescents and young adults. She found evidence of this emerging identity – a powerful predictor of alcohol use — in children as young as 9-12 years of age. She and her colleagues have focused on identifying modifiable precursors of the drinking-related identity in a variety of samples including children, adolescents, and young adults. In her research, Dr. Corte has examined differences by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual minority subgroups. Because different precursors may be influential at different development stages, it is likely that health-promoting and risk-reduction interventions will need to be tailored accordingly. Dr. Corte has published widely in interdisciplinary substance use journals as well as nursing research and clinical journals. She has received international, national, and regional awards for her contributions to the profession and to the substance use field. For the past six years, Dr. Corte has served as Associate Editor for AMERSA’s official journal, Substance Abuse.
Anderson Spickard, Jr. Excellence in Mentorship Award
Honora Englander, MD
Dr. Honora Englander is an Associate Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Section of Addiction Medicine in DGIM at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Dr. Englander is founder and Principal Investigator of the Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT), a nationally recognized model for hospital-based addiction care that includes physicians, social workers, and peers with lived experience in recovery. She is working to change the standard of care for hospitalized adults with substance use disorder by redesigning care and shifting our view of addiction from one of shame and stigma, towards one that embraces belonging, treatment, and healing. Dr. Englander has received numerous awards for her work transforming health systems including being named one of the Portland Business Journal’s ‘Top Forty under 40’ in 2015 and one of the American College of Physician’s Hospitalist TOP DOC in 2012. She has spoken at the National Academy of Sciences and published research in numerous medical journals including JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Hospital Medicine, and the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
New Investigator Award
Marc Larochelle, MD, MPH
Marc Larochelle is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and a clinician investigator at the in the Section of General Internal Medicine and Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Larochelle’s clinical and research interests focus on opioid prescribing safety and the recognition and treatment of opioid use disorder. As a health services researcher, he aims to leverage insights from large data sources and translate the findings into interventions that improve the quality and value of health care delivered. He is a buprenorphine-waivered physician with an active outpatient general medicine and addiction practice and also attends on the inpatient general medicine service at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Larochelle received a BSE from Duke University, an MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and an MPH from the Harvard University School of Public Health. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview and a fellowship in general medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine.
David C. Lewis, MD Service to AMERSA Award
Rich Saitz, MD, MPH
Richard Saitz MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM, is Chair and Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University (BU) School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at BU School of Medicine, and multiple principal investigator (MPI) of the BU Clinical Translational Science Institute. He is a general internist primary care physician, and an addiction medicine specialist at the Grayken Center on Addiction and the Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, at Boston Medical Center. He Chaired the Treatment and Services review committee for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, is associate editor of JAMA, and Editor in Chief of Journal of Addiction Medicine, Section Editor and sole author of key chapters in UpToDate on unhealthy substance use, editor of the ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine textbook, founding Editor Emeritus of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, former editor of the BMJ’s Evidence-Based Medicine, and author of over 350 publications.
He was President of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA), and is immediate past-President of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE). Major awards include Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, Boston Jaycees Ten Outstanding Young Leaders Award, Best Doctors in America®, AMERSA’s W. Anderson Spickard, Jr. Excellence in Mentorship Award, the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award (ASAM), the Research Society on Alcoholism Distinguished Researcher Award, and the James H. Tharp Award for individuals who developing solutions to alcohol use disorder.
Marianne Marcus Nursing Award
Tamar Rodney, PHD, MSN, RN
Tamar Rodney is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner who has worked in trauma and psychiatry. She is the track coordinator for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate program and maintains a clinical practice in Baltimore City serving families recovering from substance use. Her research includes identifying biomarkers for PTSD in for individuals with a history of traumatic brain injury and addressing coping issues for students with mental health needs.
Workshop Award Winners
2021 Best Workshop Award (awarded to a workshop presented at the 2020 conference)
Each year, AMERSA’s annual conference is enriched by our colleagues who share their work and expertise through workshop presentations. Workshops are designed to be longer than a didactic or research abstract presentation, specifically so that presenters can innovate with teaching methods, and participants have the opportunity to develop and practice new skills to utilize in their workplaces. We feel very fortunate to have so many people willing, each year, to invest their time and energy in bringing workshop presentations to the program!
The “Best Workshop” award is determined each year based on participant reviews. Congratulations to the winners of AMERSA’s 2021 Best Workshop award:
“Structural Competency and Minority Addiction Care: A Skill Building Workshop to Develop a Community Collaborative-Based Intervention” presented by: Rosalind De Lisser MS, FNP, PMHNP and Eric Manbossia MS, PMHNP
Rosalind De Lisser MS, FNP, PMHNP
Rosalind de Lisser is a Family and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Associate Clinical Professor at UC Davis School of Nursing and UCSF School of Medicine. She leads a trauma informed addiction treatment program for women living with HIV at UCSF’s Women’s HIV Program. As a teacher she is committed to building partnership with her learners and community.
Eric Manbossia MS, PMHNP
Eric Manbossia is an experienced mental health nurse and a graduate psychiatric nurse practitioner from the University of California San Francisco. He is extremely interested in eliminating disparities and structural violence in addiction care for underserved minority populations.
“At this time, when there is such an increased urgency to addressing structural racism in our society, it was critical to devote time during the conference to discussing ways to improve the experiences of, and outcomes, for people of color in substance use disorder treatment. Introducing the concepts of structural competency in health care and the use of the Structural Vulnerability Assessment Tool was invaluable to the participants. Participants also greatly appreciated your seemingly effortless transition to the virtual platform!” ~Jeff Baxter, MD, 2020 Workshop Chair
Abstract Award Winners
Best Research Abstract Award
Abisola Olaniyan MBBS, MPH, PhD
Abisola Olaniyan is a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and a medical doctor with an MPH with a concentration in Global Health. Her interest lies in improving maternal and child health outcomes, addressing racial inequities in maternal and child health and achieving reproductive justice through research, program and policy development, implementation, evaluation, and advocacy.
2021 Best Research Abstract Award – Runner Up
Bilal Abbas, MPA, MSW
Bilal Abbas is a study coordinator at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He is working on a randomized clinical trial of buprenorphine treatment initiation at syringe services programs. His other research interests include social determinants in substance use treatment; and justice systems and community reentry. He holds a Master of Public Administration from Rutgers University, and a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University.
2021 The John Nelson Chappel Best Curriculum, Quality Improvement and Program Abstract Award
Jacqueline Savetsky German, MPH
Jacqueline Savetsky German has a Master’s degree in Public Health and Epidemiology, and is the Director of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Educational Programs at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine. She has managed several SBIRT research and educational programs for interdisciplinary teams funded by NIH, SAMHSA, CDC and HRSA. She has a strong interest in integrating daily meditation practice into public health programming.
2021 The John Nelson Chappel Best Curriculum, Quality Improvement and Program Abstract Award – Runner Up
Mia Malone, BA
Mia Malone is a Project Manager at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in the Dept. of Population Health, Division of Comparative Effectiveness & Decision Science. Ms. Malone manages the Substance Abuse Research Education and Training program, an interdisciplinary mentored research program that aims to activate students’ interest in future careers in substance use research. Ms. Malone has previously managed large clinical trials examining the effectiveness of novel pharmacotherapies for opioid use disorder specifically for persons involved with the criminal justice system. Ms. Malone is currently pursuing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Pace University in New York.
Kathleen Hanley, MD
Kathleen Hanley is Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Director for the NYU School of Medicine Primary Care Residency Training Program as well as a primary care doctor and Associate Director of the Department of Medicine at Gouverneur Health, one of NYU School of Medicine’s integral teaching sites, which delivers care to a diverse, largely immigrant patient population. There, she helped establish an office-based opioid treatment program in the primary care internal medicine clinic. Since 2021 she has been the Curriculum Director for the Substance Abuse Research and Training Program, an interdisciplinary project funded by NIDA to increase substance abuse research among physicians, dentists, nurses, social workers and public health professionals. As the faculty leader for the Primary Care residency Addiction Medicine block, she is working to expand the SUD curriculum and clinical experience, including integration of care for SUDs into routine primary care.