Local Hot Topics Plenary: Applying the 72-hour Rule for Methadone Initiation
James Evans, BSN, RN, Nurse Care Manager Faster Paths, Boston Medical Center; Natalija Farrell, PharmD, BCPS, DABAT, Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center; William Soares, III, MD, MS, Baystate Health Regional Campus, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School; Daniel Greer, LMHC, Regional Vice President, Baymark Health
Moderated by: Jessica Taylor, MD, Medical Director, Faster Paths, Boston Medical Center’s Bridge Clinic
Rich Saitz Plenary: Care of the Hospitalized Patient with Substance Use Disorder
Theresa Rolley, Wellness and Recovery Advocate Supervisor, Addiction Consult Service BMC, CCAR/Recovery Coach Supervision; Elaine Hyshka, PhD, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Systems Innovation, School of Public Health, University of Alberta; Scientific Director, Inner City Health and Wellness Program, Royal Alexandra Hospital; Ashish P. Thakrar, MD, Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program, Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Moderated by: Honora Englander, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director/PI, Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT), Division of Hospital Medicine and Section of Addiction Medicine in Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Beyond the Evidence Base: Preserving Dignity and Countering Discrimination in Pregnancy and Parenting
Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Friends Research Institute; Substance Use Warmline Clinician, National Clinician Consultation Center, UCSF Nikki Bell Peña, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Living In Freedom Together-LIFT; Mother and Woman in Long Term Recovery, Survivor of the Sex Trade; Lisa Sangoi, Co-Director, Movement for Family Power
Moderated by: Davida Schiff, MD, Director of Perinatal and Family-Based Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Care, Massachusetts General Hospital
Making Our Work Meaningful: The Power of Incorporating Lived Experience and Harm Reduction
Nabarun Dasgupta, PhD, Senior Scientist at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center and Innovation Fellow at Gillings School of Global Public Health
Moderated by: Kinna Thakarar, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Maine Medical Center
Betty Ford and McGovern Award Plenary Sessions
Addiction Nursing: Some Things Change; Some Things Stay The Same
Donna Beers, MSN, RN-BC, CARN, Associate Director, Care Continuum for the HEALing Communities Study, Massachusetts
Presented by: Annie Potter, CARN-AP, MPH, MSc, NP
Centering the disadvantaged: Reflections on community partnership and solidarity in educational and research praxis
Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD, Professor, Department of Populations and Public Health Sciences (DPPHS), Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in DPPHS, Associate Dean for Social Justice in the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Presented by: Paula J. Lum, MD, MPH