Opening Plenary: How to Effectively Advocate to Create Change
Jules Netherland, MSW, PhD, Managing Director of Research and Academic Engagement, Drug Policy Alliance and Helena Hansen, MD, PhD, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Interim Director, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Moderated by Sheila P. Vakharia PhD, MSW, Deputy Director, Department of Research and Academic Engagement, Drug Policy Alliance.
Local Hot Topics Plenary: Innovative Programs to Expand Access to MOUD in Rural Maryland Eric Weintraub, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Division of Addiction, Research and Treatment, University of Maryland, School of Medicine; Alicia Lebon, Sr Community Outreach Specialist for the Support to Restore at The John Hopkins University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases; Roger McKnight, Caroline County MD, Behavioral Health, Mobile Treatment Unit Administrator, Peer Recovery Specialist/CERTIFIED, Registered Peer Supervisor. Moderated by Tracy Agee, NP, Senior Nurse Practitioner, Director RESTORE+, The Johns Hopkins Center for Substance Use and Infectious Disease Care Integration
Betty Ford and McGovern Award Plenary Sessions
Betty Ford Plenary
Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Friends Research Institute. Moderated by Elizabeth Salisbury Afshar, MD, MPH, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI
McGovern Plenary
Jeanette M. Tetrault, MD, FACP, FASAM, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Vice Chief for Education, Section of General Internal Medicine, Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Associate Director for Education and Training, Program in Addiction Medicine, Yale School of Medicine. Moderated by Patrick O’Connor, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) Plenary: Common, Complex and Unrecognized
Kendra Gludt, MPH, Director of National Programs, Proof Alliance; Vincent C. Smith, MD, MPH, Division Chief of Newborn Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Sue Terwey, MS, Psychiatric Associate, Adolescent Mental Health, Masonic Children’s Hospital, M Health Fairview; Jeffrey Wozniak, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Research, University of Minnesota. Moderated by Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Director, Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit; Associate Dean, Barry M. Manuel Center for Continuing Education, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center
AMERSA Discourse: Methadone Deregulation
Denis Antoine III, MD, Director, Addiction Treatment Services Clinic, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; Ruth A. Potee, MD, FASAM, Medical Director, Franklin County House of Corrections; Director of Addiction Services, Behavioral Health Network. Moderated by Michelle Geier, PharmD, BCPP, APh, San Francisco Department of Public Health Behavioral Health Services, Psychiatric Clinical Pharmacist Supervisor
Native Health Plenary: Advocating for Culturally Centered Evidence-based Treatments with Native Americans
Loretta Christensen, MD, MBA, MSJ, FACS, Chief Medical Officer, Indian Health Service; Maria Christina Crouch (Deg Hit’an & Coahuiltecan), PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; Kamilla Venner, PhD, Associate Professor, Center on Alcohol, Substance use, & Addiction (CASAA)
Rich Saitz Plenary: “What’s the Evidence”-Stimulant Use Disorder – Emerging Pharmacotherapies, Behavioral Therapies and Harm Reduction
Joy Chudzynski, PsyD, Director, Substance Management Program for UCLA Athletics, Center for Behavioral & Addiction Medicine, UCLA Department of Family Medicine; Stephen P. Murray, MPH, NRP, Director, Massachusetts Overdose Prevention Helpline and Harm Reduction Program Manager, Boston Medical Center, Clinical Addiction Research & Education Unit; Steven Shoptaw, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, UCLA Department of Family Medicine; Daryl Shorter, MD, Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine; Medical Director of Addictions Services at The Menninger Clinic. Moderated by Justin Alves MSN, FNP-BC, ACRN, CARN, CNE, Addiction Nurse Educator, Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance
Plenary Session: Best Abstract Presentations and Presentation of Abstracts Awards
Best Research Abstract Award Presentation: Bridging to Better Substance Use Treatment: Implementation and Effectiveness of Statewide Emergency Department Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Programs in California– Presented by: Elizabeth A. Samuels, MD, MHS, MPH; UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine, CA Bridge
Best Research Abstract Award-Runner-up Presentation: Patient Navigation for Pregnant Persons with Opioid Use Disorder: Results of a Multisite Pilot Study-Presented by: Gerald Cochran, PhD, MSW; University of Utah School of Medicine
The John Nelson Chappel Best Curriculum, Quality Improvement, and Program Abstract Award Presentation: Xylazine in the Illicit Drug Supply- Need for Responsive Educational Models-Presented by: Raagini Jawa, FASAM, MD, MPH 1, Stephen P. Murray, MPH, NRP 2; (1) University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, (2)Boston Medical Center
The John Nelson Chappel Best Curriculum, Quality Improvement, and Program Abstract Award-Runner-up Presentation: Utilizing the First Sanctioned Overdose Prevention Center to Provide Directly-Observed HCV Treatment Among People Who Inject Drugs in NYC-Presented by: Brianna L Norton, DO, MPH; Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine