2020 PROGRAM
Tuesday 12/8
9:00 am
Welcoming Remarks
Mary A. Pittman, DrPH
CEO & President, Public Health Institute
Thomas F. Zenty III
CEO, University Hospitals Health System
9:30 am | Keynote Address
Moral Determinants of Health
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
10:00 am | Plenary Session
All Hands-on Deck!
How healthcare, public health, and criminal justice can work together to combat the crisis and how COVID has changed the game.
Moderator
Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH
Sr. Vice President, External Relations & Preventive Medicine, Public Health Institute
Director, National Overdose Prevention Network
Director, Center for Health Leadership and Practice
Director, Dialogue4Health
Health Care
Alisa Takeda, DO, MPH
Associate Site Director, Asian Health Services
Public Health
Gary Cox, JD
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Partnerships, Professor, Department of Health Administration and Policy, University of Oklahoma
Former Commissioner of the Oklahoma State Department of Health
Criminal Justice
Cindy Cipriani, JD
Sr. Management Counsel, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Southern District of California
10:50 am | Concurrent Sessions
SESSION 1
Opioid settlement dollars
How to have greater impact in preventing overdose deaths. Lessons learned from previous tobacco settlement dollars. What has happened and where do we need to go?
Abbe Gluck, JD
Professor of Law and founding Faculty Director, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School; Professor of Internal Medicine, Yale Medical School
Matthew Willis, MD, MPH
Public Health Officer, Health and Human Services, Marin County California
SESSION 2
Telehealth: How to bring services to the hard to reach
This session will explore the vital role that policy plays to enable telehealth and discuss the evolving environment that COVID has launched. It will also cover how one addiction treatment services provider pivoted quickly to meet the need for remote services.
Mei Wa Kwong, JD
Executive Director, Center for Connected Health Policy Resource Center, Public Health Institute
David Kan, MD, DFASAM
Chief Medical Officer, Bright Heart Health
SESSION 3
Data, Community Linkages, and Substance Use Disorder
ODMAP is an overdose mapping tool that allows first responders to log an overdose in real time into a centralized database to improve overdose responses. An integrated cross-sector data warehouse builds understanding and improves response to the opioid epidemic.
Mark A. Karandang
Drug Demand Reduction Coordinator, Prevention and Training, National Guard’s Counterdrug Task Force, Northern California HIDTA
Monica Bharel, MD, MPH
Health Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
11:50 am | TED-style Talks
Best practices for Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Utilization and Access
Andrew Herring, MD
Medical Director, Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program, Highland Hospital-Alameda Health System; Principal Investigator, California BRIDGE Program
Listening Up and Leaning In: The University Hospitals’ Maternal Opioid Medical Support (MOMS) Experience in Perinatal Addiction
Lulu Zhao, MD
Attending OB/GYN Physician, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Assistant Professor, CWRU School of Medicine
12:40 am | Plenary Session
The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium
Cleveland’s response and multi-sector approach to solutions.
Moderator
Randy Jernejcic, MD, MMM
Vice President of Ambulatory Quality and Clinical Transformation, University Hospitals
Panelists
David Streem, MD, FASAM
Chief of Psychiatry, Lutheran Hospital, Cleveland Clinic
Ted Parran, MD, FACP, FASAM
Medical Director, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center
Kevin Smith, PhD
Chief of the Veterans Addiction Recovery Center, VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System
Jeanne Lackamp MD, DFAPA, FACLP
Director, Pain Management Institute, University Hospitals
Tom Collins, MD, FACEP, FAEMS
President, Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio
Joan Papp, MD, FACEP
Medical Director, Office of Opioid Safety, MetroHealth System
1:30 pm | Concurrent Sessions
SESSION 1
Dive deeper: Understanding the Patient Perspective with University Hospitals
Connor Integrative Health
David Vincent, DC
Medical Director Chiropractic, UH Connor Integrative Health Network
Seneca Block, MA, MT-BC
Expressive Therapy Program Manager, UH Connor Integrative Health Network
Office Based Opioid Treatment and Telehealth
Christina Delos Reyes, MD, FASAM
Psychiatrist, UH Cleveland Medical Center
Sybil Marsh, MD, MA, FASAM
Associate Program Director, Family Medicine, UH Cleveland Medical Center
Thrive Peer Support and Peer Navigators
Justin Larson
Thrive Behavioral Health
Melissa Carter
Thrive Behavioral Health
Ryan Marino, MD
Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology, UH
Developing a Chronic Pain Curriculum for the Age of the Opiate Crisis: 4PCP
Jeff Janata, PhD
Chief of Psychology, UH
SESSION 2
Tackling the COVID-19/Opioid Twindemic: The Urgent Need to Accelerate Responsible Data Sharing Across the Spectrum of Health and Human Services
New Jersey Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Initiative is breaking down health and human services silos through a multi-generational approach and technological interoperability. Project InCK is developing a standards-based approach for enhancing information sharing interoperability across a range of programs and domains.
Daniel Stein, MPPM, MBA
President, Stewards of Change Institute; Co-Principal Investigator for the National Interoperability Collaborative
Kristine McCoy, MD, MPH
Chair, Children and Family Health Institute, Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey, Inc.
SESSION 3
Data, Community Linkages, and Substance Use Disorder
ODMAP is an overdose mapping tool that allows first responders to log an overdose in real time into a centralized database to improve overdose responses. An integrated cross-sector data warehouse builds understanding and improves response to the opioid epidemic.
Mark A. Karandang
Drug Demand Reduction Coordinator, Prevention and Training, Counterdrug Task Force, Northern California HIDTA
Reb Close, MD
Attending Emergency Physician, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula; Lead Clinical Physician, Monterey County Prescribe Safe Initiative
2:30pm | Plenary Session
Huntington, West Virginia, A City of Solutions
How one of the hardest hit communities in the U.S. organized to fight addiction.
Moderator
Cathy Slemp MD, MPH
Former West Virginia State Health Commissioner
Public Safety
Connie Priddy MA, RN, MCCN
Director of Quality Compliance, Cabell County EMS
Public Health
Michael Kilkenny, MD, MS
Physician Director, Cabell-Huntington Health Department
Robert Hansen, MS, Director (ret.)
Office of Drug Control Policy, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
Health Care
Zachary Hansen, MD
Medical Director of the Division of Addiction Sciences, Department of Family and Community Health, Marshall University School of Medicine, West Virginia
3:00pm | Closing Keynote Address
From Rescue to Recovery: Addressing Today’s Overdose Epidemic
Regina LaBelle, JD
Distinguished Scholar and Program Director of the Addiction and Public Policy Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown School of Law