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