2020 PROGRAM

Wednesday 12/9

9:00am

Welcoming Remarks

Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH
Sr. Vice President, Public Health Institute

Daniel I. Simon, MD
Chief Clinical & Scientific Officer, University Hospitals Health System; and President, UH Cleveland Medical Center

 
 

9:05 am | Keynote Address

Leveraging ‘Systemness’ for Innovation

Cliff A. Megerian, MD, FACS
President, University Hospitals Health System

9:30 am | Plenary Session

State Attorneys General

How Ohio and Delaware are responding to the Opioid Crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.


Moderator

Ryan Greenstein
Legislative Director, National Association of Attorneys General

Panelists

Kathy Jennings, JD
State of Delaware Attorney General

Dave Yost, JD
State of Ohio Attorney General

 
 

10:00 am | Plenary Session

Engaging with Justice to Prevent Overdose and Death: Alternatives to Incarceration in the Federal Court System

How diversion court programs operate, their key components, and their success.


Moderator

Kevin T. Wolff, PhD
Associate Professor & Doctoral Faculty Member, Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Panelists

The Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.
U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California

Christine Dozier, MPA, PhD(c)
Chief, U.S. Pretrial Services Agency (ret), District of New Jersey; Board, National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies

The Honorable John Gleeson
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton; U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York (ret.)

10:50 am | Concurrent sessions

 

SESSION 1

Non-traditional locations of care

Non office-based addiction treatment programs, MAT, and innovative locations for care.


Eric Weintraub, MD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry; Division Head, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Ryan Marino, MD
Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology, University Hospitals

Tommie Trevino, CADTP
Substance Use Navigator, California Bridge Program, University of California Davis Medical Center

SESSION 2

Public Safety and Healthcare - Lucas County Sheriff's Office, Drug Abuse Response Team (DART)

Connecting law enforcement, community engagement, and the perspective from a DART client. This session will showcase how partnerships between justice and social services work to save lives.


Lt. Stephen Rogers
Lucas County Sherriff’s Office, DART Lead

Tamme M. Smith, MA, LSW, LCDC III
DART Advocate

Matt Bell, CEO
Midwest Recovery Center and former DART Client

SESSION 3

Overdose Prevention and Community-Based Strategies in American Indian and Alaskan Native nations

A project partnership of the Seven Directions Center for Indigenous Public Health and the National Network of Public Health Institute.


Christina Arredondo, MD
Medical Director of Behavioral Health, El Rio Community Health Center

Leah Ettman, MS, MPH
Public Health Analyst, National Network of Public Health Institutes

Dawn Lee, SUDP
Chief Operating Officer, Digital Wellness Center

Maya Magarati, PhD
Research Scientist, Seven Directions Center for Indigenous Public Health and Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, University of Washington

11:50 am | TED-style Talks

 

Substance Use Disorder response in jails and prisons across the U.S.

Donna Strugar-Fritsch, BSN, MPA, CCHP
Principal, Health Management Associates

 
 

Accelerating Health Philanthropy to Address the Opioid Crisis

Karen Scott, MD, MPH
President, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts

Ken Shatzkes, PhD
Senior Program Officer, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts

 

Ben Zaniello – Slide Deck

Shannon Biello – Slide Deck

 

12:40 pm | Plenary Session

Why Technology Matters

How technology can help to understand the evolution of opioid outbreaks and patterns of opioid use, along with the systemic and ethical considerations related to using these technologies.


Moderator

Sonia Angell, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia University; Former Director & State Public Health Officer, California Department of Public Health

Panelists

Ben Zaniello, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Collective Medical Technologies

Shannon Biello, MPH
Director, National Treatment Quality Initiatives, Shatterproof

1:30 pm | Concurrent sessions

 

SESSION 1

Overcoming Stigma

What is the patient experience with employers, health care, and/or justice systems?


Ben Miller, PsyD
Chief Strategy Officer, Well Being Trust

Camille Zalar, MHA, BSN, RN
Director, Education & Initiatives, Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, The Center for Health Affairs

Cathy Slemp MD, MPH
Former State of West Virginia Health Commissioner

SESSION 2

Prevention in Health and Justice: Bridging the Silos

Approaches and tools from healthcare and systems that reduce overdose deaths.


Roneet Lev, MD, FACEP
Emergency Room Physician, Scripps Mercy Hospital; former Chief Medical Officer of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

Terri Perez, JD
Deputy District Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney, San Diego County, California; Chief, Narcotics Division

 

2:30 pm | Plenary Session

Setting standards for Community-Based Response to Drug Overdoses (CReDO)

A panel discussion of setting standards for community based, community-centered, and community-engaged response to substance use disorder, COVID-19, and contact tracing.


Moderator

Roneet Lev, MD, FACEP
Emergency Room Physician, Scripps Mercy Hospital; former Chief Medical Officer of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

Panelists

Duane Caneva, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Department of Homeland Security

Grant Baldwin, PhD, MPH
Director, Division of Overdose Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 
 

3:00 pm | Closing Keynote

Engaging the Community to Impact Substance Use Disorder

H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH
Dean’s Executive Professor of Public Health, Santa Clara University; Board of Directors, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts