2020 Speakers
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Keynote speakers
President, University Hospitals Health System
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Dean’s Executive Professor of Public Health, Santa Clara University; Board of Directors, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts
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
Plenary speakers, panelists, & moderators
Associate Site Director, Asian Health Services
Sr. Vice President, External Relations & Preventive Medicine, Public Health Institute
Chief, U.S. Pretrial Services Agency (ret), District of New Jersey; Board, National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies
Sr. Management Counsel, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Southern District of California
Director of Quality Compliance, Cabell County EMS
Chief Clinical & Scientific Officer, University Hospitals Health System; and President, UH Cleveland Medical Center
State of Ohio Attorney General
Chief Medical Officer, Department of Homeland Security
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Partnerships and Professor, Department of Health Administration and Policy, University of Oklahoma
Former Commissioner of the Oklahoma State Department of Health
Director, Division of Overdose Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Medical Director, Office of Opioid Safety, MetroHealth System
Chief of the Veterans Addiction Recovery Center, VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System
Associate Professor & Doctoral Faculty Member, Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
CEO & President, Public Health Institute
Vice President of Ambulatory Quality and Clinical Transformation, University Hospitals
Robert Hansen, MS, Director (ret.)
Office of Drug Control Policy, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
Emergency Room Physician, Scripps Mercy Hospital; former Chief Medical Officer of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
Director, National Treatment Quality Initiatives, Shatterproof
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia University; Former Director & State Public Health Officer, California Department of Public Health
Medical Director, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton; U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York (ret.)
President, Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio
Medical Director of the Division of Addiction Sciences, Department of Family and Community Health, Marshall University School of Medicine, West Virginia
Other presenters
Professor of Law and founding Faculty Director, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School; Professor of Internal Medicine, Yale Medical School
Medical Director, Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program, Highland Hospital-Alameda Health System; Principal Investigator, California BRIDGE Program
Chief Strategy Officer, Well Being Trust
Director, Education & Initiatives, Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, The Center for Health Affairs
Medical Director of Behavioral Health, El Rio Community Health Center
President, Stewards of Change Institute; Co-Principal Investigator for the National Interoperability Collaborative
Medical Director Chiropractic, UH Connor Integrative Health Network
Donna Strugar-Fritsch, BSN, MPA, CCHP
Principal, Health Management Associates
Associate Professor, Psychiatry; Division Head, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Chief of Psychology, UH
President, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts
Chair, Children and Family Health Institute, Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey, Inc.
Lucas County Sherriff’s Office, DART Lead
Attending OB/GYN Physician, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Assistant Professor, CWRU School of Medicine
Drug Demand Reduction Coordinator, Prevention and Training, Counterdrug Task Force, Northern California HIDTA
Public Health Officer, Health and Human Services, Marin County California
Research Scientist, Seven Directions Center for Indigenous Public Health and Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, University of Washington
Executive Director, Center for Connected Health Policy Resource Center, Public Health Institute
Health Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Attending Emergency Physician, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula; Lead Clinical Physician, Monterey County Prescribe Safe Initiative
Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology, UH
Associate Program Director, Family Medicine, UH Cleveland Medical Center
Deputy District Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney, San Diego County, California; Chief, Narcotics Division
Substance Use Navigator, California Bridge Program, University of California Davis Medical Center