RCORP - Rural Center of Excellence on SUD Prevention

Recovery Center of Excellence

Supporting MAT in Primary Care and Emergency Room Settings

Symposium Webinar
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This webinar has already occurred. The recorded webinar is now available.

 

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic disease and, as such, the long-term management can and should be done in a primary care setting. Pharmacotherapy for OUD saves lives; however, there are many gaps in access to medications. This session will outline strategies for overcoming barriers to treatment of OUD in a primary care setting. It will provide examples of successful clinical programs that are using different primary care models to provide medications for OUD.

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About the Symposium:

The theme of this year’s Department of Psychiatry Collaborative Care and Wellness Division Annual Symposium on Behavioral Health Integration is Treatment on Demand and the Ecosystem of Recovery: Helping Patients and Communities Recover from the Opioid Crisis. Throughout the month of October, presenters will discuss strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic with a focus on rural communities.

Presenters
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Holly Russell, MD, MS
Dr. Holly Russell is an associate professor of family medicine and addiction medicine. Dr. Russell’s expertise is in promoting health behavior change including work in physical activity and nutrition promotion, smoking cessation, and treatment of substance use disorder. She is the director for Opioid Safety at the University of Rochester Medical Center and directs the Addiction Medicine Program in the Department of Family Medicine. Her work focuses on increasing access to treatment for opioid use disorder in nontraditional settings and using telemedicine to expand access. She also leads a project using a treatment-based alternative-to-suspension program for teenagers who are caught using e-cigarettes in school. ​
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Timothy Wiegand, MD, FACMT, FAACT, DFASAM
Dr. Timothy J. Wiegand specializes in medical toxicology and addiction medicine. He is an associate professor of emergency medicine and public health sciences and the director of toxicology at Strong Memorial Hospital and for UR Medicine. Dr. Wiegand is also the medical director of Huther Doyle, a New York OASAS-certified addiction services provider in Rochester, New York, where he works in a collaborative model providing a variety of services for patients with substance use disorders and serves as facilitator for their Project ECHO program on pain, opioid prescribing, and addiction.