12:00 PM –Registration / Exhibits / Addiction Fellows meet & greet(box lunch available for all attendees)
1:00 PM –Introduction.Miriam S. Komaromy, MD (Medical Director, Grayken Center) and Ruth Potee, MD (Treasurer, MASAM Medical Director, BHN & Franklin County House of Corrections).
1:15 PM –Methadone, A Call to Action. Deirdre Calvert, MSW, LICSW (Director of BSAS – Massachusetts Department of Public Health).
1:45 PM –Dosing Methadone in the Fentanyl Era.Zoe Weinstein, MD, MS (Director, Addiction Consult Service, Boston Medical Center).
2:15 PM –Hospital Inductions to Methadone. Evan Gale, MD (Associate Medical Director and Director of Clinical Education and Teaching, MGH Addiction Consult Team).
2:45 PM –Coffee Break / Networking / Exhibits
3:00 PM –Case-based Panel: Inductions at OTPs.
Moderator: Zoe Weinstein, MD, MS (Director, Addiction Consult Service, Boston Medical Center)
Panelists:
– Laura Kehoe, MD, MPH (Medical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Bridge Clinic)
– Sandra S. Looby-Gordon, MD (Addiction Consult Service, Primary Care, and Faster Paths to Treatment at Boston Medical Center)
– Ruth A. Potee, MD (Treasurer, MASAM Medical Director, BHN & Franklin County House of Corrections)
4:00 PM –Panel: Improving Safety of Transitions to OTP.
Moderator: – Todd Kerensky, MD (President, MASAM Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at South Shore Health Medical Director at Spectrum Weymouth OTP).
Panelists:
– Ari Kriegsman, MD (Medical Director Addiction Consult Service at Mercy Medical Center)
– Julianne E. Elofson, MD (The Dimock Center at BIDMC)
– Marci Lyons, RN (Manager at ATS/CSS, Woman in Long Term Recovery)
– Jeffrey D. Baxter, MD (Chief Medical Officer, Spectrum Health Systems)
5:00 PM –Panel: Applying SAMHSA THB Policy.
Moderator:- Ruth A. Potee, MD (Treasurer, MASAM Medical Director, BHN & Franklin County House of Corrections).
Panelists:
– Calla Harrington, LICSW, MPH (Clinical Supervisor at Behavioral Health Network)
– Hazel Barrett, LPN (Behavioral Health Network)
5:30 PM –Adjourn

7:30 AM – Registration / Exhibits (continental breakfast available for all attendees).

7:55 AM – Welcome. Todd Kerensky, MD (President, MASAM Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at South Shore Health Medical Director Spectrum Weymouth OTP)

8:00 AM – Psychedelics & SUD. Ruth A. Potee, MD (Treasurer, MASAM Medical Director, BHN & Franklin County House of Corrections) and Ari Kriegsman, MD (Medical Director Addiction Consult Service at Mercy Medical Center).

9:00 AM – Helping Hospitals Do Less Harm. Natalie Stahl, MD, MPH (Greater Lawrence Family Health Center)

9:45 AM – Coffee Break / Networking / Exhibits.

10:15 AM – Factors Impacting Treatment Access & Equity. Ranjani Paradise, PhD (Institute for Community Health)

11:00 AM – Panel: Incorporating Family Within Treatment. Moderator: James Baker, MD, MPH (President-elect, MASAM Massachusetts Consultation Service for Treatment of Addiction and Pain-MCSTAP)

12:00 PM – Lunch (all attendees) / Business meeting (brown lunch for MASAM members in Conference)

12:45 PM – ADA: The Law and SUD. Gregory Dorchak, MA, PhD (Assistant United States Attorney) and Ruchi Shah, DO – (Addiction Medicine Fellow at Boston Medical Center)

1:45 PM – Stimulant Treatment and Contingency Management Within Primary Care. Marielle C. Baldwin, MD, MPH (Medical Director of START Clinic, Boston Medical Center)

2:30 PM – Coffee Break / Networking / Exhibits

2:45 PM – Alcohol. Eugene Lambert, MD (Medical Director, MGH Addiction Consult Team), and Joshua St. Louis, MD, MPH, FAAFP, AAHIVS, FASAM (Greater Lawrence Family Health Center).

3:45 PM – Buprenorphine Update. Laura Kehoe, MD, MPH (Medical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Bridge Clinic), and Jessica Gray, MD (Secretary, MASAM Medical Director at Massachusetts General Hospital HOPE Clinic)

4:45 PM – Legislative Update. David Opp, MPH (Senior Manager of Federal Advocacy at Boston Medical Center)

5:30 PM – Adjourn.