A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
May 16, 2018
8:00 am–3:30 pm ET
Second Annual STATE OBAT Conference
Waltham Woods Conference Center
860 Winter Street
Waltham, MA
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING, PLEASE CALL LEXIE BERGERON AT: 617-414-6638 OR E-MAIL HER: LEXIE.BERGERON@BMC.ORG
THANK YOU.
Please join us at our May conference for community-based health care organizations treating substance use disorders. The conference will include discussions of current topics in addiction treatment and offer opportunities to network with fellow colleagues. ----- Conference Agenda: Medical Cannabis in 2018: What a Clinician Needs to Know - Kevin Hill, MD, MHS - BIDMC Addiction Psychiatry Director and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Human Trafficking and the Intersection with Addiction - Hanni M. Stoklosa, MD, MPH - Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital Mindfulness and Addiction: A Path for Patient Recovery and Caregiver Resilience - Zev Schuman-Olivier, MD and Lolita Roland, RN, CARN - Cambridge Health Alliance Regional meet and greet with introduction to Zoom technology Assessment and Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder and Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders - Mark Albanese, MD - Cambridge Health Alliance ----- Breakfast and lunch will be provided. If you have dietary restrictions please feel free to let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them. Thank you. ----- For driving directions, please visit: http://www.conferencecenteratwalthamwoods.com/location Contact Information for the day of the conference: Colleen LaBelle: 617-797-6712 Lexie Bergeron: 617-899-5964
This conference is only intended for nurses and medical assistants who work at BSAS/DPH funded OBATs and are providing Medication for Addiction Treatment utilizing the Nurse Care Manager Model. All DPH/BSAS funded STATE OBAT Nurses and Medical Assistants are required to attend.
After attending this conference, participants will be able to: *Understand the safety profile of medical cannabis. *Identify interventions to address with the patient who is using cannabis. *Understand the link between human trafficking and substance use disorders. *Describe specific mindfulness techniques. *Obtain the knowledge about how to apply mindfulness techniques into clinical practice. *Understand how to participate in a Zoom meeting. *Recognize the utility of remote conferencing with Zoom technology. *Implement strategies to identify co-morbid mental illness in patients with opioid use disorders. *Recall strategies to treat co-morbid mental illness in patients with opioid use disorders.
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, This event is funded by grants from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services.
The application to award contact hours has been submitted to ANA Massachusetts. ANA Massachusetts is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
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