Training

Location

Sheraton Needham Hotel
100 Cabot Street
Needham, MA

Description

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING THIS CONFERENCE, PLEASE CONTACT STACEY MITCHELL AT STACEY.MITCHELL2@BMC.ORG OR 617-414-6637.

THANK YOU.

Join us for a free full day conference addressing the complex needs our adolescent population is facing today. The conference will include sessions given by leading experts in the field on substance use disorder screening, prevention, and treatment, concurrent mental health issues and trauma, social media, the role of the family, JUULing and marijuana.

• 8:00-8:30am – Registration
• 8:30-9:05am – Introduction & Epidemiology                                              Scott Hadland, MD – Boston University Medical Center
• 9:05-10:00am – Screening and Prevention                                               Sarah Bagley, MD – Boston University Medical Center
• 10:00-10:15am – Break
• 10:15-11:15am – Concurrent Mental Health Issues and Trauma                      Amy Yule, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital
• 11:15-11:45am – The Role of the Family: Improving Care for of Adolescents who Use Substances                                                            Alicia Ventura, MPH – Boston Medical Center
• 11:45-12:15pm – The Social Media Disconnect                                                Michael Tsappis, MD – Boston Children’s Hospital
• 12:15-1:00pm – Lunch
• 1:00-1:45pm – Developmental Neurobiology and Evidence Based Treatments                                                                                                       Sharon Levy, MD – Boston Children’s Hospital
• 1:45-2:45pm – JUULing, Vaping, and THC – What’s the Buzz?                        Nic Chadi, MD – Boston Children’s Hospital
• 2:45-300pm – Break
• 3:00-4:00pm – Personal Perspective & Resurfacing – An Original Therapeutic Theater Piece                                         COAAST.ORG
• 4:00-4:15pm – Q&A
• 4:15-4:30 – Wrap up and evaluations

CME Course Director: Daniel P. Alford, MD, Boston University School of Medicine

Breakfast and lunch will be provided. If you have dietary restrictions please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them. 

To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please notify Lexie Bergeron in writing at least two weeks prior to the conference.

For questions the day of the event, please call Colleen LaBelle at 617-797-6712.

Intended audience

Providers, Nurses, Clinicians and Support Staff Working with Adolescents

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the prevalence of substance use disorders within the adolescent population
• Discuss evidenced-based approaches and treatment strategies for youth with nicotine and marijuana use
• Describe the forms of social media most commonly used by adolescents and recognize the benefits and risks that come with social media
• Describe the role of the family in caring for adolescents with addictive disorders

Sponsored by

Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction; Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH BSAS)

Accreditation information

We are pursuing continuing education credits for providers, nurses, and social workers.

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.

Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Boston University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(TM). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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