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2024 – 2025 Academic Year Schedule
| Date | Topic/Title | Presenter |
| July 19, 2024 | Review of Medications to Treat Stimulant Use Disorder (New ASAM guidelines) | David Leinweber, MD |
| August 16, 2024 | Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder: Review of FDA Approved and Off-label MAUD | Randy Brown, MD, PhD |
| September 20, 2024 | Plans for the Use of Wisconsin Opioid Settlement Funds | Michelle R. Haese CAPSW, CSAC |
| October 18, 2024 | Lessons Learned Using Brixadi | Alison Miller, DO |
| November 15, 2024 | Marijuana Use in the Perinatal Patient | Dr. Elizabeth Hovis – Periscope Project |
| December 20, 2024 | Sharing a Model of Care (Compass) for Low Threshold, Accessible MOUD for people who use drugs – with an emphasis around stigma | Elizabeth Salisbury Afshar, MD |
| January 17, 2025 | Proposed SAMHSA Changes to Methadone Regulations for Treatment of OUD | Hillary Tamar, MD, FASAM |
| February 21, 2025 | Caring for Individuals with Co-occurring SUDs and Personality Disorders | Virginia Medinilla, MD, PhD |
| March 21, 2025 | Co-morbid PTSD and SUD Management – with Pharmacotherapeutic Aspects | Dana Marlowe, MD |
| April 18, 2025 | Cannabis and ADHD on College Campus | Ritu Bhatnagar, MD, MPH, FASAM, DFAPA |
| May 16, 2025 | Caring for Older Patients with Substance Use Disorders | Laurel Bessey, MD |
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2023 – 2024 Academic Year Schedule
| Date | Topic/Title | Presenter |
| July 21, 2023 | Telehealth to Deliver Addiction Medicine Services in Rural Communities | Jillian Landeck, MD |
| August 18, 2023 | WI HCV elimination plan | Kailynn Mitchell, MPH – Hepatitis Prevention Coordinator Wisconsin Department of Health Services |
| September 15, 2023 | Delivering Harm Reduction Care and Balancing w/ Plans for Treatment/Recovery | Ben Bruso – Supervisor, Prevention Services, Vivent Health |
| October 20, 2023 | Sublocade Pearls: Real World Lessons from Using Buprenorphine-XR | Alison Miller, DO – Clinical Associate Professor, DFMCH |
| November 17, 2023 | Mobile OTP Units | Dan Bizjak, MSW, LCSW, ICS, CSAC – State Opioid Treatment Authority (SOTA), Wisconsin Department of Health Services |
| December 15, 2023 | Coordination of Care for Patients Coming In/Out of Correctional Facilities | Elizabeth Salibury Afshar -Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH Program Director, Preventive Medicine Residency Medical Director of Harm Reduction Services, Wisconsin Department of Health Services Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and Population Health Sciences University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health |
| January 19, 2024 | A Brief Review of How to Complete ASAM Criteria to Connect Patients to the Best Level of Care | Laura Menningen, LPC, CSAC, ICS Clinical Supervisor – Substance Abuse (OP) Clinical Supervisor – Center for Addictive Disorders (IP) Health Link Clinical Super User UW Heath – Behavioral Health and Recovery |
| February 16, 2024 | Pain Management of End of Life with Those with SUD – General Guidelines for Care | Eric Marty, MD – Clinical Assistant Professor Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care |
| March 15, 2024 | Pain Management in the Setting of OUD + Buprenorphine Maintenance | Ana Pearson, MD (she/her) Resident Physician, PGY-3 Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health University of Wisconsin—Madison |
| April 19, 2024 | Addressing the Opioid Epidemic in the Emergency Room | Julie Doniere, MD |
| May 17, 2024 | TBD | TBD |
| June 21, 2024 | Use of Psychedelics to Treat SUDs: A Review of Current Research | Randall Brown, MD, PhD, DFASAM Professor – Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Director – UW Hospital, Center for Addictive Disorders; Program Director – UW Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program |