During this meeting, you will be collaborating with regional hospitals and community-based organizations to convene for a half-day morning event that will address and discuss relevant local topics to tackle the opioid epidemic. The three major areas of focus that will be addressed at this meeting include: screening of OUD patients; harm reduction techniques, specifically related to Narcan distribution; and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) warm handoff best practices. Through facilitated activities, attendees will have the opportunity to learn from one another, discuss best practices, and network with regional partners.

• Understand screening of OUD patients
• Identify best practices for MAT warm handoff
• Describe harm reduction techniques specific to Narcan distribution

  7:45 a.m.   Registration and Breakfast

  8:00 a.m.   Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Jennifer Jordan, Vice President, Regulatory Advocacy, The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
• Brian G. Swift, PharmD., MBA, Enterprise Vice President / Chief Pharmacy Officer, Associate Dean of Professional Affairs Jefferson College of Pharmacy

  8:15 a.m.   OUD Screening Processes – Are you Missing Anything?

Group Activity and Panel Discussion

Moderator: Claudette Fonshell, RN, MSN, Director, Clinical Improvement, The Health Care Improvement Foundation

• Sarah Weiss, MD, Toxicology Fellow and ED Physician, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
• Serge-Emile Simpson, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
• Priya E. Mammen, MD, MPH, Emergency Physician Public Health Consultant
• Jeanette Trella, PharmD, BCPPS; Managing Director; The Poison Control Center

  9:00 a.m.   Highlighting Harm Reduction Strategies throughout the Region

Presentation and Group Activity 

Moderator:  Liz Owens, MS, Clinical Project Manager, The Health Care Improvement Foundation

• Silvana Mazzella, Associate Executive Director, Prevention Point Philadelphia

  9:50 a.m.   MAT Warm Handoff Presentation—What is Your Method?

Case Studies

Moderator: Claudette Fonshell, RN, MSN, Director, Clinical Improvement, The Health Care Improvement Foundation

• Sosunmolu Shoyinka, MD, Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services (DBHIDS) 
• Nelson Campbell, MD, Medical Director, Onward Behavioral Health

10:25 a.m.   Wrap Up and Next Steps

• Jennifer Jordan, Vice President, Regulatory Advocacy, The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania

Emergency department providers and team members, crisis response centers, certified recovery specialists, community-based organizations, and social workers who provide care for patients with OUD.

Although this program is free of charge, you must register to attend. A continental breakfast will be provided.

This will be a green event. In order to minimize the environmental cost of publishing, a link to presentations will be sent to all registrants prior to the program.

Registration deadline is December 1.

For registration information, or if you need special accommodations, please contact HAP Education Services at (717) 561-5270.