Co-sponsored by the Tennessee Society for Addiction Medicine and the State Opioid Response ECHO Tele-Education Hub at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the third-annual 2024 Mid-South Addiction Conference is Oct. 18 and 19 at VUMC. This educational platform for healthcare and other helping professionals is open to the public.
The conference will feature expert speakers from regional and national academic medical centers, local and state agencies, as well as Vanderbilt faculty, including Heather Burrell Ward, MD, director of Neuromodulation Research and Elanor Holmgren, PhD, postdoctoral researcher at the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research. It aims to provide up-to-date information on the spectrum of substance use and addictive disorders, including the evolving state of the opioid overdose crisis, the public health response in Tennessee, emerging treatments, trajectories of recovery, and issues in the management of vulnerable populations.
Keynote speakers include: Roger D. Weiss, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts (“Integrating behavioral therapy with pharmacotherapy in the treatment of patients with substance use disorders”); Petros Levounis, MD, MA, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, and Associate Dean Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (“Addiction in LGBTQ+ communities”); and A. Robin Williams IV, MD, MBE, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University (“Health services and public health responses to the OUD crisis”).
For pricing, registration and the itinerary, visit Tennessee Society of Addiction Medicine.
