Sixth Annual SLU Addiction Medicine Day Is December 14
The sixth annual Saint Louis University Addiction Medicine Day: Challenging Our Assumptions and Our Practices is Wednesday, Dec. 14.
The event will be held from noon to 5 p.m. in Pitlyk Auditorium A, in the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. It is both in-person and live-streamed.
The program will feature presentations that provide attendees content and tools to engage more effectively with patients and families affected by substance use disorders. Carl Hart, Ph.D., the Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology (In Psychiatry), at Columbia University will deliver The Conley Lecture.
Additional presenters include:
- Sheryl Lyss, M.D., MPH, Addiction Medicine Fellow, former Medical Epidemiologist at the CDC, whose positions included associate director for science and senior medical advisor for HIV care and treatment for the office of CDC’s Division of Global HIV and TB in Hanoi, Vietnam
- Matt Woods, KMOV reporter and creator of Contaminated: The Fentanyl Crisis in St. Louis
There will also be a panel discussion titled "Combining Inspiration and Innovation: A Faith-Based Community-Public-Private Partnership to Provide Addiction Services in a St. Louis Treatment Desert."
Free box lunches are available for the first 100 in-person registrants.
For questions, contact Fred Rottnek, M.D., addiction medicine fellowship program director and professor of family and community medicine at SLU, at Fred.Rottnek@health.slu.edu.