Opioid Use in Primary Care - Virtual annual conference
May 24, 2024
Designed for anyone involved in the care and support of people who use opioids, this one-day event will provide the opportunity to learn about and discuss topics related to opioid use practices, policies, treatments and harm reduction.
Date and time: May 24, 2024. 9 am to 4:30 pm EST (Virtual)
Fee: $100
Registration link: https://app.certain.com/profile/3403281
Key note speaker
Mae Katt is a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner from Temagami First Nation and lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She has an Honours Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Education (Curriculum Specialty) and Honorary Doctor of Laws from Trent University. She coordinates a Mobile Treatment Team that serves remote and rural First Nations to provide opiate-agonist treatment with buprenorphine/naloxone and injectable buprenorphine. Mae also provides primary health care and mental health care to students in an urban based Indigenous high school for over 20 years.
How is the day structured
There are 4 key themes for this event each with multiple sessions throughout the day.
- Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) treatment across the life-span
- Serving people with complex needs
- Innovative therapeutics and protocols: Looking at the evidence
- Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) in primary care for new prescribers
Some sessions at the conference
- Patients with Opioid Use Disorder in Palliative Care: Alissa Tedesco
- Opioid Use Disorder among Older Adults: Marilyn White-Campbell
- Perinatal Opioid Use Disorder Management: Erin Lurie
- Acute Pain Management for Opioid-Tolerant People: Lewis Forward
- Slow release oral morphine (SROM) as an independent or adjunct treatment for OUD: Karan Cheema
- Smoking cessation and OAT care: Peter Selby
- Considerations for youth/adolescent OUD management: James Wang
- Serving people with complex needs: Kelly White
- Innovative therapeutics: What’s on the horizon?: Victor Tang and Monique Moller
- Buprenorphine induction strategies: Ken Lee
- Opioid Use Disorder and stimulants: Tanya Hauck
More details about presentations and speakers coming soon!