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2022 Conference presentations
- Welcome, Introductions and Panel: Opiates to Advocacy: A panel with people with lived and living expertise
Welcome and Introductions: Dr. Sanjeev Socklingham, VP of Education, CAMH; Dr. Leslie Buckley, Addictions Chief, CAMH; Dr. Abimanyu Sud; Karan Cheema.
Panel members: Ashley Smoke, Alexandra de Kiewitt, Michael Nurse. - Keynote Address: The Customer is Always Wrong: Medical models for people with addictions
Abhimanyu Sud, Jason Mercredi - Patterns of Medication and Health Care Use Among People who Died of an Opioid-Related Toxicity During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ontario
Alexxa Abi-Jaoude, Jes Besharah, Tara Gomes - Beyond Stigma: The unseen stigma of opioid use disorder in care and how we can fix it
Andrew Johnson, Kirsten Dixon, Sean LeBlanc - Implementing the Victoria SAFER Initiative
Corey Ranger, Karan Cheema - Methadone in the Time of Fentanyl: It’s not just about the dose
Andrew McLeod, Jennifer Wyman, Karan Cheema - Making my Clinic a Better Place
Alexander Caudarella, Karan Cheema - Lessons from Abroad: Opioid Use Care in France and Australia (panel)
Julie Dupouy, Kellia Chiu, Lara Nicon, Nicholas Clark - Key Findings from the Preliminary Evaluation of the Safer Opioid Supply Program at the London Intercommunity Health
Abhimanyu Sud, Gillian Kolla - Zooming in to Capture the Big Picture in Transitions of Care
Amy Yang, Narges Beyraghi, Teresa Vandepost, Tianna Costa - Improving Access to OUD Treatment in Community Withdrawal Management Services: A Highlight of META:PHI’s WMS Recommendations and Manual
Karan Cheema, Katie Dunham - Far From a “White Problem:” Addressing the Surging Overdose Crisis as a Racial Justice Issue
Abhimanyu Sud, Joseph Friedman - The Role of Treatment in Addressing the Opioid Crisis: an effective yet overlooked part of the continuum of care
Farihah Ali, Peter Selby, Lesley Buckley, Sean LeBlanc, Matthew Bonn - Structural Violence and Overdose Deaths: Building anti-oppressive clinical practices to support people who use drugs
Gillian Kolla, Nanky Rai
Short biographies of our 2022 presenters are available.
