Final Conference Program - aatod

The session also provides nurses with a comprehensive overview of
nursing roles in screening and assessing the health status of patients
who have addiction problems. Moreover, the session focuses on
nurses’ instrumental roles in the development and ongoing monitoring
of treatment plans for patients who are on buprenorphine
treatment and counseling and referral for psychosocial treatment.
This session will assist nurses in developing improved understanding
of the complexities of addictions treatment, and will promote better
treatment outcomes by utilizing a team approach to patients’ opioid
dependence.
Sara Azimi-Bolourian will provide introductory remarks and a brief
overview of the federal requirements for buprenorphine prescription
and nursing roles.
Colleen LaBelle will lead the session afterwards and provide information
on the pharmacology of buprenorphine, detailed protocols for the
use of buprenorphine under a variety of clinical scenarios, and protocols
on the use of buprenorphine for medically supervised withdrawal,
for classifications of medically supervised withdrawal, and for maintenance
treatment. She will also describe the advantages and challenges
of providing office-based treatment.
Sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT).
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Continental B
Opioid Treatment Program Accreditation—
Town Hall Meeting
Megan Marx, MPA, The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Mary Cesare-Murphy, PhD, The Joint Commission, Oakbrook
Terrace, IL
This session will provide Joint Commission accredited organizations
with an update on changes/revisions planned for accreditation standards
and elements of performance in the Comprehensive Accreditation
Manual for Behavioral Health Care (CAMBHC). The Joint
Commission has recently completed a standards improvement initiative
aimed at streamlining standards and elements of performance,
and tailoring the survey process. A review of these changes, as well
as a review of changes made to the format and structure of the
CAMBHC electronically, to more effectively utilize the manual in
their quality improvement processes and their continuous accreditation
readiness efforts, will be discussed.
We also intend to have our OTP account representatives and standards
interpretation staff available during this session to meet with
the organizations face-to-face and provide feedback to them about
the survey application process and standards interpretation. We
intend to use a Q&A format for this part of the session, after pro -
viding participants with background information about the roles and
responsibilities these two work groups represent.
The two speakers will share time equally during the presentation.
The account representatives and the standards interpretation staff
member will participate during the last 30–45 minutes of the presentation,
as needed.
Sponsored by The Joint Commission.
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Marquette
US and Vietnam: Celebrating 15 Years
of Relations, 1995-2010
The efforts of AATOD and EUROPAD to create a world federation
dedicated to the treatment and understanding of opioid dependence
has far reaching influence. We are fortunate to have a delegation
from Vietnam making a presentation at this conference. Under the
sponsorship of PEPFAR -VN, and coordinated by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), representatives
from Vietnam will discuss the following:
1. Establishing a Prevention Strategy for HIV: Medicated Assisted
Therapy; Vietnam Situation: An Overview of the HIV Epidemic and
Response—Kevin P. Mulvey, PHD, Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
2. Substance Abuse Treatment Advisor, PEPFAR-SAMHSA VN:
Establishing Political Will and Investment in a New
Prevention/Treatment Option in Vietnam—Dr. Long, Vietnamese
HIV/AIDS and Control, Ministry of Health, Hanoi Vietnam (TBA)
3. Medication Assisted Therapy in Vietnam: A Clinical Perspective—Dr.
Thuy, Le Chan Clinic, Hai Phong
4. Technical Assistance Demands and Needs in Establishing
Medication Assisted Therapy—Dr. Nhu To, Family Health International,
Hanoi Vietnam
9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Astoria
NIATx OTP Project (invitation only)
Kimberly Johnson, MBA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Lynn Madden, MPA, APT, New Haven, CT
Tom Zastowny, PhD, Webster, NY
This session will be the wrap up session for the CSAT funded NIATx
OTP project. The project is a year-long effort for 30 providers to
improve access to and retention in treatment. The goal of the day
will be to celebrate success, share stories and learn some tools and
techniques for spreading improvements through the agency when
there are multiple sites and sustaining improvement over time once
the project is complete.
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