Learning Objectives:
The impact of SBIRT and the need for Addiction programs to be involved in the training of Primary Physicians.
Participants will be encouraged to consider their own communities and the need to create new healthcare partners.
The importance of tracking and measuring outcomes with enhanced electronic systems.
Speaker Information
David E. Smith, MD, FASAM, FAACT
Chair, Addiction Medicine Newport Academy; Medical Director, Center Point; Diplomat, American Board of Addiction Medicine; Past President, American Society of Addiction Medicine; Founder, Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic
Dr. Smith founded the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics in June, 1967. Today, he is the Chief of Addiction Medicine at Bayside Marin and the Medical Director at Center Point in San Rafael, CA, as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. He is Former Executive Medical Director of the Prometa Center, in Santa Monica, California and is a past President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM). Dr. Smith is also the Founder and Executive Editor of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.
Dr. Smith lectures on the management, legal implications and repercussions of dependence on psychoactive drugs, including cocaine, alcohol and prescription drugs. He also speaks on the subjects of impaired and recovering physicians, substance abuse in the workplace and dual diagnosis disorders. He teaches that addiction is a primary medical illness which is best treated in a multidisciplinary integrated fashion with an abstinence-oriented model of recovery utilizing the group process and the 12-Step programs of Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous as central to the process of recovery.
Thomas A. Simpatico, MD
Research Professor and Director, Community Mental Health Institute , Center for Clinical and Translational Science
University of Vermont Medical School, Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Simpatico is a Board Certified Psychiatrist. He is the former Director of the Division of Public Psychiatry at the University of Vermont School of Medicine and is past President of the Vermont Psychiatric Association. Dr. Simpatico is licensed in both Vermont and Illinois.