This webinar will focus on importance of addiction screening, including screening for alcohol and other substances, why screening should be instituted in primary care and the validated tools that can be used in primary care setting. Speaker Dr. Waller will also discuss various brief intervention strategies that can be employed by primary care clinicians and staff.
Audience
Physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers who work with patients in clinics.
Speaker
R. Corey Waller M.D., M.S., FACEP, DFASAM, is an addiction, pain and emergency medicine specialist now a principal consultant at health management and chair of the legislative advocacy committee for the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). In these roles he is directly responsible for consultation regarding addiction treatment, ecosystem development and education as well as all Washington, D.C. related matters for ASAM. In his immediate past role of senior medical director for education and policy at the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, he was responsible for developing and maintaining all training and in-person technical assistance delivered by the National Center. This covered addiction, pain and behavioral health treatment system development, payment model implementation and healthcare policy. Before joining the National Center, he worked for the Spectrum Health System in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is a fully integrated health system with 12 hospitals and over 1000 employed physicians. He was the medical director of the Spectrum Health Medical Group Center for Integrative Medicine, the medical staff chief of pain medicine to the Spectrum Health Hospital System, the president of the Michigan Society of Addiction Medicine as well as substance use disorder medical director at Lakeshore Regional Partners. Dr. Waller has also worked extensively with local, state and federal law enforcement on the issues of controlled substance diversion and interdiction. Dr. Waller earned a Master’s of Science in Biology with a neuro-molecular focus at Southwest Texas State University and earned his Medical Degree at the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. Dr. Waller completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and is board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine.
Participate
Register
- Visit the registration and join page.
- Click “Register” on the left.
- Enter the information as prompted.
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Join
- Visit the registration and join page.
- Click “Join” (located to the right of the event title).
- Enter your name and email address as prompted.
- Enter the password: Addiction
- The automatic system set-up should start at this point. If a dialogue box appears, click run. Please note, the automatic system set-up does take a few minutes to complete.
Call In
- Dial in to the teleconference: 866-861-7910
Continuing Education Information
1.0 contact hour will be awarded for successful completion of this webinar to nurses, social workers, medical assistants and physicians. For more information, view the continuing education info sheet.
Contact
For questions, contact Mark Loush, 248-465-1375, mloush@mpro.org.
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