Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds: Moving the Needle - Working with State Agencies, Nursing Homes, and Legal Partners to Increase Access to MOUD in Skilled Nursing Facilities

The Yale Program in Addiction Medicine is pleased to welcome Shawn Cohen, MD, and Melissa Weimer, DO, MCR, as speakers for Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds on May 28, 2024.

This event will be held in a virtual format.

Title: Moving the Needle - Working with State Agencies, Nursing Homes, and Legal Partners to Increase Access to MOUD in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Learning Objectives:

To be announced.

Shawn Cohen, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.

Melissa Weimer, DO, MCR, is board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine and has a clinical and research focus on substance use disorders treatment, particularly in the hospital setting. She also has fellowship training and years of experience in the management of complex pain, particularly for patients with concomitant opioid use disorders. She is the Medical Director of the Yale Addiction Medicine Consult Service (YAMCS), a multidisciplinary, hospital based program to address the substance use disorder needs of patients admitted to Yale New Haven Hospital. She has worked tirelessly on a local, state and national level to improve access to evidence based treatments for indivwith substance use disorder. Her work to expand addiction treatment in hospital settings started at Oregon Health & Science University where she worked with colleagues and community partners to create one of the nation's first hospital-based models to initiate addiction treatment while patients are hospitalized from a complication of their substance use. An experienced educator, she teaches health care students and professionals about substance use disorders and their treatment to promote the expansion of the addiction medicine workforce. She additionally serves as the Associate Program Director of the Yale Addiction Medicine Fellowship program.

Addiction Medicine Rounds are CME accredited. Each session will be assigned 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.