APPALACHIAN ADDICTION & PRESCRIPTION
DRUG ABUSE CONFERENCE
September 24-26, 2015
The Treatment of Pain & Addiction Utilizing Education & Proper Prescribing:
The New Paradigm Continued
Embassy Suites - Charleston, WV
Thursday, September 24, 2015
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Registration, Reception & Coffee with Exhibitors
Sponsored by: WV Society of Addiction Medicine &
WV Medical Professionals Health Program
PROGRAM – DAY 1
Friday, September 25, 2015
7:00 – 8:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
8:00 – 8:05 a.m.
Conference Opening:
8:05 – 8:30 a.m.
Welcome:
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.
Addiction- Is it really a Disease, and If So, So What?
Victoria Jones, Commissioner, Bureau for
Behavioral Health and Health Facilities
P. Bradley Hall, M.D., DABAM, FASAM, Executive Medical
Director, WV Medical Professionals Health Program, President-Elect,
Federation of State Physician Health Programs; and welcome comments from
WVSMA and WVOMA
Karen L. Bowling, MSN, Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia
Department of Health and Human Resources
Lynn Hankes, M.D., FASAM, Past Director Washington Physicians Health
Program; Past-President, Federation of State Physician Health Programs
9:45 – 10:00 a.m.
Break and Exhibitor Visitation
10:00 – 11:15 a.m.
The 20 year Evolution of Addiction Treatment
Harry Haroutunian, M.D., DABAM Medical Director, Betty Ford Center
Friday PROGRAM – DAY 1 (con’t)
Friday, September 25, 2015
11:15 – 12:15 p.m.
“Naloxone” "Prescribe to Prevent: Integrating Overdose
Prevention into your Medical Practice."
Alexander Walley, M.D., MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Co-Program
Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Program Director, Fellow Immersion
Training Program, Boston University School of Medicine.
12:15 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch - Buffet Provided
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
Luncheon Program – Chronic Pain & Addiction; A Behavioral
Perspective
Glenn Jordan Treisman, M.D., PhD, Eugene Meyer III Professor of Psychiatry
and Medicine, Director of AIDS Psychiatry Services, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
1:45 – 2:15 p.m.
Break and Exhibitor Visitation
2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Addiction Treatment during Pregnancy & Neonatal
Abstinence Syndrome
Hendree Jones, PhD, Professor, University North Carolina Dept of Obstetrics
and Gynecology
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Challenges & Controversies in the Treatment of Pain &
Addiction – Clinical Perspectives of the Epidemic and a New
Paradigm”
Mel Pohl, M.D., FASAM, Medical Director, Las Vegas Recovery Center
4:45 – 6:30 p.m.
Break/Time for Self
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Dinner Program –
Healing the Healer – A Physician’s Journey from Illness to
Wellness
9:00 p.m.
OPEN- Mutual Support Group Meeting
PROGRAM – DAY 2
Saturday, September 26, 2015
7:00 – 8:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
Saturday PROGRAM – DAY 2 (con’t)
Saturday, September 26, 2015
8:00 – 9:15 a.m.
Lessons Learned from PHPs - Integrating Behavioral Health
and Addiction Treatment
Gary Carr, M.D., DABAM, MRO, Past-President Federation of State Physician
Health Programs
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
Pearls & Best Practices in Prescription Drug Diversion, Drug
Seeking & Prescribing
P. Bradley Hall, M.D., DABAM, FASAM, Executive Medical Director, WV
Medical Professionals Health Program
Edward Eskew, D.O., DABAM, Associate Medical Director, WVMPHP
Jimmy Adams, D.O., DAAPM, Active Physical Medicine and Pain
Center, PLLC
Denzil Hawkinberry, II M.D., Anesthesiologist - Pain & Medication
Management
10:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Break and Exhibitor Visitation
10:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Prescription Drug Abuse Overdose Update: Current Statistics
Allen Mock, M.D., MS, DABP, Chief Medical Examiner, State of WV Office of
the Chief Medical Examiner
11:30 – 12:15 p.m.
Lunch - Buffet Provided
12:15 – 1:00 p.m.
Luncheon Program -Distressed Physicians – How Do We Help
Betsy Williams, PhD, MPH, Clinical Program Director, Kansas Professional
Renewal Center
1:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Break and Exhibitor Visitation
1:15 – 2:15 p.m.
Reframing the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis as an
Epidemic of Addiction
Andrew Kolodny, M.D., Director, Physicians for Responsible
Opioid Prescribing
2:15 – 2:45 p.m.
WV Laws, Rules & Regulations: A Prescribers Update
Ernie Miller, D.O., President, WV Board of Osteopathic Medicine
2:45 – 3:30 p.m.
Use of Controlled Substance Monitoring Program
David Potters, J.D., Executive Director & Counsel, WV Board of Pharmacy, and
Michael Goff, CSMP, Administrator, WV Board of Pharmacy
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Break and Exhibitor Drawings
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Buprenorphine: A Tool of the Trade
James H. Berry, D.O., Medical Director, Chestnut Ridge Center and Inpatient
Acute Dual Diagnosis Program