Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) Webinar Series Presents:

Expanding the Clinician Workforce & Sharing Prevention Efforts in Michigan: What Supports are Available?

PRESENTERS:

• Chad Brummett, MD: Dr. Brummett is the Bert N LaDu Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Brummett is also the Co-Director of the Overdose Prevention Engagement Network (OPEN) at the University of Michigan, which aims to apply a preventative approach to the opioid epidemic in the US through appropriate prescribing after surgery, dentistry, and emergency medicine. Dr. Brummett’s research interests include predictors of acute and chronic post-surgical pain and failure to derive benefit for interventions for interventions and surgeries primarily performed to treat pain. Dr. Brummett is specifically interested in the impact of a fibromyalgia-like or nociplastic pain phenotype on outcomes
• Amy Bohnert, PhD, MHS: Dr. Bohnert is a Professor at the University of Michigan in the Departments of Anesthesiology (primary), Psychiatry, and Epidemiology. She is co-Director of the Michigan Opioid Collaborative, which seeks to improve access and quality of treatment for opioid use disorders throughout Michigan through community outreach and clinician education. Dr. Bohnert focuses her research on epidemiology and brief interventions regarding chronic pain, opioid misuse, overdose, substance use and related disorders.

DESCRIPTION: This webinar will focus on efforts to expand the clinician workforce treating opioid use disorder in Michigan and also share available, evidence-based prevention supports that are adjustable to fit community needs.