UVM CORA Community Rounds Workshop Series

Our speakers are Joanne Spetz, PhD, Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS), University of California San Francisco, and Jackie Bray, DNP, FNP-C., Nurse Practitioner for Howard Center’s office-based opioid treatment programs (Vermont)....

Our speaker is Dr. Sarah Jacobs, MD, MEd, Oculofacial Reconstructive Surgeon with the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Medical Science Writer for UVM CORA. This presentation explores lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic as they relate to rural...

Our speaker is Richard Rawson, PhD, Research Professor at the Vermont Center for Behavior and Health at UVM and a Professor Emeritus at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry. This presentation explores current information about fentanyl and xylazine including: drug supply...

Our speaker is Kait Hirchak, PhD, MHPA (Eastern Shoshone), Assistant Professor at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University. This presentation covers ways to culturally adapt and implement contingency management among rural American Indian...

Our speaker is Elias Klemperer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychological Science at the University of Vermont. This presentation will be on the importance of tobacco treatment for people with opioid use disorder and discuss research on providing...

Our speaker is Michelle Lofwall, MD, DFAPA, DFASAM, Professor of Behavioral Science and Psychiatry, and Bell Alcohol and Addictions Endowed Chair at the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine in the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research. This presentation will...

Our speakers are Valerie Harder, PhD, MHS, Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Co-Director of CORA’s Surveillance and Evaluation Core at the University of Vermont, and Julia Shaw, MPH, Manager of the Surveillance and Evaluation Core...

Our speakers are Geoff Capraro, MD, Attending Physician and Associate Professor, Brown Emergency Medicine, and Brooke Lawrence, from the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team. This presentation explores the need for naloxone distribution in rural areas and...

Our speaker is Marjorie Meyer, MD, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UVM Larner College of Medicine. This presentation covers unique barriers that people with opioid use disorder face when pregnant and parenting. Learning objectives:
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Our speakers are Christine Chasek, PhD, John Brooklyn, MD, Denise O'Connell, MSW, and Mary Lindsey Smith, PhD, MSW. This presentation focuses on treating alcohol use disorder (AUD) in rural primary care settings. Our panel addresses the extent of rural alcohol use,...

Our speaker is Mark Depman, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Central Vermont Medical Center. This presentation covers vaccine facts and talking points for people who are vaccine reluctant. It also covers the importance of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and the impact...

Our speaker is Brady Heward, MD, Co-Director of Clinical Affairs, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. This presentation introduces key concepts related to the social and structural determinants of health and how...

Our speaker is Alan Budney, PhD, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. This presentation focuses on enhancing rural providers’ knowledge related to (a) the changing landscape of cannabis products and availability, (b)...

Our speakers are John Kelly, PhD, Mark Depman, MD, and Liza Ryan, a Peer Recovery Coach from North Central Vermont Recovery Center. The presentation focuses on how peer recovery models of care can help rural recovery communities from three perspectives. Dr. Kelly...

Our speaker is Allison Lin, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Addiction Center, Ann Arbor, MI. This presentation focuses on optimizing patient and clinician experiences with different telehealth platforms, practical...

Our speaker is Peter Jackson, MD, Co-Director of Clinical Affairs, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UVM Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT.​ ​In this session, Dr. Jackson shares practical ways to implement and utilize motivational interviewing (MI) in a...

Our speaker is Theresa Vezina, Executive Director of Vermont CARES. Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. This presentation outlines history, principles, and practices of harm...

Our speaker is Peter Jackson, MD, Co-Director of Clinical Affairs, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UVM Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT. This presentation outlines practical approaches to identifying personal bias and addressing stigma in the clinical...

Our speaker is Marjorie Meyer, MD, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UVM Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT. This presentation outlines strategies to optimize pain control and reduce opioid overprescribing in the post-operative...

Our speaker is John Brooklyn, MD, UVM Larner College of Medicine. This presentation discusses the evidence for and the use of sustained release buprenorphine (SRB) to treat opioid use disorder. Learning Objectives: Identify patients who may benefit from SRB Develop a...

Learning Objectives: Provide a definition of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to the DSM-V Present an overview of PTSD prevalence Review helpful assessment tools and strategies Review effective treatment approaches for PTSD Discuss specific...

Our speaker is Allison Kurti, PhD, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, University of Vermont. Maternal smoking is the leading cause of poor birth outcomes, increases the risk for adverse neonatal outcomes, and is associated...

Learning Objectives: Recognize the role genes and shared environment play in multigenerational perpetuation of substance use disorders Understand familial risk and protective factors for substance use Identify key stages of the individual and family life cycle for...

Our speaker is Sanchit Maruti, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT. Substance use disorders (SUDs) contribute to an increased risk of dying by suicide. Approximately 40% of patients seeking...

Our speaker is Richard Rawson, PhD, Research Professor, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, University of Vermont in Burlington, VT and Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of Psychiatry, Los Angeles, CA. The emergence of increased rates of cocaine and...

Our speaker is Gail Rose, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. Ever wondered what SBIRT is, where it came from, and why we should use it? In this webinar, Dr. Rose presents the origins of SBIRT and summarizes the evidence for...

Our speaker is Marjorie Meyer, MD, Associate Professor, Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. Women are at particularly increased risk of developing opioid use disorder related to prescribed opioids. This webinar reviews the literature on...