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Upcoming Webinars
Wednesday Aug 18th, 2021—4:00pm
Buprenorphine: Data-waived Providers’ Geographic Distribution in Arizona
Benjamin Brady, DrPH, and Bryna Koch, MPH
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Buprenorphine is used to treat opioid use disorder. In order to prescribe it, however, professionals are required to take training and apply for a waiver. That requirement was set to be removed in January 2021, but President Biden withdrew that option. Dr. Brady and Ms. Koch will share the data regarding the geographic distribution of the providers' waivers and discuss best practice policies for the future in opioid use disorder.
Update: Even though the Biden administration removed some of the restrictions on medical professionals' ability to give buprenorphine, there is much to learn still from the geographic distribution of the waivers.
Friday Sep 17th, 2021 to Saturday Sep 18th, 2021—9:00am to 12:00pm
ABN 10th Annual Conference
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Ethical Challenges in Mental Health
September 17 & 18, 2021
9 am - noon each day, with optional breakout session immediately following the morning session
The COVID-19 pandemic has identified ethical challenges that arise when a health care system is stretched to its limits in providing care. Health professionals, social workers, and the public have faced these challenges. Healthcare professionals saw an increase in suicides or burnout, and they have expressed concern at the lack of support for mental/behavioral health needs for their members. The dynamics of healthcare changed during the pandemic through its extensive reliance on telemedicine. Some challenges are persistent, such as questions of suitable research subjects, the use of genomic data, and difficulties placing children in treatment facilities.
We've invited speakers to share their knowledge of the ethical challenges that can arise in the treatment, access to resources, stigmatization, and research of mental illness. We have applied for CEUs for this activity.
| Agenda | |
| Friday, September 17, 2021 | |
| 9:00–9:05 | Welcome and Introduction |
| Patricia Bayless, MD, Chairman of Board, Arizona Bioethics Network | |
| 9:05–9:45 | Mental Health Stigma & Health Professionals |
| Tala Dajani, MD, MPH | |
| 9:45–10:30 | Reset and Rejuvenate! |
| Shelley J. Tom, MS, LPC, RYT 200, CDWF | |
| 10:30–11:15 | Ethical Concerns in the Treatment of Incapacitated Patients |
| Joanna Kowalik, MD, MPH, FAPA | |
| 11:15–12:00 | Ethics in Research: Subjects with Mental Illness |
| Gwen A. Levitt, DO, DFAPA | |
| 12:00-12:05 | Break |
| 12:05-12:45 | Optional Individualized Break-out Rooms for Further Discussion |
| Saturday, September 18, 2021 | |
| 9:00–9:05 | Welcome and Introduction |
| Patricia Bayless, MD, Chairman of Board, Arizona Bioethics Network | |
| 9:00–9:45 | Divided Medicalization and the Neurodevelopmental Turn: Using Genomic Data to Predict a Changing Future |
| Elizabeth Fein, PhD | |
| 9:45–10:20 | The Pipes are Clogged: Finding Flow in Children’s Higher Levels of Behavioral Health Care |
| Sala Webb, MD, FAPA, DFAACAP | |
| 10:20-10:55 | Ethics in Providing Telepsychiatric Services During the Pandemic |
| Lisa Cobourn, MD, & Wendy Watson, MD, MPH | |
| 11:00-12:00 | The Ethics and Laws Regarding Patients who Report Homicidal Thoughts |
| Zhi Y. Wu, MD | |
| 12:00 –12:05 | Break |
| 12:05–12:45 | Optional Individualized Break-out Rooms for Further Discussion |
| Disclosure Statement: There have been no actual or potential conflicts of interests found or disclosures needed in relation to this activity. We have applied for CEUs | |
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