Name
P01 – Strategies for Treatment, Advocacy and Community Collaboration for Clinicians during the Opioid Crisis,John P. Gallagher, MD,1.5 CE
Date & Time
Monday, June 25, 2018, 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Speakers
Description
Speaker: John P. Gallagher, MD
John P. Gallagher, MD, is a general obstetrician/gynecologist who has been practicing in Sharon, Pennsylvania, for over 30 years, delivering 6,000 babies, many with substance use disorder issues. Dr. Gallagher resides at Primary Health Network, Pennsylvania’s largest Federally Qualified Community Health Center that serves a wide range of patients of all socio-economic levels. He has been actively engaged on a state level with the Pennsylvania Medical Society, serving as chair of its Opioid Task Force and now is board chairman. He has been involved in a wide range of educational, legislative, and advocacy programs on opioids, as well as other healthcare issues. Additionally, he has worked with Behavioral Health Commission to assure adequate funding and reporting requirements with further expansion to other community agencies and has addressed groups of physicians, pharmacists, and local support groups on addressing the issue and using the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to prevent doctor shopping and overprescribing.
This session will address ways that clinicians can participate in combatting the opioid crisis outside of their daily clinical practices. Dr. Gallagher will describe opportunities tomobilize community resources and develop cooperative efforts to improve treatment and access to care for patients and families. Attendees will explore tools and best practices to advocate on the local, state and national levels with lawmakers and regulatory authorities to effect permanent change. We will discuss communit y education, naloxone awareness, warm handoffs, access to medication assisted treatment, long-term management and retraining, and treatment within the judicial system. Attendees will
learn key strategies to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of advocacy efforts with the media and legislators.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
John P. Gallagher, MD, is a general obstetrician/gynecologist who has been practicing in Sharon, Pennsylvania, for over 30 years, delivering 6,000 babies, many with substance use disorder issues. Dr. Gallagher resides at Primary Health Network, Pennsylvania’s largest Federally Qualified Community Health Center that serves a wide range of patients of all socio-economic levels. He has been actively engaged on a state level with the Pennsylvania Medical Society, serving as chair of its Opioid Task Force and now is board chairman. He has been involved in a wide range of educational, legislative, and advocacy programs on opioids, as well as other healthcare issues. Additionally, he has worked with Behavioral Health Commission to assure adequate funding and reporting requirements with further expansion to other community agencies and has addressed groups of physicians, pharmacists, and local support groups on addressing the issue and using the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to prevent doctor shopping and overprescribing.
This session will address ways that clinicians can participate in combatting the opioid crisis outside of their daily clinical practices. Dr. Gallagher will describe opportunities tomobilize community resources and develop cooperative efforts to improve treatment and access to care for patients and families. Attendees will explore tools and best practices to advocate on the local, state and national levels with lawmakers and regulatory authorities to effect permanent change. We will discuss communit y education, naloxone awareness, warm handoffs, access to medication assisted treatment, long-term management and retraining, and treatment within the judicial system. Attendees will
learn key strategies to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of advocacy efforts with the media and legislators.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Describe and implement three ways a clinician can turn the tide of opioid use and misuse.
- Apply and illustrate techniques you can use to comfortably advocate for opioid management support with elected officials and regulatory agencies.
- Illustrate three ways clinicians can act as a community leader, spokesman, and resource on the opioid crisis.