Chad Zadrazil
Managing Director
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
Chad Zadrazil is currently the Managing Director of the Wisconsin Controlled Substances Board and the Wisconsin Prescription Drug Monitoring Program at the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services. He joined the Department in March 2010 to manage a multistate project to streamline the physician licensure process. Since November 2011, Chad has coordinated the development, operation, and enhancement of the WI PDMP. He was a Team Leader for Wisconsin’s participation in the National Governors Association Policy Academy to Reduce Prescription Drug Abuse. Chad is currently the Co-Leader for the PDMP/EHR Integration & Interoperability Community of Practice for the CDC Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention for States project and is a member of the Prescription Monitoring Information eXchange (PMIX) Working Group Executive Committee and serves as the Chair of the PMIX Operations Subcommittee. Chad has a Bachelor of Arts degree and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Managing Director
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
Chad Zadrazil is currently the Managing Director of the Wisconsin Controlled Substances Board and the Wisconsin Prescription Drug Monitoring Program at the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services. He joined the Department in March 2010 to manage a multistate project to streamline the physician licensure process. Since November 2011, Chad has coordinated the development, operation, and enhancement of the WI PDMP. He was a Team Leader for Wisconsin’s participation in the National Governors Association Policy Academy to Reduce Prescription Drug Abuse. Chad is currently the Co-Leader for the PDMP/EHR Integration & Interoperability Community of Practice for the CDC Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention for States project and is a member of the Prescription Monitoring Information eXchange (PMIX) Working Group Executive Committee and serves as the Chair of the PMIX Operations Subcommittee. Chad has a Bachelor of Arts degree and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Emily Zarse
MD, Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry
Eskenazi Health
Emily Zarse, MD, is the Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry at Eskenazi Health and is Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to working in a dual diagnosis clinic treating patients with comorbid mental illness and substance use disorders, Zarse is the addictions expert on the Eskenazi Health Opioid Collaborative to improve access to care for opioid dependent patients in a primary care setting. She is training primary care doctors on identifying patients with opioid use disorders and treating appropriate patients with buprenorphine. She is also collaborating with the Emergency Department on Project POINT with an aim to improve access to care for opiate overdose patients.
Integrating Peer Support Service in the ED: Benefits and Challenges
MD, Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry
Eskenazi Health
Emily Zarse, MD, is the Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry at Eskenazi Health and is Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to working in a dual diagnosis clinic treating patients with comorbid mental illness and substance use disorders, Zarse is the addictions expert on the Eskenazi Health Opioid Collaborative to improve access to care for opioid dependent patients in a primary care setting. She is training primary care doctors on identifying patients with opioid use disorders and treating appropriate patients with buprenorphine. She is also collaborating with the Emergency Department on Project POINT with an aim to improve access to care for opiate overdose patients.
Integrating Peer Support Service in the ED: Benefits and Challenges
Jon Zibbell
PhD, Senior Public Health Scientist
RTI International
Jon E. Zibbell, PhD, is a Senior Public Health Scientist in the Behavioral and Urban Health Program at the RTI International, where he conducts behavioral epidemiological research on risk factors and health outcomes associated with the opioid epidemic and injection drug use. He is a medical anthropologist with two decades of field experience in the areas of injection drug use, opioid use disorder, drug overdose and injection-related infectious disease. Before coming to RTI, Zibbell worked as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Scientist in the Divisions of Viral Hepatitis and Unintentional Injury Prevention, conducting epidemiological and surveillance research on viral hepatitis and drug overdose while assisting states during outbreak investigations to respond to injuries and infections caused by drug use behaviors. In addition to research, he has conducted rapid ethnographic needs assessments for community-based syringe service and overdose prevention programs and continues to assist states and community organizations to develop evidence-based approaches to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with the opioid epidemic. His work has appeared in both academic and professional journals and he holds a joint, adjunct appointment in the Center for the Study of Human Health and the Department of Anthropology at Emory University.
Drug Checking: A Novel Evidence-Based Strategy for Preventing Overdose
PhD, Senior Public Health Scientist
RTI International
Jon E. Zibbell, PhD, is a Senior Public Health Scientist in the Behavioral and Urban Health Program at the RTI International, where he conducts behavioral epidemiological research on risk factors and health outcomes associated with the opioid epidemic and injection drug use. He is a medical anthropologist with two decades of field experience in the areas of injection drug use, opioid use disorder, drug overdose and injection-related infectious disease. Before coming to RTI, Zibbell worked as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Scientist in the Divisions of Viral Hepatitis and Unintentional Injury Prevention, conducting epidemiological and surveillance research on viral hepatitis and drug overdose while assisting states during outbreak investigations to respond to injuries and infections caused by drug use behaviors. In addition to research, he has conducted rapid ethnographic needs assessments for community-based syringe service and overdose prevention programs and continues to assist states and community organizations to develop evidence-based approaches to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with the opioid epidemic. His work has appeared in both academic and professional journals and he holds a joint, adjunct appointment in the Center for the Study of Human Health and the Department of Anthropology at Emory University.
Drug Checking: A Novel Evidence-Based Strategy for Preventing Overdose
