Risk Management and Patient Safety in Opiate Treatment
Categories: Professional Development / Trainingwith Todd Mandell, MD, and Lisa Mojer-Torres, Esq.
A 4 hour training event on Weednesday, March 31, 2010
10 am – 3 pm (registration begins at 9:00 am)
at NH Primex, 46 Donovan Street, Concord, NH
PRESENTATION: This course, developed by SAMHSA/CSAT, specifically addresses comprehensive strategies to manage risks associated with the day-to-day care of patients in an outpatient methadone treatment setting. These risk management strategies will incorporate legal standards of care that assure patient safety while maximizing the potential of methadone in responding to opiate addiction. The course will include an overview of the current issues and trends, risk identification, and clinical issues and best practice standards. Participants will be able to identify two risks associated with this modality of treatment and describe two comprehensive strategies to assure patient safety.
CPS Category: None
LADC Performance Domain: III & V Cat. of Competence: 1, 2, 7, 11-16
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS: Todd Mandell, MD specializes in co-occurring disorders and addictions psychiatry. In addition to his work with the Vermont Department of Health, he serves as clinical faculty of the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He was on the staff in leadership positions at the Brattleboro Retreat from 1989 to 2003. Dr. Mandell has a BA from the University of Connecticut and an MD from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA.
Lisa Mojer-Torres, Esq. is an attorney specializing in civil rights and health law. For more than ten years, she has represented people who experience discrimination because of former substance addiction. She is also an advocate for “consumers” of substance addiction treatment and recovery services, representing this constituency on multiple councils, committees and boards. She currently serves as a consultant to the State of New Jersey’s Division of Addiction Services helping to integrate the consumers’ perspectives into Division operations and helping in New Jersey’s transformation to a client-centered, recovery oriented system of care for addictions. She was a founding member and the first Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Faces and Voices of Recovery, the national organization of addiction recovery communities that celebrates diverse paths to recovery.
Fee: NHADACA Members $25; Non-Members $35; NASW CEUS $5
For registration information contact: Dianne Pepin, 528-6800 or nhtiad@myfairpoint.net