A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
June 30, 2020
12:00 pm–1:00 pm ET
This session will provide an overview of medical group visits and how to conduct such visits for substance use disorder care.
Via Zoom
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In this special topics session, Randi Sokol, MD, MPH, MMedEd, will provide an overview of medical group visits, how to run such visits for substance use disorder care, and special considerations for conducting these visits via Zoom. Please see event flyer attached for Dr. Sokol's full bio.
Advance registration via Zoom is required for this event. To register via Zoom, please follow this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0scuqupzooG9Gj4qyJpVthz3mcy_MFTbjv
Clinical and administrative staff working in addiction treatment programs in the U.S.
Randi Sokol, MD, MPH, MMedEd, is a core faculty member at the Tufts Family Medicine program, where she is involved in clinical work, teaching, research, and advocacy, specifically around vulnerable populations that struggle with substance abuse and mental health issues. She has published and teaching on medical group visits start group visits with a focus on Pain and Addiction Curriculum and the Group Visit curriculum. She has recently become very involved in research related to Group Based Opioid Treatment (“GBOT”), a term she coined in the medical literature and has presented at several national conferences and provides individual consultation to clinics and residency program looking to treat addiction through a group-based model. Randi also serves on several CHA- wide committees related to pain and addiction and helped create PASS, an interdisciplinary consultation service to support primary care providers with complex pain/addiction-related cases.
Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Addiction Services
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
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