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Complex Trauma & Addiction IV:
The Intersection of the Pandemics
June 4 | Virtual Conference
Uniting the mental health community to learn and connect. This conference highlights the impact of COVID-19, its effects on the pre-existing drug pandemic, and its influence on mental health and substance use disorders.
DATE:
June 4th, Friday
TIME:
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
WHERE:
Online via Zoom
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
$50 Registration
This covers your attendance to the full day of the conference. To attend, click the registration link provided to navigate to UAA's continuing education site to complete your registration.
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
6.5 hours available to participants in attendance for the full conference.
AAFP Physician Credits: The AAFP has reviewed Complex Trauma and Addiction Recovery IV: The Intersection of the Pandemics and deemed it acceptable for up to 6.50 Online Only, Live AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 06/04/2021 to 06/04/2021. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity
Social Worker Credits: Social work contact hours to be provided by the UAA School of Social Work
Conference Overview
The conference will highlight several areas of focus for mental health professionals providing highlights of the current effect of Covid-19 on the pre-existing drug pandemic.
The conference will underscore the impact that COVID 19 has had on Americans' mental health and those with substance use disorders. The impact on the delivery of services experienced by providers during the Covid pandemic will be reviewed along with the need for new tools by support systems to foster the journey we call recovery.
Attention will focus on stimulants; their historical impact, conflicts, and influence created on the world economy; individual mortality; and a review of current approaches for treatment.
Specific attention will be given to the challenges experienced by women previously incarcerated entering recovery.
Conference Objectives
Participants will be better prepared to:
1. Explain the impact of Covid 19 on the mental health of Americans and those suffering from substance use disorders.
2. Discuss the ways that stimulants have been implemented by governments to achieve dominance and political power in the past.
3. Review the current treatments of stimulant use disorders.
4. Describe 3 modalities for service delivery during COVID 19.
5. Present an example of effective mentoring for women with complex trauma who are in recovery.
Guest Speakers
Ryan Wallace, MD, MPH
Ryan Wallace, MD, MPH, Board-certified psychiatrist, and fellowship-trained addiction psychiatrist.
Ryan grew up in Montana, exploring the mountains and forests of the Northwestern US, and graduated from Montana State University with a BS in bio-resource engineering. Ryan earned an MD/MPH from the University of Washington, where his research focused on global public health, with projects in Mongolia and Vietnam.
After medical school, he completed a psychiatry residency and addiction psychiatry fellowship at Yale University. During this time, he co-founded the Yale Psychedelic Science Group and was instrumental in re-initiating psychedelic research at Yale. After an assistant professorship at Yale, Ryan is grateful to be back in the mountains with his family.
Ryan is currently the medical director of the Providence Breakthrough Substance Abuse Program and leads an interdisciplinary team in developing the Alaska Addiction Medicine Fellowship.
Dr. Paula Colescott, MD
Paula Colescott, MD, FASM, DABPM, Board-certified in internal and addiction medicine, Co-facilitator of the Alaska Health Physician Program.
Dr. Colescott completed her internal medicine residency in the United States Air Force Wilford Hall Medical Center, with subsequent service at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
She has subsequently practiced inpatient, outpatient, and emergency medicine for over twenty years in Colorado, Bush Alaska, and Hawaii. After completing her Fellowship in Addiction Medicine at the John A Burns Medical School in Honolulu, Queens Hospital, she returned to Anchorage and served as the medical director of The Salvation Army Clitheroe Center (a detox/residential facility).
She became the Associate Medical Director of Providence Breakthrough (providing Partial hospitalization, IOP, OP services addressing chemical dependency), and provided services in a methadone maintenance program in the Anchorage Bowl. In these venues, she provided didactic and onsite training of family medicine residents.
Dr. Joshua Sonkiss, MD
Joshua Sonkiss, MD, Board-certified in adult, adolescent, forensic psychiatry, & addiction medicine.
He completed undergraduate degrees at the University of Alaska Anchorage, attended medical school at McGill University, and completed residency at the University of Utah.
After forensic training at the University of Rochester, he returned to Alaska to provide psychiatric and addiction treatment in a variety of settings. He is past President of the Alaska Psychiatric Association and founding president of the Alaska Society of Addiction Medicine. He is former editor-in-chief of the Carlat Addiction Treatment Report, and currently serves on its editorial board. He is president of Sonkiss Medical Consulting, LLC.
David Moxley, Ph.D., DPA
David Moxley, Professor & Director, School of Social Work and Department of Human Services, UAA.
David offers substantial expertise in recovery and rehabilitation in helping people struggling with considerable social stigma in response to their diversity, health status, and/or social, emotional, or cognitive functioning.
Prior to coming to Alaska, David served as the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Medicaid Professor of Health in the University of Oklahoma Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work.
Eileen DalPoggetto
Eileen DalPoggetto, Director, New Hope House.
Eileen DalPoggetto has spent the last 5 years working with women coming out of addiction. Through her own personal experiences and knowledge of addiction she provides a strong foundation for recovery and mentoring to women in re-entry.
She is the Director at New Hope House. New Hope is a faith based sober living facility for women. In addition to the work she is doing at New Hope she is the Executive Assistant with John Hagmeier Homes, where she has worked for 22 years. She has worked part time for the past 8 years as a property manager for Cornerstone Properties.
Eileen obtained her GED in 1995. Over the years she has continued to participate in continuing education and training through various license/certification classes specific to her careers.
Conference Schedule
8:00 - 8:15 | Welcome
Jeff Jessee | Dean, College of Health, UAA; Vice Provost, UA Health Programs
Jo Ann Bartley, Ph.D.| Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Services
8:15 - 9:00 | Recalibrating Recovery for a Post COVID-19 World
David Moxley, Ph.D. | Director, School of Social Work
Consider the impact of COVID on substance use and substance use recovery.
Identify and appreciate the lessons learned from COVID and draw implications for how recovery professionals approach the process and milestones of recovery.
Share ideas about how we can advance support systems for people in recovery using lessons learned.
Understand that we are entering a world in which the recovery tools we have remain useful, but also understand that we will also need new tools for fostering the journey we call recovery.
9:00 - 10:00 | Drug or Medicine: The Shifting Landscape of Psychedelics
Ryan Wallace, MD, MPH | Medical Director, Providence Breakthrough
Discuss the challenges of interactions through telemedicine.
Examine the social perception around using the class of drugs considered to be psychedelics as a current treatment modality for specific mental health disorders.
Review the neurobiological mechanisms at play and why psychedelics may be the key to uncovering new treatments.
10:00 - 10:15 | Break
10:15 - 11:45 | Methamphetamine's War on the World - Historical and Current
Paula Colescott, MD | Co-facilitator, Alaska Health Physician Program
Develop perspective on the rationale for the use of stimulants in times of war up to the present.
Understand the long-term fallout from nationally sanctioned stimulant use in world conflicts.
Review access and the documented effects of stimulant use.
Provide an update on current treatments of stimulant abuse.
11:45 - 12:45 | Lunch Break
12:45 - 2:15 | Ripples on the Pond - Mental Health and Addiction in Times of COVID-19
Joshua Sonkiss, MD | President, Sonkiss Medical Consulting LLC
Describe how the Covid pandemic has affected adult and adolescent mental health in the United States.
Name three ways the Covid pandemic has impacted Americans with substance use disorders.
Explain how the Covid pandemic has changed access and delivery of mental health services in the U.S.
2:15 - 2:30 | Break
2:30 - 3:30 | Introduction - Women's Unique Relation to Drugs
Paula Colescott, MD | Co-facilitator, Alaska Health Physician Program
| From Prison to Business Manager and Mentor
Eileen DalPoggetto | Director, New Hope House
Relate a story of one woman’s journey from Prison and drugs, to a position in the business world facilitating women’s re-entry.
Describe the unique challenges facing women released from prisons and the role of mentoring.
Outline the mission and niche in the recovery process that the New Hope House plays in the Anchorage community.
3:30 - 4:15 | Wrap Up with Final Q&A
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