Speaker PowerPoints

Reflecting the collaborative spirit of the meeting, the majority of our speakers have generously agreed to share their slides, while some were prevented due to unpublished research findings. Please view the PowerPoints by speaker name and talk title below. Their order corresponds to the meeting agenda.

Robert J. Ronis, MD, MPH

Introductory remarks

Lee Hoffer, PhD, MPE Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University

Keynote Address "Assessing recent trends in opioid use among people who inject drugs: Findings from a NDEWS HotSpot study of Cuyahoga County"

Jeanne Lackamp, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Division of Psychiatry and Medicine, Director, University Hospitals Pain Management Institute

“The Opioid Crisis and Pain Management: University Hospitals System Response"

Annie Fahy, LCSW, RN Substance Use Disorders and Harm Reduction Specialist, Founder and CEO of Annie Fahy Consulting

“The Conversation is the Medicine: Using Motivational Interviewing to enhance and strengthen personal motivation for behavior change”

Supported by the Courtney Burton Frontiers in Medicine Lectureship

Wilson M Compton, MD, MPE Deputy Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Keynote Address “U.S. Opioid Crisis: Science = Solutions”

Michael W. Konstan, MD Gertrude Lee Chandler Tucker Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences; Vice Dean for Translational Research, PI, Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

“HEALing Ohio and other Opioid Initiatives from the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland (CTSC)”

Ben Gaston, MD Vice Chair for Translational Research at the Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University

“The problem of OIRD in pediatric patients requiring critical care or affected with lung disease”

Hubert Forster, PhD Professor of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin

“Brainstem site dependence of µ-opioid receptor (MOR) agonists effects on physiologic functions and neurochemical compensation”

Matthew Hodges, PhD Associate Professor of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin

“Effects of systemic fentanyl on breathing control, pulmonary gas exchange and respiratory muscle activity in freely-behaving goats”

Yolanda Fortenberry, PhD Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University

Title: “Aptamers: The key to unlocking the mysterious effects of opioids in the body”

Pete MacFarlane, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

“Modulation of breathing by microglia during vulnerable windows of development – implications for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome”

Simon Taxel, NRP, BA Crew Chief, City of Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS; medical specialist on the Pennsylvania Urban Search and Rescue Strike Team

“The Opioid Crisis: A Paramedics Perspective”

Allison Schlosser, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

“Navigating the Paradoxes of Recovery in Ohio’s Opioid Epidemic

Daniel J. Flannery, PhD Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and Director, Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University

"Collaborating with law enforcement and the US Attorney's Task Force to address the heroin-opiate overdose crisis"

Devin Mueller, PhD Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Kent State University

“Neurotrophic mechanisms underlying prefrontal regulation of drug seeking after extinction”

James Seckler, PhDResearch Associate, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

“Exploring the molecular mechanisms of action for D-cysteine ethyl ester: relevance to reversing OIRD”

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center MOMS+ Team

Moira Crowley, MD Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Medical Co-Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Director, Neonatal ECMO Program, and Director, Neonatal Consultative Services, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital

Lulu Zhao, MD Assistant Professor of Ob/Gyn, Behavioral Ob/Gyn, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Ann Kessler, LISW-S Senior Social Worker for the Department of Social Work, UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, and Associate Director, UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Center for Pediatric Ethics

"MOMS+: Collaborative Approaches to Perinatal Addiction"

Project CARA Team

Melinda Ramage, BSN, MSN, FNP-BC Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Addiction Specialist for Project CARA: Care that Advocates Respect/Resilience/Recovery for All, Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), Asheville, North Carolina

Marie Gannon, LPC, LCAS, CCS Behavioral Health Director and Co-Founder, Project CARA at MAHEC;

Tamara Cody, LCSW Perinatal Substance Abuse Advisor, Project CARA, MAHEC

“Project CARA: Community Collaboration to Serve the Needs of Pregnant Women Affected by Substance Use Disorders”

Warren County START Program Team

Shawna Barger, LISW-SSobriety, Treatment, and Reducing Trauma (START) Program Administrator, Warren County, OH

Kirsten StoverSTART Program Supervisor

Michaela ParkerSTART Program Caseworker

Sarah NeffSTART Program Family Peer Mentor

“Warren County Sobriety, Treatment, and Reducing Trauma (START) Program: Hope STARTS Here”

Christina Delos Reyes, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Director, Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship and Addiction Services, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

“Treating the Opioid Epidemic – Clinical and Community Perspectives”

Maureen Fluoriano, MPH, MA Project DAWN Program Assistant, Office of Opioid Safety at MetroHealth Medical Center; Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University College of Arts and Sciences

"Naloxone as a Harm Reduction Tool in Response to the Opioid Crisis"

Corrilynn Hileman, MD, MS Medical Director Infectious Diseases Clinic, MetroHealth Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

"The Impact of Intravenous Heroin and Medication Assisted Treatment on Immune Activation in Treated HIV"

Basanta Mohapatra, MD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Cardiac Anesthesiologist & Critical Care Intensivist, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

"Block the Pain, Block the Opioids"