Faculty: 

Course Director (in order of training):

• Introduction to the Office of Advanced Practice Providers and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation
  • Benjamin Reynolds, PA-C - Chief Advanced Practice Officer, UPMC; Director, UPMC Office of Advanced Practice Providers; Co-Director, University of Pittsburgh Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education; Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical School
• Racism in Medicine
  • Rickquel Tripp, MD, MPH, LCDR, USNR - Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Co-Chair EM Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Chair of Networking Committee for Physician Inclusion Council at UPMC/PITT (PICUP), EMS Faculty & Medical Director, UPMC Prehospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Diversity Advisory Council
• Ethics for APPs
  • Valerie Satkoske, PhD, MSW - Vice President, Mission Effectiveness, Ethics, and Volunteer Services / UPMC Mercy, Vice President, Ethics / UPMC and UPMC PUH/SHY, UPMC Health Services Division Leader / Volunteer Services, Health Services Division Co-Leader / Spiritual Care Services, Center for Bioethics and Law, University of Pittsburgh
• Medical Malpractice
  • Chaton Turner, JD - UPMC Corporate Legal Senior Associate Counsel and Vice President, Risk Management & Disability Service, University of Pittsburgh
• Introduction to Quality & Quality and Patient Safety
  • Dave Sherer, MSN, BSBA, FNP-BC, CRNP, Improvement Specialist, Clinical Quality Capture
• Reducing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI); & Indwelling Urinary Catheter Safety and Clostridium difficile (C. diff); & Venous Thromboembolism (VTE); & Sepsis
  • Paul Phrampus, MD, CPE, FSSH, - Associate Professor, Director, Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER)
  • Lisa Sheehan, MSN, RN, VA-BC, - Programmatic Nurse Specialist Wolff Center at UPMC
  • Aimee Smith, DPAS, MS, PA-C - Emergency Medicine, UPMC
• Documentation Best Practice
  • Jamie DeAngelis - Improvement Specialist Intermediate CRP, UPMC
• Billing and Coding
  • Dave Sherer, MSN, BSBA, FNP-BC, CRNP, Improvement Specialist, Clinical Quality Capture
• Antibiotic Stewardship
  • Robert Bauer, CRNP - Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, UPMC
• Health Literacy
  • Rose Turner, MLIS - Assistant Director for Liaison Services, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh
  • Rebekah Miller, MLIS - School of Nursing Liaison, IACUC Liaison, Research & Instruction Librarian, Health Sciences Library System,  University of Pittsburgh
• Shared Decision Making: Goals of Care Conversations
  • Christine Bishop, MD, MA - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Perinatal Supportive Care, UPMC Division of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care, UPMC Division of Newborn Medicine, UPMC OB-GYN Reproductive Services and Pediatric Supportive Care, University of Pittsburgh
• Parts 1, 2 and 3:  Part 1 - Reframing and Responding to Emotion  & Part 2 - Mapping Values & Part 3 -  Aligning and Proposing a Plan
  • Paul Phrampus, MD, CPE, FSSH, - Associate Professor, Director, Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER)
  • Benjamin Reynolds, PA-C - Chief Advanced Practice Officer, UPMC; Director, UPMC Office of Advanced Practice Providers; Co-Director, University of Pittsburgh Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education; Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical School
  • Lisa Sheehan, MSN, RN, VA-BC, - Programmatic Nurse Specialist Wolff Center at UPMC
• DEA MATE Act: Responsible Pain Management Strategies: Alternative to Opioids
  • Bernard J. Costello MD, DMD - Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Education; University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences, Professor and Chief, Pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, UPMC Children's Hospital
• DEA MATE Act:  Diagnosing Substance Use Disorders and Initiating Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Margaret Shang, MD - Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.  Addiction Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• DEA MATE Act:  Management of Chronic Opioids in People with Concerning Behaviors
  • Payel Jhoom Roy, MD, MSc - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinical Director, Addiction Medicine Consult Service, Department of Medicine, Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh
• DEA MATE Act: Outpatient Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder
  • Sara Spinella, MD, MS - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Veterans Health Administration, University of Pittsburgh
• DEA MATE Act: Perioperative Management of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Michael Desciak, MD - Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
• DEA MATE Act: Prescribing Benzodiazepines and Stimulants in OUD Treatment: The Risks and the Benefits
  • Tae Woo (Ted) Park, MD - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
• DEA MATE Act: Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in the Peripartum Period
  • Kelly DiMattio, MD, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
  • Ilana Hull, MD, MSc - Faculty, Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
• DEA MATE Act: Managing Opioid Overdose in the Synthetic Era
  • Joshua Shulman, MD - Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, Emergency Department Attending Physician
  • Michael Abesamis, MD - Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Attending Emergency Physician & Medical Toxicologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Director of the Medical Toxicology Outpatient Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• DEA MATE Act: Addressing Addiction in Advanced Illness
  • Julie Childers, MD, FAAHPM, FASAM - Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
• DEA MATE Act: Breaking the Stigma: The Truth about Substance Use Among Healthcare
  • Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH, FACP - Chief, General Internal Medicine.  Professor of Medicine, Falk Professor of Ambulatory Medicine.
• DEA MATE Act: Harm Reduction and Substance Use
  • Margaret Shang, MD - Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.  Addiction Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• DEA MATE Act: Screening, diagnosis, and management of hepatitis C in people who inject drugs
  • Cara McAnaney, MD,  AAHIVS -  Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Director of HIV Primary Care Track, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
• DEA MATE Act: Past, Present, and Future of Methadone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Paul J. Joudrey, MD,  MPH -  Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• DEA MATE Act: Understanding the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Continuum and Matching Patients with the Appropriate Level of Care
  • Emily E. Beahm, LCSW - Substance Treatment And Recovery Service (STARS) & Endovascular Infection Clinic, Clinical Care Coordination & Discharge Planning Department, UPMC
  • Payel Jhoom Roy, MD, MSc - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinical Director, Addiction Medicine Consult Service, Department of Medicine, Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh
• Advanced Practice Provider Practice Sustainability
  • Katherine Ramey, CRNP – Senior CRNP, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pediatric Neonatology
  • Kelly Nicholas, DPAS, PA-C – Doctoral Level Physician Associate, UPMC

Disclosure:

No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.