Addictions team a big presence at national conference

Department news | March 31, 2017


Our addictions team had a strong presence at the 19th Annual Fundamentals of Addiction Medicine Conference held earlier this month. Psychiatry Addiction Fellows Lauren Augello, MDMatt Iles-Shih, MD and Mark Ellestad, MD gave the Fellowship Lecture on the challenges and promise of integrating addictions treatment with primary care. Courtesy faculty member and former UW psychiatry resident/community fellow Paul Grekin, MD, talked about the best way to integrate primary care into a federally licensed opioid treatment program, and courtesy faculty member and former UW psychiatry resident/geriatric fellow Chris Bundy, MD, MPH, talked about legalized marijuana in the context of healthcare professionals. Rounding out our presence was our addictions leadership faculty Richard Ries, MD, and Andrew Saxon, MD. The aim of the conference is to enhance the skills and performance of healthcare professionals who treat patients with substance abuse disorders through new scientific, best practices, treatment, tools, and modalities in all areas of addiction medicine. Over 300 people attended the conference including physicians, chemical dependency professionals, and medical students.