Medication Assisted Therapy Grand Rounds
This course is part 2 of the crash course in medication for addiction treatment: Using Buprenorphine for opioid use disorders
Target Audience
Physicians
Advanced Practice Clinicians
Learning Objectives
- Understand and be able to describe different types of pain and factors that contribute to and exacerbate pain.
- Optimize evidence based non-pharmacological and non-opioid chronic pain management for patients with chronic pain.
- Improve use of clinical communication tools around chronic opioid therapy such as controlled substance agreements, informed consent and communication of specific risk.
- Implement evidence based opioid stewardship practices including screening and monitoring for unintended medication harms and be able to optimize medication safety.
- Be able to recognize overdose risks and unsafe medication combinations. Be able to counsel on overdose prevention and optimize provision of naloxone for patients on chronic opioid therapy.
- Be able to recognize opioid use disorders and be knowledgeable on treatment with buprenorphine and Medications for Addiction Treatment.
- Improve interpersonal communication skills for patient communication including skills such as motivational interviewing and de-escalation.
- Effectively document and communicate treatment plans to patients and in the medical record.
Joshua Blum, MD
Dr. Blum is the Program Manager of the Denver Health HIV Primary Care Clinic, a Ryan White-funded
clinic serving low income clients living with HIV/AIDS. He also provides HIV and general primary care to
patients in the Denver City and County jails, and medication-assisted treatment to patients with opioid
use disorders in Denver Health’s outpatient behavioral health services department.
He established and served as the first physician manager of the Intensive Outpatient Clinic, a high
intensity primary care clinic aimed at caring for Denver Health’s sickest and highest-utilizing patients. Dr.
Blum is an institutional quality officer and leads initiatives on pain and opioid management at Denver
Health, and currently oversees a federal grant for expanding medication-assisted treatment in the
Denver Health primary care clinics. He is the co-chair of the Provider Education Workgroup at the
Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention.
As a general internist caring for high-risk populations, his interests include the diagnosis and treatment
of HIV and Hepatitis C, chronic pain syndromes, opioid management, mental health, and substance
abuse. He is a frequent speaker on pain management, opioids, and substance abuse.
Available Credit
- 0.00 Attendance