We are proud to congratulate Jasmin Charles, MPAS, PA-C, for being selected as the American Academy of Physician Associates 2024 PA of the Year! 🎉Among her many positions, Jasmin has been a Medical Clinician with #PARCKA #GIN for several years and is a pillar of our team! Very well deserved! 👏👏

Dr. Katie Lappé has been awarded the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. This award recognizes the value of humanism in the delivery of care to patients and their families. Congratulations! #MedicineElevated #UofUhealth #internalmed

Extremely proud this is now out as an official AMERSA statement, where we summarized recent policy changes affecting methadone treatment in the US and opportunities for future change, including moving towards office-based methadone treatment: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

State advocacy training by the amazing Maine Recovery Advocacy Project team : Courtney Gary-Allen & Tess Parks . Open to public - please register!

Sharing a little morsel of a paper that I am excited abt bc it might represent a new way to measure success in SUD research one day. Hair testing to measure past month substance use and eventually🤞🏽quantify use (e.g., measure REDUCED use not just abstinence)

Ayesha Appa V v excited for this!

This month’s #PARCKA #Parley is only 3 weeks away! To celebrate #PrideMonth 🌈 we will be joined by Evan Done from Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness to talk about addressing #SUD among the LGBTQ+ community. Learn more @ tinyurl.com/parckaparleys. We'll see you all there! 😎

Yup. Feeling this all day every day. Moral injury. Late stage capitalist healthcare is injuring me, colleagues +patients. Need to take the 💰out of healthcare and go back to mission of healing. ❤️bostonglobe.com/2024/05/31/opi…

On today's #new episode of Let's Talk About Drugs in the Intermountain West #LTAD we are joined by Michael Incze, MD to chat about #collaborative care, balancing #patient care & #research while practicing #selfcare, & combatting #stigma through #education. Listen on #Apple & #Spotify! 👏

My 1st JAMA paper is an invited commentary on cost-sharing causing people to abandon naloxone prescriptions, and more broadly, how the political economy of pharmaceuticals impacts the US opioid overdose epidemic & response. Thx Leo Beletsky for sharing this opportunity🙏🏾

The differences between how US vs other countries approach methadone treatment is astounding. In countries where methadone is readily available thru primary care and community pharmacies, overdoses ⬇️ Thank you Honora Englander for writing this piece!

A new study published in JAMA Network Open by Gail D'Onofrio et al suggests that 7-day extended-release buprenorphine is feasible in patients with OUD presenting with minimal to mild COWS scores (4-7), and may lower barriers to treatment. Read more:

Congratulations to Dr. Calcaterra & Dr. Scherbak, this year's winners of the John Nelson Chappel Best Curricula, Quality Improvement and Program Abstract Award--they will be presenting at AMERSA's 2024 annual conference. amersa.org/annual-confere…

Grateful to both our patient and ⁦NEJM⁩ for allowing us to share this story of #strength and the ways in which health systems must synergize to support people in achieving improved health in their moments of need nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Most cardiology fellows (80%) in procedural and (67%) nonprocedural subspecialties received industry payments. Payments are associated with less evidence-based practice. AAMC Industry Payments to Cardiology Fellows and Early-Career Cardiologists jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

US opioid prescribing fell below levels last seen in 1992, two years ago It turns out, it's straightforward to get doctors to stampede in one direction 📈and then the other📉 Let's change our paradigm Care for people with pain, and people with addiction, is what we have not

Woo hoo!! Great news for hospitalized patients. 🙌👏🎉 Patients hospitalized during the intervention period had significantly higher odds of MOUD initiation (7.96 times higher) and 30-day MOUD treatment engagement (6.90 times higher).

Loved reading this rigorous study of #addiction consult services in ⁦JAMA Internal Medicine⁩ today showing important effects on #opioid use disorder treatment engagement after hospitalization. Don’t miss the great commentary by ⁦Honora Englander⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Read my thoughts re: implications from this important study here. Opioid Use Disorder Medications After Hospitalization—Rethinking Engagement in Care JAMA Internal Medicine OHSU News Le Vinatier jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

As wildfires rage in my home in the West and our planet and communities need so much care and #stewardship of resources and wonders, this is the work I’m most proud of over the last 10 years. University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine University of Utah Health SHEA University of Utah