Virtual meeting
Via Zoom
Description
As part of the twice-monthly MA OBAT ECHO® series, Sarah Axelrath, MD, FASM, will describe the health and social risks associated with alcohol use and their impacts on individuals and families, review evidence-based strategies to reduce alcohol-related risks across clinical, community, and system levels, and discuss practical approaches to support safer alcohol use and recovery goals within addiction care practice. The didactic will be followed by a de-identified patient case presentation from an ECHO® participant and recommendations from the panel of experts and attendees.
Boston Medical Center's (BMC) 12-part Massachusetts Office Based Addiction Treatment ECHO® (MA OBAT ECHO®) offers training and support in addiction treatment, with a focus on comprehensive care for patients with substance use disorders (SUDs). The free, case-based tele-mentoring program is designed to increase the capacity of primary care teams to integrate addiction treatment using a multidisciplinary care model.
Intended audience
Providers, nurses, social workers, psychologists, peer supports, other clinical staff, and non-clinicians.
Speakers
Sarah Axelrath, MD, FASM
Sarah Axelrath is a primary care, addiction, and street medicine physician at Colorado Coalition for the Homeless' Stout Street Health Center in Denver, CO. Dr. Axelrath has worked in the fields of homelessness and harm reduction for more than a decade, both in direct service roles as well as in policy advocacy to expand legalized syringe access and naloxone distribution throughout Colorado. After graduating from the University of Colorado School of Medicine through the urban/underserved training track, she completed both her internal medicine residency and addiction medicine fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. There, she also worked with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless to offer mobile, low-threshold harm reduction and addiction treatment services on the streets of Boston. She has since returned to her home state where she serves as an advisory board member for the Colorado Drug Policy Coalition advocating for non-carceral, public health and human rights-informed approaches to substance use. She provides full-time primary and specialty addiction care to people experiencing homelessness and living with substance use disorder by "meeting them where they're at" - in the clinic, at the shelter, or on the streets.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will have the knowledge to:
- Describe the health and social risks associated with alcohol use and their impacts on individuals and families.
- Review evidence-based strategies to reduce alcohol-related risks across clinical, community and system levels.
- Apply practical approaches to support safer alcohol use and recovery goals within addiction care practice.
Sponsored by
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS).
Accreditation information
Please read the Accreditation Information section of the training page to learn about the requirements for receiving credit or a certificate of completion.
Audience
Providers, nurses, social workers, psychologists, peer supports, other clinical staff, and non-clinicians.
