Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds: The HEALing Communities Study - 10 Million People, 67 Communities: A Community-Based Cluster Randomized Trial to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths

The Yale Program in Addiction Medicine is pleased to welcome Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH, as guest speaker for the 8th Annual Schottenfeld Lecture on September 17th, 2024.

Title: The HEALing Communities Study – 10 Million People, 67 Communities: A Community-based Cluster Randomized Trial to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the design of the HEALing Communities Study (HCS)
2. Understand the primary and secondary outcomes of the HCS
3. Learn about community engagement approaches of the study Communities that Heal intervention.

Addiction Medicine Rounds are CME accredited. Each session will be assigned 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.

The Schottenfeld Lecture is held each September to acknowledge the contributions of our colleague, Richard Schottenfeld, MD, to the integration of medical care and addiction treatment. Dr. Schottenfeld, an Addiction Psychiatrist and founding Director of the Yale Addiction Psychiatry Residency Training Program, is an experienced clinician, teacher and clinical researcher whose work has focused on improving the efficacy, accessibility, and availability of addiction treatment in the United States and internationally. In the 1980’s and the 1990’s, while at Yale, Richard helped pioneer primary care-based models of care for people who inject drugs. He currently serves at the Chair of Psychiatry at Howard University College of Medicine. In his role as a Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, he was instrumental in supporting and mentoring numerous clinicians and researchers locally and internationally. His work helped lay the foundation for the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine and we are delighted to honor his legacy with the annual Schottenfeld Lecture.