Conference Program

Friday, October 20

Program is subject to change.
Presentations marked with a camera will be recorded.

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Track 4

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.

CSAM-SMCA Committee Meetings

sidney

Mindful Meditation

8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Adam Ballroom

Presentation of Lifetime Achievement Award

8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

lecture theater

Dr. Mark Sherman

Re-Discovering Meaning in Medicine: On Burnout, Mindfulness and Joy

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Break

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Track 1

lecture theater

Cannabis and Psychosis: Public Mental

Health-Oriented Recommendations for Prevention and Clinical Practice

Concurrent Disorders

Track 2

Salon C

Heal Thyself: An Experiential Workshop on Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Addiction Medicine Practitioners

Track 3

oak bay

DBT Skills for Sustainable Practice: Validation, Boundary Setting, and Self-Care

Induction Without Withdrawal: Low-dose Buprenorphine Inductions

Track 4

saanich

Virtual Care

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

saanich

Mentor Lunch
Connect with leaders in the addiction medicine community

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Track 1

saanich

Who / What / Where / When / Why: Establishing an Interdisciplinary Group Medical Visit Model for Alcohol-related Liver Disease

The Liver Care Clinic: Implementation of a Novel Interdisciplinary Liver Care Model for People Living with Alcohol Associated Liver Disease

Track 2

Lecture Theater

The triple planetary crisis and planetary health equity: A call to action for addiction medicine clinicians

Track 3

salon c

Youth and Addictions

Substance Use Disorder in the Perinatal Period

Track 4

oak bay

Hospital-Based Care (1)

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Break

2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Track 1

saanich

Canadian Guidelines for Management of Alcohol Use Disorder

Track 2

Lecture Theater

Why Are Some Physicians Apprehensive About Prescribing Safe Supply?

Track 3

salon c

Beyond High: Cannabis Product Use Among Youth

Track 4

oak bay

Hospital-Based Care (2)

3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Track 1

Batosche Room

Overcoming Systemic Barriers-the Story of One Remote First Nation Community

My Journey Back: a Harm Reduction Narrative

Hiding in Plain Sight

From Denial to Action: How One Woman’s Persistence Changed a 100-Year-Old Culture

Track 2

William Pascoe Room

Improving Addiction Outcomes with Recovery Coaching: Connecting Proven Treatments with Evidence-Based Community Recovery

Track 3

Terrace lounge

Motivational Interviewing: Introduction to Advanced for the Addiction Medicine Practitioner

6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Conference Program

Friday, October 20

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

Track 4

CSAM-SMCA Committee Meetings

sidney

Presentation of Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Mark Sherman

Re-Discovering Meaning in Medicine: On Burnout, Mindfulness and Joy

Track 1

lecture theater

Track 2

Salon C

Track 3

oak bay

Track 4

saanich

Track 1

Track 2

Lecture Theater

Track 3

salon c

Track 4

oak bay

Track 1

Track 2

Lecture Theater

Track 3

salon c

Track 4

oak bay

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

Friday Night Social

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Mindful Meditation

Chair Yoga (25mins) 7:00am-7:25am

Meditation (20mins) 7:25am-7:45am

Re-Discovering Meaning in Medicine: On Burnout, Mindfulness and Joy

Cannabis Use and Psychosis: Public Mental Health-oriented Recommendations for Prevention and Clinical Practice

Concurrent Disorders

The Relative Contribution of Major Depressive Disorder Diagnosis and Depressive Symptomatology to Risky Injection Behaviours in People Who Inject Drugs: Results from a Cohort in Montreal, Canada

MATTERS: Efficiently Linking Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Patients to Care

Examining Factors that Impact Client Experiences of Depression in a Longitudinal iOAT Cohort

Caring for the Care-givers (or “Heal Thyself”), an Experiential Workshop of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Addiction Medicine Practitioners

DBT Skills for Sustainable Practice: Validation, Boundary Setting, and Self-Care

Induction Without Withdrawal: Low-dose Buprenorphine Inductions

Virtual Care

Connecting Vulnerable People with Opioid Use Disorder to Care: Expanding Accessibility and Building Trust Through a Community-Based Telemedicine Partnership

Bibliometric Analysis on the Use of Telemedicine and Technology for Treatment of Behavioral Addictions

Alberta’s Virtual Opioid Dependency Program (VODP): Providing Rapid Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) Access to Ongoing Care

Opioid Agonist Treatment in Corrections/Law Enforcement: Synchronous and Asynchronous Virtual Care

Virtual Addiction Medicine In-Reach into Fraser Health Hospitals

Improving Access to Addiction Medicine Services for a Remote Indigenous Community: Co-Construction and Evaluation of a Telehealth Care Trajectory

Increasing Manitoba First Nations’ Access to Addiction Medicine and Enhancing Community Capacity through a Mobile Delivery Model: A Pilot Project

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral - a Digital Guidance on Alcohol and Health Tool

Who/What/Where/When/Why: Establishing an Interdisciplinary Group Medical Visit Model for Alcohol-related Liver Disease

The Liver Care Clinic: Implementation of a Novel Interdisciplinary Liver Care Model for People Living with Alcohol Associated Liver Disease

The triple planetary crisis and planetary health equity: A call to action for addiction medicine clinicians

Youth and Addictions

Cannabis Use in Canadian Youth Post-Legalization: Perspectives of Youth, Parents, and Service Providers

Exploring Paths Forward: Transitions from Residential Treatment Among Young People Who Use Drugs

Identification and Risk for Alcohol-Related Harms in Gender Diverse Youth and Adults

Perinatal Substance Use Disorder and the Accessibility of Health Services for Perinatal Substance Use in British Columbia, Canada

Substance Use Disorder in the Perinatal Period

Increasing Provider Satisfaction with Perinatal Addictions Stabilization Admissions: A Quality Improvement Project

Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy in the Perinatal Population

Hospital-Based Care (1)

Patient Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes Associated with Use of In-Hospital Supervised Consumption Services by Emergency Department Patients: A Cohort Study

Inpatient Treatment Outcomes for Addiction: Demographic and Clinical Characteristics

Creating Caring Connections in the Emergency Department

Association of Hospital-Based Substance Use Supports on Emergency Department Revisits and Hospitalization: A Retrospective Single-Centre Cohort Study in Sudbury, Canada, from 2018-2022

The Impact of Localized Implementation: Perceived Barriers and Successes of an Addiction Medicine Unit (AMU) in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Who We Serve: Understanding the Demographic and Clinical Profile of Addiction Medicine Consultation Service at London Health Sciences Centre

Canadian Guidelines for Management of Alcohol Use Disorder

Why Are Some Physicians Apprehensive About Prescribing Safe Supply?

Beyond High: Cannabis Product Use Among Youth