Conference Program

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Pre-Conference
Thurs., Oct. 19
Fri., Oct. 20
Sat. Oct. 21
Fundamentals
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Friday, October 20

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

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Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.

CSAM-SMCA Committee Meetings
ROOM TBD
Mindful Meditation
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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

PLENARY
Dr. Mark Sherman
Re-Discovering Meaning in Medicine: On Burnout, Mindfulness and Joy
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9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Break

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Track 1
  lecture theater
Invited Presentation

Cannabis and Psychosis: Public Mental

Health-Oriented Recommendations for Prevention and Clinical Practice

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topic sessions

Concurrent Disorders

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Track 2
Oak Bay
Workshop
Heal Thyself: An Experiential Workshop on Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Addiction Medicine Practitioners
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Track 3
Esquimalt
Workshop

Novel Treatments for Mental Health Aspects of Addiction

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Workshop

Induction Without Withdrawal: Low-dose Buprenorphine Inductions

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Track 4

    saanich

Topic Sessions

Virtual Care

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12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

Mentor Lunch
Connect with leaders in the addiction medicine community

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1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Track 1

    saanich

Workshop

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

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Workshop

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

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Track 2
  Lecture Theater
invited presentation

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

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Track 3
Oak Bay
Topic Sessions

Youth and Addictions

 Substance Use Disorder in the Perinatal Period

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Track 4
Esquimalt
Topic Sessions

Hospital-Based Care (1)

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2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Break

2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Track 1

    saanich

INVITED PRESENTATION

Canadian Guidelines for Management of Alcohol Use Disorder

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Track 2
  Lecture Theater
INVITED PRESENTATION

Why Are Some Physicians Apprehensive About Prescribing Safe Supply?

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Track 3
Oak Bay
Workshop

Beyond High: Cannabis Product Use Among Youth

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Track 4
esquimalt
Topic Sessions

Hospital-Based Care (2)

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3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Track 1

Batosche Room

Storytelling
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
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Track 2

William Pascoe Room

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

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

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Track 3

Terrace lounge

Workshop

Motivational Interviewing: Introduction to Advanced for the Addiction Medicine Practitioner

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6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Friday Night Social
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Mindful Meditation

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

Many of the mat yoga poses have been adapted for the chair, offering gentle stretching to ease muscle tension due to long sitting at meetings, conferences or sitting in front of a computer. Includes introduction to breath work, stretching, gentle spinal twists, shoulder rolls and lower back release. The benefit of yoga is the integration of all the aspects of life – environmental, physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual.

Meditation (20mins) 7:25am-7:45am
Meditation is a powerful tool that has been used for thousands of years to move beyond the mind’s busy activity and emotional turbulence into a state of inner silence and restful awareness. This timeless wisdom is a process of rediscovering the stillness that is a part of our nature and integrating this calm centeredness into our daily lives. Participants will be introduced to Chakra* meditation There are seven energy centers in the body known as chakras. The chakras are major junction points between consciousness and the body, and each one is associated with a specific vibration.
Plenary

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

Mark Sherman, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP

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Invited Presentation

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

Didier Jutras-Aswad, MD, MS, FRCPC

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TOPIC SESSIONS

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

Gabriel Bastien, BSc, PhD (c)
Nanor Minoyan, MSc, PhD (c)
Geng Zang, PhD
Julie Bruneau, MD, MSc
Didier Jutras-Aswad, MD, MSc”

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

Joshua Lynch, DO, FACEP

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

Tianna Magel, BA
Ying MacNab, PhD
Scott MacDonald, MD
Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, PhD

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Workshop

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

Dr. Anne Nguyen, MD, CCFP(AM)
Mark Sherman MD CM, CCFP, FCFP

 
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Workshop

Novel Treatments for Mental Health Aspects of Addiction

Christine Gibson, MD

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Workshop

Induction Without Withdrawal: Low-dose Buprenorphine Inductions

James Wong, MSc
Pouya Azar, MD, FRCPC, DABAM
Martha Ignaszewski, MD, FRCPCP
Nick Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM”

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TOPIC SESSIONS

Virtual Care

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

Amélie Goyette
Sara-Kim Lamont, RN
Catherine de Montigny, LL.B., M.D.
Sofiane Mouloud Chougar
Stine Hoj, PhD
Julie Bruneau, MD, MSc

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

Tan Hui Shan
Syidda Binte Amron
Melvyn WB Zhang

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

Lindsey Davis, BCR, MPH
Jenifer Nasr, BSc

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

Maureen Wass, MA
Nathaniel Day, MD, CCFP, ABAM, CH

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Virtual Addiction Medicine In-Reach into Fraser Health Hospitals

Sarah Mark, MD, CCFP
Sonam Shah, MD, CCFP
Daniel Raff, MD, CCFP, MDS
Simran Riarh, RPN

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

Stéphanie Marsan
Annie Talbot MD, FCFP (MT)
Blanche Du Sault
Theresa Martin
Sarah Marcoux, MD, CCFP

Donna Metallic

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

Ryley Siscoe, RNBN
Katherine Ludlow, MD
Erin Knight, MD
Macky Layco, BA., CSW
Lisa Currier, BSW
Sean McPhee, MD

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

Daniel S. Dacombe, BA, MSc
Erin Knight, MD, CCFP(AM), CCSAM

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Workshop

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

Erin Knight, MD, CCFP(AM), CCSAM
Nabiha Faisal, MD
Carmen Taylor, O.T. Reg. (MB), MOT, BA (Hons.)

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Workshop

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

TBD

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Invited Presentation

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

Dr. Rashmi Chadha MBChB MScCH CCFP (AM) FASAM MRCGP (Dist.) (Addictions Physician, Vancouver Coastal Health)

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TOPIC SESSIONS

Youth and Addictions

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

Toula Kourgiantakis, PhD, RSW
Angie Hamilton, BCL, LL.B

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

Cameron Eekhoudt, BSc, MSc
Danya Fast, PhD

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

Alexandra Uhrig, M.A.
Tara Raessi, BComm(Hons)
Alex Abramovich, Ph.D.
Sarah S. Dermody, Ph.D., C.Psych.

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

Shannon Joyce, RN
Micah Piske MSc PH
Fahmida Homayra
Brittany Barker, PhD
Bohdan Nosyk, PhD
Louise Meilleur, MA, MPH

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Substance Use Disorder in the Perinatal Period

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

Meara Tubman-Broeren, MD
Megan Woolner, MD, CCFP, BCCSU Addiction Medicine Fellowship

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Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy in the Perinatal Population

Charissa Patricelli, MD, CCFP(AM), FCFP, DABAM, FASAM
Jessie Chai

Nicole Carter, RN, BSc, BSN,

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TOPIC SESSIONS

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

Nina Lam, MD
Jake Hayward
Kathryn Dong, MD, MSc, FRCP, DRCPSC
Jaspreet K. Khangura, MD, MSc, FRCPC.

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Inpatient Treatment Outcomes for Addiction: Demographic and Clinical Characteristics

Lindsey Snaychuk, MA
Christina Basedow, PhD

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Creating Caring Connections in the Emergency Department

Laura Hill, MScN, NP-Adult
Roberta Heale NP-PHC, DNP, PhD
Adele Bodson BScN, RN

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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

Kristen Morin, PhD, MPH

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

Kristen Morin, PhD, MPH

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

Sharon Koivu, MD, MCFP, PC, AM
Allison MacKinley, BScN, MN-NP

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Invited Presentation

Canadian Guidelines for Management of Alcohol Use Disorder

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Invited Presentation

Why Are Some Physicians Apprehensive About Prescribing Safe Supply?

Nickie Mathew
Pouya Azar

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Workshop

Beyond High: Cannabis Product Use Among Youth

Launette Rieb, MD, MSc

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TOPIC SESSIONS

Hospital-Based Care (2)

Exploring the Use of Peripherally-Inserted Central Catheter Lines in People Who Inject Drugs who are Admitted to Hospital for Infection in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Jordin Fletcher, BScN
Thomas Brothers, MD CISAM
Mark Robbins, MD, FRCPC

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Life-Saving Measures: Optimizing Addiction Care in a Community Hospital

Vanessa Kong, BA (Hons)
Daniel Wong, BSc (Pharm)
Lingsa Jia, MD

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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Repeat Heart Valve Replacement Surgery for Infective Endocarditis in Intravenous Drug Users

Grahanya Sachidanandan, BHSc
Sonya Batth, BHSc

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Virtual Addiction Medicine In-Reach into Fraser Health Hospitals

Sarah Mark, MD, CCFP
Sonam Shah, MD, CCFP
Daniel Raff, MD, CCFP, MDS
Simran Riarh, RPN

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Workshop

Motivational Interviewing: Introduction to Advanced for the Addiction Medicine Practitioner

Wiplove Lamba, Psychiatrist, University of Toronto

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach to behaviour change designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change, within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion. This workshop will provide a brief overview of MI with a specific focus on applications to addiction medicine practice. Presenters will explore theoretical components including the spirit, principles, and foundational processes of MI, and participants will leave with specific tools and techniques that they can apply in clinical care as well as strategies that can help colleagues pick up the skill.

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