June 11, 2019
WVHA Opioid Collaborative Monthly Webinar
Speakers: Dr. Alexis LaPietra
Opioids and Alternatives – Implementing an Opiate Sparing Strategy
This webinar will focus on multi-modal analgesia for inpatient pain management. It will outline how to risk stratify patients so almost every patient that is admitted can benefit from a multimodal approach. Dr. LaPietra will also talk about buprenorphine (Suboxone) for patients with opioid use disorder who go into withdrawal in the hospital.
Dr. Alexis LaPietra is the current Medical Director of the Emergency Medicine Pain Management Program and the Fellowship Director of the Emergency Medicine Pain Management Fellowship and Emergency Medicine Mental Health and Addiction Medicine Fellowship at St Joseph’s Health in Paterson, NJ. She is the founder and creator of the Alternatives to Opioids (ALTO SM) program and the Pain Management and Addiction Medicine Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
In 2016 she received the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award from George Washington University Center for Healthcare Innovation and Policy Research as well as the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians Practice Innovation Award. The ALTOSM program was awarded the NJBIZ Healthcare Heroes Innovation Award for 2017. Dr. LaPietra’s work has been highlighted nationally in The Annals of Emergency Medicine, NPR, NBC, The New York Times, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN. Her work was the basis for the “ALTO in the ED Act,” part of the legislation included in the H.R.6- SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act signed into law by President Trump in October 2018.
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