Agenda

Breakfast (8 to 8:45 a.m.)

Breakfast will be provided in the foyer of the auditorium with programming scheduled to start at 8:45 a.m.

Welcome (8:45 to 9:30 a.m.)

  • Moderator Introduction 
  • Nabila El-Bassel, HCS NY PI, Social Intervention Group (SIG) Director, University Professor, Columbia University
  • Melissa Begg, Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW) Dean
  • Ann Sullivan, Commissioner, NY Office of Mental Health (OMH)

Session 1: HEALing Communities Study: A Groundbreaking Approach to Tackling the Opioid Crisis (9:30 to 10:15 a.m.)   

  • Chair: Scott Walters, HCS Steering Committee Chair; Regents Professor, Department of Population & Community Health, The University of North Texas Health Science Center
  • Nabila El-Bassel, HCS NY PI, Social Intervention Group (SIG) Director, University Professor, Columbia University
  • Jeffrey Samet, HCS MA PI, Jeffrey Samet, HCS MA PI, John Noble Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair of Public Health, Department of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Dan Feaster, HCS NY MPI, Professor, Public Health Sciences, Co-Director, Center for HIV and Research on Mental Health, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami 
  • Alissa Davis, HCS NY, Associate Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work

Session 2: HCS Community Coalitions in Action: Lessons from the HEALing Communities Study in Selecting and Delivering EBPs (10:15 to 11:30 a.m.)

  • Chair: Ned Nunes, HCS NY MPI; Professor, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry; Principal Investigator of the Greater New York Node of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network
  • Tim Hunt, HCS NY, Associate Director, SIG; Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
  • Alexander Walley, HCS MA, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine;  Medical Director, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  • Elwin Wu, HCS NY, Co-Director, SIG; Professor, CSSW
  • Juanita Hotchkiss, Ulster County HCS Coalition

Break (11:30 to 11:45 a.m.)

Session 3: Implementation Science in Action: Evaluating Fidelity, Attitudes, and Costs to Improve Outcomes (11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)

  • Chair: LaShawn Glasgow, HCS Data Coordination Center (DCC), Senior Director, Center for Program & Policy Evaluation to Advance Community Health, RTI
  • Louisa Gilbert, HCS NY MPI; Co-Director, SIG; Professor, CSSW
  • Dawn Goddard Eckrich, HCS NY, Associate Director, SIG; Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
  • Bruce Schackman, HCS NY; Director, Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH); Professor of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Gary Zarkin, HCS DCC; Distinguished Fellow, RTI

Lunch (12:30 to 1:15 p.m.)

Session 4: Supporting Community Decision Making through Simulation Modeling: Systems Dynamic and Agent Based Modeling (1:15 to 2 p.m.)

  • Chair: Terry Huang, HCS NY; Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Health Policy and Management, Director, Center for Systems and Community Design; City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
  • Magdalena Cerdá, HCS NY, Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine 
  • Nasim Sabounchi, HCS NY; Associate Professor, Resident Fellow Center for Systems and Community Design, CUNY, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
  • Steve Kilburn, Chautauqua County HCS Coalition

Session 5: Empowering Community-Based Research Through Administrative Data Partnerships: Strengths, Challenges (2 to 2:45 p.m.)

  • Chair: Marc LaRochelle, HCS MA, Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine 
  • Marc LaRochelle, HCS MA, Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Dan Feaster, HCS NY MPI, Professor, Public Health Sciences, Co-Director, Center for HIV and Research on Mental Health, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
  • Tian Zheng, HCS NY, Professor & Department Chair, Department of Statistics, Columbia University

Break (2:45 to 3 p.m.)

Session 6: Sustaining and Disseminating the CTH (3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.)

  • Chair: Scott Walters, HCS Steering Committee Chair; Regents Professor, Department of Population & Community Health, The University of North Texas Health Science Center
  • Tim Hunt, HCS NY, Associate Director, SIG; Associate Research Scientist, CSSW
  • Frances Levin, HCS NY; Professor, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Opioid Response Network (ORN)
  • Elizabeth Schady, Program Director, Office of Drug User Health, AIDS Institute, New York State Department of Health
  • Juanita Hotchkiss, Ulster County HCS Coalition
  • Steve Kilburn, Chautauqua County HCS Coalition
  • Jessica Hulsey, Executive Director, Addiction Policy Forum
  • Elizabeth Adams, HCS DCC Dissemination Lead, Research Public Health Analyst, RTI

Closing Remarks (4:15 to 5 p.m.)

  • Angela Olinto, Columbia University Provost
  • Muredach Reilly, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Florence and Herbert Irving Professor of Medicine, Director of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vice Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
  • Maia Szalavitz and Erik Carl Fisher, Moderators provide event summary and concluding remarks