Big Ideas Plenary - Operationalizing Racial Justice and Equity in Healthcare

What big ideas are shaping the future of Addiction Medicine? Draw inspiration from ASAM award recipients and insights from national innovators during the Big Ideas Plenary Session! ASAM President, Dr. William F. Haning III, will recognize award recipients who are making major contributions to the field. Annual Conference Planning Committee Chair, Dr. Anika A.H. Alvanzo, will moderate a lively session with time for Q&A on Operationalizing Racial Justice and Equity in Healthcare.

Schedule
1:00 pm – 1:05 pm | Welcome to the Big Ideas Plenary
William F. Haning III, MD, DLFAPA, DFASAM

1:05 pm – 1:30 pm | Acknowledgement of Award Recipients
ASAM Media Award – Dale Okorodudu, MD
ASAM Annual Award – Timothy Wiegand, MD, FACMT,FAACT, DFASAM
ASAM Educator of the Year Award – David Mee-Lee,MD, DFASAM
John P. McGovern Award – Kelly J. Clark, MD, MBA,DFAPA, DFASAM

1:30 pm – 1:35 pm | Introduction of Presentations
Anika A. H. Alvanzo, MD, MS, FACP, DFASAM

1:35 pm – 1:50 pm | Operationalizing Racial Justice and Equity in Healthcare
Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS
This interactive presentation will cover foundational concepts on health equity, including the various types of bias and discrimination commonly seen in healthcare. Dr. Sivashanker will also present a new framework for advancing racial justice and equity in the healthcare arena by leveraging high-performance quality and safety practices to systematically make inequities visible and to address and resolve them as an integral part of healthcare practice. Learners will be able to identify specific strategies for effectively leveraging existing quality/safety infrastructure and processes to advance equality.

1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Imani Breakthrough: An Innovative Recovery Program for Black and Latinx People Who Use Opioids and Other Substances
Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD
This presentation focuses on upstream causes and enduring consequences of health disparities and racial oppression in addiction. COVID-19 has sharply outlined the urgent need to dismantle these systems, mitigate behaviors, and improve health outcomes of racial and ethnic minoritized people with substance use disorders (SUDs). We will discuss culturally relevant research techniques and clinical interventions that employ an anti-racist framework to model how health equity in addiction medicine can be achieved.

2:05 pm - 2:25 pm | Panel Discussion
Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS; Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD; Anika A. H. Alvanzo, MD, MS, FACP, DFASAM

2:25 pm – 2:30 pm | Closing Remarks
Anika A. H. Alvanzo, MD, MS, FACP, DFASAM