The Next Chapter: A Discussion on the Next Edition of The ASAM Criteria

Friday, April 1, 2022

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Location: Diplomat Ballroom 3-5, Second Floor

This interactive session provides an opportunity for attendees to engage with the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Team of The ASAM Criteria 4th Edition to receive updates and provide input on the development of the next edition. The mission of the Editorial Team is to map the dimensional analysis and level of care decision rules to the latest evidence and methodologically derived expert opinion. The development of the 4th Edition will take into consideration a wide range of expertise and will rely heavily on feedback from the diverse members of the field.

This panel will focus on getting feedback and suggestions from the audience that will help the editorial team and the writing committees to make the next edition of The ASAM Criteria as accurate, relevant and helpful as possible for the field of addiction treatment.

Learning Objectives:

Learners will be able to:

Learn about the vision for the development of the 4th edition of the ASAM Criteria and the key role of feedback from the field in this process.
Describe the methodology that will be used for the development of the 4th edition of the ASAM Criteria.
Discuss suggestions, feedback and ideas that will help inform the development of the 4th Edition of the ASAM Criteria.

Presenter(s)

R Corey Waller, MD, MS, FACEP, DFASAM

Chief Medical Officer
BrightView Health, Michigan

Slides Handouts
Whitney I. Menarcheck, LPC, NCC

Assistant Director for Systems Transformation Support
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU), Pennsylvania
Sandra Gomez-Luna, MD, FASAM

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Connecticut
Kimberly Johnson, PhD

Associate Professor
Uiversity of South Florida, Florida