Medical Director
UPMC, Pennsylvania
Dr. Michael Lynch is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Lynch graduated from the University of Notre Dame and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine before completing his residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Medical Toxicology at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Lynch works in the Emergency Departments at UPMC Presbyterian and Mercy Hospitals. The Toxicology service at UPMC is one of the busiest in the country, seeing patients at 5 Pittsburgh hospitals as well as providing inpatient addiction and telemedicine treatment. Dr. Lynch is the first Medical Director/Medical Consultant for the PA Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs as well as Medical Director of both the Pittsburgh Poison Center and Substance Use Disorder Services at UPMC Health Plan. He is currently serving on the Boards of Directors for the PA College of Emergency Physicians and the American Association of Poison Control Centers. He has implemented naloxone distribution, emergency department buprenorphine induction, as well as inpatient buprenorphine and methadone initiation and maintenance pathways within the UPMC system. Dr. Lynch began the inpatient addiction medicine consultation service at UPMC with a multidisciplinary team, a poison center based withdrawal and addiction treatment support hotline, and, most recently, implemented a telemedicine addiction bridge clinic serving the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He served on the Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force at the Department of Health and Human Services.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Sunday, April 3, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
