Associate Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine, Washington
Pamela Pentin, MD, JD, FAAFP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, where she teaches residents and medical students. She is chief of service for family medicine at the UW Medical Center. She is a graduate of Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and completed her residency in family medicine at the University of Vermont, where she also served as chief resident.
Dr. Pentin is a full scope family physician, including obstetrics and hospital medicine, but her area of focus within primary care is substance use disorders. A waivered Buprenorphine prescriber since 2004, she has extensive experience managing acute and chronic pain, opioid use disorder, and the intersection between them. Her office-based practice rapidly shifted to a mostly Telehealth format at the start of the COVID pandemic, and she learned much from trial and error with thay move to virtual medicine. Dr. Pentin is also the primary care leader of UW Telepain, a weekly video-conference-based knowledge network providing guidance managing challenging pain and addiction patients to providers throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET
