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Director, Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN
Stephen W. Patrick, MD, MPH, MS, is the Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy, Executive Director of Firefly a comprehensive treatment program for pregnant people with opioid use disorder, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an attending neonatologist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. He also currently serves as a Senior Policy Advisor to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, an Adjunct Physician Policy Researcher at RAND Corporation and is a Guest Researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Patrick’s National Institutes of Health-funded research focuses on improving outcomes for pregnant people with opioid use disorder and their infants, and evaluating state and federal drug policies. He previously served as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Substance Use and Prevention and has been a voting member on several US Food and Drug Administration Advisory Boards focused on opioid use in children. He has testified about the impact of the opioid crisis on pregnant people and infants before committees in both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. He has published more than 100 peer review articles including in leading scientific journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Pediatrics and Health Affairs.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM ET