Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine, Wisconsin
Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH is a family medicine, preventive medicine/public health, and addiction medicine physician and is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. She is core faculty for the Addiction Medicine Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin and her role involves both inpatient addiction medicine consult and outpatient addiction medicine care in a federally qualified health center. She is also the Program Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency at UW-Madison and Medical Director of Harm Reduction Services at the Wisconsin Division of Public Health.
Most of Dr. Salisbury-Afshar's work has focused on expanding access to evidence based addiction treatment services and integration of behavioral health services into primary care settings. Past roles include serving as the Medical Director of Behavioral Health Systems Baltimore, as the Medical Director of Behavioral Health at the Chicago Department of Public Health, the Director of the Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions at the American Institutes for Research. She has over twelve years of experience working clinically in federally qualified health centers- providing direct patient care in both primary care and addiction medicine treatment. Dr. Salisbury-Afshar lectures nationally on addiction medicine topics including the treatment of opioid use disorder, harm reduction, drug policy and the intersection of addiction and the criminal legal system, and public health approaches to reduce overdose mortality.
She is actively involved in ASAM and currently serves as the Chair of the Fundamentals of Addiction Medicine course, Co-Chair of the NADCP-ASAM "Integrating Addiction Medicine with Treatment Courts" course, and as a member of the ASAM Conference Planning Committee. Dr. Salisbury-Afshar also serves as the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine (WISAM) Treasurer and Chair of the Public Policy Committee.
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Thursday, April 13, 2023
5:20 PM – 5:30 PM
Thursday, April 13, 2023
3:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Friday, April 14, 2023
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM