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Director
Vanderbilt University Center for Child Health Policy
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 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 a Senior Policy Advisor to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy where he led an interagency policy process that resulted in the Administration’s action plan to improve outcomes for pregnant women with substance use disorder and their infants. 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. Dr. Patrick’s awards include the American Medical Association Foundation Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award, the Nemours Child Health Services Research Award, the Society for Pediatric Research Young Investigator Award and the Gale and Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research. He has published more than 110 peer review articles including in leading scientific journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Pediatrics and Health Affairs.
Monday, April 10, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM