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Building Bridge: Creativity in Treating Opioid Use Disorder | June 10, 2024

Date of Presentation: June 10, 2024

Type: Past Presentation  

Program: Virtual Care Implementation  

Keywords: #medications for oud  #MOUD  #OUD  #outpatient  #remote  #VCI  #virtual  #virtual care  

In this presentation, Jeremy Thueson, MD discusses an overview of medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) and describes a phone-based program to bridge patients from starting on medication assisted treatment in EDs to ongoing treatment for OUD in outpatient care.

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Jeremy Thueson, MD 

Jeremy Thueson, MD, Assistant Professor (Clinical), earned his medical degree at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Washington where he was chief resident of the inpatient and consult/liaison services at the University of Washington Medical Center during his final year of residency. Following that, he completed Addiction Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Washington. He serves as the Medical Director of Outpatient Recovery Services, which includes the Recovery Clinic, Recovery Works Intensive Outpatient Program and the outpatient clinic portion of the University of Utah Emergency Department Bridge program. Interests are many, with current focus on treatment of Substance Use Disorders, especially Opioid Use Disorder and buprenorphine maintenance. He is the Sub-Investigator on CTN-100 (Retention, Duration, Discontinuation), which is an NIH-funded, multi-site clinical trial looking at a variety of clinically pertinent outcomes using medications and behavioral interventions to treat Opioid Use Disorder. Dr. Thueson recently joined the Addiction Psychiatry Consult Service at UUH. He is board-certified in Psychiatry and in Addiction Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

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Date added: June 10, 2024