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Treat Addiction Like a Chronic Disease in Ambulatory Care: With Confidence and Compassion | September 17, 2024

Date of Presentation: September 17, 2024

In this presentation, Dr. Jeffrey Paul Bratberg, Pharm.D., FAPhA, Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research at the University of Rhode Island, explores the integration of addiction care into ambulatory settings. The session covers strategies for incorporating addiction screening, treatment initiation, maintenance, and monitoring into your practice’s workflow. Dr. Bratberg also addresses methods for evaluating and publishing patient and clinical outcomes related to addiction care and compares various reimbursement pathways for ambulatory pharmacy addiction services. This session offers valuable insights into providing effective and compassionate care for patients with addiction while navigating the complexities of chronic disease management.

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Presented by:

Dr. Jeffrey Paul Bratberg, Pharm.D., FAPhA
Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research at the University of Rhode Island

Dr. Bratberg studies the essential and emerging roles community pharmacists play regarding opioid overdose, harm reduction and opioid use disorders as a clinical professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Rhode Island. He works with student pharmacists to advocate for pharmacists’ expanded roles in medication access, public health promotion, and policy change. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA) and he co-produces and co-hosts a public health pharmacy podcast, “The Regimen.”

His clinical practice site is the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) in Providence, Rhode Island. Here, he serves as the Academic Collaborations Officer in the RIDOH Academic Institute.

Dr. Bratberg is an active member of the Rhode Island Pharmacists’ Association (RIPA), the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research on Substance Use and Addiction (AMERSA), and the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD).

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Date added: August 30, 2024