8:00 am – 8:10 am
Opening Remarks
James S. Gessner, MD - Moderator
President, Massachusetts Medical Society
8:10 am – 9:05 am
Addiction in the Age of Brain Science
Markus Heilig, MD, PhD, Centre for Translational Psychiatric
Research
Linköping University, Sweden
9:05 am – 10:05 am
Beyond The Disease Model:
Trauma and Stress in the Genesis and Healing of Addiction
Gabor Maté, MD, author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Vancouver, Canada
- Presentation Not Available
10:05 am – 10:20 am
BREAK
10:20 am – 11:15 am
Substance Use Disorder: The New Commodity Based Approach to
Preventing and Treating Drug Addiction
A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, founder and chairman of the Board
of Directors
Treatment Research Institute
Philadelphia, PA
11:15 am – 12:10 pm
Overcoming Addiction Stigma: Reflections on the Care of
Pregnant Women
Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH, FACOG, FASAM, Professor of
Obstetrics & Gynecology and Psychiatry; Associate Director of Addiction
Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine,
Richmond, VA
12:10 pm – 12:15 pm
Closing Remarks
James Gessner, MD
