The
Winding Road of Addiction: Hope on the Horizon
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
and Via Live Webinar
Friday, April 28, 2017
8:00am – 8:10am
Opening
Remarks
James S. Gessner, MD, Moderator
President, Massachusetts Medical Society
8:10am – 9:05am
Addiction
in the Age of Brain Science
Markus
Heilig, MD, PhD, Centre for Translational Psychiatric Research Linköping University, Sweden
9:05am – 10:05am
Beyond
The Disease Model: Trauma and Stress in the Genesis and Healing of
Addiction
Gabor Mate’, MD, author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghost
Vancouver, Canada
10:05am – 10:20am BREAK
10:20am – 11:15am
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
11:15am – 12:10pm
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
12:10pm – 12:15pm
Closing
Remarks
James
Gessner, MD
