Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy

Thursday, May 6, 2021

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Webinar

This virtual educational activity is jointly provided by AXIS Medical Education and the Connecticut Hospital Association in collaboration with Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

Target audience:  Physicians, nurses, social workers, quality professional, risk managers, healthcare executives and all healthcare professionals working with women and families affected by trauma and addiction.

Description: This educational activity will review the epidemiology of substance abuse in reproductive-aged women.  We will address current medication assisted therapies used in pregnancy for women with a history of opioid addiction and their impact on neonatal outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be better able to:

• Discuss how to assess and manage pregnant and lactating women with substance use.
• Explain how to develop a reasonable treatment plan for pregnant and postpartum patients with substance use.

Your Faculty:

Audrey Merriam, MD is an attending physician and Assistant Professor in the department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Yale University and the Associate Residency Program Director for the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program.  Originally from upstate New York, she has never been able to break out of the east coast.  After graduating from St. Lawrence University in 2006 Dr. Merriam attended medical school at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT and completed the majority of her clinical rotations at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME.  She completed her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Christiana Care Health System in Delaware and her Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at Columbia University in NYC.  While at Columbia she obtained a master’s degree in Biostatistics.   During this time, Dr. Merriam has served on the boards for the Junior Fellow Advisory Council for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine.  Dr. Merriam is currently the co-chair of the formed Maternal Mortality Review Committee for the state of Connecticut. 

Ariadna Foray, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She received her B.A. in neuroscience from Bryn Mawr and her M.D. from Harvard. During her psychiatry residency training at Yale, she joined the Neuroscience Research Training Program and studied the impact of pregnancy, PTSD and pregnancy-specific anxiety on stress reactivity and arousal using the affect modulation of the acoustic startle reflex. Following residency, she joined the faculty at Yale and was awarded funding through the competitive Clinician Scientist Training Program (K12) and focused her research on the development of novel treatments for perinatal substance use. She is the Director of the Center for Wellness of Women and Mothers, a reproductive psychiatry research program. As a principal investigator and co-investigator on several NIH-funded grants, she has developed and implemented addiction treatment interventions, successfully recruited pregnant women with substance use disorders for participation in clinical research and collaborated with researchers and clinicians across disciplines. As part of her clinical work, Dr. Forray is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist at Yale New Haven hospital and the interim Chief of the Psychological Medicine Section. She is also the Psychiatry Director of the interdisciplinary Adult Sickle Cell Program and is one of the few psychiatrists in the U.S. with expertise in mental health issues in patients with sickle cell disease.

ACCREDITED CONTINUING EDUCATION

Accreditation Statement

 In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AXIS Medical Education and the Connecticut Hospital Association. AXIS Medical Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Credit Designation for Physicians

AXIS Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Credit Designation for Nursing

AXIS Medical Education designates this continuing nursing education activity for 1.0 contact hours.

Learners are advised that accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with an activity.

Social Workers

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, AXIS Medical Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AXIS Medical Education maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.

Quality Professionals

This program has been approved by the National Association for Healthcare Quality for a maximum of 1 CPHQ continuing education credits for this event.

Risk Management

This meeting has been approved for a total of 1.0 contact hours of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal. 

Healthcare Executives

ACHE Qualified Education credit must be related to healthcare management (i.e., it cannot be clinical, inspirational, or specific to the sponsoring organization). It can be earned through educational programs conducted or sponsored by any organization qualified to provide education programming in healthcare management. Programs may be sponsored by ACHE, chapters, or other qualified sources, whether the programming is face-to-face or distance offerings (webinars, online seminars, self-study courses, etc.). You will receive a certificate of completion for 1.0 hours.

AXIS Contact Information

For information about the accreditation of this program please contact AXIS at info@axismeded.org.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

AXIS Medical Education requires faculty, instructors, authors, planners, directors, managers, reviewers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose all real or apparent conflicts of interest they may have with ineligible companies. An ineligible entity is any organization whose primary business is t producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant conflicts of interest are identified and mitigated prior to initiation of the planning phase for an activity. 

AXIS has mitigated and disclosed to learners all relevant conflicts of interest disclosed by staff, planners, faculty/authors, peer reviewers, or others in control of content for this activity. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation or activity. Disclosure information for faculty, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, and/or relevant staff is provided with this activity.

The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationships or relationships they have with ineligible companies of any amount during the past 24 months:

The directors, planners, managers and reviewers reported the following financial relationships they have with any ineligible company of any amount during the past 24 months:

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of patient conditions and possible contraindications or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

Requirements for credit:  

• Attend/participate in the educational activity and review all course materials. 
• Complete the CE Declaration Form online by 11:59 p.m. ET June 6, 2021. If you do not enter the online portal by the above date, you will not be able to retrieve your statement of participation.
• Upon successful completion of the online form, your statement of completion will be presented to you to print.