Opioid Use in Primary Care Conference 2024
Event date: 05/24/2024
Event type: Single day (a day or less)
Save the date – May 24, 2024
Opioid Use in Primary Care - Virtual Annual Conference
Designed for anyone involved in the care and support of people who use opioids, this one-day event will provide the opportunity to learn about and discuss topics related to opioid use practices, policies, treatments and harm reduction.
To view session topics and speakers and for more information about the conference, please visit:
https://www.camh.ca/en/profess...mary-care-conference
Keynote speaker: Mae Katt
Mae Katt is a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner from Temagami First Nation and lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She has an Honours Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Education (Curriculum Specialty) and Honorary Doctor of Laws from Trent University. She coordinates a Mobile Treatment Team that serves remote and rural First Nations to provide opiate-agonist treatment with buprenorphine/naloxone and injectable buprenorphine. Mae has also provided primary health care and mental health care to students in an urban-based Indigenous high school for over 20 years.
Conference themes
- Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) treatment across the lifespan
- Serving people with complex needs
- Innovative therapeutics and protocols: Looking at the evidence
- Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) in primary care for new prescribers