Thursday, October 8
8:30 am Introduction and Overview
Karen Miotto, MD, Conference Chair
8:45 New Directions in Demand Reduction: A View from the ONDCP
A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, Nominee for Deputy Director for Demand Reduction, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania and founder and Executive Director, Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA
9:35 Orexin, CRF, and Synaptic Plasticity in Relation to Drug Addiction
Antonello Bonci, MD, Professor of Neurology, Howard J. Weinberger Chair in Addiction Research, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center and Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco.
10:05 Break with Exhibitors
10:25 Presentation of the Vernelle Fox Award
10:30 GDNF: A Therapeutic Target for the Treatment of Alcohol Abuse Disorders
Dorit Ron, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurology, UC San Francisco; Principal Investigator, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center
11:00 Update on Alcohol Research: How to Make a Better Naltrexone
Howard Fields, MD, PhD, Professor, Neurology and Physiology. Director, Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, University of California, San Francisco
11:30 Thirty-year Follow-up on Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorders
George Vaillant, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Senior Physician (Psychiatry), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
12:15 pm Break for Lunch
12:15 Lunch Discussion: Update on Changes to Physician Health Programs in California
Update by the CSAM Committee on Physician Well-Being.
Grab a box lunch and bring your questions and comments. All welcome, no charge.
1:30 Addiction, Recovery, and Trust
Paul Zak, PhD, Founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate University; Professor of Neurology, Loma Linda University Medical Center
2:15 Research Update on Enhancing Twelve-Step Participation
Lee Ann Kaskutas, DrPH, Senior Researcher, Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, CA
3:00 Case Discussion
3:30 Break with Exhibitors
3:50 Presentation of the Community Service Award
3:55 Spirituality and Addiction Recovery
Reef Karim, DO, Assistant Clinical Professor, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; Associate Director, UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic; Director, Beverly Hills Center for Self Control and Lifestyle Addictions
4:40 Twelve-Step Recovery and the Reward Pathway
George Vaillant, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Senior Physician (Psychiatry), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
5:30 Adjourn for the Day
7:30 pm Dessert Reception
(free to registrants/guests)
Twelve-Step Programs and Addiction Medicine: A conversation with John Chappel, MD and George Vaillant, MD
Friday, October 9
Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abuse
7:30 am Breakfast with AAAP
8:30 am Adolescent Brain Development and Addiction: Research Findings Clinicians Should Know
Sandra Brown, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, UCSD; Chief, Psychology Service, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System
9:20 Advances in Research on the Treatment of Adolescents with Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders
Paula Riggs, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO
10:10 Break with Exhibitors
10:30 Treatment of Opioid Dependence in Adolescents and Young Adults
Marc Fishman, MD, Medical Director, Maryland Treatment Centers; Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
11:15 Case Discussion
11:35 ADHD and Substance Abuse in Adolescents and Young Adults
Mark De Antonio, MD, Clinical Professor and Director, Inpatient Child and Adolescent Service, UCLA; Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
12:20 pm Break for Lunch
12:30 CSAM Annual Business Meeting
(Non-members welcome to attend)
Grab a lunch and attend.
Pain and Addiction Pathways
1:45 The Neurobiological Basis of Pain and its Control
Allan Basbaum, PhD, FRS, Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
2:35 Opioids in Pain and Addiction: What God Hath Joined Together, Can Man Put Assunder?
Walter Ling, MD, Professor of Psychiatry; Director of the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP), David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
3:05 Panel: The Overlap of Pain and Addiction: Clinical Applications
3:15 Break with Exhibitors
Prescription Drug Abuse
3:35 New Federal Initiatives in Addressing Prescription Drug Abuse
H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
4:05 New Medications: Risk Evaluation, Mitigation Strategies, and the FDA's New Requirements
Scott Fishman, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento
4:40 Panel: Application to Clinical Practice -- From Clinical and Regulatory Viewpoints
4:55 The Difficult Patient: What Difficult Patients Do and Why They Do It
Scott Fishman, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Dept. of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento
5:30 Adjourn for the day
Saturday, October 10
Cannabis and the Brain's Endocannabinoids
8:30 am Cannabinoid Modulation of Executive Functions
Tommy Pattij, PhD, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
9:20 Neuropsychological Functioning in Adolescent Marijuana Users
Krista Medina, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, OH
10:00 Break
10:15 Effects of Gabapentin on Cannabis Withdrawal
Barbara Mason, PhD,Pearson Family Professor, Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders; Co-Director, Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
11:05 Case Discussions / Panel
12:00 CSAM's Blueprint for Adolescent Treatment: The Clinical and Public Policy Imperative of Early Diagnosis
Timmen Cermak, MD, Private Practice of Psychiatry, San Francisco; Incoming CSAM President
12:30 Adjourn Conference
