Congratulations to the #AMERSA2023 Best Workshop Award Winners: Rebecca Hosey, MPH, CRNP, Raagini Jawa MD, MPH, FASAM, @especially_apt, Rachel McFadden, Rachel Neuschatz, and @harmredux_rn The award is determined each year based on participant reviews. Very well deserved! amersa.org/award-winners/

Congratulations to Gail D'Onofrio, MD, MS Gail D'Onofrio for being named AMERSA's 2024 awardee of the John P. McGovern Award for Excellence in Medical Education! This award is given to an individual who has made important contributions to substance use education. Yale School of Medicine

Wooohooo!!! So well deserved, Leslie Suen, MD, MAS 🙌 🎉 🙌

Happy #EarthDay! AMERSA's newly formed Climate Task Force is working to incorporate environmentally sustainable practices into every aspect of governance and programming. We are committed to improving the environmental impact of our organization: amersa.org/sustainability…

🏆Congratulations to Dr. Sean Esteban McCabe DASH Center for being named AMERSA's 2024 Betty Ford awardee! This award is given to an individual who's had a significant impact on the field of alcohol & substance use, particularly with regard to women's issues, education & recovery.

7th Ed ASAM Principles released with our chapter on interprofessional collaborative practice. A great collaboration with ⁦Jeffrey Bratberg, PharmD, FAPhA⁩ PharmD and Lisa Berger MSW.

🏆 Congratulations to Dr. Phillip Coffin for being named AMERSA's 2024 awardee of the W. Anderson Spickard, Jr. Excellence in Mentorship award. "His expertise, dedication, and commitment to excellence have been instrumental in our joint success."

#NationalNursesWeek is an annual recognition of the dedication nurses embody and the compassionate care they show to their patients daily. As this year's NNW comes to an end, we want to acknowledge and thank all AMERSA nurses for your commitment & hard work. You are appreciated!

Dean Annette Wysocki: "Every nursing school needs benefactors to offset insufficient state funding." For International Nurses Day, read Dean Wysocki's op-ed in The Buffalo News calling for support for nursing. #IND2024 #OurNursesOurFuture ICN ow.ly/6tGs50RC5WI

I love seeing so many National Coalition to Liberate Methadone colleagues as drafters of AMERSA #Methadone position statement. 💕 marginalutilite Leslie Suen, MD, MAS SAj_AMERSA journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

This is me! ☺️

"In Support of Community Drug Checking Programs: Position Statement of AMERSA." AMERSA advocates: "It is imperative to expand funding and increase access to drug checking programs in communities across the United States." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Clearly opportunities for clinicians, researchers, educators, peer support specialists, persons who use drugs, persons in recovery to inform our country’s leaders about how to address the continuing rise in drug-related deaths and SUD. Ask the experts in AMERSA AMERSA!

Congratulations to Dr. Fakunle, this year's runner-up for the John Nelson Chappel Best Curricula, Quality Improvement and Program Abstract Award for their work. They will be presenting at AMERSA's 2024 annual conference - amersa.org/annual-confere…

One step closer in Massachusetts…

A great multidisciplinary organization and board! Join us!!!

We are once again excited to share three new faculty appointments: Brigit VanGraafeiland DNP, CPNP-PC, FAAN, FAANP will assume the role of Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program, Tammy Slater will be the new the Associate Director DNP Clinical, and Brenda Douglass DNP, APRN, FNP will take on the roll of Associate

We are hopeful about the recent data indicating a significant decrease in drug overdose deaths and are proud that AMERSA members make such positive impacts in this space, including those who are highlighted in this exclusive from NPR. npr.org/2024/09/18/nx-…