Events

Keynote Address: The Decline in US Life Expectancy: Are Deaths of Despair Responsible?, Steven Woolf, MD, MPH, Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University

Session 1: Substance Use Disorders and Adverse Health Outcomes

• Session Chair: Sarah H. Heil, PhD, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, University of Vermont
• Speakers:
  • The Medical Consequences of the Injection Opioid Epidemic in Rural America: The Case of West Virginia – Judith Feinberg, MD, Professor, Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, West Virginia University
  • Disease Risk Network Topologies Among People Who Inject Drugs in Rural Puerto Rico – Kirk Dombrowski, PhD, Vice President for Research, University of Vermont
  • Treating Women for Opioid Use Disorder in The Era of COVID-19 – Hendree Jones, PhD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
  • Smoking-Attributable Cancer by State: A Source of Rural Public Health Disparity? Andrea Villanti, PhD, MPH Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont

Special Lunchtime Event: Leveraging Innovation for Rural SUDs Care: Exploring Case Studies

Presented by: UVM Center on Rural Addiction (CORA)

During this Lunch & Learn session, join SUD treatment champions for small group discussions on the most common clinical challenges: OUD & pain, stimulant use, OUD & pregnancy, adolescents & SUDs, expanding rural treatment access. See case study document (PDF) for descriptions of each and select a study when you register. Attendance is limited.

• Session Chairs: Sanchit Maruti, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont and Robert Althoff, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont

Session 2: Rural Residence, Cancer, and Cardiovascular Disease

• Session Chair: Philip A. Ades, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Vermont
• Speakers:
  • Rural Obesity, Cancer, and Weight Control – Christie Befort, PhD, Professor, Department of Population Health, Associate Director, Cancer Prevention and Control, University of Kansas Cancer Center, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Rural-Urban Differences in Stroke Risk – George Howard, DrPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Breast Cancer Control in Rural Settings – Brian L. Sprague, PhD, Associate Professor, Office of Health Promotion, Department of Surgery, University of Vermont

   

Session 3: Rural-Urban Difference in Cardiac Prevention

• Speaker: David Schopfer, MD, Program Officer, Clinical Cardiovascular Disease, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Virtual Poster Session