CA, July 22 -23, 2019.
“Tribal Medication Assisted Treatment,” Plenary Speaker at the California Dept. Health Care Services Substance Use Statewide Conference, Long Beach, CA, Aug. 23-24, 2019.
“Buprenorphine for Pain Management- an RN Care-Managed Approach,” Presented at the Center for Care Innovations, Oakland, CA, Sept. 18, 2019.
“Tribal MAT: Medication and Medicine,” Presented at the UCLA Integrated
Substance Abuse Project, Burbank, CA, Oct. 25, 2019.
“MAT Staff Training and Culture Transformation,” Presented at the Center for Care
Innovations, Berkeley, CA, Nov 6-7, 2019.
“Tribal Medication Assisted Treatment,” Presented at The Center at Sierra Health
Foundation – Health Equity Committee, Sacramento, CA, Nov.15, 2019.
“Troubleshooting your MAT Program,” Presented at the CRIHB 2nd Annual Opioid
Summit. Pala, CA Dec. 3-4, 2019.
“Integrating MAT Care,” Presented at the California Indian Opioid Safety Coalition
(CIOSC). Temecula, CA, Feb.25 -27, 2020.
“Stigma and Stigma Injury” – Institute of Public Strategies, San Diego, CA Nov. 18, 2020
Mat Policies and Procedures in Tribal Health Centers, Washoe Tribe, NV, Nov.11,2022.
PCSS-X MOUD Treatment and Program Panel Series June 2022- Current
Nurses In Addictions Summit - ORN 9/13/2023
Restoring Hope - Nurses as Changemakers May 30, 2024
Webinars
“Mat for Everybody” Sierra Health Foundation MAT Access Points, April 29, 2020.
“MAT for Everybody” Telewell Indian Health MAT Project, Feb. 19, 2020.
“Pain and Opioids” Telewell Indian Health MAT Project, Jan. 22, 2020.
“Three essentials for a multi-disciplinary MAT program” Telewell Indian Health MAT Project, Oct. 16, 2019
Publications
The Medication Assisted Treatment Handbook– Providing Best Practice Care in a Community Health Center
https://www.telewell.org/technical-assistance (2019)
Medications for Addictions Treatment Toolkit: Providing Best Practice Care in a Primary Care Clinic https://camdenhealth.org/resources/medications-for-addiction-treatment-providing-best-practice-care-in-a-primary-care-clinic/
Presentations
“Working together: The essentials of collaborative care for MAT programs,”
Presented at the Center for Care Innovations, Los Angeles, April 10 -11, 2019.
“Stigma and Stigma Injury,” Presented at the Eastern Sierra Opioid Summit, Bishop,
Monthly Tribal Project Echo Learning Sessions - live case presentation and consultation among Tribal MAT teams throughout state of California.
Opioid and Pain Treatment in Indigenous Communities (OPTIC) - clinical trial.
Technical Assistance/Mentoring for MAT program development in 60 Federally Qualified Health Centers throughout California with a team of MAT specialists.
State of California Tribal MAT 1.0 and 2.0 - Providing all aspects of Technical Assistance /Mentoring to California Tribal and Urban Indian Health Clinics in developing Best Practice Medications for Addictions Treatment (MAT) Programs. Training, operations, team building, policies and procedures and ongoing coaching.
RN Case Manager for Medication-Assisted Treatment program for opioid use and other substance use disorders at Chapa-De Indian Health Grass Valley clinic site. MAT Program Manager. Manages Buprenorphine for Pain Management program. SBIRT program; tobacco cessation, all substance use disorders - detox management.
Substance Use Disorder and MAT program specialist. Technical Assistance for multiple Federally Qualified Health Centers in California as HRSA granted Medication-Assisted Treatment for opioid use disorders programs as developed and launched.
Program development of new Medication-Assisted Treatment Program, Safe Rx and management of chronic pain.
Technical Assistance for early grant pilot - developing MAT programs in Primary Care clinics. These were the early years.
Addictions Nurse Case Manager. Developed, implemented and case managed Buprenorphine/Medications for Opioid Use Disorder program for veterans. Case managed veterans with complex co-morbidity such as chronic pain, Traumatic Brain Injury, PTSD and substance use disorders. Developed and implemented smoking cessation program, Women In Recovery for female veterans and Mindfulness for Veterans series.
Resident Care Coordinator for large Assisted and Independent Living facility.
Behavioral health nurse, case managing psychiatric care in large methadone clinic. Developed and launched the Buprenorphine/Naloxone (Suboxone.
All aspects of Addictions nursing, managing withdrawal protocols, developed and implemented with the nursing team the buprenorphine program 2002. Became Certified in Addictions Nursing 2003.