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Marin Coalition
Marin’s Approach to the Opioid Crisis
350 Smith Ranch Rd
San Rafael, California
11:00 AM PT - 1:30 PM PT
Marin Coalition Presents:
“Marin’s Approach to the Opioid Crisis: Getting to Zero Overdose Deaths through Collective Impact”
Speakers:
Dr. Matt Willis – Marin County Public Health Officer
Dr. Jeffrey DeVido – Chief, Addiction Services: Marin Co. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Addressing the opioid crisis calls for an unprecedented multi-tiered approach that decreases both the availability of and demand for opioids. In Marin County, stakeholders including the Department of Health and Human Services, law enforcement, educators, addiction treatment providers as well as hospitals and other medical providers have developed a comprehensive strategy to reverse the opioid epidemic locally. Presented by two of our area’s leading experts in the field, this discussion will describe local efforts to decrease opioid prescribing, raise public awareness about the harms of opioids, and increase access to treatment for opioid addiction in Marin.
A Marin native, Dr. Matt Willis has been the County’s Public Health Officer since 2013. Dr. Willis calls on experience as a physician, an epidemiologist, and a member of this community to guide public health strategy for Marin. A champion for innovative and highly collaborative approaches, he co-founded the RxSafe Marin coalition to address the opioid epidemic locally.
Dr. Willis has served in the US Public Health Service as Director of Primary Care on the Navajo Reservation and at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, where he conducted research and outbreak investigations in the U.S. and abroad. He holds a Medical Degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, and completed a Masters in Public Health and Internal Medicine residency at Harvard. He lives in San Anselmo with his wife and three children.
Dr. Jeffrey DeVido earned a Masters in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School before completing medical school studies at Columbia University in New York. He went on to complete training in adult psychiatry and addiction psychiatry at both Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and McLean Hospital at Harvard University.
Board certified in adult and addiction psychiatry, as well as carrying board certification addiction medicine from The American Board of Preventative Medicine, Dr. DeVido is currently Chief of Addiction Services at Marin County’s Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. DeVido continues to teach at UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry from which position he continues to teach, lecture, and publish on a wide array of mental health conditions.
- Date: Wednesday June 6, 2018; 11:15 a.m. (check-in and networking). Program and Luncheon begins promptly at noon. Meeting ends – 1:15 p.m.
- Where: The Club at McInnis Park Golf Center, 350 Smith Ranch Rd., San Rafael
- RSVP & Pay Online by June 3rd
- Cost: Please Note: $29 (members); $31 (non-members); $35 if RSVP received after June 3rd deadline or at the door
- Cancellations:for refund must be received via email by 10 a.m. on June 3rd.
Contact us at: marincoalitionlunch.members@gmail.com
Organization: Marin Coalition
Contact: Nadine Muller
Contact Email:
Website: https://marincoalition.org/events/