Webinar: National AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) Program Resources for Clinicians Providing Care to People with Substance Use Disorders

HRSA BPHC Technical Assistance Office Hours

Webinar Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Please join the AETC National Clinician Consultation Center in partnership with the AETC National Coordinating Resource Center, Health Resources and Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau (HRSA HAB) and Bureau of Primary Health Care (HRSA BPHC) for this webinar developed for clinicians and other health care providers.

The newly released National HIV/AIDS Strategy Federal Implementation Plan (2022-2025) calls for a coordinated and re-energized national HIV response at multiple levels, acknowledging people who inject drugs as one of several priority populations which continue to experience disparities across various HIV-related outcomes. Substance use and HIV care integration is one approach to provide comprehensive, person-centered medical services – yet clinics encounter differing challenges and opportunities when trying to implement an integrated model of care.

Objectives of this presentation:

  1. Review how newly curated AETC toolkits were designed to assist clinical teams with integration of behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) services into a wide variety of practice settings
  2. Identify opportunities where the National Clinician Consultation Center’s Warmline services could help bridge the gap to increase access to treatment and improve health outcomes of people who use drugs

Speakers:

Photograph of John A. Nelson, PhD, CNS, CPNP

John A. Nelson, PhD, CNS, CPNP is Director of the AETC National Coordinating Resource Center and PI of the Improving Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Treatment among People Living with or at Risk for HIV (STI SPNS) project at the Rutgers School of Nursing in Newark, NJ. Prior to his work at Rutgers, Dr. Nelson provided clinical care to adolescents and young adults with or at risk of HIV for almost 25 years and is well versed on the workforce challenges and successes in providing HIV-related care.

Photograph of Carolyn Chu, MD, MSc, FAAFP, AAHIVS

Carolyn Chu, MD, MSc, FAAFP, AAHIVS is an HIV-experienced family physician and PI of the AETC National Clinician Consultation Center, which operates multiple clinical tele-consultation services for providers delivering HIV, viral hepatitis, and substance use care. Dr. Chu completed an HIV clinical research fellowship at the Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, and currently sees patients and families at San Francisco General Hospital’s Family Health Center.

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The National Clinician Consultation Center is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $2,633,756 with 0% financed with non-governmental sources.

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