Thematic 2020: Addictions

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Speaker: Dr. Robert L. TanguayBSc (Hons), MD, FRCPC, CISAM, CCSAM
Provincial Medical Lead, Opioid Dependency Training, Alberta Health Services

"Nutritional Implications of Medical Marijuana"

Learning Objectives:

1. Review of the constituents of Cannabis;
2. Review of the Endocannabinoid System;
3. Cannabis and the Brain;
4. Cannabis and Pain;
5. Other Side Effects of Cannabis;
6. What can I do, a Practical Approach

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. Rob Tanguay is an FRCPC psychiatrist who is fellowship trained and sub-specialized in both Addiction Medicine, certified under the International Society of Addiction's Medicine (ISAM) and Canadian Society of Addiction's Medicine (CSAM), and Pain Medicine. He is the Provincial Medical Lead for Opioid Dependency Treatment Training for Addictions and Mental Health, Alberta Health Services, the Executive Director of the Canadian Opioid Deprescibing Institute (CODi), the Executive Director of the Transitional Outpatient Patient Program for Pain (TOPPS), the President Elect of the Pain Society of Alberta, the CSAM Regional Director for Alberta and NWT, and the Co-Chair of the Opioid Use in Pain Medicine working group for the Alberta Pain Strategy. Dr. Tanguay's current clinical positions include: Medical Lead of the TOPPS clinic (Transitional Outpatient Pain Program for Spine), Medical Lead of the Canadian Deprescribing Institute, and a Pain, Psychiatric, and Addictions Consultant for the Opioid Deprescribing Program, Alberta Health Services. He has been invited to be a keynote, plenary, and panel speaker at national and international conferences as well as for local events and is a Clinical Lecturer at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Speaker: Kelly Sullivan, RD
Safeworks Harm Reduction Program and Southern Alberta Clinic
Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre

"Harm Reduction and Nutrition – supporting lives through relationships and food at a supervised consumption services site"

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the role of the dietitian at the SCS and in harm reduction;
2. Outline how food is supplied at the supervised consumption site (SCS) at Sheldon Chumir in Calgary;
3. Describe client identified food and nutrition needs.

About the Speaker:

Kelly was born and raised in central Newfoundland. She attended Acadia University in Wolfville NS and obtained a Science degree in dietetics. Kelly's previously spent 10 years in the area of pain management and is currently in her second year of work in the area of harm reduction. To her knowledge she is the only RD working directly in a supervised consumption services site in Canada.

***Original Source: "2020 Thematic Conference", Saturday, January 11, 2020

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Type: Video

Last Updated: March 23, 2020