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Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Position:
- Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
- Professor, Family & Community Medicine
- Program Co-Director, Jeff MAP T32 Post-doctoral Fellowship
Email:
Lara.Weinstein@jefferson.edu
Contact Number(s):
Name:
Philip A. Durney, MD
Position:
- Assistant Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Position:
Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine
Email:
Philip.Durney@jefferson.edu
Research Opportunities
Fellows with a particular interest in community-based research can take part in longitudinal electives in the Department of Family and Community Medicine’s Program for Supportive Healthcare. The mission of the Program for Supportive Healthcare at Jefferson is to improve healthcare in partnership with people experiencing serious mental illnesses (SMI) and substance use disorders (SUD). Our focus is on developing and testing new models of care and educating healthcare professionals to deliver better healthcare and to improve health and well-being. Fellows can also partner with post-doctoral fellow’s HRSA T32 Jefferson Mental Illness, Addiction, & Primary Care (JeffMAP) Fellowship.
Addiction Medicine Fellows have the option to participate in the Jefferson College of Population Health Quality Improvement Patient Safety (QIPS) Leadership Program as an elective. This online program includes asynchronous coursework, live virtual sessions, and a mentored project designed to align improvement work with the participants’ practice goals and the organization’s business priorities. Fellows are given protected time to complete the coursework and develop their project. The skills developed in the QIPS program are highly relevant to the dynamic world of addiction medicine. Prior projects include:
TaReva Warrick-Stone, DO: "Creating an Infrastructure to Support Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Referrals in Primary Care."
Collaborated with faculty in the Department of Family Medicine to develop a streamlined process and protocol for implementing substance use disorder care in Jefferson primary care practices. Key elements included consolidating existing resources for office workflows and referrals, creating custom EHR tools, providing targeted trainings and education for clinical and non-clinical staff, and ensuring ongoing peer support for primary care clinicians new to managing substance use disorders.
Katherine Schmitz, MD: “Improving the Quality of Care for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder: A Baseline Assessment for Addiction Consult Services”
As the focus of my coursework with the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Leadership Program through Thomas Jefferson University's College of Population Health, this project sought to assess the need for addiction medicine consult services at the Jefferson Northeast hospitals by characterizing baseline discharge and readmission data for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and assessing the needs and readiness of frontline staff with regard to care for patients with OUD and addiction consult services.