The
Integrative Health Policy Consortium and the
Congressional Integrative Health and Wellness Caucus
Co-Chairs Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA)
and Congresswoman
Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
Invite you to a virtual briefing on
Friday,
July 24, 2020 at 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
The Pain-demic: Fallout from COVID-19
Solutions for Our Worsening Opioid Crisis and the Rising Impact of HealthCare Disparities
COVID-19 has exacerbated the raging opioid crisis driven by the nation’s more than 50 million chronic pain sufferers, magnifying existing healthcare disparities and heightening barriers to essential, cost effective, non-opioid, non-drug pain treatments.
Learn from Department of Health and Human Services (
HHS) Task Force Chairperson
and pain management expert,
Vanila Singh, M.D
. about the groundbreaking findings and recommendations of her 29-member, inter-agency
Best Practices in Pain Management
Task Force report.
Learn how the nation’s largest healthcare safety net, our system of
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC’s)
, are leading the way in implementing the HHS Task Force recommendations to cope with the opioid crisis and care for the 29 million children and adults who are part of our rapidly growing Community Health Center population. FQHC family physician
Sharad Kohli, M.D.
details his “in the trenches” experience with non-drug, innovative pain management programs being piloted in these hardest hit communities.
Speakers:
Vanila Singh M.D.
- Former Chief Medical Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services;
Chair, HHS Pain Management Best Practices Interagency Task Force; Clinical Associate Professor Stanford School of Medicine
Sharad Kohli, M.D.
- Family Physician, People’s Community Clinic – Federally Qualified Health Center; Board of Directors, Integrative Health Policy Consortium
Moderator:
David Fogel, MD
-
CEO & Co-founder CHI Health Care; Board of Directors & Co-Chair, Policy Committee, Integrative Health Policy Consortium
This is the first in a series of Congressional Integrative Health and Wellness briefings
exploring pressing national health policy issues and innovative solutions
