Improving Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) - DEA Training (Module 6 of 9)

Dr. David Neff is currently the COO/CMO at Redicare in Okemos, MI and Grand River Family Care, a combined urgent care and family medicine practice. He graduated from MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine and in 1980 where he received the MOA Distinguished Student Award and the Fred Mitchell Award for Excellence in Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy (OMT). He has been on clinical faculty in the MSUCOM Department of Family and Community Medicine since 1981. He is a member of the American Osteopathic Association and the Michigan Osteopathic Association. He is board certified by American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians and completed a two-year fellowship in Osteopathic Manual Medicine and Clinical Biomechanics. 

 

Dr. Neff has spent his 41-year career caring for patients with spine and spinal cord conditions including those with severe intractable and uncurable pain. He utilizes manual medicine and other multimodal team-based approaches. He also has extensive background in the pharmacologic pain management. He has been studying the impact of the opioid mortality crisis since 2010. He has chaired several P&T Committees and Drug Utilization Review Boards. He was a founding member of the Michigan Health Society Opioid Safety Collaborative and the Michigan Osteopathic Association’s Presidential Ad Hoc Committee to address the opioid crisis since their inception in 2016.  While performing roles in private practice, academia, government, and the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Neff has been involved in large scale health systems strategy and design projects for chronic pain conditions and several other disease states.  He has worked on several projects within the D.C. beltway with the FDA, CDC, CMS, PCORI, & the NQF.