Total Credits: 9.25 including 9.25 AOA Category 1-A Credit, 9.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
MATE Act Training Course Agenda (133.9 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Improving Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) (3.6 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Harm Reduction & Drug User Health (4.1 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Drug Checking (1.7 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Fentanyl Test Strip (706.6 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Saved by the nose (494.4 KB) | Available after Purchase |
How addiction hijacks the adult and adolescent brain (1.6 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Optimizing Access to Care When Managing Acute and Chronic Pain (3.2 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Opioid Use Disorders Case Studies Part 1 (2.2 MB) | Available after Purchase |
M-OUD Studies Part 2 (230.8 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Weighing Benefits and Risk When Prescribing Opioids (3 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Nicotine Dependence, Alcohol Use Disorder and Other Common Addictions (736.4 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Compliance Monitoring for Controlled Substances (1.4 MB) | Available after Purchase |
The Role of Primary Care and Integrated Behavioral Health in Polysubstance Use (647.6 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Dr. Best graduated from the Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2002. He completed Family Medicine Residency in 2005 at Garden City Hospital. In his final year of residency, he completed a course in office based opioid treatment and this began his work with treating patients with substance use disorder. He has been providing this standard of care treatment for opioid use disorder patients in Northern Michigan since 2005.
Dr. Best started his post-graduate career at the Bellaire Family Health Center in Bellaire, MI where he worked from 2005-2012. He has been in private practice since November 2012 and his office is in Traverse City. He and his wife, Lindsay Best, DO, own Best Medical Services, which was certified as an Opioid Health Home in 2021. Best Medical Services specializes in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Best is board certified in both Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine and has spoken on the topic of opioid use disorder on a local, state-wide and national level.
Dr. Best was on the Michigan Association of Osteopathic Family Physicians (MAOFP) board from 2007-2015. He served as President of the MAOFP from 2013-2014. He has been on the Michigan Osteopathic Association (MOA) board since 2014 and was MOA President from May 2021-2022. He also served as President of the Northern Michigan Osteopathic Association from June 2015-June 2017. He has been a trustee for the Des Moines University Alumni board since June 2022 and has been a trustee with the Novello Health Provider Organization since December 2022.
Pam Lynch, LMSW, CAADC has a 25-year history working in addiction, and its comorbidities. As a trainer for the National Harm Reduction Coalition since 1999 Lynch has studied harm reduction programming in and outside of the U.S. extensively. Lynch is credited with starting harm reduction programs in Detroit, Ypsilanti, Traverse City, Kalkaska, Cadillac, Petoskey, and Midland, Michigan and Newark, N.J. Before taking leadership of Harm Reduction Michigan, she was employed by the county mental health authority in Traverse City. Lynch holds a B.A. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a master’s in social work from Grand Valley State University. She is mom to two teenage children, Faith and Isaac, and fluent in French, Spanish, and Italian.
Biosketch - David R. Neff, D.O.
David Neff, DO has been in medical practice for 45 years with practical expertise in health policy at the national and local levels and how it impacts access to high-quality patient care. While performing roles in clinical practice, academia, state government, and the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Neff has been involved in large scale health systems strategy and design projects for chronic pain conditions, addiction and several other disease states. He has been studying the history of opioid use over several millennia and the impact of the current opioid mortality crisis since 2010 and its earliest beginnings in the early 2000’s.
He is an expert on opioid addiction in the age of fentanyl and polysubstance misuse. He has practical experience with predictive genomics that is applicable to the epigenetics of pain and addiction management. He has chaired several P&T Committees and Drug Utilization Review Boards. He is 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.
Dr. Neff frequently lectures on these topics at the state and national level and has engaged in online training to satisfy licensing requirements of the US Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act of 2022 and for MI licensing requirements.
Dr. Neff is board certified by American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians and completed a two-year fellowship in Osteopathic Manual Medicine and Clinical Biomechanics. He was appointed to the clinical faculty in the MSUCOM Department of Family and Community Medicine in 1981.
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Improving Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)
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David Neff DO
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Total Credits: 1 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit , 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ | On Demand | 1 Hour 02 Minutes | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harm Reduction & Drug User Health: Continuing the Paradigm Shift
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Pam Lynch LMSW, CAADC
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Total Credits: 1 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit , 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ | On Demand | 1 Hour | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nicotine Dependence, Alcohol Use Disorder and other Common Addictions
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David Best DO, MS, ABAM
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Total Credits: 1 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit , 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ | On Demand | 57 Minutes | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Compliance Monitoring for Controlled Substances
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David Best DO, MS, ABAM
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Total Credits: .75 including .75 AOA Category 1-A Credit , .75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ | On Demand | 49 Minutes | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Optimizing Access to Care When Managing Acute and Chronic Pain
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David Neff DO
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Total Credits: 1.25 including 1.25 AOA Category 1-A Credit , 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ | On Demand | 1 Hour 13 Minutes | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How Addiction Hijacks the Adult and Adolescent Brain
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David Best DO, MS, ABAM
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Total Credits: 1 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit , 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ | On Demand | 1 Hour 02 Minutes | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opioid Use Disorders Case Studies Part 1 & M-OUD Case Studies Part 2
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David Best DO, MS, ABAM
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Total Credits: 1.25 including 1.25 AOA Category 1-A Credit , 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ | On Demand | 1 Hour 18 Minutes | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Role of Primary Care and Integrated Behavioral Health in Polysubstance Use
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David Neff DO
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Total Credits: .75 including .75 AOA Category 1-A Credit , .75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ | On Demand | 50 Minutes | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weighing Benefit and Risk When Prescribing Opioids
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David Neff DO
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Total Credits: 1.25 including 1.25 AOA Category 1-A Credit , 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ | On Demand | 1 Hour 10 Minutes | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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