Part II: NP/PA 16-Hour Waiver Training

Tricia Wright, MD MS is an assistant professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and founder, former medical director, and now Women's Health Liaison of the PATH Clinic, an outreach clinic of Waikiki Health Center, which provides prenatal, postpartum and family planning to women with a history of substance use disorders. She is board certified in both Ob/Gyn and Addiction Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has been waivered to provide buprenorphine since 2009, and has treated both pregnant and non-pregnant women. She won funding approval in 2006 from the Hawaii legislature to start a perinatal clinic for women with substance use, the first in the state. The Path Clinic opened in 2007, and has seen over 400 pregnant women since that time. She completed her Masters Degree in Clinical Research from the University of Hawaii in 2009, her thesis paper studying the disparities of smoking and drug use rates during pregnancy of Native Hawaiian women. Her research interests include substance use disorders among pregnant women, including barriers to family planning, screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT), best practices for treatment, and the effects of methamphetamine, marijuana and tobacco on the placenta.

Timothy Brennan, MD, MPH is an Addiction Medicine physician and Pediatrician. He is the Director of the Fellowship in Addiction Medicine at the Addiction Institute of New York at Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital. He completed a Fellowship in Addiction Medicine at the Addiction Institute of New York, a Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, a Residency in Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College / New York Presbyterian Hospital, and an Internship in Internal Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital. He is the Co-Editor of Essentials of Addiction Medicine. He is Board Certified in Addiction Medicine and Pediatrics.

Brian Hurley, MD, MBA is a Veterans Administration National Quality Scholar affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, and will be a 2015-2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at UCLA. He completed a fellowship program in addiction psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. He completed residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital (MGH-McLean), where he was Chief Resident in Addiction Psychiatry. Brian applied to medical school with the explicit intention of becoming an addiction physician. He joined ASAM in 2002 as a first year medical student, and has served on the ASAM Board of Directors in various capacities since 2003. He currently serves as the co-chair of ASAM's Membership Committee and serves on ASAM's Finance Committee. He previously served as chair of ASAM's Physicians-in-Training Committee Chair and is formerly ASAM's alternate delegate to the American Medical Association. Brian additionally served on the EVP/CEO search committee in 2010 that led to Penny Mill's selection as ASAM's current EVP/CEO. He has additional served in various roles for the Massachusetts Society of Addiction Medicine, New York Society of Addiction Medicine, and California Society of Addiction Medicine. Aside from ASAM, Brian is a former National President of the American Medical Student Association. He is a 2012 American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin fellow, a 2010-2013 American Psychiatric Association (APA) Public Psychiatry Fellow, and a 2015-2017 Group for Advancement of Psychiatry Fellow. Brian also serves on the American Medical Colleges' Advisory Committee on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Sex Development. He is also the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association's delegate to the American Medical Association's (AMA's) House of Delegates. Brian has previously served on the Board of Trustees of the APA.