Addiction Education + CEU Events for Professionals

Addiction Education + CEU Events for Professionals

Vista Taos is committed to ongoing professional development, empowering our staff and colleagues to stay informed with emerging research in the field of addiction treatment. View our upcoming workshops and past recordings of CEU events here.

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Presbyterian CME event
Vista Taos New Mexico Rehab

CHRONIC PAIN AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS:
FINDING ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS Part. 2

November 2nd 2021 – April 5th 2022
(1st Tuesday each month)
Noon – 1:00 PM (Mountain Standard Time)

Earn 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ per session!

Free Online CME

November 2, 2021

Medication Management for Alcohol Use Disorder:
Safer Withdrawal Management & Life-Transforming Craving Reduction

Dr. Eric Ketchum, MD, MBA, FACEP, FASAM, FACHE, FAAEM

Dr. Ketcham, MD serves as an emergency physician and addiction specialist for the Presbyterian Healthcare System for Espanola Hospital (PEH) and Santa Fe Medical Center (SMFC). He also works as an addiction specialist/medical director for New Mexico Treatment Services. He is the co-founder and the chair of the ACEP Pain Management & Addiction Medicine Section, and the co-chair of the ACEP emergency medicine-focused DEA X-waiver training course. Dr. Ketcham is a national voice on opioid addiction.

December 7, 2021

Narrative Therapy: Working with Failure & Illness Stories

Dr. Chris Hoff, PhD

Chris Hoff, PhD, LMFT is based in Orange County, CA and is Founder and Executive Director of the California Family Institute (CFI) in southern California providing desperately needed low-cost counseling services for the community, and for the development of research and training for those interested in post-structuralist, post-oppositional, and compositionist therapy approaches. Dr. Chris Hoff hosts the internationally popular podcast and YouTube channel The Radical Therapist. Chris is also clinical faculty at CSU San Bernardino in the Counseling & Guidance program, and provides counseling, coaching, and consulting in Orange County.

January 4, 2022

Slippery Slopes and Rocky Cliffs: Ethical Boundary Issues in SUD Treatment

Dr. James “Jes” Montgomery, MD

James C. “Jes” Montgomery, MD is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He has worked in the field of SUD treatment since 1986 and in RTC level treatment most of the last 25 years with Sante Center for Healing, Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addictions, The Meadows Texas and Greenhouse Treatment Center in Dallas. Dr. Montgomery’s private practice has focused on general psychiatry and addiction medicine, with emphasis on co-occurring disorders, sexual addiction, sexual trauma and monitoring recovering physicians.

February 1, 2022

Validating Trauma: Practical Trauma Informed Care

Jae Dennis, LCSW

Jae Dennis is the Executive/ Clinical Director at Vista Taos Renewal Center. She is an LCSW specializing in substance use disorders and trauma therapies including EMDR. Jae has many years experience building curriculums in both inpatient and outpatient treatment centers. Before entering the field, she spent most of her career as a college professor.

March 1, 2022

Addressing Multiple Substance Use: The Rise of Methamphetamine and Fentanyl

Dr. Patricia Pade, MD

Dr. Pade is a board-certified internist and ABAM certified in addiction medicine. She founded the University of Colorado’s Addiction Medicine Fellowship and the Addiction Medicine Consult Service at the University of Colorado Hospital. She has been practicing addiction medicine for over 20 years. Today, Dr. Pade serves as Medical Director for The State of New Mexico’s Turquoise Lodge Hospital.

April 5, 2022

Project ECHO – A model approach to well-being, burnout, and substance use disorder prevention in healthcare providers

Bridget Lynch, MD, MPH

Dr. Bridget Lynch is a family physician with Presbyterian Medical Group in Albuquerque, NM and serves as the current President of the New Mexico Academy of Family Physicians. On a local and National level she leads committees and programs that promote provider wellness, promotes addiction services integration, and tries to influence large scale improvement projects.

May 3, 2022

Beyond Psychiatry, into Recovery: How Peer Specialists help clinicians to develop client-centered, recovery-based interventions

Dr. Marcello Maviglia, MD

Dr. Maviglia is board certified in both Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry, he is currently the Medical Director for Courageous Transformations and a clinical professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine and with the College Of Population Health, (UNM, Albuquerque, NM). His main areas of interest are: Implementation of the Recovery Model, coordination and integration of care, development of initiatives focusing on psychiatric drug withdrawal, and social determinants of health in behavioral health.

Credit Designation

Presbyterian Healthcare Services designates each session of this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of the participation in the activity.

Accreditation

Presbyterian Healthcare Services is accredited by the New Mexico Medical Society (NMMS) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Contact Information

For questions regarding registration contact Lilan Lawrence-Metzler

For more information or any other questions contact:
Jeremy Lihte
Dr. Bridget Lynch

Past Events

Narrative Therapy: Creating Lives That Align With One's Hopes And Dreams

Featuring Dr. Chris Hoff of California Family Institute

Lectures provided by Vista Taos and their partners are the full intellectual property of the presenters themselves and are intended for the sole purpose of personal education

The Power of Finding One's True Identity: In Search Of The Authentic Self

Featuring Dr. Ted Wiard of Golden Willow Retreat

Lectures provided by Vista Taos and their partners are the full intellectual property of the presenters themselves and are intended for the sole purpose of personal education

Emotional Healing From Loss

Featuring Dr. Ted Wiard of Golden Willow Retreat

Lectures provided by Vista Taos and their partners are the full intellectual property of the presenters themselves and are intended for the sole purpose of personal education

Resistance Verses Noncompliance in Treatment

Featuring Brandy Klingman of St. Christopher’s Addiction Wellness Center

Lectures provided by Vista Taos and their partners are the full intellectual property of the presenters themselves and are intended for the sole purpose of personal education