On Tuesday, November 19th, over 150 individuals gathered at Seton Hall Law School for Integrity House’s first symposium: Progressive Responses to the Opioid Epidemic. More than a dozen experts from the medical, legal and treatment fields – all doing remarkable and cutting-edge work in addictions – discussed harm reduction, innovative treatment approaches and making treatment mainstream. The symposium also included keynote presentations from New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, and Integrity House Medical Director Tony Rajiv Juneja, MD. Throughout the day, audience members asked meaningful questions, engaged in thought provoking conversations, and even participated in a brief mindfulness exercise led by Dr. Petros Levounis.
We’d like to extend our sincere gratitude to our collaborating partners, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Seton Hall University School of Law. Their staunch support of our vision for this symposium makes us proud and honored to work with them and call them our friends.
INTEGRITY HOUSE THANKS THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR PROGRAM:
Gurbir S. Grewal • Attorney General, State of New Jersey
Kathleen M. Boozang, LLM, JD • Dean & Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law
Cheryl Ann Kennedy, MD • Professor of Psychiatry, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School • Board Trustee, Integrity House
Ronda B. Goldfein, Esq. • Executive Director, AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania • Board Vice President & Secretary, Safehouse
Brian McGovern, LSW • Chief Executive Director, North Jersey Community Research Initiative
Melissa Moore • Deputy State Director, New York, Drug Policy Alliance
Aakash Shah, MD • Emergency Medicine Physician, Hackensack Meridian Health • Medical Director, New Jersey Reentry Corporation • Board Trustee, Integrity House
Mary-Catherine Bohan, MSW • Vice President of Outpatient & Ambulatory Services, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care
Suzanne M. Kunis • Vice President – Behavioral Health Solutions, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Petros Levounis, MD, MA • Professor & Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Suchismita Ray, PhD • Associate Professor, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical & Health Sciences
Tony Rajiv Juneja, MD, MS • Medical Director, Integrity House
John V. Jacobi, JD • Dorthea Dix Professor of Health & Law Policy, Seton Hall Law
Matthew S. Salzman, MD • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Cooper University Health Care
Robin Shorter, MA, LCADC • Senior Director of Outpatient Services, Integrity House
Jill M. Williams, MD • Professor of Psychiatry & Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Erin Zerbo, MD • Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
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