For the past twenty years, he has collaborated with Dr. School of Public Health and Co-Directs the BNI-ART Institute. He is also Professor of Community Health Sciences in the B.U. Bernstein is Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Project ASSERT. He is the co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on chronic diseases and well being. He has authored several recent monographs on alcohol for the European Commission and the World Health Organization. He has over 120 publications in international peer reviewed journals and is the author or editor of some 15 books. He coordinates several major international research and policy projects for alcohol, addictions and mental health for the European Commission and the World Health Organization. Since 2001, he has worked as a consultant in public health and has been an adviser in the field of alcohol and addictions to the European Commission, the World Health Organization and several Ministries of Health around the world. From 1992 to 2000, he worked as the regional advisor for both alcohol and tobacco with the European Office of the World Health Organization, where he prepared and implemented the European Charter on Alcohol, created the European Partnership project to reduce tobacco dependence, and became acting director of the department of public health. His PhD thesis was on what family doctors can do to reduce the risk of alcohol. He is trained as a general practitioner and a specialist in public health medicine at the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is the Program Coordinator for the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Pain Medicine Interest Group and is on the executive board of the Association of Medical Education in Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA).ĭr Anderson is a Professor at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Netherlands and a Professorial Fellow, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, England. He directs the NIDA funded Chief Resident Immersion Training Program – Addiction Medicine: Improving Clinical and Teaching Skills for Generalists. He co-chairs the ASAM committees on Opioid Agonist Treatment and Buprenorphine Training. He serves as a national mentor for the SAMHSA Physician Clinical Support Systems (PCSS) for buprenorphine and clinical expert for the PCSS for methadone in the treatment of pain and opioid addiction. He serves as the medical director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) funded Massachusetts Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (MASBIRT) program and is the medical director of the BMC Office-based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) program. Alford is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine He is certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). INEBRIA and AOB-SBI Speakers 8th Annual International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol Problems (INEBRIA) Conference: September 22-23, 2011 Implementing and Sustaining Alcohol and Other Drug Screening and Brief Intervention (AOD-SBI) Meeting: SeptemCONFIRMED SPEAKERSĭr.
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