Conference Description

The conference provides opportunities to learn about pain management and opioid use not only generally but also through breakout sessions with emphasis in different specialties. Participants will be able to learn and share experiences regarding pain management with others in their own, or collaborating, specialties with a focus on New Mexico patient care.

Conference Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this conference, the participant should be able to:

• Assess patients with acute or chronic pain and determine an effective treatment plan.
• Utilize evidence-based strategies to determine an effective treatment plan in the inpatient or outpatient setting for opioid naïve patients, patients on opioids, and patients with opioid use disorders.
• Evaluate patients for opioid use disorders and describe methods to prevent opioid overdoses including harm reduction.

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ID/D Support and Training from TEASC

UNM TEASC (trans disciplinary evaluation and support clinic) is offering new resources for those looking for help working with individuals with intellectual disabilities. 

The TEASC team, a project funded by the NMDOH through Family Medicine, works with adults with ID/D who have complex medical, psychiatric and systems problems. We are excited about offering some hands on learning at primary care clinics in New Mexico. 

The team would answer clinical or other questions, see patients in person in consultation, and give requested didactic presentations, focusing on what sites see as their needs. 

Contact Dr. Helene Silverblatt with questions. hsilverblat@salud.unm.edu

 It Pays to be on Letter of Academic Title!

Community Faculty of the UNM School of Medicine are on Letters of Academic Title (LAT). This title comes with the added benefits of event discounts, HSLIC Library Access, UNM Salud email accounts, and access to UNM Recreational Services. If you have not taken advantage of this benefit, contact Ashley Hatcher to learn more about how you can! arhatcher@salud.unm.edu.

Important Note! If you are serving as a clinical educator or preceptor for a School of Medicine department, but you are unsure if you have a current LAT in place, please contact us to check on the status of your LAT application. Ashley Hatcher arhatcher@salud.unm.edu.

The CCM1 gene has been underreported and under diagnosed in the state of New Mexico (with some families in West Texas, South Colorado, Arizona, and Northern Mexico) due to the number of doctors, including neurologists, who are unfamiliar with the condition. UNMHSC Department of Neurology Nurse Education seeks to spread the knowledge of the condition in the state of New Mexico and increase the penetration of genetic testing, magnetic resonance imaging, and treatment opportunities for individuals with CCM1. 

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Purpose

One year ago, UNM, in partnership with communities across New Mexico, launched its first Health Equity Summit.  

The wisdom from the experience of communities range from the Hobbs community in the southeast corner of NM to the Las Cruces in the Border region to Gallup’s Native American community partners informed the first Summit both in content and form.  

We’ve since realized the importance of correcting the power imbalance between that of NM communities with their local knowledge, strengths, leadership and needs and that of public institutions, whether in higher education, in healthcare delivery systems, or in local or state government that have technical and financial resources. Community engagement embodied in the first Summit gave voice to these community priorities that have helped guide institutional decisions affecting community health and well-being.

Goals & Themes

This 2nd Health Equity Summit builds on the first incorporating some of these key goals and themes: 

• In each of the many breakout sessions, listening to community voices and revealing how a partnership between community and institutions has created innovative models to share across New Mexico
• Each Summit participant can share as well as receive information, materials, skills and contacts to help achieve health equity in one’s home community or organization, such as a Social Determinants curriculum, how to help eligible uninsured enroll in Medicaid or how to help low-income families obtain Earned Income Tax Credit
• Focus on filling gaps in resource availability between urban and rural areas such as lack of public transportation, access to healthy food choices or quality education or building a statewide, internet-based, closed-loop social referral platform 
• Building a local health workforce via pipeline programs with diverse ethnic and geographic background, with diverse options for training for a more inclusive health team to serve the broader health and social needs of the community including CHWs, HEROs, MAs, RNs, PharmDs, MDs, MSWs, et al.
• Creating statewide learning networks that share common goals, that collaborate rather than compete that build upon local strengths and guidance such as the Social Determinants of Health Collaborative or the collaboration between the DOH’s Health Promotion Specialists, UNM’s HEROs and NMSU’s 100% County network.

Finally, UNM Health Sciences has committed to standing up and funding three, key pillars to help us achieve our Health Equity goals: A Center for Hispanic/Latino Health, a Cross-Campus Native American Advisory Council, and a Center for Rural Health.