Sarah E. Wakeman, MD, FASAM - Course Director

Dr. Wakeman is an addiction medicine specialist at Mass General and a national thought leader in treatment for substance use disorders. As the medical director for the hospital's Substance Use Disorders Initiative, she is committed to changing how addiction is understood by the public and how it is treated at Mass General.

In addition to serving as the medical director of the Substance Use Disorders Initiative at Mass General, Dr. Wakeman leads the Addiction Consult Team, co-chairs the Opioid Task Force and is the medical director for Substance Use Disorder for Mass General Brigham’s Quality and Patient Experience area. She is also an associate professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Wakeman’s clinical interest and expertise is in the care of patients with addiction within general medical settings. Clinically, she provides primary care and office-based addiction care, as well as inpatient specialty consultation for addiction. She teaches locally, regionally and nationally about addiction and has led workshops and delivered symposia at national conferences. She was appointed by Governor Charlie Baker to serve on his opioid addiction working group and previously served as secretary for the Massachusetts Society of Addiction Medicine and chair of the group’s policy committee.

She also conducts research devoted to evaluating the implementation of substance use disorder care in general medical settings, opioid use disorder treatment effectiveness, and physician preparedness and attitudes related to addiction.

Claudia Rodriguez, MD

Dr. Rodriguez is the medical director of addiction services and is the chair of the Brigham Comprehensive Opioid Response and Education Committee (BCORE) services at the Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital (BWFH). Dr. Rodriguez is a clinical leader in expanding addiction treatment across clinical service levels within the hospital. She is a sought out educator, and has presented at local, regional, and national levels, with a goal in enhancing  knowledge of SUD treatment and challenging stigma against addiction.

Disclosure Summary of Relevant Financial Relationships

INELIGIBLE COMPANIES
Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME System (ineligible companies) are those whose
primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products
used by or on patients. Examples of such organizations include:

• Advertising, marketing, or communication firms whose clients are ineligible companies
• Bio-medical startups that have begun a governmental regulatory approval process
• Compounding pharmacies that manufacture proprietary compounds
• Device manufacturers or distributors                             
• Diagnostic labs that sell proprietary products
• Growers, distributors, manufacturers or sellers of medical foods and dietary supplements
• Manufacturers of health-related wearable products
• Pharmaceutical companies or distributors
• Pharmacy benefit managers
• Reagent manufacturers or sellers

Original Release Date: October 7, 2021
Expiration Date: October 7, 2023
Review Date: July 29, 2022 by Claudia P. Rodriguez, MD