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Optimizing Buprenorphine for Pain and Substance Use Disorder in Patients with Serious Illness: A Case-Based Approach
Registration Fee
- Members: $100.00
- Non-members: $150.00
WHEN
Where
Zoom
Offers CE
This two-hour, case-based, interactive clinical workshop offers clinicians (physicians, advanced practice providers (APPs), and registered nurses) practical information on using buprenorphine to manage pain in patients living with a serious illness and substance use disorder. The workshop will cover:
- An overview of buprenorphine and how to take advantage of its unique
- pharmacology for patients with substance use disorder
- The complexities of managing acute pain while on buprenorphine
- Evidence-based dosing, with guidance on opioid rotations to and from
- buprenorphine
- Practical tips on effective prescriptions and navigating buprenorphine access
The workshop concludes with an open question and answer session for clinicians to ask about all aspects of buprenorphine and share clinical experiences.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe 2 important pharmacologic properties of buprenorphine in its role as a partial mu agonist and a kappa antagonist.
- Discuss the mechanism of action for buprenorphine.
- Define substance use disorder.
- State 3 appropriate clinical indications for buprenorphine use for patients with serious illness who have substance use disorder and who are in acute pain.
- Describe how to perform an opioid rotation to and from buprenorphine.
- Discuss 3 steps for managing acute pain when a patient is on buprenorphine.
- Identify 3 practical approaches to address regulatory, ethical, and logistical barriers to the integration of buprenorphine into palliative care practice
What You’ll Earn
To earn Continuing Education credits for this live event, you must join Zoom using the same email address as your CAPC user account (you can verify the address on your capc.org dashboard). We cannot provide Continuing Education credits if you join by phone for the live event. You must also attend at least 90% of the event, and complete the evaluation.
This activity has been submitted to the Connecticut Nurses' Association for approval to award contact hours. The Connecticut Nurses' Association is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
CAPC is working closely with our educational partners to provide interprofessional continuing education credits.
Accreditations and Disclosures
Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Medical Society of the State of New
(MSSNY) and the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). MSSNY is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Medical Society of the State of New York designates each session of this live activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ displayed per session. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
As an ACCME-accredited provider, MSSNY is required to identify and mitigate relevant financial relationships of all individuals in control of CME content.
Financial relationships are relevant if the following three conditions are met for the prospective person who will control content of the education:
✓ A financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company.
✓ The financial relationship existed during the past 24 months.
✓ The content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship.
None of the individuals in control of content have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Minutes: 120 or 2.0 contact hours
Released: 1/13/2026; Valid through 5/04/2026
Physician Assistants
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME. Medical Society of the State of New York designates this enduring material with 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as specified, which can be applied to the continuing education of Physician Assistants. Physician Assistants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
This activity has been submitted to the Connecticut Nurses' Association for approval to award contact hours. The Connecticut Nurses' Association is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Course Directors and Faculty
Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
Founder, Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor, Center to Advance Palliative Care
Co-director, Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center
Professor, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Andrew E. Esch, MD, MBA
Director, Palliative Care Program Development, Center to Advance Palliative CareJustin
Kullgren, PharmD, FAAHPM
PGY2 Pain and Palliative Care Residency Program Director, The Ohio State University and Palliative Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Maximillian Stevenson, PharmD, MA, BCPS
Palliative Care Pharmacy Specialist, The Ohio State University
Peer Reviewers
Constance Dahlin, MSN, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN
Nurse Planner, Consultant, Center to Advance Palliative Care
Sherika Newman, DO
CAPC ABIM Peer Reviewer
Founder, Doctor in the Family, Atlanta, GA
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