The WHAM Series

WHAM is a quarterly webinar series that discusses specific addiction medicine topics. This live virtual activity will be offered via Zoom in March, June, September and December of 2025. Topics and Speakers will be posted as they are confirmed.

WHAM 2025 

WHAM #1: Human Trafficking and Addiction Medicine: How to Identify and How to Intervene
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 from 6:30pm-7:30pm ET
Instructor: Fidelma B. Rigby MD
Professor OB/GYN Maternal Fetal Division; VCUHS Dept of OB/GYN; Clerkship and MIV Director OB/GYN; Advisor to Human Trafficking Student Interest Group; Co Director Annual VCUHS Human Trafficking Health Care Symposium
Virginia Commonwealth University Health Sciences Center

 Free of Charge. Registration is Required.

PAST WHAM EVENTS

Previous WHAM Series webinars are listed below. View the WHAM 2024 Accreditation & Disclosure Statements here.

WHAM #4: “Modernizing Methadone Treatment in 2024” 
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from 6:30pm -7:30pm ET
Speaker: Ruth Potee, MD, DFASAM, FAAFP
Medical Director, Behavioral Health Network

WHAM #3: Complex Persistent Opioid Dependence – The Good and the Bad of Opioids
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 10, 2024, from 6:30pm-7:30pm ET
Instructor: Ajay Manhapra, MD, Section Chief, Pain Medicine, Hampton VA Medical Center, Hampton, VA; Research Scientist, New England MIRECC, West Haven, CT; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Asst. Professor in PM&R and Psychiatry, EVMS, Norfolk, VA

WHAM #2: Buprenorphine Bootcamp: Fentanyl Era – Split Dose Methadone and Buprenorphine Starts and Whole Person Care for Birthing/Postpartum People, Newborns and Families with COMPASSION Model
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 from 6:30pm-7:30pm ET
Speaker: Vania Rudolf, MD, MHS, DFASAM
Medical Director, Addiction Recovery Services & President, Washington State Chapter of ASAM

WHAM #1: “Many Hands Make Light Work:  The Primary Care Provider’s Role in Timely Access to OUD Treatment”
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 19, 2024, from 6:30pm-7:30pm ET
Speaker: Colin M. Greene, MD, MPH
Special Advisor on Opioid Response, Commonwealth of Virginia

WHAM #4: Auricular Neural Stimulation as a New Non-Invasive Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, from 6:30pm-7:30pm ET
Instructor: Douglas A Brown, MD, Medical Director, Addiction Recovery Center of Virginia

WHAM #1: The Opioid Abatement Authority: Changing How Virginia Thinks About Addiction
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 29, 2023, from 6:30pm-7:30pm ET
Instructors: James Thompson, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Master Center for Addiction Medicine & Board Member, Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority & Tony McDowell, Executive Director, Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority 

WHAM #2:  The Legacy Patient – Weaning A Patient on Chronic Long Term Opioid Treatment for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
Given by Dr. Mary McMasters
Date:  August 18, 2021
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WHAM #1:  Recent Advances in Methamphetamine Use Disorder
Given by Dr. Masaru Nishiaoki
Date:  June 9, 2021
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