Join us as we welcome Colleen Lane, MD and Dan Wicklund, DNPc, RN, CARN with Corewell Health to explore and discuss common and not so common substances in our community. Their presentation will delve into what factors are driving overdose deaths and how we can help prevent some of these accidental tragedies. We will discuss how treatment works, how it is not a one size fits all definitions, and we will dispel some myths about recovery.
Dr. Colleen Lane is a tireless advocate for her patients and her community. She completed dual residency training at Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University in both internal medicine and pediatrics and is board certified in Addiction Medicine as well. Shortly following she began working at Whitman Walker Health in D.C. where she dedicated her practice to LGBTQIA+ affirming care, treating individuals living with HIV, and particularly focused on those suffering from substance use disorders. While serving as a medical site director she spearheaded the development of an integrated substance use disorder program in Whitman Walker’s primary care program. Now as the Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Corewell Health, Dr. Lane has brought the lessons learned by the HIV community on best practices for harm reduction and low barrier access to her current work in Addiction Medicine. Modeled after HIV same-day antiretroviral start programs Dr. Lane founded a low barrier walk-in clinic at Corewell Health’s Addiction clinics for high-risk substance use disorder patients. In its first two years the walk-in program has successfully connected over 800 new patients to Addiction Specialty services the day they were ready to be seen. Dr. Lane is a true physician advocate and alongside her clinical work she is primary investigator on an international clinical trial, serves on her county’s opioid taskforce and overdose fatality review, volunteers as board secretary for The Grand Rapids Red Project (a large harm reduction program), and works at a national level as a member of the ASAM legislative advocacy committee.
Dan Wicklund is the Nurse Educator for Addiction Medicine for Corewell Health and works with system level opioid stewardship team to provide subject matter expertise and guide the clinical practice and policy development for controlled substances. Dan comes from a background of Intensive Care and HIV medicine and utilizes the lessons learned from these areas to improve access and equity to substance use disorder treatment. In his time at Corewell Health, Dan has worked to develop a nurse-led walk-in access to substance use treatment available at all Corewell Addiction Medicine offices and continues to set immediate access to care as the emerging standard of care for substance use. Beyond his clinical work, Dan serves on as a director for the American Society of Addiction Nursing to advocate for Nursing practice to address addiction within clinical practice and education spaces. Dan also serves as adjunct clinical faculty to educate the next generation of nurses to be competent and confident in substance use intervention. Dan continues to expand addiction nursing practice across the nation through speaking to the utilization of nurses to the top of their licensure in efforts to expand health access points for disadvantaged communities.