Assistant Secretary Elinore McCance-Katz, MD, PhD
To Speak at 2020 SAM Summit
April 16, 2020
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SAM is proud to announce that Elinore McCance-Katz, Assistant Secretary for Mental
Health & Substance Use, will provide the opening plenary for the 7th Annual SAM
Summit in Nashville, TN.
Elinore McCance-Katz, M.D., Ph.D. is the first Assistant Secretary for Mental Health
and Substance Use. She obtained her PhD from Yale University with a specialty in
Infectious Disease Epidemiology and is a graduate of the University of Connecticut
School of Medicine. She is board certified in General Psychiatry and in Addiction
Psychiatry.
She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry with
more than 25 years as a clinician, teacher, and clinical researcher. Most recently
she served as the Chief Medical Officer for the Rhode Island Department of Behavioral
Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals and as the Chief Medical Officer
for the Eleanor Slater Hospital system which is Rhode Island's state resource for
patients with the most serious mental illnesses and medical illnesses requiring
long term, inpatient care. Previously, she served as the first Chief Medical Officer
for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Dr. McCance-Katz has published extensively in the areas of clinical pharmacology,
medications development for substance use disorders, drug-drug interactions, addiction
psychiatry, and treatment of HIV infection in drug users.
This year's summit will once again be taking place in conjunction with the Rx Drug
Abuse & Heroin Summit in Nashville, TN on April 16, 2020 and will also feature Rocky
Mountain HIDTA Director Tom Gorman, US Attorney for the Eastern District of California
McGregor "Greg" Scott and The Tall Cop Officer Jermaine Galloway.
Registration Rates:

* Attend SAM Summit Only: $349 [[link removed]]
* Add to Rx Summit Registrations: $299 [[link removed]]
2020 SAM SUMMIT SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
If your organization would like to be a sponsor of the Summit, email us at [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] for more information on how to get involved.
About SAM:
Smart Approaches to Marijuana [[link removed]]
(SAM) is a nonpartisan, non-profit alliance of physicians, policy makers, prevention
workers, treatment and recovery professionals, scientists, and other concerned citizens
opposed to marijuana legalization who want health and scientific evidence to guide
marijuana policies. SAM has affiliates in more than 30 states.

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