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.