Introduction to MOUD for Providers (June 6, 2025)

Program Information

The Illinois Primary Health Care Association (IPCHA) is a nonprofit trade association that serves as the voice of and champion for Illinois’ community health centers. This activity is for learners who participated in one or more of the 2023 live events in order to claim CME/CE credit and download their certificate. 

This program is designed for prescribers who are now able to prescribe buprenorphine without an X-waiver. This session is will provide important resources to any prescriber interested in or new to providing MOUD treatment. Focus areas of the training include:

  • Understanding OUD as a Chronic Illness.
  • Screening and Identifying OUD in Patients.
  • Integrating OUD Treatment in Your Practice.
  • Basics of Initiation of Buprenorphine, Diversion Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Stigma

Target Audience

This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:

  • Physicians
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physician Associates/Assistants

Learning Objectives

  • Understand OUD as a chronic illness
  • Screen and Identify OUD in patients
  • Integrate OUD into practice
  • Gain understanding of initiation of treatment, diversion prevention, and harm reduction practices

AMA Designation Statement

Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. designates this Live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Activity summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 AAPA Category I CME
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
  • 2.00 Participation Hour(s)
    You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
Activity opens: 
05/14/2025
Activity expires: 
12/31/2025

Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement

It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.

Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.

Planners and Speakers

  • Kamaria Patterson, MHA, Education Coordinator, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, RUSH University Medical Center
  • Jenia Heavens, MSN, APRN, FNP-Chestnut Health Systems Renita White, PA, Mile Square Health Center
  • Tiffany White, Psych NP, Roseland Community Hospital and Gateway Foundation
  • Jordan Vold, PA, Mile Square Health Center
  • Danielle Rodriquez, DNP, FNP, Mile Square Health Center
  • Karen Ashley, EdD, Director of Education for the Weitzman Institute. She oversees all educational programming accredited by the Moses/Weitzman Health System.

Faculty Disclosures

  • Jordan Vold, Entity he is affiliated with is Braeburn, payment for travel to meetings and payment for lectures

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Illinois Primary Health Care Association and Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc./Weitzman Institute. Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

By completing this activity, you provide Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. the permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).

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Available Credit

  • 2.00 AAPA Category I CME
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
  • 2.00 Participation Hour(s)
    You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
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Required Hardware/Software

  • This online activity requires use of a device connected to the Internet, such as a computer tablet or mobile device.