Psychiatry's Office Based Opioid Treatment Team Deserves a Big Wow! Gets Results!

The OBOT (office-based opioid treatment) team in the Dept of Psychiatry deserves a BIG WOW!!!  A recently completed Quality Improvement Retention Study (led by Dr. Shuo Qui) revealed great results by this hardworking team, who has seen a doubling in services growth since 2019 -- the best news is that a key measure of program quality (12 month retention rate) exceeds most other programs in the country as revealed at the recent AAAP (Association of American Addiction Psychiatry) conference held this past weekend:  70% compared to a more typical 40-50%. Retention predicts lives saved - reducing disease-related mortality!  Congrats to this team!  Amazing interdisciplinary team work.  Here is a recent Zoom-based team meeting.  Some folks are missing - most notably, David Wilson, P-NP, practice manager - Kathy Markham and HAA - Bernice Dyne, Mark Derbyshire, Senior Director and therapist, and Dr. Joe Gieck, our new Director of Psychological Services.  Everyone makes a difference!