Provost’s Colloquium Series Presents a Talk on Science Stigma and Solutions: What We Can Do as a Community about the Substance Use Disorder Crisis

Gillian Beauchamp

Posted by: Elizabeth Richardson on February 28, 2020, No Comments

East Stroudsburg University’s Provost’s Colloquium Series, an intellectual experience that promotes dialogue among ESU faculty, staff, students, and community, continues with a presentation by Gillian Beauchamp, M.D., emergency medicine and medical toxicology at Lehigh Valley Health Network. The presentation “Science, Stigma and Solutions: What We Can do as a Community about the Substance Use Disorder Crisis” will take place on Wednesday, March 4 at 5:30 p.m. in Beers Lecture Hall. The lecture is open to the public at no cost.

During this event Beauchamp will provide context to the topic of substance abuse by discussing contributors to the crisis of overdose deaths. She will also present a multi-pronged approach to addressing the crisis of substance use disorder and overdose deaths and will describe the underlying disease process of substance use disorder. Beauchamp will engage the audience in how substance use disorder treatment helps to heal the person with a substance use disorder and discuss how stigma affects access to care and treatment success.

Dr. Beauchamp is a member of the toxicology and emergency residency faculty, and assistant director of research in medical toxicology at Lehigh Valley Health Network Department of Emergency and Hospital Medicine, Section of Medical Toxicology. She co-chairs the Lehigh Valley Health Network Opioid Stewardship and Linkage to Treatment Committee and is physician lead on the network’s Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) program. She is an assistant professor and faculty member at University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. She is board certified in emergency medicine, medical toxicology and addiction medicine.

For more information about the Provost’s Colloquium Series, contact Christina McDonald, director, office of sponsored projects and research, at (570) 422-7954 or cmcdonald9@esu.edu.