Developing and Evaluating the ASAM Criteria Level of Care Assessment Guide

Friday, April 25, 2025

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Presenter(s)

ID

Itai Danovitch, MD, MBA, DFAPA, DFASAM

Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
John Smith, PhD, LCSW

Faculty Trainer
ASAM
Bargersville, Indiana
Gregory Hobelmann, MD, MPH

Co-CEO & President
Ashley Addiction Treatment
Havre De Grace, Maryland
Anne B. Lee, MSW, LCSW

Project Director/Researcher
UCLA
Los Angeles, California
Eman Gibson, LCSW, LCADC

Chief Clinical Officer
Integrity, Inc.
Newark, New Jersey

Non-presenting author(s)

AP

Anna Pagano, PhD

Senior Director, Science
ASAM
St. Augustine, Florida
Michelle Niculescu, PhD, MA/LPC

Clinical Algorithm Scientist
ASAM
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
RS

Radhika Sagar, MOT

Clinical Algorithm Analyst
ASAM
newark, Delaware

The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition Level of Care Assessment Guide is intended to help SUD treatment clinicians implement the ASAM dimensional admission criteria. This session will review lessons learned from developing and piloting the Assessment Guide. It will also provide updates on early implementation to help inform other efforts to implement standardized assessment practices in SUD treatment.

Learning Objectives:

Learners will be able to:

Upon completion, learners will be able to list the features of The ASAM 4th edition Level of Care Assessment Guide.
Upon completion, learners will be able to demonstrate how to use The ASAM 4th edition Level of Care Assessment Guide to make a level of care recommendation.
Upon completion, learners will be able to access information and resources for those who would like to implement the Assessment Guide locally.

Disclosure(s):

Itai Danovitch, MD, MBA, DFAPA, DFASAM: Bexson Biomedical: Stockholder/Ownership Interest (excluding diversified mutual funds) (Ongoing); Workit Health: Stockholder/Ownership Interest (excluding diversified mutual funds) (Ongoing)

John Smith, PhD, LCSW: No financial relationships to disclose

Gregory Hobelmann, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Anne B. Lee, MSW, LCSW: No financial relationships to disclose

Anna Pagano, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Michelle Niculescu, PhD, MA/LPC: No financial relationships to disclose

Radhika Sagar, MOT: No financial relationships to disclose