How Low Can you go? Low Barrier Buprenorphine Care Delivery Models

Friday, April 25, 2025

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Presenter(s)

Elizabeth M. Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FACPM, DFASAM

Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin
Sarah Messmer, MD, FASAM

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
KC

Katrina Ciraldo, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
ES

Edward Suarez, Jr., PsyD

Assistant Professor
University of Miami - IDEA SSP
Miami, Florida

Non-presenting author(s)

Madi Simpson, RN

RN Program Manager for Addiction Support Services
UW Health
Madison, Wisconsin
Maggie Williams, MPAS, PA-C, CPAAPA

Addiction Medicine Physician Assistant
UW Health
Madison, Wisconsin
Abigail T. Elmes-Patel, PharmD, MHPE

Research Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Chicago Retzky College of Pharmacy
Chicago, Illinois
AM

Albert Leon Murphy, MPH

Program Manager
University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

In this session, representatives from three low-barrier substance use disorder (SUD) treatment programs in Madison, Chicago, and Miami will share their innovative low barrier care models. They will discuss a walk-in clinic for people who use substances, a mobile van offering buprenorphine, and telehealth buprenorphine prescribing at a syringe service program. Each program will highlight local context, clinical approaches, program financing, clinical outcomes, and key lessons learned.

Learning Objectives:

Learners will be able to:

List the principles of low barrier care as defined by SAMHSA.
Describe how local context should be considered when identifying possible clinical delivery models.
Identify at least one way you could work to lower the barriers to care in your own clinical setting.

Disclosure(s):

Elizabeth M. Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH, FAAFP, DFASAM, FACPM: No financial relationships to disclose

Sarah Messmer, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Katrina Ciraldo, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Edward Suarez, Psy.D., Jr.: No financial relationships to disclose

Madi Simpson, RN: No financial relationships to disclose

Maggie Williams, MPAS, PA-C, CPAAPA: No financial relationships to disclose

Abigail Elmes-Patel, PharmD, MHPE: No financial relationships to disclose