Screening for Addiction in a 20-minute Appointment

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify high risk behaviors with quick screeners 
  2. Retain options charting and coding to capture workload for screening and treatment in primary care setting
  3. Be able to recall the overall definition of Addiction and how to assess the 11 Substance Use Disorder criteria

Elisa Gumm, DO

Dr. Gumm is the Medical Director of Addiction Services at the Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Tucson, AZ and the Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. She developed the Addiction Medicine Fellowship in 2018, and in 2020 she secured a $1.4 million Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant to expand the fellowship and further enhance the infrastructure of the program. 

Dr. Gumm has over eight years of experience working in inpatient detoxification with consult liaison services, outpatient addiction clinic, and inpatient residential rehabilitation programs. Dr Gumm has a passion for Addiction program implementation and has assisted other facilities in developing Addiction Medicine services thus increasing access within the VA and Banner systems.