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Drugs on Board: How Healthcare Providers Legally Engage with Patients and Employees Under the Influence
Drugs “On Board”: How Healthcare Providers Legally Engage
with Patients and Employees Under the Influence
January 11, 2019 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
3 General CLE Credits | CLE# 2018-042
Registration: $115
Sponsored by the Healthcare Law Section
9:00 a.m. Introduction by Section Co-Chairs
Barbra Z. Nault, Studebaker Nault PLLC, and Carolyn Heyman, Sedor Wendlandt Evans and Filippi
9:05 a.m. Drug Use and Abuse in a Healthcare Workforce – Manage Risk to Protect Patients and Employers
Elizabeth P. Hodes, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
Ms. Hodes will present on the impact of Alaska’s opioid epidemic and legalization of marijuana on healthcare providers in the workplace.
10:00 a.m. Protecting Patient Information and Knowing Provider Obligations – What is Required and What is Optional?
Clint Campion, Member/Owner, Sedor Wendlandt Evans and Filippi
Mr. Campion will present on provider confidentiality obligations related to patients under the influence, when a provider can or must call the police, best practices for responding to subpoenas, and provider obligations to testify regarding addiction in criminal, custody and/or guardianship cases.
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Drug Diversion Compliance – When, and to Whom, is Disclosure Required when Prescription Drugs are Diverted
Patrick Callahan, Associate, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
Mr. Callahan will present on the magnitude of the issue of prescription drug diversion, some of the common methods used to divert prescription drugs, best-practices and resources for avoiding diversion, and the reporting requirements when drug diversion occurs.
12:15 p.m. Speaker evaluations and conclusion
Elizabeth P. Hodes, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
Clinton Campion
Clint joined Sedor Wendlandt Evans & Filippi in 2017. His practice focuses on litigation, education law, health care law, and employment law. His prior litigation experience focused on criminal jury trials and military courts-martial. Clint has expertise in representing service members and peace officers in need of legal representation.
Clint served on active duty for nine years in the U.S. Army as a Judge Advocate. His military career took him to Fort Drum, Kosovo, Germany, Kuwait, Iraq, and finally, Alaska. Since 2005, Clint fine-tuned his litigation and leadership skills as a military lawyer and a state prosecutor. He served in the Alaska Army National Guard from 2009 to 2015. Clint was appointed as Anchorage’s District Attorney in 2015. As District Attorney, Clint led the largest prosecutor’s office in the State of Alaska.
