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Kristopher A Kast, M.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, program director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program, and clinical director of the Addiction Consult Service, recently served as author of a newly-published paper in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty members David Marcovitz and Kristopher Kast, along with other internal and external co-authors, published the first article describing creation of a Hub-and-Spoke partnership for opioid use disorder in a Medicaid non-expansion state.  "Implementation of a Hub-and-Spoke Partnership for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in a Medicaid Nonexpansion State" was published in the journal Psychiatric Services. Click here to read the article.

Peter R. Martin, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Director of the Vanderbilt Addiction Center, and Reid Finlayson, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, serves as authors for the paper "Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy in Tennessee: Expediency vs. Science," recently published online ahead of print in The American Journal of Drug & Alcohol Abuse.  Click here to read the paper online.