Registration Begins (8:30 - 9:00 AM)

Opening Session: Welcome Remarks and Award Presentation (9:05 - 9:30 AM)

Keynote: The Opposite of Addiction is Community: Working Together to Stop Opioid Misuse (9:30 - 10:10 AM)

• Rahul Gupta, M.D., former Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

Break 1 (10:10 - 10:25 AM)

Intro Session 1 (10:25 - 10:30 AM)

• Virginia Guy, Executive Director, Drug Education Council

It Starts at Home: How Stable Communities Enable Recovery (10:30 - 11:05 AM)

• Bradley Byrne, President and CEO, Mobile Chamber of Commerce (Session Leader)

• Chandra Brown, Executive Director, Lifelines Counseling Center

• Frank Long, Director of Development, The Lovelady Center

• Jonathan Macklem, Vice President - Legal, The Cooper Group of Companies

Intro Session 2 (11:05 - 11:10 AM)

• Frances Holk-Jones, State Representative, State House District No. 95

Meeting People Where They Are: Innovative Care Delivery (11:10 - 11:45)

• Kim Garrett, Director of Communications, 68 Ventures (Session Leader)

• Saminathan Anbalagan, MBBS, M.D., Neonatologist & Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, USA Health

• Jeffrey Brewer, M.D., Chair & Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, USA Health

• John Greenwood, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Goldfinch Health

• Tamieka Martin, Director of Behavioral Health, Franklin Primary Health

• Ashley Williams Hogue, M.D., Trauma and Burn Surgeon & Director for Center for Healthy Communities, USA Health

Intro Session 3 (11:45 - 11:50 AM)

• Karen Marlowe, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Davis Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice

At the Crossroads: The Intersection of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder (11:50 AM - 12:25 PM)

• Luke Engeriser, M.D., FASAM, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, AltaPointe Health, Associate Professor and Director of the Psychiatric Residency Program and Addiction Medicine Fellowship of University South Alabama College of Medicine (Session Leader)

• Cindy Gipson, Ph. D., LPC-S, Director, Crisis and Justice-Involved Services, AltaPointe Health

• Honorable Jennifer Wright, District Judge, 13th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, Drug and Mental Health Courts

Lunch (12:30 - 1:25 PM)

• Awards to Poarch Band of Creek Indians & Mayor Sandy Stimpson

  • Award Introduction by Caroline Etherton, Chair, The Helios Alliance

• Remarks by Keith Blackwood, Mobile District Attorney

Intro Session 4 (1:25 - 1:30 PM)

• Chris Pringle, Speaker Pro Tempore, Alabama Legislature, House of Representatives

Therapeutic Justice: From Punishment to Restoration (1:30 - 2:05 PM)

• Honorable Sarah Stewart, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama (Session Leader)

• Honorable S. Wesley Pipes, Presiding Judge, 13th Judicial Circuit of Alabama

• Honorable Scott P. Taylor, Circuit Judge, 28th Judicial Court of Alabama, Drug and Mental Health Courts

• Bennet Wright, Executive Director, Alabama Sentencing Commission

Intro Session 5 (2:05 - 2:10 PM)

• Shannon Swigart Long, LMSW, ICADC, Program Director, Home of Grace for Women

Working Upstream: Education, Prevention, and Stigma Reduction (2:10 - 2:45 PM)

• Stacy Wellborn, Ph. D, Wellborn Strategies (Session Leader)

• Bill Gordon, Founder, CiviConnections

• Tempey Hamilton, LCSW, Program Director, Mobile United

• Lynn Oldshue, Creator, Our Southern Souls

Break 2 (2:45 - 3:00 PM)

Intro Session 6 (3:00 - 3:05 PM)

• Spiro Cheriogotis, Mayor Elect, City of Mobile

The Path Forward: Scaling these Solutions (3:05 - 3:50 PM)

• Ricardo Woods, City Attorney, City of Mobile (Session Leader)

• Elizabeth Etherton, Strategic Advisor, The Helios Alliance

• Lori Myles, Public Affairs Director, Mobile County Sheriff’s Office

• Tom Mullen, Senior Partner, Sage Analysis Group

• Honorable S. Wesley Pipes, Presiding Judge, 13th Judicial Circuit of Alabama

Closing: Farewells and Call to Action (3:50 - 4:00 PM)

• Joshua Jones, Director, USA Health Hospital Based Violence Intervention Program