Bridging Gaps: Clinical and Ethical Challenges for Patients with Addiction and Cancer
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Bridging Gaps: Clinical and Ethical Challenges for Patients with Addiction and Cancer
Recorded: Thursday, April 23, 2026 to Sunday, April 26, 2026
On-Demand Session
Overview
This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 57th Annual Conference addresses clinical and ethical challenges for patients with addiction and cancer, exploring pain management and care decisions in complex scenarios.
Participants in this interactive session will explore cases at the challenging intersection of addiction, pain, and cancer. Clinicians boarded in addiction and palliative medicine guide participants through clinical tools and scenarios that: prioritize options for managing concurrent addiction and cancer pain, approach a differential and treatment options for chronic cancer pain and prescription OUD versus OUD, and consider ethical responsibilities in addiction and cancer treatment when patient autonomy conflicts with clinical care in the 'best interest' of the patient.
The target audience for this Intermediate level session includes physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, other clinicians, researchers, residents, fellows, and students.
This session addresses the following ACGME Competencies: Medical Knowledge, Interpersonal and Communication Skills.
This session addresses the following IPEC Competencies: Values and Ethics, Communication.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, learners will be able to:
- Apply a multi-dimensional assessment/ 4P framework to help prioritize more appropriate and safer opioid options in patients with pain, cancer, and addiction
- Compare features and management approaches for chronic cancer pain and OUD or prescription OUD or Complex persistent opioid dependence
- Examine ethical and clinical considerations when patients with untreated OUD and cancer decline medications for OUD, cancer treatment, and resuscitation
Registration Rates
| Rate Description | Rate |
| ASAM Member | $29 |
| Non-Member | $39 |
| Associate Member | $19 |
| Resident Member* | $19 |
| Student Member* | $19 |
*Residents, Fellows-in-training, Interns, and Students must join ASAM to receive a discounted registration rate. Click here to become an ASAM member. National and Chapter membership dues apply. There is no charge for Students to become a Member, but verification of student status is required.
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Registration Open: 05/25/2026 - 04/25/2029
User Access Closed: 05/25/2029
Course Instructions
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Janet J. Ho
MD, MPH
Janet Ho, MD MPH is a board-certified palliative medicine and addiction medicine physician at the University of California, San Francisco. She completed internal medicine training and chief residency at Yale, and fellowships in health services research, palliative care, and addiction medicine at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Her clinical and research interests lie at the intersection of serious illness, the disease that is addiction, pain, and chronic cancer pain. Dr. Ho is dedicated to improving provider knowledge and confidence in primary palliative care and addiction medicine; improving disparate quality of life and care for patients with serious illness and addiction; understanding the role of buprenorphine in palliative care; and challenging stigma against patients who use drugs.
Katrina Nickels
MD
Katrina Nickels is a palliative care and addiction medicine physician at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. She did her medical training at the University of Kentucky, and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She worked in hospice and palliative care for 12 years with Bluegrass Care Navigators. She joined ASAM in 2018 and has been a board member of the KY chapter since 2020. She graduated from formal training in the addiction medicine fellowship in the UK in 2022. Her clinical interests are the intersection of pain, palliative care, substance use, and serious medical illness.
A. Justine Landi, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
Andrea "Justine" Landi, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago in the Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and is faculty at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She is a clinician educator triple-boarded in family medicine, geriatrics, and palliative medicine with additional training in addiction medicine and clinical medical ethics. She practices in the post-acute and long-term care, primary care, and inpatient settings. She provides comprehensive care for older adults that focuses on the management of multiple chronic medical conditions, safe transitions of care, and substance use disorders. Her scholarly interests are focused on person-centered substance use disorder care of older adults across healthcare settings using ethical frameworks. She was awarded the HRSA Geriatrics Academic Career Award in 2023 through which she will promote interprofessional collaboration across care settings, specifically nursing homes, in providing equitable access to age-friendly, evidence-based dementia and opioid use disorder care for older adults.
Julie Childers
MD
Julie Childers is an addiction medicine and palliative care physician at the University of Pittsburgh, where she developed and now directs the Addiction Medicine Fellowship. She has written and taught nationally in the areas of managing addiction in individuals with serious illnesses, communication, motivational interviewing, and medical ethics. In 2021, she was elected to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Academy of Master Educators.
Accreditation & Credit Designation Statements
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, the American Society of Addiction Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physicians
The American Society of Addiction Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
This activity awards 1.25 Nursing contact hours.
PAs
ASAM has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1.25 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 05/25/2029. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, ASAM is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 general continuing education credits.
IPCE Credit
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.25 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
California Association for Drug/Alcohol Educators (CAADE)
This educational program is approved by CAADE: #CP40 999 1225.
California Association of DUI Treatment Centers (CADTP)
This educational program is approved by CADTP: #205.
California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP)
This educational program is approved by CCAPP: # OS-20-330-0227.
Other Professions - Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
Upon completion of the activity and online evaluation, all other participants may request a certificate of participation. Participants may submit this certificate of participation to their professional organization/institute as documentation for completing this accredited continuing activity.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) or Continuing Certification Programs (CCP)
This activity is designed to meet the requirements for MOC/CCP for several primary physician boards and for state licensing CME requirements. MOC Credit is only reported and designated for ABA, ABIM, ABP and ABS. By completing the online credit claim and evaluation, the learner permits ASAM to report credits to the appropriate Board. Learn more.
American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
This activity offers up to 1.25 CME credits, of which 1.25 credits contribute the patient safety CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.
Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology® and MOCA® are registered certification marks of the American Board of Anesthesiology®
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.25 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety MOC credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 1.25 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.
American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM)
This activity has been designed to satisfy the Lifelong Professional Development requirements of The American Board of Preventive Medicine’s Continuing Certification (CCP) requirements. These credits are not reported directly to ABPM. Please save your certificate for your records.
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN)
This activity has been designed to satisfy the CME requirements of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s Continuing Certification (CC) requirements. These credits are not reported directly to ABPN. Please save your certificate for your records.
American Board of Surgery (ABS)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada will recognize activities registered for CME for MOC as meeting the requirements for Royal College MOC Program Section 3 (Self-Assessment Programs) credits. Visit CME that Counts for Royal College MOC for more information.
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