2021 NJPN Conference Program Book

DARRYL S. INABA, PHARMD, CATC V, CADC III Director of Clinical and Behavioral Health Services |Addictions Recovery Center

Darryl S. Inaba, PharmD, CATC V, CADC III Director of Clinical and Behavioral Health Service, Addictions Recovery Center, Medford Oregon and Director of Research and Education at CNS Productions, Inc. in Medford Oregon. Dr. Inaba is a Lifetime Fellow at Haight Ashbury Free Clinics in San Francisco and Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the University Of California San Francisco School Of Pharmacy. While working at the Haight-Ashbury Clinics, Dr. Inaba supervised the clinical treatment of over 300,000 self-referred substance abusers. He is noted for his work in developing culturally consistent treatment services with the National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse and the Glide Memorial Church’s African American Extended Family Recovery Center in San Francisco. Additionally, Dr. Inaba has served on numerous boards and commissions and has received over 90 individual awards of merit including awards from the California Society of Addiction Medicine and the California Association of County Drug Program Administrators. He earned a Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy in 1971 and is a Certified Addiction Treatment Counselor (CATC) Level V and a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor III. Dr. Inaba is the author of several publications and award winning educational videos on all aspects of substance abuse work. He and Mr. William Cohen co-authored Uppers, Downer, All Arounders that is used as the principal text on substance use disorders in over 400 U.S. universities and has been translated in over 6 foreign languages. The publication is now in its 8th Edition published in 2014. CHRISTOPHER JONES Deputy Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control |Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) As Deputy Director of the CDC Injury Center, Dr. Christopher Jones drives the Center’s strategic direction by overseeing the refinement of the scientific research agenda and the coordination of center priorities. He oversees and enhances collaboration among the Offices of Science, Informatics, Strategy and Innovation, and Opioid Response Coordinating Unit. Previously, Dr. Jones served as Senior Advisor to the Injury Center and provided strategic policy and scientific direction and coordination on a broad range of injury and violence topics including drug overdose, suicide, and adverse childhood experiences. Additionally, as Associate Director, he led strategic planning efforts and the development of Injury Center programs and topics; led scientists and public health practitioners to advance innovative approaches to using data to inform prevention efforts, built partnerships to advance public health data and surveillance, and strengthened interagency and nongovernmental collaborations on injury and violence prevention. He also served as a senior scientist conducting epidemiological and policy research. Prior to joining CDC, he served as the first Director of the National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory at SAMHSA. Dr. Jones received his Bachelor of Science degree from Reinhardt College, his Doctor of Pharmacy degree fromMercer University, his Master of Public Health degree fromNew York Medical College, and his Doctorate of Public Health degree in health policy from The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.

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