5:30 - 7 p.m.

Welcome Reception & Annual Research Forum

7 - 9 p.m.

Doctor's Dilemma/Jeopardy

Saturday, April 11, 2026

7 - 8:30 a.m.

Registration/Breakfast 

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast with Exhibitors

8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

Adolescence...When Addiction Begins...and Our Work Begins ^(OPIOID)
Kurt Kleinschmidt, MD; UT Southwestern

This presentation overviews addiction and where it begins in most patients...as adolescents. It describes risk factors for addiction and clarifies the optimal management of addiction in adolescents and in adults. It importantly enables the learners to be able to answer the question, "Why do buprenorphine...aren't you just trading out one drug for another?" If a clinician is unable to answer this question...then he/she will be less motivated to initiate addiction care.

Objectives: 

1. State typical age-range for onset of substance use disorder (SUD)
2. List factors associated with the development of SUD in an adolescent
3. Describe the efficacy and safety of the treatment of OUD with buprenorphine in adolescents
4. Answer the question: "why do buprenorphine, aren't you just trading out one drug for another?" 

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Human Trafficking Training for Healthcare Providers ^{(HUMAN TRAFFICKING)}
Natalie Alonzo; The Poiema Foundation

Health care practitioners are in a unique position to intervene in human trafficking, both labor and sex trafficking; however, they are often not aware their patient is a victim. Victims may be people of any age, gender, race/ethnicity, nationality, immigration status, or sexual orientation. Victims and survivors are often patients in dental offices, emergency rooms, and clinics. Health care providers have an opportunity to be a voice for this population that has no voice. Your intervention could save a life.

Objectives:

1. Understand what human trafficking is as defined by the TVPA 2000.
2. Learn vulnerability factors for victims as well as how traffickers recruit victims.
3. Identify potential signs of human trafficking while providing services for patients.

10:30 - 11 a.m.

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

Ethics Panel

TCEP Awards Luncheon & Annual Business Meeting

OlEMpics

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

Networking Reception