Department of Psychiatry OUD Taskforce

Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Taskforce

The UC San Diego Health Opioid Use Disorder Taskforce (OUD Taskforce) was founded in 2018 to bring together clinicians, pharmacists, nurses, and prescribers across departments and settings at UC San Diego Health. We meet bimonthly with consistent representation from Addiction Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, Psychiatry, Hospital Medicine, Infectious Disease, Family Medicine, Pharmacy, Anesthesia, Informatics, and Nursing. We have produced several P&T Guidelines, provider countless provider education sessions and Grand Rounds, developed clinical protocols, contributed to Epic Order Sets, and our efforts have influenced our standing with the CalHospital Compare Opioid Honor Roll. Developed and initially lead by Drs. Stacy Charat and Deanna Hill, Dr. Carla Marienfeld is the current Chair.

Recent Events

Overdose Awareness Day

UC San Diego Health employees Diane Wiskus, RN and Sabrina Ortega helped set up materials in the Hillcrest Hospital to engage staff, physicians, and others in conversation and education about the sad reality of increasing drug overdose deaths in our community on August 29th as part of International Overdose Awareness Day. They are members of the UC San Diego Health’s Opioid Use Disorder Taskforce, a multidisciplinary group with doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and others who meet bimonthly to organize our community to better address the needs and challenges around opioids and opioid use disorders for our providers and patients.