Springfield Treatment Center

Teri Morgan-Urie (she/her) is the Program Director at Springfield Treatment Center and has been with the company since July 2018. She is a CADC II, has been involved in the recovery community for many years, and worked in the substance use recovery field as a counselor since 2016. As a person with long-term recovery from substance misuse, who has overcome substance use disorder, homelessness, domestic violence, having children in protective custody, and criminality, Teri is deeply committed to helping others find their way to a better life in recovery.  She is involved in community outreach, and regularly gives prevention talks and shares her story statewide. Teri is a Co-Chair of Oregon Recovers and participates in political advocacy and substance use education at the local and state level to help address substance misuse in Oregon. In 2019, she was the inaugural recipient of the “Community Advocate” award presented at the annual Lane County Community Service Awards breakfast, hosted by Serenity Lane.

Hazelden

Heidi Wallace (she/her) is a master substance use counselor  who specializes in the treatment of individuals with substance use and mental health disorders. She is currently the VP of the Northwest for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and works primarily out of Oregon. She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Montana and her master's degree in counseling psychology, with an emphasis on substance use, at Lewis and Clark College. She has worked in both residential and outpatient treatment settings as well as private practice for the past 25 years

Health Share: Project Nurture

Kea Parker (she/her) is a Family Medicine physician at Oregon Health Sciences University. She has particular interest in supporting families with substance use disorders. She is a lead physician for Project Nurture, a program that works with pregnant women with opioid use disorder and their families. Her research interests include treatment of opioid use disorder in pregnancy and exploring the effects of substance use on pediatric development.

Lines for Life

Max Margolis (he/him) attended college at Ohio University, spending his Junior year abroad in Swansea, Wales. In 1997, he moved to Portland where he worked for the Oregon Partnership’s (Renamed Lines For Life in 2012) Statewide Youth Drug Prevention Program. Max delivered hundreds of multimedia presentations to middle and high school students across Oregon, recruited youth volunteers for the statewide YouthLine, and wrote many successful private, state, and federal grants. Later, he transitioned to the City of Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement (renamed Office of Civic and Community Life) as a Crime Prevention Program Administrator for Southeast Portland. Max is currently the Lead Project Coordinator for Construction Suicide Prevention Partnership (CSPP) at Lines for Life, where he coordinates evidence-based suicide prevention training activities for CSPP members and more.

CENTRO

Basilio Sandoval (he/him/el) is the substance use disorders program manager at Centro Latino Americano. Basilio has worked in the field of substance use disorders counseling in Lane County for over 25 years. His expertise in serving the Latinx community includes, but is not limited to, providing recovery and mentoring programs to adults, youth, and their families.

Miracles Club

Julia Mines has been working in the field of substance use and mental health services for over 20 years. She draws strength from her life experiences, including serving as Executive Director for The Miracles Club. Her first job working with the recovering community was with Stay Clean Inc., an inner-city spiritual treatment program serving late-stage African American substance users. Coming out of the grips of substance use disorder herself and wanting to change the world, Julia trained to become a CADC. She went on to obtain two master’s degrees and certifications that allow her to be a leader in substance use treatment and mental health services in Portland. She continues to represent African American and underserved populations with undying passion.

Friends Research Institute

Mishka Terplan is board certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Addiction Medicine . His primary clinical, research, public health, and advocacy interests lie along the intersections of reproductive and behavioral health. He is Medical Director at Friends Research Institute and adjunct faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, where he is a Substance Use Warmline clinician for the National Clinician Consultation Center. Dr. Terplan has active grant funding and has published extensively on health inequities, discrimination, and access to treatment. He has spoken at local high schools and before the United States Congress and has participated in federal and international expert panels primarily on issues related to gender, reproduction, and substance use.

PTTC Northwest

Kevin Haggerty (he/him) is an emeritus professor of prevention at the University of Washington, School of Social Work.  He has specialized in prevention programs at the community, school, and family levels. He is the former Director of the Social Development Research Group and currently serves as the PI/Project Director for the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center. For more than 35 years, he has focused on developing innovative ways to organize the scientific knowledge base for prevention so that parents, communities, and schools can better identify, assess and prioritize customized approaches that meet their needs. Dr. Haggerty is the co-developer of the Families Facing the Future parenting/family program, which was developed with and for caregivers in methadone treatment for opioid misuse. He has an extensive research background in the intersection of biological and environmental risks for substance misuse in emerging adults and is an expert on substance misuse and delinquency prevention. Additionally, Dr. Haggerty is also an investigator of the Community Youth Development Study, which tests the effectiveness of the Communities That Care program.

Oasis Center

Kerri Hecox (she/her) is the Medical Director of Oasis Center of the Rogue Valley, located in Medford, Oregon. Dr. Hecox is boarded in both Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine and  focuses on providing primary care for pregnant women and parents in recovery, as well as their children and other family members. In 2019, Dr. Hecox was awarded the Doctor-Citizen of the Year Award by the Oregon Medical Association. She received her medical degree from University of Colorado School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Hecox believes that in supporting patients with substance use disorders, it is essential to support family systems.

Parents Anonymous

Antonia Rios is a California mother of seven, kin provider, and grandmother of four. She started working for Parents Anonymous after benefiting first-hand from its Free Evidence-Based Parenting Support Groups. She's now a Parent Partner Manager and a chair of the National and California Parent Leadership Team. Antonia attended Mt. San Antonio college. She is passionate about shared leadership, parent and youth leadership, community service, and advocacy for parents, children, and youth. At Parents Anonymous, parents and youths can call the helpline at 855-4-A-PARENT or sign up for free weekly online support groups.

Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction

Joelle Puccio (they/them) is a registered nurse working in the field of Perinatal and Neonatal Intensive Care since 2004. They worked for 7 years as the Director of Women’s Services for the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, a peer run syringe access program in Seattle, WA, and served on the Board of Directors until 2021. They have been invited to speak at conferences convened by the Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC), the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), and more. They currently travel the country in their RV with their partner and two cats as a travel nurse, to learn about the experience of families affected by perinatal substance use and pregnancy criminalization in varying geographic areas. Their main interest is the intersection of drug user rights and feminism.

Zero Block Society

Ronnie Grigg has been a longtime frontline harm reduction worker in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside mainly focused on supervised consumption sites. He has had the opportunity to work, train, consult and support with harm reduction organizations in a number of places in Canada, USA, and Mexico, primarily at the pioneering supervised consumption sites Insite and Vancouver Overdose Prevention Site. Increasing the visibility of the frontline harm reduction experience is an important priority and has created opportunities to speak in a variety of workplace and university environments.

Dr. Kimberly Sue (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Program in Addiction Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine) at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the former Medical Director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY, which strives to improve the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs. Currently, she serves as an Attending Physician at the Central Medical Unit, APT Foundation, which provides primary care to patients receiving methadone and other substance use treatment services and supervises fellows and trainees within the Yale Addiction Medicine Fellowship program. She also is an Attending Physician on the hospital-based Yale Addiction Medicine Consult Service. She also holds board certification in both Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Sue trained at Harvard's MD-PhD Social Science Program, and has a PhD in sociocultural anthropology. Her book, Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis (2019), is based on her research on women with opioid use disorder in Massachusetts prison and jails. Her current research interests include harm reduction, stigma, gender/women and substance use, and overdose response strategies on local, state, and federal levels.