Medical Director
Central City Concern
UCSF
Lydia is a doctorally prepared psychiatric nurse practitioner with a specialty in addiction medicine and trauma informed care. She is a medical director at a large FQHC that focuses on houseless health care and, is on faculty at UCSF where she teaches in the psychiatric nurse practitioner program. She speaks nationally on topics such as co-occuring disorders, harm reduction and substance use disorder care system improvement. She focuses all parts of her practice on radical public health, harm reduction and anti-oppression work. Lydia lives in Portland, OR, on Chinook, Kathlamet, Clackamas and Kalapuya land.
Expert Panel: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far? Challenging the Stigma with Benzodiazepines
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM CT