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NOVEMBER 12, 2023
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"High Truths" with Dr.
Roneet Lev |
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FULL TWO HOURS
HOUR 1 
HOUR 2
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About
our Guest Dr. Roneet Lev
 Roneet
Lev, MD FACEP was the first Chief Medical
Officer of the White House Office of
National Drug Control Policy, ONDCP,
2018-2020. She brought refreshing frontline
medical experience to national health
policy.
She is a nationally acclaimed medical expert
and speaker who continues to treat patients
in the emergency department and hosts a
podcast titled High Truths on Drugs and
Addiction. As a mother of four she relates
to families who struggle. Lev uses data to
drive change and is frequently quoted in
print and television media.
Lev is dually board certified in emergency
and addiction medicine, bringing over 25
years of experience treating the frontline
cases of addiction. She came to the White
House as chief of the emergency department
at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego. In
2012, she established and chaired the San
Diego Prescription Drug Abuse Medical Task
Force, the first of its kind in California
that integrated physicians of various
specialties along with hospitals, law
enforcement, hospital administration,
treatment programs and public health for the
purpose of decreasing deaths and mortality
from prescription drugs.
Lev’s medical publications known as the
“Death Diaries” studied the details of
prescription patterns of people who died
from accidental medication drug overdoses,
giving insight to the causes of overdose and
directing prevention efforts.
Lev graduated from the University of Texas
Medical School in San Antonio and completed
her emergency medicine residency training at
the University of California San Diego. Dr.
Lev served as President of the California
Chapter of the American College of Emergency
Physicians in 2000. She is Founder and
President of IEPC, Independent Emergency
Physicians Consortium, an organization
providing collaboration to independent
emergency departments in California. Her
program on Safe Prescribing in the emergency
department won the 2014 National Association
of Counties award. The California US
Attorney's office nominated her for the
White House Champion of Change Award.
Lev is an energetic leader with a passion to
assist communities in preventing and
treating addiction. She continues to
practice medicine on the front lines and
consults on clinical medicine and health
policy. Visit:
https://Hightruths.com |
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High
Truths is more than a podcast. It is a
movement to unite medical health, mental
health and addiction health. It brings
innovations to connect public health, public
safety and prevention. We will have
discussions that will inspire people to
implement programs that save lives. On
High
Truths, you will learn from experts,
hear stories from the emergency department,
and listen to people who have struggled from
addiction. |
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