The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a $1.6 million grant to a multidisciplinary research team at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to establish a Wisconsin Opioid Prevention and Treatment Research Network. Jill Denson, PhD, MSW, assistant professor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and director, UW Prevention Research Center, and Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH, professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, will serve as co-primary investigators. They are joined by several other co-investigators from the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, and Department of Medicine. This four-year project strengthens care for people with opioid use disorder (OUD) in the emergency department (ED) through three aims: validating an opioid artificial intelligence screener to identify patients at high risk for OUD, increasing the rate of patients who initiate buprenorphine treatment in the ED, and enhancing linkage to ongoing outpatient and community-based care. Learn more about this award.