SAHM Student-Trainee Council
SAHM STC: Friday Fellows Virtual Lecture Series
The SAHM Student-Trainee Council organizes a series of lectures for fellows on a diverse range of topics within adolescent medicine.
Registration is free for all SAHM members.
Upcoming Friday Fellows Virtual Lectures
Adolescent Cannabis, Tobacco, and other Drug Use: What’s Going On and What Can We Do?
January 31, 2025 – (10-11 a.m. PT); (Noon-1 p.m. CT); (1-2 p.m. ET)
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Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, FSAHM
President, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM)
Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor in Pediatrics II
Division of Adolescent Medicine
Stanford University
Session Description: New tobacco/nicotine, cannabis, and other drugs are infiltrating the market, including new disposable e-cigarettes, e-cigarettes shaped like watches, highlighters, and other household products, nicotine patches like Zyn, “non-nicotine” e-cigarettes, cannabis edibles, psychedelics, and fentanyl. This presentation will provide a brief overview of these products, including nicotine and THC levels, addiction, and other health effects, health concerns, as well as marketing of these products. The presentation will then focus on how best to educate, prevent, and reduce use, including several Stanford REACH Lab-created evidence-based curriculums and resources that can be used to help prevent and reduce use.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand and be able to recognize different substances that youth are using.
- Understand harms including addiction associated with different drugs
- Know about and how to screen, counsel, and prevent use
About the Speaker: Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher is the Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor in Pediatrics II in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University. Dr. Halpern-Felsher is a developmental psychologist with additional training in adolescent and young adult health. She is the founder and executive director of her Stanford REACH Lab as well as several nationally and internationally used drug education preventions and interventions. She is also the President of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM). Funded by the NIH and many foundations, her research has focused on understanding and reducing adolescent and young adult tobacco, marijuana, and other drug use. Her research including over 225 publications, committee, and advocacy work have been instrumental in setting policy at the local, state, and national level. She has served as a consultant to several community-based adolescent health promotion programs, participated in three Surgeon General Reports, participated in six National Academies of Science committees, and has been a member on several national campaigns and committees to understand and reduce adolescent and young adult drug use.
PrEP Delivery for Adolescents and Young Adults: Overcoming Barriers to Prevention
May 30, 2025 – (10-11 a.m. PT); (Noon-1 p.m. CT); (1-2 p.m. ET)
Speaker: Errol Fields, MD, PhD, MPH
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Session Objectives:
- Describe HIV epidemiology, risk for HIV acquisition and PrEP indications for adolescents and young adults.
- Discuss access barriers for PrEP and other sexual health services for adolescents and young adults.
- Illustrate strategies for removing barriers and increasing AYA PrEP engagement.
About the Speaker: Dr. Errol Fields is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine. He is a physician scientist and a board-certified pediatrician and adolescent medicine subspecialist. His clinical work focuses on primary and subspecialty care for adolescents and young adults including gender-affirming care, inclusive sexual and reproductive health care, and treatment and prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. He is the Director of Pediatric and Adolescent Services for The Center for Transgender & Gender Expansive Health at Johns Hopkins and the co-founder and director of the Emerge Gender Clinic for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults. In his research he uses mixed methodologies and community engaged research, and principles of social and spatial epidemiology to understand and eliminate HIV/STI disparities affecting AYA Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Dr. Fields is Program Director for the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Training program and supports adolescent medicine fellows training in health disparities research for vulnerable and marginalized adolescents and young adults. He is also committed to the provision of evidence-based, culturally competent care of sexual and gender diverse youth and is involved in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education in this area.
Session Archives
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Speaker: Annemarie M. Swamy, MD, PhD
Session recording – (accessible to SAHM members only)
Applying the Reproductive Justice Framework to Adolescent Medicine Practice
Speaker: Vidya Krishnan, MD
Session recording – (accessible to SAHM members only)
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something… Blue? Addressing the Evolving Challenge of Adolescents and Substance Use
Speaker: Alexander S. Golec, MD, FAAP, FASAM
Session recording – (accessible to SAHM members only)