Dr. Lara Carson Weinstein is a family physician, addiction medicine specialist, and public health researcher working towards health equity in partnership with people experiencing psychiatric disabilities, substance use disorders, and complex chronic disease. As an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, she provides clinical care through the Project HOME Health Services (PHHS) Federally Qualified Health Center at the PHHS Pathways to Housing PA satellite, where she is the director of integrated care and research for the Pathways to Housing PA Housing First organization.  Her work is done in collaboration with two nationally recognized community organizations in Philadelphia, Pathways to Housing PA and Project HOME, that provide permanent supported housing for people with experiences of homelessness, serious mental illness and substance use disorders. Dr. Weinstein is the founding director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry. She is the Principal Investigator of a project funded the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) focused on accelerating improvements low-barrier, integrated primary and behavioral care.  Dr Weinstein was recently awarded a T-32 Institutional Training grant from the Health Services and Resources Administration to prepare a diverse new generation of post-doctoral primary care researchers with advanced knowledge and skills to implement and evaluate innovative programs designed to improve the health and health care experience of populations affected by mental illness and opioid use disorder in the integrated primary and behavioral care setting.

Deputy legal director for the ACLU of Pennsylvania. Since joining the ACLU in 2006, she has worked on a wide range of civil liberties and civil rights issues, including the right of people on probation and parole to use MOUD and medical marijuana.

Attorney at the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project working on the MOUD/MAT-in-Jail project which is an ongoing initiative that aims to help people incarcerated across Pennsylvania gain access to medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone for opioid use disorder. The project provides legal support and assistance through advocacy, informing people of their legal rights to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) or Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in jails and prisons, and through litigation. The project has assisted more than seventy-five individuals from ages 71 to 25 to exercise their rights to obtain medication. Prior to a legal career Adrienne was the Director of Christiana Care Health System Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center, and held various middle and senior management positions in hospital and health care administration in Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Fisk CRNP has been involved in HIV research, nursing, and prevention since 1988.  He has provided hospice, nursing and medical care for persons living with HIV disease since 1992 with a focus on providing care for persons with substance use and mental health disorders.  He has helped to develop a number of innovative programs to provide compassionate and state of the art care for these populations, both in Pittsburgh, PA and San Francisco, CA.  He was a member of the National Harm Reduction Coalition Working Group for several years. He has been involved in the development and legalization of Prevention Point Pittsburgh, a syringe exchange program providing a broad range of prevention services for injection drug users in the region. Since 1999 he has been involved in the development of the Positive Health Clinic at Allegheny General Hospital; a Ryan White Care Act funded medical clinic for persons with HIV where care is grounded in harm reduction approaches. Stuart will also be an MOUD prescriber in the Allegheny County Jail starting May 2022. Stuart Fisk is also a Co-founder and Director of Strategy for the Center for Inclusion Health at Allegheny Health Network. The mission of the Center is to develop clinical, teaching and research programs to expand quality health care to populations that have been excluded from care due to mental health, substance use or other social determinants of health disparity. One of the core principals of the Center is the integration of harm reduction into both clinical and structural aspects of health care. Stuart is currently providing medical care and low barrier MOUD access to persons at Prevention Point Pittsburgh as well as at the Allegheny County Jail. 

Formerly incarcerated person, Pittsburgh, PA
Jerome Maynor is a formerly incarcerated individual who, at the age of 71 years old, and in active recovery with opioid use disorder, was incarcerated and forced to withdraw from methadone. He is an outreach worker at Central Outreach Resource Referral Center in Pittsburgh and an advocate in the community educating people about opioid use disorder, available treatment sites, and resources to help people stay in active recovery.