Resident Access to the St. Louis County Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: Why PDMPs Matter and How to Gain Access

Julia Lange1, Gary Gaddis1, Emily Varner1

  • 1Julia Lange, MD, is a PGY-2 Emergency Medicine Resident; Gary Gaddis, MD, PhD, MSMA member since 2002, is Professor of Emergency Medicine; and Evan Schwarz, MD, FACEP, FACMT, MSMA member since 2014, is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Section Chief Medical Toxicology, Division of Emergency Medicine; all are at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. At the Saint Louis County Department of Public Health, Spring Schmidt, PhD(c), is the Acting Director; Emily varner, MPH, is the PDMP Coordinator; and Rachel Cohen, MPH, is the Public Health Coordinator.

Missouri Medicine
|January 16, 2019
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