Jennifer Hardcopf Stagg completed her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy. She then went on to complete a 2 year pharmacotherapy residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. She is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist.
She has worked for the past 5 years as an Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist specialized in the area of Pain and Palliative Medicine at OU Health here in Oklahoma City. She works at the OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center as part of the interdisciplinary team that sees adult cancer patients in the outpatient clinic. She has implemented opioid safety monitoring to promote safe and effective opioid utilization in both the Palliative Clinic and for Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease.
Dr. Stagg is passionate about education and is involved in providing education to the Hospice and Palliative Fellowship at OU, as well as providing patient education through the Cancer pain 101 course. She has seen firsthand the impact of opioid overdose on the lives on Oklahomans around her and is dedicated to advocating for safe utilization of prescription opioids. She is grateful to be able to speak on the important topic of substance and abuse and promoting Safe Opioid Use.
Substance Abuse: A Spotlight on Supporting Safe Opioid Use
Satisfies Substance Abuse Requirement for Oklahoma Licensure
Objectives:
- Identify risk mitigation strategies for opioid utilization.
- Describe Buprenorphine – utilization for pain.
- Describe Opioid Tapering – strategies.