Director of Addiction and Community Medicine
Los Angeles General Medical Center, California
Rebecca Trotzky public-healthifies LAC+USC, one of the busiest ERs & public hospitals in the Country. As a Family Medicine snowflake & Associate Professor in USC Department of Emergency Medicine, she slayed a million meetings to win outpatient naloxone and buprenorphine in LA’s Department of Health Service’s pharmacy. Rebecca wrote the first prescription for buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder in pregnant incarcerated women in LA County Jail, which almost caused a heart attack in her staff. A leader of SafeMed LA, Rebecca supports the gigante coalition of providers, hospitals, pharmacies and payors across LA County for safer opioid prescribing.
As the Director of Urgent Care, she’s proud of support from California Health Care Foundation to provide complex care for high utilizers of ER, who experience homelessness, mental illness, concurrent chronic pain and substance use disorders, who are often pre-contemplative of change. With Whole Person Care in California, Rebecca aims to provide engagement and navigation services for care of patients with substance use disorders. She believes everyone should have open door access to excellent integrated health services, regardless of insurance or immigration status. In medical school, Rebecca won a Fulbright Scholarship to research health systems transformation in Venezuela.
Before all that, Rebecca was a juvenile delinquent, high school dropout, and young single mom on food stamps. She’s glad she ignored her social worker’s advice, to leave four-year college, and focus on something more practical. Rebecca remains pre-contemplative about changing her bicycle addiction. She double clicked "like" on her high schooler's last status update.
Always Open, Always Safe: A Blueprint for 24/7 ED Based Harm Reduction
Friday, April 5, 2024
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
