HEALTH
U.S. Surgeon General visits ETSU for opioids roundtable
United States Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams visited the campus of East Tennessee State University with U.S. Rep. Dr. Phil Roe on Jan. 30, 2020, for a regional roundtable discussion about the opioid crisis. Approximately 65 university, community, state, and federal leaders attended the roundtable discussion, held in ETSU’s Interprofessional Education and Research Center on the VA campus. Adams and Roe were joined on the platform by Dr. Lisa Piercey, commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Health and an alumna of ETSU’s Quillen College of Medicine. Participants in the roundtable included representatives from law enforcement, health care, government, education, and public health. In addition, ETSU Health leaders had the opportunity to meet with Adams while he was on campus. 6
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