{"id":52356,"date":"2017-11-15T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=52356"},"modified":"2017-11-15T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:42:48","slug":"daniel-alford-promoted-to-associate-dean-continuing-medical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2017\/11\/15\/daniel-alford-promoted-to-associate-dean-continuing-medical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Alford Promoted to Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/11\/Dan-2014-571x636.jpg\" alt=\"COM-dan alford\" width=\"171\" height=\"190\" class=\"wp-image-52357 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/11\/Dan-2014-571x636.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/11\/Dan-2014-768x855.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/11\/Dan-2014-920x1024.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/11\/Dan-2014.jpg 1119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/>Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, has been promoted to Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education (CME). A Professor of Medicine, Alford has served as Assistant Dean for CME since September 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Alford holds a number of positions at BUSM and BMC. He directs the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) and the BU Evidence-based SBIRT Student Training (BESST) programs at BUSM. At BMC he directs the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit in the Section of General Internal Medicine and the NIDA-funded Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) Program in Addiction Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Alford is past-president of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA)<strong>. <\/strong>In 2011 he was recognized as a \u201cChampion of Change\u201d by the White House. In 2014 he received the AMA \u201cAward for Health Education\u201d and in 2016 he was awarded the American Society of Addiction Medicine first \u201cEducator of the Year Award.\u201d In 2017 he received the American College of Physicians \u201cAward for Distinguished Contributions to Behavioral Medicine.\u201d His clinical, educational and research interests focus on opioid use disorders and safe and competent opioid prescribing for chronic pain.<\/p>\n<p>An alumnus of BUSM, Alford received his MPH from BUSPH and his BA from Connecticut College. He was chief resident at Boston City Hospital. He joined the BUSM faculty in 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, has served as Assistant Dean for CME since September 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127,157,146,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52361,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356\/revisions\/52361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}