Welcome to COPE
COPE works with medical schools to ensure all rising physicians know how to provide care to people with SUD.
Improving Patient Care & Public Health
The Coalition On Physician Education in Substance Use Disorders (COPE) is a voluntary organization devoted to improving patient care and the public health by assuring that all rising physicians are trained to prevent, identify, and provide specialty-appropriate interventions for patients who engage in unhealthy use of alcohol and other drugs including non-medical use of prescription medications.
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UPCOMING WEBINARS
Student-led Approaches to Evolve Medical School Curricula
Thursday, September 8, 2026 | 4:00 PM EST
Speaker: Grace Heiting
Grace Heiting is a third-year medical student at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Her early clinical exposure to overdose response through Emergency Medical Technician training sparked a commitment to addiction medicine education and advocacy. Since 2025, she has collaborated with Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Northwell Health’s Emergency Medicine Addiction Medicine services to coordinate a student-led orientation for first-year medical students focused on substance use disorders and naloxone administration. She has expanded these efforts into the Long Island community, providing public overdose response education and equipping community members with naloxone. For the past two years, Grace has also served as a student representative with the American Society of Addiction Medicine, advocating for addiction medicine policy and reform on Capitol Hill and in local legislative offices. She hopes to encourage other medical students and institutions to expand their involvement in addiction medicine education, advocacy, and community engagement.
Beyond the Four Walls of Medical Student: Local Poison Control Centers as Curricular Partners
Thursday, September 24, 2026 | 12:00 PM EST
Speaker: Howard Greller, MD
Dr. Greller is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Medical Toxicology & Addiction Medicine at Rutgers University / New Jersey Medical School. He is the Director of the Medical Toxicology fellowship, and co-director of the combined Med Tox / Addiction Medicine fellowship at Rutgers, the first and only fellowship of its kind. He co-hosts the Sirius/XM Doctor Radio Emergency Medicine show, was the &Howard to the Dantastic Mr. Tox podcast and co-founded The Tox and Hound toxicology blog. His favorite molecule is 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine, and hopes to one day eat the world. But understands that it must be done one bite at a time.
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Education Curriculum
Designed for medical students by medical students and medical school faculty available for free download.
Resources
Opioid Resources and Substance Use Disorder Curriculum.
About COPE
The Coalition on Physician Education in Substance Use Disorders (COPE) is a voluntary organization devoted to improving patient care and the public health.
