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From Discovery to Impact: Advancing Therapeutics for Substance Use Disorders

Talk Description This presentation will outline the mission, structure, and impact of the Division of Therapeutics and Medical Consequences (DTMC), established in response to a 1989 Congressional mandate to advance medication development for substance use disorders (SUDs). It will describe how DTMC, modeled after a virtual pharmaceutical company, supports all phases of therapeutic development—from discovery […]

From Unstructured Notes to Actionable Insights: LLMs for Medical Cannabis Data Extraction

Talk description Medicinal cannabis use is widespread but poorly captured in electronic health records and rarely structured enough to support research. This talk will present our efforts to address that gap by applying large language models to millions of clinical notes, extracting structured data on cannabis use patterns, indications, and outcomes. The focus will be […]