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PCSS Staff
TRACY
GARTENMANN
Director
of Buprenorphine & PCSS
GIONNE GRAETZ
Buprenorphine & PCSS Manager
GAIL B. JARA
PCSS
Liaison
Contact PCSS Staff
EMAIL:
PCSSproject@asam.org
PHONE: 877.630.8812
FAX: 301.656.3815
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TRACY
GARTENMANN
PCSS
Project Director
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Tracy V. Gartenmann serves as Project
Director for SAMHSA’s Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS). She
also directs ASAM’s program development, buprenorphine and OBOT-related
initiatives, and alcohol dependence training programs. She has
served as a long-term fundraising and organizational development
consultant for many organizations, including the World Bank's
Economic Development Institute (EDI) in Washington DC, the European
Union’s Commission and the Belmont European Policy Centre in
Brussels, Belgium, Academia Istropolitana, an Institute for Advanced
Studies in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the University of Cape Town in
South Africa. She worked for the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs (NDI) for five years designing and
implementing political training programs in Eastern Europe, the
Middle East and Africa, serving as Country Director in Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Bamako, Mali running nationwide voter education programs
in support of free and fair elections. She also served a new
business development consultant for Saratoga Technologies, and is
now directly affiliated with the company through their recent
acquisition of the information technology company she founded in
1999. Tracy holds a BA with Honors in Political Philosophy from
King’s College, the University of London, UK.
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GIONNE GRAETZ
PCSS Project Manager
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Gionne Graetz serves as Project Manager
for the SAMHSA funded Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS.)
She has worked at ASAM on buprenorphine and OBOT related initiatives
since 2003. Gionne is also a registered nurse and prior to her
employment at ASAM worked as an Emergency Department and Intensive
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Gail B.
Jara
PCSS
Liaison |
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Gail B. Jara serves as Outreach Coordinator for PCSS and consultant
to one other SAMHSA-funded project on continuing medical education
related to use of opioids, particularly methadone, for management of
persistent pain. She was the founding Executive Director of the
California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM.) She managed
the development of the ASAM certification project and served as
staff to several policy committees of ASAM, including the Task Force
on Practice Guidelines and the Subcommittee on Buprenorphine
Training. She
has developed and coordinated projects for CSAM, ASAM, and the
California Medical Association related to buprenorphine, methadone
treatment programs, pain and addiction, and physician health
programs. She is staff to the CSAM Committee on Treatment of Opioid
Dependence, the group that has recently published the 2008 edition
of Guidelines for Physicians Working In California Opioid Treatment
Programs. She is the Executive Director of the Medical Education and
Research Foundation (MERF) for the Treatment of Alcoholism and Other
Drug Dependencies, a sister organization to CSAM, whose mission is
to increase educational opportunities about substance use disorders
for physicians in training at the residency level. She coordinated a
consensus conference on that subject for MERF and The Betty Ford
Institute in December of 2008.
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