Phillip Moschella, MD, PhD

Phillip Moschella, MD, PhD, is a board-certified Emergency Physician Scientist (MD/PhD) with an extensive background in cellular signaling.  He is a full-time clinician, Clinical Associate Professor and the Associate Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine for Prisma Health-Upstate.  His primary research emphasis surrounds HIV and HCV recognition, and linkage to care from the emergency department (ED), with several publications in top-tier emergency medicine journals. He has expanded his research interests into substance use disorders and specifically opioids. He is the PI on a large ($1.5 million over 3 years) grant from SAMHSA to evaluate the use of Alternatives to Opioids in the ED and is Co-I on two Gilead Focus Awards.  He has recently published an exciting systematic review on the effects of peer-recovery services in the ED and on his alternatives to opioids project. He oversees SBIRT programs within five emergency departments within Prisma Health-Upstate which include MAT initiation.  He is also part of the first pre-hospital MAT initiation program alongside Community Paramedic linkage to care and treatment for HCV across the Upstate region of South Carolina in Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg and Oconee counties.

Erica Kaufman West, MD

Erica Kaufman West, MD, completed her undergraduate degrees at Valparaiso University in Indiana. She received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She finished her Internal Medicine residency and her chief resident year at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She stayed to complete her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the West LA VA/Cedars-Sinai/Olive View-UCLA Medical Center program. She has been working in the Midwest since then, focusing on acute inpatient as well as outpatient care in HIV, Hepatitis C and wound care. She now works as the AMA’s Director of Infectious Diseases while maintaining her clinical practice.