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Dr. Brent Schillinger is a past president of the Palm Beach County Medical Society and currently chairs the society’s Opioid Healthcare Response Initiative. This task force has been operational since 2017 with an overarching goal of reducing opioid deaths in Palm Beach County.
Dr. Schillinger received his MD at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn New York where he went on to complete a residency program in dermatology. He has chaired the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs for both the Palm Beach County Medical Society and the Florida Medical Association. He represents the medical community on the Palm Beach Ethics Coalition.
Dr. Schillinger also serves as vice chair of the Florida Policy Institute a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on the fiscal impact of education, affordable housing, food supply, and health care issues. He holds clinical academic appointments at the medical schools of Nova Southeastern University, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Miami.
David Fink, PhD, MPH, MPhil applies a multi-level life course perspective, coupled with causal inference methodologies, to understand the causes and consequences of substance use and disorder, with a particular focus on how state and national policy shape drug use and its attendant morbidity and mortality. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, commentaries, and book chapters on the social causes of health, drug use, and addiction. His scholarship has brought attention to problems in the quality of research on prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and their effects, including an emphasis on neglected outcomes and unintended consequences. Fink has a passion for science communication and uses a multi-modal approach (e.g., scientific presentations, media reports, social media, trainings for key stakeholders) to disseminate addiction science research to a wide range of audiences. He has received several achievement awards for this novel approach to science communication as well as for his development of novel quantitative methods for the study of drug policy, and his service to the field of epidemiology. Fink is the past president of the Society for Epidemiological Research Student Postdoc Committee. Fink holds a PhD and graduate degrees in epidemiology from Columbia University. Fink is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at New York State Psychiatric Institute in the Division of Translational Epidemiology.
Joshua D. Lenchus, DO, RPh, FACP, SFHM holds a pharmacy degree from the University of Florida, and graduated from Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Subsequently, he worked as a hospitalist for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where he held the rank of associate professor of medicine, anesthesiology, and radiology. From 2007-16, he also served as an associate program director for the internal medicine residency. He is currently the regional chief medical officer for Broward Health Medical Center in Ft. Lauderdale.
He is a notable expert in several medical fields. He has presented on opioids and controlled substances locally, regionally, and nationally for several years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been a frequent presence in the media, having been interviewed by the major local new stations in the Southeast Florida market, for local and national print, and on radio, including NPR.
Outside the hospital, Dr. Lenchus is incredibly involved, serving as a leader in organized medicine at multiple levels, including as Past President of the Florida Osteopathic Medical Association, Vice President of the Florida Medical Association, past Regent and current Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and Senior Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
