DEA License 8-Hour Required Training - Discounted for MAPA Members

U.S. Congress-mandated training in the MATE (Medication Access & Training Expansion) Act is required before you renew your DEA license to prescribe controlled substances. This 8 hours of virtual training is now available from Michigan prescribers discounted for MAPA Members at $149 and other PAs for $199. MAPA has partnered with the Michigan Osteopathic Association (MOA) and the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) to offer this training virtually to Michigan PAs. The training is required for PAs who have not graduated within the last 5 years or if the PA medicine program the PA attended within the last year did not provide the training. HERE are more details about the training exemption eligibility and other common questions. 

MATE ACT Training to Fulfill DEA Application and Renewal Process (Meets 8 hours of training requirement) is offered by two of Michigan’s most respected Osteopathic physicians. 

Dr. David Neff is a longtime friend of Michigan PAs. Dr. David Neff is currently the COO/CMO at Redicare in Okemos, MI and Grand River Family Care, a combined urgent care and family medicine practice. Dr. Neff has been on clinical faculty in the MSUCOM Department of Family and Community Medicine since 1981. 

Dr. David Best graduated from the Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2002. He has been providing this standard of care treatment for opioid use disorder patients in Northern Michigan since 2005. Dr. Best has been in private practice since November 2012 and his office is in Traverse City.  He and his wife, Lindsay Best, DO, own Best Medical Services, which was certified as an Opioid Health Home in 2021. 

Pam Lynch, LMSW, CAADC has a 25-year history working in addiction, and its comorbidities. As a trainer for the National Harm Reduction Coalition since 1999 Lynch has studied harm reduction programming in and outside of the U.S. extensively.  Lynch is credited with starting harm reduction programs in Detroit, Ypsilanti, Traverse City, Kalkaska, Cadillac, Petoskey, and Midland, Michigan and Newark, N.J. Before taking leadership of Harm Reduction Michigan, she was employed by the county mental health authority in Traverse City.