Dr. Jason Hoppe is an emergency physician and medical toxicologist at the University of Colorado and Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center with a career focus on Rx opioid safety and maximizing the utility of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs). He serves as co-chair for Colorado’s statewide PDMP task force and is a founding member of the coordinating committee for the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention. Through these groups he has worked extensively to improve Colorado’s PDMP. His research using PDMPs has resulted in several published projects linking PDMP and clinical data. These projects have lead to further grant funding for three additional large scale PDMP implementation and evaluation projects. He has worked extensively with the Colorado Board of Pharmacy and the Department of Public Health to improve and evaluate the Colorado PDMP.