Colorado Leadership
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Don Stader, MD FACEP
Don Stader, MD FACEP is a board certified emergency and addiction medicine physician, who works at Swedish Medical Center and Lincoln Health in Colorado. He is the Medical Director of the Compass Opioid Stewardship Program, a nationwide initiative to improve pain control, prescribing habits, addiction treatment and opioid stewardship for primary care clinicians.
Don is also the founder and chair of the Colorado Naloxone Project. He is the founder and past chair of Colorado ACEP's Opioid Task Force, the Editor-in-Chief of COACEP's 2017 Opioid Prescribing & Treatment Guidelines and the CO's CURE’s guidelines on pain control and opioid stewardship.
Don served for over 2 years as the Senior Pain Management & Opioid Policy Physician Adviser for the Colorado Hospital Association and serves on multiple national and local committees addressing the opioid epidemic in Colorado and across the nation, he is the current chair of ACEP’s Pain & Addiction Management Section.
Rachael Duncan
PHARMD COCHAIR
Rachael is a pharmacist and consultant for Stader Opioid Consultants based in Colorado.
She has spent the past seven years focused on policy, advocacy, and educational work surrounding opioid stewardship and treatment at both the state and national level.
She serves on the steering committee of the Colorado Naloxone Project and is Co-Chair of the new Colorado MOMs (Maternal Overdose Matters) Initiative. Her clinical practice is in hospital-based pharmacy.
PHYSICIAN CONSULTANT
Kaylin Klie
Dr Kaylin Klie is a family medicine and addiction medicine physician at the University of Colorado and Denver Health. Her clinical focus is perinatal addiction which includes the care of families impacted by substance use.
Dr Klie enjoys teaching students, residents, fellows, and the community about caring for people with substance use conditions. She is the program director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
She serves on various local, regional, and national committees dedicated to serving pregnant and parenting people with substance use.
PROJECT MANAGER
Ryan Tsipis
Ryan grew up in Salem, Virginia, graduating from Virginia Tech in 2012 with a BS in Human Development and Psychology and played on the varsity lacrosse team.
She completed a postgraduate Project Management Certificate at Georgetown University in 2016. Ryan graduated from the Colorado School of Public Health with her Master of Public Health degree with a focus in Community and Behavioral Health in May 2020. While in graduate school, Ryan worked with Stader Opioid Consultants (SOC) part time and then came on full time after graduation.
Her passion to end the opioid epidemic started in college after growing up in an area that was hit hard by the opioid crisis. This passion grew in graduate school and she was happy to find a great opportunity to work to end the opioid epidemic with SOC. Her main focus while working with SOC has been the project manager for the Colorado Naloxone Project (CNP).
The CNP now has over 100 hospitals in Colorado dispensing naloxone to patients at risk of an opioid overdose and is looking to expand outside of Colorado. Additionally, Ryan enjoys being an indoor cycle instructor at the Denver Athletic Club and helping with the Junior Varsity women’s lacrosse team at Colorado Academy. In her free time, Ryan likes to enjoy Colorado with her wonderful husband, 3 children, and dog.