Evolving Viewpoints of Opioid Analgesics

The CDC Guidelines, Version 2.0 – Charlie E. Argoff, MD

My Patient is Taking Opioids for Chronic Pain – What Should I Do? A Step Wise Approach for Legacy Patients – Antje M. Barreveld, MD

Pharmacogenomics, Opioids and Risk Assessment – Roseann S. Gammal, PharmD, BCPS

Chronic Opioid Therapy – Is Your Patient Benefiting? – Robert N. Jamison, PhD

Detecting Opioid Use Disorder – Mohammed A. Issa, MD

Opioid Therapy in the Opioid Use Disorder Patient – Mohammed A. Issa, MD

Opioids and Perioperative Pain Management – A Reassessment – Alexander B. Stone, MD

Appropriate Prescribing and the Pharmacist’s Obligation – Michele Matthews, PharmD, BCACP, FASHP

Limiting the Opioid Supply – Are Our Communities Safer? – Amie Goodin, PhD, MPP

Pain Practice Management

Understanding Insurance Contracting – Gerry Stanley, Jr., MD, P-CEO and Peter A. Brawer, PhD

Someone Calls the Office to Report Your Patient is Misusing Opioids – Richard H. Blake, JD

Management of Chronic Pain – A Primer for Mid-Level Practitioners – Michael Ferrick, RN, NP, AGPCNP-BC, DNP

Clinical Updates

Long COVID and Chronic Pain – Shamik Bhattacharyya, MD

Myofascial Pain Syndrome and Botulinum Toxin – Alternative During COVID? – Dajie Wang, MD

New Treatment Options for Pain – Angeliki Vgontzas, MD

Interventional Therapies for Headache – Yashar Eshraghi, MD

Medical Cannabis – A Synthesis of the Evidence – Jessica S. Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA

Integrative Medicine and Chronic Pain – Donald B. Levy, MD

Psychotherapies for Pain, Underused but Effective – Robert N. Jamison, PhD

Radiofrequency for Joint Pain – Zachary McCormick, MD

Disparities in Pain Management – Samantha M. Meints, PhD

Interventional Pain Procedure at the End of Life – Sanjeet Narang, MD

Chronic Pain in Pregnancy – Outpatient Management of Pregnant Patients – David Berman, MD

Sickle Cell Disease – Overview and Pain Management – Jason D. Ross, MD

Insights into Clinical Decision-Making Mistakes – Edgar L. Ross, MD

Updates on New Regional Anesthesia Techniques – David Yang, MD

Orofacial Pain – Diagnosis and Management of Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain – Jeffrey R. Shaefer, DDS

Use of Opioids in Pediatric Pain Management – Christine Greco, MD

Ultrasound and Musculo-Skeletal Procedures – Erika Yih, MD

Advances in Pain Physiology

Neuroimmune Responses and Chronic Pain – Ricardo Vallejo, MD, PhD

Objective Measures of Pain – Robert Edwards, PhD

Virtual Reality – Making New Connections – Gerry Stanley, Jr., MD, P-CEO

Spine Tech 2022

Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD) Procedure – Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD

Interspinous Decompression – Robert Jason Yong, MD, MBA

Sacroiliac Joint Procedures – Robert Jason Yong, MD, MBA

Vertebral Augmentation – Pritesh Topiwala, MD

Endoscopic Spine Surgery – Sanjeev Kumar, MD

Restorative Neurostimulation for Refractory, Mechanical, Nociceptive Chronic Low Back Pain – Christopher Gilligan, MD, MBA

Optimizing Lumbar and Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Ablation Outcome – Focus on Multispecialty Guideline Recommendations – Steve P. Cohen, MD

Neuromodulation 2022

The Choice of Spinal Cord Stimulation vs. Targeted Drug Delivery for Chronic Pain – Conventional Wisdom or Data-Driven Choice – Nagy Mekail, MD, PhD

Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation vs. Epidural Stimulation – The Search for Improved Efficacy – Timothy R. Lubenow, MD

ElectroAnalgesia – Amitabh Gulati, MD

Neuromodulation – Moving Past the Epidural Space – Edgar L. Ross, MD

Imaging Pain in the Brain with Functional MRI – Vitaly Napadow, PhD