Preparation Course Program



Monday, September 18, 2006

07:45 Opening Remarks
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP - Vice Chair, Board of Examination
Prithvi Raj, MD, FIPP - Immediate Past Chair, Board of Exmination
08:00 Welcome and introduction to the examination preparation course
Prithvi Raj MD, FIPP – Immediate Past Chair, Board of Examination
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP - Vice Chair, Board of Examination
Moderator: Charles Gauci, MD, FIPP
08:30 General Princinciples for interventional Pain Treatment
Prithvi Raj MD, FIPP
09:00 Identification of Needles and other technical equipment and their clinical application
Jose Rodriguez MD, FIPP
09:30 Use of Floroscopy and radiological Targets during interventional pain treatment
Olaf Rohof MD, FIPP
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30

Spinal techniques, facet joint, medial branch,foraminal approach
Martine Puylaert, MD, FIPP

11:00 Anatomy of Head and Neck
Miles Day ,MD, FIPP
11:30 Techniques of Trigeminal and Sphenopalatine ganglion
Gul Talu, MD, FIPP
12:00 Techniques for cervical facet,cervical transforaminal blocks
Charles Gauci, MD, FIPP
12:30 Techniques for symptathetic blocks in the neck region,stellate and thoracic
Patrick McGowan, MD, FIPP
13:00 LUNCH - Sponsored by ANS
Ans
13:30 Transport to University Labs
14:00 Lab Rotation
14:50 Lab Rotation
15:40 Lab Rotation
16:30 Lab Rotation
17:20 Lab Close
17:30 Transport to Hotel
20:00 Cocktail Reception and Entertainment
Kempinski Hotel Corvinus