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THE 13th ANNUAL ADVANCED INTERVENTIONAL PAIN CONFERENCE and PRACTICAL WORKSHOP and FIPP EXAMINATION PREPARATION COURSE | Budapest Hungary | September 8-10, 2008

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Hall A
Moderator:

Carl Noe, MD, FIPP

07:45Opening Remarks
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Program Director
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, President of WIP
 
  Welcome to Budapest!
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP, Chair, Local Arrangement Committee
08:00Vertebral Body Stabilization Techniques
Nagy Mekhail, MD, FIPP
08:30Spinal Cord Stimulation: New Technologies and Outcome Studies
Maarten Van Kleef, MD, FIPP
09:00 Complications of Interventional Pain Treatment
John Nelson, MD, FIPP
09:30 Discography
Vijay Singh, MD, FIPP
10:00 Minimally Invasive Techniques for Discogenic Pain
Nagy Mekhail, MD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
Moderator:

To be announced

11:00 Facial Pain and Cervicogenic Headache
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
11:30 Advances in Lysis of Adhesions
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
12:00 Lysis Outcome Studies
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, FIPP
12:30 Treatment Options for Trigeminal Neuralgia, Percutaneous Interventions
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP

13:00

Lunch
13:30Transport to University Labs
Afternoon Workshops
Return to Hotel at end of Workshops
 
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2008
Hall A
Moderator: Olaf Rohof, MD, FIPP
08:00 Implantable Drug Infusion System
Allen Burton, MD, PhD, FIPP
08:30 Epidural Injections
Charles Gauci, MD, FIPP
09:00 Imaging in Interventional Pain
Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
09:30

Office-Based Interventional Pain Practices
To be announced

10:00 Epiduroscopy Advances
James Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP (HON)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Facet Joint Pain and Its Treatment
Philip Finch, MD, FIPP
11:30 Current Neurosurgical Approaches to the Treatment of Pain
Lóránd Erõss, MD, FIPP
12:00

Treatment of Failed Back and Neck Surgery
Gabor Racz, MD, FIPP

12:30 Pulsed Radiofrequency Techniques
Jan Van Zundert, MD, FIPP

13:00

Lunch
13:30 Transport to University Labs
Afternoon Workshops
Return to Hotel at end of Workshops
  
 
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Hall A
Pharmacologic Management of Cancer and Neuropathic Pain
Moderators: Allen Burton, MD, FIPP
Jan Van Zundert, MD, FIPP
08:00 Pathogenesis of Neuropathic Pain
Philippe Mavrocordatos, MD, FIPP
08:30 Pharmacologic Management of Neuropathic Pain
Martine Puylaert, MD, FIPP
09:00 Causes of Cancer Pain
Allen Burton, MD, FIPP
09:30 Pharmacologic Management of Cancer
Kriss Vissers, MD, FIPP
10:00 Management of Opioid Side Effects
Athina Vadalouca, MD, PhD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
Moderators: Allen Burton, MD, FIPP
Jan Van Zundert, MD, FIPP
11:00 Is the WHO Ladder for Cancer Pain Management Obsolete?
Sam Ahmedazi, MD
11:30 The Effectiveness of Immune Modulators for Pain Management
Frank Huygen, MD
12:00 Obstacles to the Pharmacologic Management of Pain
Giustino Varrassi, MD, FIPP
12:30 Comfort Care at the End of Life:
Concerns of Patients, Families and Health-Care Professionals
Thomas Francis McGovern, MEd

13:00

Lunch
13:30 Transport to University Labs
Afternoon Workshops
Return to Hotel at end of Workshops
   

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