MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2008 |
Hall A |
Hall B |
CONFERENCE PROGRAM |
EXAMINATION PREPARATION COURSE |
07:45 |
Opening Remarks |
08:00 |
Vertebral Body Stabilization Techniques |
Chronic Pain as a Disease |
08:30 |
Spinal Cord Stimulation: New Technologies and Outcome Studies |
Radiologic Assessment for Chronic Pain Patients |
09:00 |
Complications of Interventional Pain Treatment |
Evaluation and Management of Co Morbidities Associated with Chronic Pain |
09:30 |
Discography |
Pharmacologic Therapy of Neuropathic Pain |
10:00 |
Minimally Invasive Techniques for Discogenic Pain |
Neurobiology of the SNS as related to Chronic Pain |
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 |
Facial Pain and Cervicogenic Headache |
Assessment of Sympathetic Block |
11:30 |
Advances in Lysis of Adhesions |
Current Status of CRPS |
12:00 |
Lysis Outcome Studies |
Sympathetic Block of the Head and Neck |
12:30 |
Treatment Options for Trigeminal Neuralgia, Percutaneous Interventions |
Sympathetic Block of the Chest Wall and Extremities |
13:00 |
Lunch |
13:30 |
Transport to University Labs |
14:00 |
Afternoon Workshops |
17:20 |
Return to Hotel at end of Workshops |
20:00 |
Welcome Reception |
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2008 |
Hall A |
Hall B |
CONFERENCE PROGRAM |
EXAMINATION PREPARATION COURSE |
08:00 |
Implantable Drug Delivery Systems |
Pain Generators in the Spine |
08:30 |
Epidural Injections |
Discography and Disc Procedures |
09:00 |
Imaging in Interventional Pain |
Facet Joint Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment |
09:30 |
Office-Based Interventional Pain Practices |
Spinal Stenosis: Diagnosis and Management |
10:00 |
Epiduroscopy Advances |
Management of Failed Back Surgery |
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 |
Facet Joint Pain and Its Treatment |
Vertebral Body Stabilization: Osteoporosis and Fractures |
11:30 |
Current Neurosurgical Approaches to the Treatment of Pain |
Acute and Chronic Radiculopathy and Low Back Pain |
12:00 |
Treatment of Failed Back and Neck Surgery |
Lysis: Transforaminal vs Interlaminar |
12:30 |
Pulsed Radiofrequency Techniques |
Radiation Safety and Contrast Agents for Interventional Pain Management |
13:00 |
Lunch |
13:30 |
Transport to University Labs |
14:00 |
Afternoon Workshops |
17:20 |
Return to Hotel at end of Workshops |
20:00 |
Awards Ceremony |
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008 |
Hall A |
Hall B |
CONFERENCE PROGRAM |
EXAMINATION PREPARATION COURSE |
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Pharmacologic Management of Cancer and Neuropathic Pain |
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08:00 |
Pathogenesis of Neuropathic Pain |
Drug Infusion: Neuroaxial |
08:30 |
Pharmacologic Management of Neuropathic Pain |
Spinal Cord Stimulation |
09:00 |
Causes of Cancer Pain |
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation |
09:30 |
Mechanistic Approaches to Treating Cancer Pain |
Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Infusion |
10:00 |
Management of Opioid Side Effects |
Ultrasound Guidance |
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 |
Is the WHO Ladder for Cancer Pain Management Obsolete? |
Epiduroscopy |
11:30 |
The Effectiveness of Immune Modulators for Pain Management |
Neurotoxins |
12:00 |
Obstacles to the Pharmacologic Management of Pain |
Neurostimulation for Headache |
12:30 |
Comfort Care at the End of Life: Concerns of Patients, Families & Health-Care Professionals |
Complications of Interventional Pain Management |
13:00 |
Lunch |
13:30 |
Transport to University Labs |
14:00 |
Afternoon Workshops |
17:20 |
Return to Hotel at end of Workshops |
