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Agenda

Friday, September 16, 2011

Meritage Conference Center
Concurrent Sessions
6:30am-7:30am
Registration and Breakfast
7:30am
Welcome
7:45am-8:30am
History of Pain and Intrathecal Infusion
~ Elliott Krames, MD

Injection Workshop for Chemical De-nervation Agents

Michael Saulino, MD

8:30am-9:15am
Evolution of the REMS for Certain Opioid Drugs ~ J David Haddox, DDS, MD
9:15am-9:30am
Break
9:30am-10:15am
Advances in the Treatment
of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
~ David Caraway, MD, PhD
10:15am-11:00am
CSF Flow & Dynamics: Implications for IT Therapy ~ Eric Buchser, MD, DEAA
11:00am-11:45am
Physiology of Discogenic Pain
~ Leo Kapural, MD, PhD & Eric Grigsby, MD

PainCaP Membership Meeting

11:45am-1:00pm
Lunch Symposia
1:00pm-1:45pm
History of US Drug Control Policy and Current Challenges
~ Dale Ferranto—Moderator
1:45pm-2:30pm
Ultrasonography in Spine Interventions
~ Michael Gofeld, MD, DEAA
2:30pm-2:45pm
Break
2:45pm-3:30pm
Intrathecal Therapy Best Practices
~ Joshua Prager, MD, MS
11:30am-7:30pm
Exhibit Hall Open
3:30pm-6:00pm
Wine College
6:00pm-7:30pm
Exhibitor Meet and Greet Reception



Saturday, September 17, 2011

Meritage Conference Center Concurrent Sessions
7:00am-8:00am
Vertos Medical Breakfast Symposia
8:00am-8:45am
Cancer Pain
~ Lisa Jo Stearns, MD

Cadaver Labs for Ultrasound Guided Procedures of Spine and Joints

Michael Gofeld, MD,FIPP and
Jason Pope, MD

8:45am-9:30am
Urine Drug Testing in Clinical Practice: Pearls and Pitfalls
~ J. David Haddox, DDS, MD
9:30am-10:15am
Intrathecal Baclofen for Spasticity
~ Michael Saulino, MD, PhD
10:15am-10:45am
Break
10:45am-11:30am
State of the Art Neuromodulation
~ Tim Deer, MD
11:30am-12:15pm

Targeted Drug Delivery for Neurologic Disease
~ Russell Lonser, MD

12:15pm-1:30pm
Lunch Symposia (available)
1:30pm-2:15pm
IT Gabapentin
~ Richard Rauck, MD

Cancer Pain Forum

Cource Director

~Lisa Jo Stearns, MD

2:15pm-3:00pm

The Changing Landscape of Reimbursement and Public Policy
~ William Fehrenbach, MSSW and Bonnie Handke, RN

3:00pm-3:45pm
DRG Panel - A Novel Neural Target
~David Caraway, MD, PHD, Eric Grigsby, MD, Liong Liem, MD, FIPP, and Marc Russo, MBBS, DA
3:45pm-4:00pm
Break
4:00pm-4:45pm
Microdosing Panel
~Bill Witt, Moderator
4:45pm-5:30pm
fMRI in Pain Research
~ Sean Mackey, MD, PhD
5:30pm-6:30pm
Poster Reception
6:30pm-9:00pm
Wine Cave Dinner



Sunday, September 18, 2011

Meritage Conference Center 
7:00am-8:00am
Covidien Breakfast Symposia
8:00am-8:15am
Winning Abstract Poster Presentation
8:15am-9:00am
CRPS State of the Art
~ Michael Stanton-Hicks, MD, BS
9:00am-9:45am
Clinical Research in Pain Practice
~ Eric Grigsby, MD & Leo Kapural, MD, PhD
9:45am-10:00am
Break
10:00am-10:45am
Intrathecal Gene Therapy—IL 10
~ Erin Milligan, PhD
10:45am-11:30am
Thermal Pulsed & Cooled Radio Frequency Ablation
~Nagy Mekhail, MD, PHD
11:30am-12:15pm
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation and Field Stimulation
~ Marc Huntoon, MD, PhD
12:15pm-12:30pm
Wrap Up



Topic Interest Guide

IT Therapy/Targeted Drug Delivery
Neurostimulation
Governmental/Regulatory Issues
Pain and Medications
Minimally Invasive Spine Treatments
Other

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