Spine Conference - Agenda

The conference is worth a total of 11.5 CME/CEU credits. Downloadable Agenda

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3rd ANNUAL SPINE SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
March 3, 2012                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

7:00-7:45 am	Registration & Breakfast
7:45-8:00 am	Welcoming Remarks
8:00-9:00 am	Neuroplasticity: Transformational Pain Treatment Michael Moskowitz, MD
9:00-10:00 am	Clinical Aspects of Risk Management in Opioid Therapy  Steven Passik, PhD
10:00-10:30 am	Break/Exhibits
10:30-11:30 am	Responsible Opioid Prescribing Bill McCarberg, MD
11:30-12:45 pm	Lunch Lecture: The Difficult Patient and Other Paradoxes of Patient Care Melanie Thernstrom, Author
	Track 1 Complementary & Alternative Medicine	Track 2 Primary Care	Track 3 Interventional Pain Medicine
1:00-1:45 pm	Watsu Mary Seamster, LMP, BCST	Physical Examination of the Spine: 5 Minute Back Assessment John Kafrouni, MD	Diagnostics: Discography, Injections Yuri Tsirulnikov, DO
2:00-2:45 pm	Yoga Jim Carson, PhD	Pharmacology of Spine Pain Kathryn Hahn, PharmD	Therapeutics: Spinal Cord Stimulators Benjamin Platt, MD
2:45-3:00 pm	Break/Exhibits
3:00-4:00 pm	Chiropractic Karis Cooper, DC	Managing the Difficult Patient & When to Refer to Specialty Care Bill McCarberg, MD, Steven Passik, PhD and Michael Moskowitz, MD	Osteoporosis: Including Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty  Norman Rokosz, MD and Chaim Vanek, MD
4:15-5:00 pm	Insurance Payor Perspective: Workers' Compensation WA and OR Perspective Lee S. Glass, MD and Gary Ward, MD
5:00 pm	Adjourn/Evaluations/CME/CEU Certificates for 1 day registrants

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3rd ANNUAL SPINE SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
March 4, 2012                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

7:00-7:45 am	Registration, Breakfast & Opening Remarks
7:45-8:45 am	Innovative Pain Management Program Models Greg Smith, PhD
	Breakout Session 1	Breakout Session 2	Breakout Session 3
9:00-10:30 am	Pain Psychology: Dual Diagnosis Jill Fancher, PhD	Physical Therapy Brett Windsor, PT	Fibromyalgia & Spine Pain Cheryl Hryciw, NP
10:30-11:00 am	Break/Exhibits
11:00-12:00 am	Surgical Management of Spine Pain Randall Chesnut, MD
12:00-1:00 pm	The Art of Pain Management: Interplay Between Communication, Control and Compassion Robert Djergaian, MD and Jennifer Wagner, LPN, ASN, BS
1:00 pm	Adjourn/Evaluations/CME/CEU Certificates