You’re Invited to the Pennsylvania Pain Society Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions

-- Register for the Full Meeting and 2019 Membership is included!

 

PAIN MEDICINE -MOVING FORWARD

No Matter your Specialty We Have a Session for You!  

Open to All Healthcare Professionals:  MD's, DO's, DC's, PharmD's, PhD's,, PA's,NP's, RN's, LPN's, Therapists, and Healthcare Administrators.

THE PENNSYLVANIA PAIN SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING AND SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

NOVEMBER 9-11, 2018

OMNI BEDFORD SPRINGS HOTEL, BEDFORD PA

 

PURPOSE

The purpose of this program is to educate physicians and healthcare practitioners in evolving acute and chronic pain management and provide a forum for participants to gain valuable understanding in evidenced based techniques, treatments and solutions for patients suffering from pain.  In addition, Pennsylvania legal issues and coding/ billing will be presented in a didactic, interactive format.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

At the end of this program, participants should be able to:

1.         Employ key diagnostic and treatment techniques for the management of pain.

2.         Identify and administer appropriate safe opioid usage in patients.

3.         Understand and include behavioral analysis in the evaluation of a chronic pain patient.

4.         Identify and resolve issues relating to the law and billing for pain management.

5.         Apply evidenced based strategies to clinical practice for managing complex

            pain patients.

ACCREDITATION 

Satisfactory Completion 

Learners must complete an evaluation form to receive a certificate of completion. Your chosen sessions must be attended in their entirety.  Partial credit of individual sessions is not available. If you are seeking continuing education credit for a specialty not listed below, it is your responsibility to contact your licensing/certification board to determine course eligibility for your licensing/certification requirement. 

 

Physicians / Nurses / Pharmacists

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and The Pennsylvania Pain Society.  Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Credit Designation Statement – Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 19 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM for physicians and 19 contact hours for nurses and 19 knowledge-based contact hours for pharmacists. Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  

 

Physician Assistants

AAPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME.

 

Nurse Practitioners

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) recognizes the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as approved accreditors and allow reciprocity for AANPCP continuing education credit.

 

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS

The Society has reserved a limited number of sleeping rooms at The Omni Bedford Springs Hotel, Bedford  PA at the discounted rate of $195 a night plus tax.    Once the rooms are booked and or the sleeping block discount expires, the hotel rates increase.  Do Not Delay! Book Today online at www.PAPainSociety.org or by calling the hotel at (814) 623-8100 and mention the Pennsylvania Pain Society Special Rate.

 

FACULTY (Preliminary Roster Subject to Change)

President's Special Guest Lecturer:  Rachel Levine MD, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Christopher Antypas PharmD 

Dan Doleys PhD - Special Guest Lecturer 

David Giampetro MD

Vitaly Gordin MD

Jennifer Hubbell CRNP

Abraham Jack Kabazie MD

Len Kamen DO

Sarah Kawasaki MD

Lawrence Kobak DPM JD

Andrew Levin DO

Joseph Morgan MD 

Yeshvant Navalgund MD

Bruce Nicholson MD

Rishin Patel MD

Justin Petrolla MD

Michael Sather MD, Special Guest Lecturer

John Schwab Esq.

Edward Snell MD

Amy Turner RN BSN MMHC CPC

Haibin Wang MD PhD

Mark Wells DNP NP-C

Mitchell West DO

Michael Zemaitis PhD

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 

Friday November 9, 2018

8:00 am  Registration Opens (Exhibitor Set up)

8:55 am - 11:15 am   SESSION ONE - PARALLEL SESSIONS

The Business & Legal Side of Pain:  Moderator: Vitaly Gordin MD

8:55 am  Welcome from the Pennsylvania Pain Society President - Vitaly Gordin MD

9:00 am - Mitigating Risk from Physician's Counsel - Lawrence Kobak DPM JD

9:45 am - Overcoming the Fear of Prescribing: Defending your Patient and your Practice - John Schwab Esq.

10:30am - Panel Discussion: Medico-Legal Consequences of Difficult Patients (all session speakers)

11:15 am -11:45 am  Networking Break With Exhibitors

OR  

Non-Interventional Session - Moderators Mark Wells DNP NP-C and Jennifer Hubbell CRNP

8:55 am - Welcome from the Pennsylvania Pain Society - Mark Wells DNP NP-C

9:00 am - Clinical Pathways for Opioid Dependent Patients - Jennifer Hubbell CRNP

9:45 am - Outpatient Opioid Stewardship Model: A Blueprint for Multimodal Therapy - David Giampetro MD

10:30 am - Debunking the CDC Guidelines Mystery - Mark Wells DNP NP-C

11:15 am- 11:45 am - Networking Break with Exhibitors

11:45 am - 12:45 pm   SESSION TWO - President's Special Guest Lecturer:  Rachel Levine MD

12:45 - 1:45 Corporate Member Showcase with Platinum Corporate Member, Pernix Therapeutics : Today's Rational Forumulation for Chronic Pain Management - Asit Upadhhyay DO  (Lunch Provided by the Society, No CME provided)

1:45 -5:30 pm  SESSION THREE - How to Incorporate Medical Cannabis into your Practice

1:45 pm  - Evidence Based Medical Uses of Cannabis in Pennsylvania - Joseph Morgan MD

2:15 pm - Transitioning fro Opioids to Cannabis - Who to and How to - Bruce Nicholson MD

2:45 pm - Medical-Legal Aspects of Prescribing Cannabis in your Practice - Lawrence Kobak DPM JD

3:15 pm - Networking Break with Exhibitors

3:45 pm - The Patient Process -from Referral to Dispensary and Back - Abraham Kabazie MD

4:30 pm   - Panel Discussion Q &A

5:00 pm  - Hot Topic:  Virtual Reality: Making Progress with Workers Comp Patients - Yeshvant Navalgund MD

5:30 pm - Networking Reception and Trainee Poster Competition

6:30 - 8:30  pm  - Silver Corporate Member Dinner with Nevro (RSVP required. Limited seating.  Dinner provided by Society. No CME)

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2018

7:30 am - Registration and Exhibits Open (Breakfast Provided by the Society)

7:45-8:45 am -  CASE REVIEW - Challenging Cases, Challenging Patients -  A Multi-Modal Panel Discussion

8:00 am - 10:15 am  SESSION FOUR - THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PAIN

8:45 am - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Chronic Pain with Special Guest Lecturer Dan Doleys PhD

9:45 am - Psychology of Addiction - Mitchell West DO MHA

10:15-10:45 am - Networking Break with Exhibitors

10:45 am - 12:30 pm  - SESSION FIVE  SCS AND INTERVENTIONAL THERAPIES

10:45 am - Psychological Screening and Selecting Candidates for Neuromodulation Therapies with Special Guest Lecturer Dan Doleys PhD

11:15 am - Innovative Technologies in SCS with Special Guest Lecturer Michael Sather MD

12:00 noon - Minimaly Invasive Interventional Procedures for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis - Haibin Wang MD

12:30 -1:45 pm  Annual Business Meeting and Corporate Member Showcase  with Gold Corporate Member Boston Scientific : Spectra Wavewriter System: The power of Combination Therapy with the Simplicity of Waveform Automation:  Martin Ferillo DO (Lunch provided by the Society, No CME Provided)

1:45 -3:15 pm  SESSION SIX   PAIN POTPOURRI

1:45 pm - Interpretation of Drug Toxicology and Genetic Screening - Michael Zemaitis PhD

2:15 pm - Beprenorphine for Pain and Opioid Use Disorder - Sarah S. Kawasaki MD

2:45 pm - Acupuncture in Pain Management - Andrew Levin DO

3:15 -3:45 pm  Networking Break with Exhibitors

3:45-6:00 pm  SESSION SEVEN   HOT TOPICS

3:45 pm  - Central Sensitization of Pain - Len Kamen DO

4:15 pm - Regenerative Medicine (PRP) - Edward Snell MD

4:45 pm - Coding and Billing Update - Amy Turner RN BSN MMHC CPC

6:00 pm  Adjourn 

6:30-8:30 pm  Silver Corporate Member Dinner with Medtronic - Future Focused Innovations - Yeshvant Navalgund MD  (RSVP required. Limited seating.  Dinner provided by Society. No CME)

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2018

7:30 am  Registration Opens and Silver Corporate Member Showcase with Salix:  Abrupt Opioid Discontinuation - The First and Only FDA Approved Non-opioid Treatment for the Mitigation of Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms - Joseph Pergolizzi MD (Breakfast provided by the Society, No CME provide)

8:00 am-1:00 pm  SESSION EIGHT MANDATORY PRESCRIBER AND DISPENSER WORKSHOP

8:00 am - PA and Federal Requirements for Prescribing Opioids/ Controlled Substances and CDC Guidelines, what have we learned?  Lawrence Kobak DPM JD

8:30 am - Introduction to Common Pain Syndromes from "Head to Toe"  -Justin Petrolla MD

9:00 am - Acute Pain - Bruce Nicholson MD

9:30 am - Networking Break

9:45 am  - Opioid Therapy: Prevention, Screening and Signs of Addiction - Abraham Kabazie MD

10:30 am -  Opioid Therapy: Appropriate Prescribing - Vitaly Gordin MD

11:15 am - Opioid Therapy: Responses to Abuse and Addiction: What do you Do? -  Mitchell West MD

12:00 noon  - Alternatives to Opioids - Bruce Nicholson MD

12:30 pm - Compounding and Specialty Pharmaceuticals as Alternatives to Opioids - Christopher Antypas PharmD

1:00 pm  - Closing Remarks and Thank you - Vitaly Gordin MD, President

 

REGISTRATION  

FULL MEETING (Includes 2019 Membership)    early bird rate to  October 8, 2018 / regular registration  after October 8, 2018          

MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, DC, PsyD                      $500.00

PA/ NP                                                                   $450.00     

 RN, LPN, Therapist, Administrator                        $350.00

Trainee                                                                   $100.00

**Register for the full meeting and receive a 2019 Society Membership (up to a $150 value).  

***Cannot make the full weekend?  Daily Rates also available from $75 - $200.  Please click to register and you can review the rates for your level of practice.

Cancellation Policy - Cancellations received after October 1 and before November 1 will be charged an administrative fee of $25.  Because we order food/beverage and services on November 1, no refunds can be provided after that date.  You are welcome to substitute an attendee after November 1.  Email Robin Hoyle robin@robinhoyle.com with requests.