We are Pleased to invite you to be faculty and participate at the 

...Pennsylvania Pain Society LIVE and in Person Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions presented in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists and the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute Foundation for Opioid Research.

When:  March 1 -3, 2024  (PPS Board Meeting is the evening of February 29, 2024)

Where:  Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

In exchange for your participation, The Pennsylvania Pain Society is pleased to offer you up to 2 nights hotel at the Omni William Penn Hotel (additional nights will be billed to you onsite at the society rate of $195 plus tax per extra night), waived registration for the full meeting including programming presented by the Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists, and 2024 Membership in the Pennsylvania Pain Society.  

Please RSVP  by completing this registration and your ACCME required disclosure.

THE PENNSYLVANIA PAIN SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING AND SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

PROMOTING PATIENT OUTCOMES THROUGH INTERDISCIPLINARY PAIN CARE

including the MATE ACT and Mandatory Prescriber Education Workshop

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thursday, February 29, 2024

6:00-8:00 PM                     Pennsylvania Pain Society Board of Directors Meeting 

6:00-8:00 PM                     Exhibitor Set-Up

Friday, March 1, 2024  

Full Day attendance Satisfies MATE Act and PA Mandatory PrescribingTopics for Licensure in Pennsylvania

7:30 AM                               Registration Opens and Breakfast Provided by Society

7:30 -9:30 AM                    Exhibitor Set-Up

7:55 AM                               Welcome and Opening Remarks – Philip Kim MD, President

Session One:     P.A.C.T.  Practical Approaches to Comprehensive Treatment of Pain

8:00 AM               Module 1 – Assessing Pain and Initiating Non-Opioid Pain Management

9:00 AM               Module 2 – Reducing Risks with Opioid Use

10:00 AM            Networking Break with Exhibitors

11:00 AM            Module 3 – Approaches to Opioid Treatment and Counselling Patients

12:00 PM           Gold Corporate Member Showcase (Lunch provided, no CME provided, CMS reportable) 

Session Two: Presented in Conjunction with the Rothman Opioid Foundation

Moderator: Asif Ilyas MD

1:00 PM               UDT and its role in Medical Management of Chronic Pain – David Diampetro MD

1:30 PM               Pain Substance Disorders and Suicide: Epidemiology, Risk Assessment and Management – Martin D. Cheatle PhD      

2:00 PM               Understanding Addiction – Bhavna Bali MD

2:30 PM               Harm Reduction Therapy – David Giampetro MD

3:00 PM               Weaning and The Pro’s and Con’s of Long Term Opioid Therapy – Leonard Kamen DO

3:30 PM               Networking Break with Exhibitors

Session Three:   Parallel Session - Interventional Pain Hot Topics – Moderator: Steven Falowski MD

4:00 PM               Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression – Yesh Navalgund MD

4:30 PM               Iinterventional Therapies for Pelvic Pain - Joseph E. Patruno MD              

5:00 PM               Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Form of Non Invasive Neuromodulation–Philip Kim MD

5:30 PM               Deep Brain Stimulation for Addiction and Pain – Nestor Tomycz MD         

OR Session Three:  Parallel Session - Pain Management For the Advanced Practice Provider -Moderator: Mark Wells DNP NP-C

4:00 PM               Opioid Prescribing Practices, REMS and CDC Guidelines – Lawrence Kobak DPM Esq

4:30 PM               The Advantages of Intrathecal Pump Therapy - Richard Plowey MD

5:00 PM               Preparing the Pain Patient for Surgery – Michael Patterson MD

5:30 PM               Naloxone for Opioid Use Disorder and Pain Management – Vitaly Gordin MD

Session Four:  TRAINEE POSTER COMPETITION-   Moderator: Philip Kim MD  

6:00 PM               Top 5 Posters at 5 minute oral presentations

6:30-7:30 PM    Joint Networking Reception (All attendees and guests welcome)

Saturday, March  2, 2024

7:00 AM               Registration and Exhibition Opens

7:15-8:15 AM     Gold Corporate Member Showcase (Breakfast Provided, No CME Provided. CMS Reportable)  

Session Five:    JOINT PLENARY SESSION WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGY  -Moderator: Philip Kim MD

8:15 AM               Coding and Billing for Perioperative Pain – Amy Turner RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC

9:00 AM               Fighting the Feds with Ronald Chapman Esq.

9:45 AM               Special Guest Lecturer: Acute Pain and Suboxone – Eugene Viscusi MD

10:15 AM            Networking Break with Exhibitors  

Session Six:  Advances in Pain Management – Moderator Salomi Sharma MD

10:45 AM           Special Guest Lecture:  Ketamine for Pain – Amol Soin MD  

11:15 AM            Special Guest Lecture: Psychadelics for Pain – Akash Goel MD

11:45  AM           Special Guest Lecture:  Cannabis and Acute and Chronic Pain – Larry Kaiser MD

12:15 PM  Annual Business Meeting (PSA PAC Report 10 min) and Corporate Member Showcase with Gold Corporate Member

 (Lunch Provided, No CME Provided, CMS Reportable) 

Session Seven – Hot Topics in Pain Management – Moderator: Sadie Smith MD

1:30 PM   Personalizing Surgical Pain Management and Opioid Pharmacogenetics - Senthil Sadhasivam, MD, MPH, MBA, FASA  

2:00 PM  Opioid Crisis: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice and Public Education -RenYu Liu MD PhD

2:30 PM   Special Guest Lecturer – Ultrasonography, Self-Report Questionnaires and Physical Measures Quantify the Beneficial Effects of Acupuncture Dry Needling in Myofascial Pain Syndrome - Jay Shah MD, National Institutes of Health  

3:15 PM -  Peripheral Nerve Stimulation - Justin Davanzo MD 

3:45 PM     Networking Break with Exhibitors

4:00-6:00 PM

Session Eight - Virtual Reality Hands On Workshop – Moderators: Steven Falowski MD and Nestor Tomycz MD

6:00 PM               Closing Remarks &Thank You– Leonard Kamen DO, President 2024-2026