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Monday, 31 August, 2009

Conference Program - Hall A

7:45 Opening Remarks
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Program Director
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, President of WIP
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP, Chair Local Organization Committee
Melinda Medgyaszai, MD, Secretary of State, Ministry of Health
Moderator: Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP
8:00 Vertebral Body Stabilization Techniques
Nagy Mekhail, MD, FIPP
8:30 Treatment Options for Trigeminal Neuralgia, Percutaneous Interventions
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP
9:00 Complications of Interventional Pain Treatment
Ramsin Benyamin, MD, FIPP
9:30 Spinal Cord Stimulation: New Technologies and Outcome Studies
Maarten Van Kleef, MD, FIPP
10:00 Minimally Invasive Techniques for Discogenic Pain
Nagy Mekhail, MD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Facial Pain and Cervicogenic Headache
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
11:30 Lysis Outcome Studies
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, FIPP
12:00 Advances in Lysis of Adhesions
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
12:30 SI Pain - What's New
Richard Derby, MD, FIPP
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Labs Afternoon workshops

Interventional Techniques Review Course - Hall B

7:45 Opening Remarks
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Program Director
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, President of WIP
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP, Chair Local Organization Committee
Melinda Medgyaszai, MD, Secretarias of State, Ministry of Health
Moderator: Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP
8:00 Chronic Pain - What is it?
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
8:30 Use of Radiology in Diagnosis of Chronic Pain
Vikram Patel, MD, FIPP
9:00 Chronic Pain Co-Morbidities
Patrick McGowan, MD, FIPP
9:30 Head and Neck Blocks
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP
10:00 Pharmacologic Treatment for Neuropathic Pain
Richard Rauck, MD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Sympathetic System - the Anatomy and Physiology
Ricardo Vallejo, MD, FIPP
11:30 CRPS I & II
Michael Stanton-Hicks, MD, FIPP
12:00 Cervical Sympathetic Blocks
John Nelson, MD, FIPP
12:30 Thoracic Spine Interventional Treatment Based on Diagnosis
Maarten Van Kleef, MD, FIPP
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Labs Afternoon Workshops

Tuesday, 1 September, 2009

Conference Program - Hall A

Moderator: Patrick McGowan, MD, FIPP
8:00 Intraspnal Drug Delivery Update
Ricardo Vallejo, MD, FIPP
8:30 Epidural Injections
Charles Gauci, MD, FIPP
9:00 Imaging in Interventional Pain
Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
9:30 Management of Spinal Stenosis
Ira Fox, MD, FIPP
10:00 Spinal Endoscopy 2009
James Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP (HON)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Facet Joint Pain and Its Treatment
Philip Finch, MD, FIPP
11:30 Management of Opioid Side Effects
Richard Rauck, MD, FIPP
12:00 Treatment of Failed Back and Neck Surgery
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
12:30 Evidence of Pulsed Radiofrequency Techniques
Jan van Zundert, MD, FIPP
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Labs Afternoon workshops

Interventional Techniques Review Course - Hall B

Moderator: Craig Hartrick's, MD, FIPP
8:00 Celiac Plexus and Splanchnic Block
Ramsin Benyamin, MD, FIPP
8:30 Hypogastric Plexus and Ganglion Impar Block
Vikram Patel, MD, FIPP
9:00 Lumbar Sympathetic Block
Mark Boswell, MD, PhD, FIPP
9:30 Caudal Epidural and Adhesiolysis
Nileshkumar Patel, MD, FIPP
10:00 Discography - Lumbar
Philip Finch, MD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Pathophysiology of Discogenic Pain
Rick Derby, MD, FIPP
11:30 Epidural Injections - Interlaminar vs Transforaminal
Charles Gauci, MD, FIPP
12:00 Complications of Interventional Procedures
Ramsin Benyamin, MD, FIPP
12:30 Epiduroscopy
James Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP (HON)
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Labs Afternoon workshops

Wednesday, 2 September, 2009

Conference Program - Hall A

Moderator: Diego Beltrutti, MD, FIPP
8:00 Pathophysiology of Discogenic Pain
Rick Derby, MD , FIPP
8:30 Pharmacologic Management of Neuropathic Pain
Christopher Wells, MD, FIPP
9:00 Pharmacologic Management of Cancer Pain
Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
9:30 Current Neurosurgical Approaches to the Treatment of Pain
Lorand Eross, MD, FIPP
10:00 Obstacles to the Pharmacologic Management of Pain
John Nelson, MD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Ultrasound Guided Treatment
TBA
11:30 Recent Advances on Sacral Nerve Root Stimulation
Adnan Al Kaisy, MD
Moderator: Prithvi Raj, MD, FIPP and Richardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP
12:00 Pulsed RF-Jan van Zundert, MD,FIPP
Continuous RF-Philip Finch, MD,FIPP
12:30 Sharp Needles vs. Blunt Needles
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, James Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP (HON)
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Labs Afternoon workshops

Interventional Techniques Review Course - Hall B

Moderator: Muhammad Ather, MD, FIPP
8:00 Radiation Safety in Interventional Pain
Vikram Patel, MD, FIPP
8:30 Post Herpetic Neuralgia - the Current Options
Michael Stanton-Hicks, MD, FIPP
9:00 Vertebroplasty vs Kyphoplasty
Ramsin Benyamin, MD, FIPP
9:30 Discography - Cervical
Nelish Patel, MD, FIPP
10:00 Neuromodulation - Spinal and Peripheral
Maarten Van Kleef, MD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Post laminectomy Syndrome
Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP
11:30 Evidenced Based Practice Guidelines
Jan Van Zundert, MD, FIPP
12:00 Fluoroscopic Interpretations - too Deep or too Shallow
Ira Fox, MD, FIPP
12:30 Interventions for Cancer Pain
Nagy Mekhail, MD, FIPP
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Labs Afternoon Workshops