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 |