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Conference Program

MONDAY, August 30, 2010

07:40 Opening Remarks
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Program Director
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, President of WIP
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP, Chair Local Organization Committee
Moderator: Lorand Eross, MD, FIPP, Jung Yul Park, MD, FIPP
07:50 Future of Interventional Pain Practice
Prithvi Raj, MD, FIPP
08:30 Treatment Options for Trigeminal Neuralgia, Percutaneous Interventions
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP
09:00 Intraspinal Drug Delivery
Richard Rauck, MD, FIPP
09:30 Discography
Olav Rohof, MD, FIPP
10:00 Minimally Invasive Techniques for Discogenic Pain
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Vertebral Body Stabilization Techniques
Ralph Justiz, MD, FIPP
11:30 Lysis of Epidural Adhesions: Lumbosacral, Thoracic, Cervical – What’s New?
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
12:00 Continuous and Pulsed RF
Richard Rauck, MD, FIPP
12:30 Sacroiliac Pain
Joe Fortin, MD, ABIPP
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Transport to University
 

Labs Afternoon workshops

TUESDAY, August 31, 2010

Moderator: Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP
08:00 Complications of Interventional Pain Therapy
Ralph Justiz, MD, FIPP
08:30 Epidural Injections
Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
09:00 Imaging for Interventional Pain Management
Joe Fortin, MD, FIPP
09:30 Controversies in the Diagnosis of Painful Lumbar Disc Degeneration
Ray Baker, MD
10:00 Epiduroscopy Advances
Pascal Vanederen, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Facet Joint Pain and Its Treatment
Olav Rohof, MD, ABIPP
11:30 Joint Pain and Its Treatment
Marco Matucci, MD
12:00 Physics of Radiofrequency
Eric Cosman, Jr
12:30 Treatment of Failed Back and Neck Surgery Syndrome
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Transport to University
 

Labs Afternoon workshops

WEDNESDAY, September 1, 2011

Moderator: John Nelson, MD, FIPP
08:00 Management of Spinal Stenosis
Joe Fortin, MD, FIPP
08:30 Pathophysiology and Pharmacologic Management of Neuropathic Pain
TBA
09:00 Pharmacologic Management of Cancer Pain
Guistino Varrassi, MD, FIPP
09:30 Neurosurgical Approaches to the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Lorand Eross, MD, FIPP
10:00 Facial Pain and Cervicogenic Headache
Liong Liem, MD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Ultrasound Guided Treatment
Sang Chul Lee, MD, FIPP
11:30 Sacral Nerve Root Stimulation – Recent Advances
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
  Pro Con
Moderator: Prithvi Raj, MD FIPP and Richardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP
12:00 Drugs for Headaches – Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
Stimulation for headache – Gabor B.Racz, MD, FIPP
12:30 Ultrasound Guidance – Sang Chul Lee, MD, FIPP
MRI, CT, Fluoro Guidance – Joe Fortin, MD, ABIPP
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Transport to University
 

Labs Afternoon workshops