Conference Program

MONDAY, 25 August, 2014 Regina Ballroom

07:40 Opening Remarks Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Program Director
Richard L. Rauck, MD, FIPP, President of WIP
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP, Chair Local Committee
Moderator: Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP
08:00 Spinal Pain Gabor B. Racz, MD, DABIPP, FIPP
08:30 Drugs and Pumps for Intrathecal Drug Delivery Richard L. Rauck, MD, FIPP
09:00 The State of Interventional Pain Management Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, FIPP
09:30 Neuromodulation for Pain Therapy Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP
10:00 Tarlov Cysts and Vertebral Body Stabilization Jan Peter Warnke, MD
10:30 Coffee Break
Moderator: John Nelson, MD, FIPP
11:00 RF – New Ideas Update Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP
11:30 Ultrasound Imaging for Cryoneurolysis Andrea Trescot, MD, DABIPP, FIPP
12:00 Vertebral Augmentation 2014 Matthew Rupert, MD, FIPP
12:30 Impartial Evidence Based Guidelines Standiford Helm, MD, FIPP
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Transport to University Labs Afternoon workshops

TUESDAY, 26 August, 2014 Regina Ballroom

Moderators: Gabor B. Racz, MD, DABIPP, FIPP, Ira B. Fox, MD, DABIPP, FIPP
07:30 – 09:00 Industry Technical Presentations (not part of CME program; see industry section of sponsors page)
Moderator: Javier de Andres, MD, FIPP
09:00 Radiofrequency Facet Denervation Michael Gofeld, MD, FIPP
09:30 Opioid Management Carl Noe, MD, FIPP
10:00 Coffee Break
Moderator: Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP
10:30 Update on Epidural Adhesiolysis Studies Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, PhD, FIPP
11:00 Failed Neck Surgery Syndrome Gabor Racz, MD, DABIPP, FIPP
11:30 Botulinun Toxin, Its Properties and Use in Pain Medicine Miles Day, MD, FIPP
12:00 Spinal and Systemic Opioid Therapy Peter Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP
12:30 Progress Report – High Frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation in the Management of Axial Back Pain Adnan A. Al-Kaisy, MD, ChB, FIPP
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Transport to University Labs Afternoon workshops

WEDNESDAY, 27 August, 2014 Regina Ballroom

Moderator: Kenneth B. Chapman, MD, FIPP
07:30 Guidelines for Radiation Safety Charles de Oliveira, MD, FIPP
08:00 Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in the Management of Cancer Pain Kris Vissers, MD, FIPP
08:30 Lumbosacral Spinal Canal Endoscopy J.E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP(Hon)
09:00 Current Status of Managing Pain Associated with Spinal Stenosis My Technique Lorand Eross, MD, FIPP
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
09:30 Experience with a New Neuromodulation System Richard Weiner, MD, FIPP
10:00 Neurosurgical Approaches to Chronic Pain Management Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
Moderator: Sudhir Diwan, MD, FIPP
11:00 Facial Pain and Cervicogenic Headache Miles Day, MD, FIPP
11:30 Use of Ultrasound in Interventional Pain Therapy Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP
Moderators: Maarten van Kleef, MD, FIPP, P. Prithvi Raj, MD, DABIPP, DABPM, FIPP
12:00 Editors Roundtable Discussion – Why Articles Do Not Get Accepted Craig Hartrick, MD, DABPM, FIPP
Robert Levy, MD
12:45 Lunch
13:30 Transport to University Labs Afternoon workshops