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  • Tuesday, September 5, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 7:30 AM PST
    Welcome and PAINWeek/BRAINWeek 101
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Food as Medicine: Nutrition Informed Pain Management
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Opioid Prescribing: Leveraging the Newest CDC Clinical Guidelines for Better Decision-Making and Documentation
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Pain Pathways Made Simple
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Lessons Learned: Treating Pain in an Under-Resourced State
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Misled by UnSAID NSAID Dread? Instead Spread This Thread Inside Your Head
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    The Surprise Inside: Adulterants of Recreational Drugs
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Unleash Your Superpower: Creating Neuroplastic Changes for Life-Long Pain Relief
  • 10:40 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Champagne vs Sham Pain: DEA Red Flags
  • 10:40 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Low-Dose Naltrexone for Chronic Pain
  • 10:40 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    New Insights into Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
  • 10:40 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Perioperative Pain Management in Opioid Use Disorder
  • 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM PST
    Little Shop of Horrors: The Palliative Approach to Symptom Management
  • 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM PST
    Managing Complex Pain Patients: The Use of Motivational Interviewing
  • 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM PST
    Pain in the Adjuvants: Recently FDA-approved Non-Opioid Medications
  • 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM PST
    The Ethics of Nonconsensual Opioid Tapers/Discontinuations and Appropriate Tapering Strategies
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PST
    PDM
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Buprenorphine: Low Dose, High Dose, No Dose? Practice Challenges for Patients With Co-occurring Pain/Opioid Use Disorder
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    The Glass Bead Game: Harm Reduction and Its Impact on the Opioid and Overdose Crisis
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    To Inject or Not to Inject? That Is The Question!
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Traumatic Imprints: An Update on Research & Treatment of Comorbid Pain & PTSD
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    "I Won't Go Down!" - What To Do When All Else Fails?
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Highs and Lows: The Cannabis Conundrum - Unlocking the Potential, Addressing the Pitfalls
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Reducing the Pain of Diversion Surveillance: Leveraging Machine Learning to Optimize Organizational Processes
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Two Thirds of a Triad: The Psychosocial in the Biopsychosocial Model of Pain
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM PST
    Break
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PST
    "New Over Mu" FDA-Approved Non-Opioid Medications for the Management of Migraine
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PST
    CBT for Substance Abuse Disorder
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PST
    Stiff Person Syndrome: Is There Really An ICD-10 Code For That?
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    When “What You Do” is Less Important than “How”: Using the Science of Contextual Care to Bolster Pain Outcomes.
  • 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM PST
    Healers or Drug Dealers? Do We Prescribe Opioids Too Much or Not Enough? A Debate Between Palliative Care and Interventional Pain Specialists
  • 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM PST
    I'll Take "OUD" for 500! A Game to Test Your Knowledge of Opioid Use Disorder
  • 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PST
    Society of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacists Reception
  • Wednesday, September 6, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Diabolic Triad: Chronic Pain, Depression, and Sleep
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Goldilocks in Crisis: Determining the Dose That is "Just Right."
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Implicit Bias Among Providers Treating Patients With Chronic Pain
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    The Diagnosis in the Back of Your Head: Occipital Neuralgia Vs. Cervicogenic Headache Vs. Migrainous Cervicalgia
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Clinical Pearls: Unraveling the Secrets of Imaging Studies
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Don't Talk Smack: The Evolution of Medical Gaslighting
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Justice for Placebo
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    OsteopathicYoga ™: Why Form Can Improve Dysfunction in Chronic Back Pain (I)
  • 10:40 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    CDC Opioid Guideline Update: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
  • 10:40 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Games of Chance or Games of Skill:" Choosing the Right Strategy for Pain Management
  • 10:40 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    Musculoskeletal Involvement and Pain Symptoms After Covid
  • 10:40 AM – 11:30 AM PST
    To Trust or Not to Trust Your Gut: Pharmacological Considerations in Impaired Gastrointestinal Absorption in Pain Management
  • 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM PST
    Controlled Substances, Telemedicine, and DEA 2023: Navigating the Regulatory Gauntlet
  • 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM PST
    Mitigating Opioid Risk: Change the Lens So Non-Pharmacological Approaches Come into Focus
  • 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM PST
    No Clowning Around: Analgesic Safety and Monitoring
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Millions Missing: The Intersection of Pain and Chronic Fatigue
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    NMDA Modulation in Pain: Underappreciated or Broken Promises?
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Tapering Trials and Errors: What To Do When Nothing Seems To Work
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    No Guts, No Glory, Mystery of the Microbiome in Pain
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Tripping Through Time: A Psychedelic Journey into Culture, Law, and Medicine
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    You, Me, and YOUR GENES! The Pharmacogenomics of Pain Management
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM PST
    Break
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PST
    Back on Track: Inpatient and Outpatient Approaches for Intractable Migraine
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PST
    Neck and Upper Extremity Pain Syndromes: Case Based Clinical Pearls to Improve Clinical Treatment
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PST
    Recognizing and Preventing Polypharmacy in Chronic Pain Management
  • 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM PST
    KEYNOTE: One Size Does Not Fit All: Exploring Interventional Procedures for the Treatment of Refractory Migraines
  • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST
    Welcome Reception
  • Thursday, September 7, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Going against the Flow": Vascular Etiologies of Abdomino-Pelvic Pain
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Poly (Want a) Pharmacy: A Review of Pain Medication Interactions
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Power of Pause/Pause in Practice
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    The New Disruptors: Novel Interventional Techniques for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis and Degenerative Disc Disease
  • 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST
    (SYM) The Fundamentals of Opioid Prescribing: Back to Basics for Improved Patient Care
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    A Bad Moon Rising: Music Therapy in Post Traumatic Pain
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Frankie says RELAX: The In's and Out's of Skeletal Muscle Relaxants
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    OsteopathicYoga ™: Why Form Can Improve Dysfunction in Chronic Back Pain (II)
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Regenerative Therapy For Chronic Pain: Fancy New or Scientifically Proven Treatment Modality
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM PST
    Break
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PST
    Exhibit Hall
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Got Milk and Pain? Postpartum Pain Management in Breastfeeding Patients
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Low Pressure Headaches: What Are You Missing?
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Nutrition for Migraine: Integrating Diet and Supplement Approaches to Optimize Migraine Management
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Low Back Pain: Minimally Invasive Interventions. Treatment Algorithms
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Overcoming the Pelvic Pain Flare: Office Methods for Managing Chronic Genito Pelvic Pain
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Targeting β-arrestin to Arrest Opioid Side Effects? A Discussion of Receptor-Biased Opioids
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Wearables for Monitoring and Motivating Your Pain Patients
  • 4:40 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Getting Under Your Skin: OTC and Rx Topical Formulations for Pain
  • 4:40 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Hard Core: Abdominopelvic Neuralgias
  • 4:40 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Management of Sickle Cell Complications: Focusing on Individual Patients Experiencing Acute Pain Crises in the Emergency Department
  • 4:40 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Neuromodulation For Neuropathic Pain: Review of Current Evidence and Waveforms
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST
    Networking/Poster Reception
  • Friday, September 8, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Acupuncture and Pain Management
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Sacroiliatis: Different Approaches for Fusion and Their Rationale
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    Scientific Abstracts (Oral Presentations)
  • 7:30 AM – 8:20 AM PST
    The Great Pain Masqueraders
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Biostimulation in Fibromyalgia
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    LGBTQ Disparities in Pain Care
  • 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    Under the Devil’s Claw: The Role of Herbal Supplementation for Chronic Low Back Pain and Osteoarthritis
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM PST
    Break
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PST
    Exhibit Hall
  • 1:15 PM – 1:35 PM PST
    Raffle Drawing
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    It Happened to Us All: The Pandemic's Impact on Central Sensitization and Chronic Pain
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Mood & Pain: Music's Role in Depression
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Neuromodulation for Chronic Pelvic Pain
  • 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    Osteopathy for Head and Neck Pain
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    Integrative Approaches to Cancer Pain
  • 2:40 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    The Scoop on Bup: Special Populations and Considerations with Buprenorphine Use