Advanced Interventional Pain Management I

Sunday, March 5, 2023

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Location:Phoenix Convention Center, 227ABC

CE: 1.5 Credits

Coordinator(s)

David Prologo, MD

Associate Professor
Emory University

Disclosure(s): Focused Cryo: Board Membership (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing)
Alexa Levey, MD

Assistant Professor
UTHealth McGovern Medical School

Disclosure(s): Focused Cryo: Advisory Committee or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Financial investment (Ongoing)

Disclosure(s):

David Prologo, MD: Focused Cryo: Board Membership (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing)

Alexa O. Levey, MD: Focused Cryo: Advisory Committee or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Financial investment (Ongoing)

The topic of this session - deliberately called Advanced Interventional Pain Management – addresses the foundational and leading-edge components of an evolving subspecialty within interventional radiology. The procedural management of straightforward and/or complex pain conditions in interventional radiology has rapidly grown over the past ten years, fueled by innovation, technology, and demand. This series of courses aims to deliver information on the latest available applications so that interventionalists around the world may feel comfortable helping these patients.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the real world application of advanced imaging guidance to the management of pain in light of the current opioid crisis in The United States and across the world
Explore difficult clinical scenarios within pain management that may be addressed using the interventional radiology skillset
Describe new procedures and devices available primarily to the interventional radiologist for managing complex or linear pain symptoms

Presentations:

8:30 AM – 8:46 AM

Building a successful advanced interventional pain practice in IR from scratch: 10 pearls from a decade of experience.
Speaker: David Prologo, MD – Emory University
8:46 AM – 9:02 AM

Basivertebral nerve ablation for the management of degenerative disc disease: The next frontier for IRs treating pain.
Speaker: Junjian Huang, MD – University of Alabama at Birmingham
9:02 AM – 9:18 AM

Genicular artery embolization: A 2023 update with regard to which patients, procedural details, and established evidence.
Speaker: Osman Ahmed, MD – University of Chicago
9:18 AM – 9:34 AM

Genicular nerve ablation: A 2023 update with regard to which patients, procedural details, and established evidence.
Speaker: Zachary L. Bercu, MD RPVI (he/him/his) – Emory University School of Medicine
9:34 AM – 9:50 AM

Interventional management of complex regional pain syndrome.
Speaker: Alexa O. Levey, MD – UTHealth McGovern Medical School
9:50 AM – 10:00 AM

Q & A