Eastern Pain Association Half and Half Mid-Year Meeting, June 11, 2022
Staying current with prescribing for opioids and cannabis; updates on PNS, and pelvic pain
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Lisa R Witkin MD, Course Director
7:50 - 8:50 AM
Registration/Breakfast/Exhibits/Posters
8:50 - 8:55 AM
Program Starts: Welcome: Neel Mehta MD, President, Eastern Pain Association
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine; Division Chief, Pain Management; Co-Director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care, New York NY
8:55 - 9:40 AM
Moderator: Peter C Lascarides DO, Pain Medicine Clinician, Northern Westchester & Phelps Hospital Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; Clinical Professor of Physiatry, NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine President Elect, Eastern Pain Association
Panelists: Stephen Erosa DO, Interventional Spine & Pain Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Adjunct Clinical Professor LECOM, St John’s Riverside Medical Group, Yonkers NY Michael E Flamm DO, Veterans Administration New York Harbor Healthcare, New York NY
Philip Petrou MD, Instructor in Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York NY
7:30 - 7:50 AM
Catering/Exhibitor/Posters/Product Theatre Set Up
9:40 – 9:45 AM
Memorial/Tribute to Ada Rogers RN, The Pain Lady
William K Schmidt PhD, President, NorthStar Consulting LLC, Davis CA
Charles E Inturrisi PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York NY
9:45 – 10:30 AM
A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids
Travis N Reider PhD, Associate Research Professor & Director of the Master of Bioethics Degree Program, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore MD
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Break: Product Theatres/Exhibits/Snacks/Posters
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10:30 – 11:00 Product Theatres:
Allergan/AbbVie (Yellow Badges Invited: Room 202, Second Floor)
LightForce Medical (Blue Badges Invited: Room 109, First Floor)
11:00 – 11:30 Product Theatres:
Allergan/AbbVie (Blue Badges Invited: Room 202, Second Floor)
LightForce Medical (Yellow Badges Invited: Room 109, First Floor)
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Lunchtime/Sponsored Talk/Exhibits/Posters
1:00 – 1:30 PM Averitas/Qutenza Sponsored Lunchtime Talk
(Global Classroom Yellow and Blue Badges Invited)
11:30 AM– 12:30 PM
Keynote: CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines Update – Thoughts, Impacts &
Where do we go from here?
Moderator: Yili Huang DO MBA, Director, Pain Management, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Surgery, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Phelps Hospital Northwell Health Sleepy Hollow, NY
Panelists: Travis N Reider PhD, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore MD
R Jason Yong MD MBA, Medical Director of Pain Management, Brigham & Women’s Hospital Boston MA
Mohammed A Issa MD, Pain Fellowship Program Director, Department of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Medical Director, BWFH Center for Pain Medicine, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Diana Martins-Welch MD, Director, Supportive Oncology; Assistant Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine; Monter Cancer Center, Center for Advanced Medicine, Lake Success NY
2:00 - 2:45 PM
“Mind the Gap” Cannabis, Cannabinoids and the Brain
J Craig Allen MD FASAM, Medical Director, Rushford; Chief of Psychiatry, Midstate Medical Center; Vice President of Addiction Services, Behavioral Health Network; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Frank H Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University; Meriden CT
2:45 – 3:45 PM
Break: Exhibits/Snacks/Posters/Product Theatres
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2:45 – 3:15 Product Theatres
Allergan/AbbVie (Blue Badges Invited: Room 202, Second Floor)
LightForce Medical (Yellow Badges Invited: Room 109, First Floor)
3:15 – 3:45 Product Theatres:
Allergan/AbbVie (Yellow Badges Invited: Room 202, Second Floor)
LightForce Medical (Blue Badges Invited: Room 109, First Floor)
3:45 – 4:30 PM
Pelvic Pain
Arthur Kitt MD MPH, Director of Anesthesia Pain Management, Staten Island University Hospital Assistant Professor, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Staten Island NY
4:30 PM Closure
Neel Mehta MD
Grand Prize Drawing
Poster Winners Announced
Silent Auction Winner Announced
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4:35 PM Adjourn
Adjourn