3:00 Avoiding & Managing Typical & Atypical Surgical Complications in Patients with IDDS & When to Seek Neurological Consult
Speaker: Line Jacques, MD

3:20 Complex Spine Surgery in Patients with IDDS
Speaker: Sigurd Berven, MD

3:40 Panel Q&A
Speaker: All

Meritage B | 2:00 - 4:00

Radiofrequency Treatment of Spine & Musculoskeletal Pain:
Basic Principles & Clinical Applications

2:00 Understanding the Radiofrequency Principles & Methods to Modulate Lesion Size (No Distribution)
Speaker: David A. Provenzano, MD

2:30 Cervical & Lumbar Spine
Speaker: Michael J. DePalma, MD

3:00 Sacroiliac Joint
Speaker: Aaron K. Calodney, MD

3:30 Genicular Nerve
Speaker: Timothy T. Davis, MD

Meritage A | 4:30 - 6:15

Improving Safety for Neuromodulation & Intrathecal Therapy:
The Neuromodulation Appropriateness Committee and Polyanalgesic Consensus Conference Recommendations

4:30 Infection Prevention & Control
Speaker: David A. Provenzano, MD

5:00 Anticoagulation Therapy Management for Implantable Therapies
Speaker: B. Todd Sitzman, MD, MPH

5:30 Safety Guidelines for the Reduction of Severe Neurological Injury
Speaker: Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA

6:00 Q&A
Speaker: Panel

Meritage B | 4:30 - 6:15

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Patients with Spinal Disorders

4:30 Variability in approaches to spinal disorders: The Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Quality of Care
Speaker: Sigurd H. Berven, MD

4:45 An Evidence-based Approach to Symptomatic Nerve Compression: Lumbar Spinal Stenosis & Disc Herniation

5:15 An Evidence-based Approach to Adult Spinal Deformity

Neuromodulation: Lawrence Poree, MD, PhD, MPH
Surgical Realignment: Sigurd H. Berven, MD

5:45 An Evidence-based Approach to Back Pain Without Symptomatic Nerve Compression or Deformity

Intrathecal Drug Delivery: Lawrence Poree, MD, PhD, MPH
Surgical Stabilization: Line Jacques, MD

Sunday, Aug 20

The Future of Opioid Therapy:
Changing Paradigms & Emerging Research

9:00 Current Climate of Opioid Prescribing in the United States: An Evolving Paradigm
Speaker: Samir Sheth, MD

9:30 Emerging Research & Potential Solutions
Speaker: Gregory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD

Controversies & Challenges in Modern Pain Management

11:00 Medical Cannabis & Opioids
Speaker: Tim Furnish, MD

11:45 The Complexities of Opioid Titration & Opioid Use Disorder
Speaker: Angella Barr, MD

12:30 Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use
Speaker: Mark Schumacher, MD, PhD

Faculty

Keynote 2017

Elliot S. Krames, MD

Pioneer & One of the Leading Experts in the Field of Intraspinal Analgesia, Co-founder on Neuromodulation: The Science Conference

A photo of Warren Zapol at the Napa Pain Conference

Warren M. Zapol, MD

Emeritus Anesthetist-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital Reginald Jenney Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Committee 2017

Aaron K. Calodney, MD

Director of Clinical Research, Precision Spine Care

George Chang Chien, DO

Director for the Center for Regenerative Medicine, Southern California University

Harold J. Cordner, MD

Founder, Florida Pain Management Associates

Penney Cowan

Founder & CEO, the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA)

Timothy T. Davis, MD

Founder & Medical Director, Orthopedic Pain Specialists

Leonardo Kapural, MD, PhD

Professor of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine

Sten Lindahl, MD, PhD, FRCA

Chair Emeritus of the Nobel Committee in Physiology or Medicine

Lawrence Poree, MD, PhD, MPH

Professor & Director of Neuromodulation Service, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco

Samir Sheth, MD

Interventional Pain Management, Sutter Hospitals

B. Todd Sitzman, MD, MPH

President, North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS)

Lisa J. Stearns, MD

Founder & Medical Director, Center for Pain and Supportive Care

Faculty 2017

Michael Amster, MD

Founder & Director, Wellness for DoctorsRx

Steve M. Aydin, DO

Chief of PMR & Interventional Pain Management, Kayal Orthopaedic Center

Angella Barr, MD

Internist & Addiction Medicine Specialist, Chemical Dependency Treatment Associates (CDTA)

Sigurd H. Berven, MD

Professor in Residence, UCSF Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery

Julie Burch, MEd

Leads the Yoga+ division at Center for Pain and Supportive Care

Aaron K. Calodney, MD

Director of Clinical Research, Precision Spine Care

Penney Cowan

Founder & CEO, the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA)

Timothy T. Davis, MD

Founder & Medical Director, Orthopedic Pain Specialists

Charles De Mesa, DO, MPH

Director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, UC Davis

Michael J. DePalma, MD

President & Medical Director, Virginia iSpine Physicians

Jason L. Dragoo, MD

Director of the Stanford Tissue Regeneration Laboratory

Tim Furnish, MD

Pain Management Specialist, UC San Diego Health Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, UC San Diego Health

Line Jacques, MD, MSc, FRCS(C)

Chief of Peripheral Nerve & Pain Surgery, Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Neurological Surgery, UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery

Leonardo Kapural, MD, PhD

Professor of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine

Nandan Lad, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center

Zachary McCormick, MD

Chief of Spine and Musculoskeletal Medicine; Vice Chair PM&R

Lawrence Poree, MD, PhD, MPH

Professor & Director of Neuromodulation Service, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco

Avinash Ramchandani, MD, MBA

Pain Management, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician, Redwood Pain Institute

Erich O. Richter, MD

Associate Director of the Epilepsy Center of Excellence (COE), & Director of Surgical Epilepsy

Michael Saulino, MD, PhD

Clinical Director, Intrathecal Therapy Services, MossRehab

Gregory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine