26th Annual Napa Pain Conference
Agenda
Day 1
7:00
Registration Opens
Location: Meritage Foyer
Breakfast
Location: Exhibit Hall
7:45
Welcome
8:00
How Medicine & Patient Care Evolve
Prof. Sten Lindahl, MD, PhD, FRCA Chair Emeritus of the Nobel Committee in Physiology or Medicine
8:45
9:45
Break
10:00
How the Practice of Pain Management Has Evolved
Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP Chief Medical Officer, National Spine & Pain Centers
10:30
How Our Understanding of Pain is Evolving: New & Emerging Targets for the Clinical & Scientific Research of Pain
Roger B. Fillingim, PhD Professor and Director, University of Florida, Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence;
Past-President of the American Pain Society
11:15
12:00
Lunch
1:30
Management of Pain in
Terminally Ill Patients
3:30
Break
3:45
Interventional Pain Management:
Treating the Hip, Knee & SI Joint
Day 2
7:00
Registration Opens
Location: Meritage Foyer
Breakfast
Location: Exhibit Hall
7:45
Welcome
8:00
8:45
Treating Pain Impacts the Brain: Neuroimaging & Machine Learning Reveal the Brain’s Responses & Adaptations to Treatment
Tor Wager, PhD Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Dartmouth
9:45
Moving from Bench to Bedside: Promising Treatments on the Horizon and the Barriers of Moving from
Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice
Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD, FIPP Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the Cleveland Clinic Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship Program; President, American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM)
10:45
Break
11:00
12:30
Lunch
2:00
Mechanisms & Emerging Therapeutic Strategies for Treating Neuropathic Pain
3:45
Break
4:00
The Neuroscience of Perception & Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on Pain
Advances in the Management & Treatment of Cancer Pain
5:30
Education Ends for the Day
Day 3
7:00
Registration Opens
Location: Meritage Foyer
Breakfast
Location: Exhibit Hall
7:45
Best Abstracts of 2019
8:30
Break
8:45
Federal Initiatives for Improving Pain Care & Addressing the Opioid Crisis
Linda L. Porter, PhD Director, Office of Pain Policy, Program Director, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NINDS)
9:45
10:45
Break
11:00
11:45
Challenges of Managing Opioid Medications in Primary Care
Amy K. McEntee, DO Chief Medical Officer, Salud Para La Gente
12:00
Panel Prescribing Opioids: Where are we at? What are we doing? What is changing?
| Vanila M. Singh, MD, MACM | Linda L. Porter, PhD | Amy K. McEntee, DO |
| Samir Sheth, MD | Mark Schumacher, MD, PhD | Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD, FIPP |
1:00
Closing
