2023 Agenda

7:00 am

Exhibit Area

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors

8:15 am

Theater

Welcome to the 30th Napa Pain Conference: A Legacy of Innovation
Eric J. Grigsby, MD, MBA

8:30 am

Theater

9^th Annual Legacy Lecture 
Seeking Better Options and Better Answers for Patients
Honoring: Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP, American physician, educator, author, inventor, and clinical researcher, specializing in interventional pain medicine.

9:30 am

Theater

1^st Elliot Krames, MD Award for Excellence in Translational Neuromodulation
21^st Century Social Determinants of Health: The Digital Divide and the Impact on Pain Medicine & Patient Care
Honoring: Lawrence Poree, MD, PhD, MPH  Professor & Director of Neuromodulation Service, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco

10:15 am

Exhibit Area

10:30 am

Theater

[No CME]

• First-in-human prediction of chronic pain state using intracranial neural biomarkers
  • Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD
• Neuromodulation of the Lumbar Multifudus
  • Christopher Gilligan, MD
• Patient Stratification
  • Rosana Esteller, PhD

10:30 am

NVVT

• Optimizing Patient-Provider Interactions to Enhance Pain Care
  • Roger B. Fillingim, PhD
• Neuromodulation Techniques and Innovations: A Primer for Healthcare Providers
  • Marom Bikson, PhD
• Prioritizing the Patient: I Don’t Know, It all Happened So Fast!
  • Eric J. Grigsby, MD, MBA

12:30 pm

Museum

[No CME]

12:45 – 1:30  Lunchtime Symposium Sponsored by Medtronic

1:45 pm

Theater

• Expanding Indications: Painful Diabetic Neuropathy & Visceral Pain
  • Taissa Cherry, MD
• Neuromodulation for Pelvic Pain
  • Shalini Shah, MD, MBA

1:45 pm

Museum

[No CME]

• How Computer Driven Design is Transforming the Next Generation of Neuromodulation for Pain and Other Indications
  • Scott F. Lempka, PhD
• Augmented/Virtual Reality for Pain Research, Education, and Treatment?
  • Alex F. DaSilva, DDS, DMedSc
• Optogenetics as a Neuromodulator
  • Sarah Mondello, PhD

1:45 pm

NVVT

[No CME]

3:15 pm

Mezzanine & Atrium

3:45 pm

NVVT

[No CME]

• HEAL Initiative: Understanding, managing, and treating pain in response to the opioid crisis
  • Eric Hudak, PhD
• SPARC program: Developing open-source neurotechnology to advance human clinical research
  • Eric Hudak, PhD
• Blueprint MedTech: Catalyzing the translation of novel technologies from early-stage development up to readiness for first-in-human clinical studies
  • Nicholas Langhals, PhD

3:45 pm

Museum

• Opines on Tines: is there an optimal number?
  • Hemant Kalia, MD 
• Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
  • Ramana (Ramo) Naidu, MD

3:45 pm

Theater

• Definitions & Mechanisms
  • Steven P. Cohen, MD
• The Patient’s Journey to Effective Pain Care
  • Roger B. Fillingim, PhD
• Therapeutic Responsiveness
  • Eric J. Grigsby, MD, MBA

5:45 pm

COPIA Entrance

6:00 pm

Buses Departing

2023 Vineyard Dinner