Program
Schedule
8:15
KEYNOTE: Discovering CRISPR-Cas9
Jennifer Doudna, PhD
Co-discoverer of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
9:30
Break
9:45
The Needs of Patients & Health Care Providers
Professor Sten Lindahl, MD, PhD, FRCA
Chair Emeritus of the Nobel Committee in Physiology or Medicine
10:30
Let’s Get Personal: Using genetic and non-genetic factors to guide treatment
Roger B. Fillingim, PhD
President, The American Pain Society (APS)
11:30
Evidence-based Strategies to Improve Patient Engagement and Adherence to Treatment Plans
Penney Cowan
CEO, American Chronic Pain Association
12:30
Lunch
2:00
New Paradigms for Neuromodulation
Pain Fundamentals
Advances in the Management and Treatment of Cancer Pain
4:00
Break
4:15
Prescribing and Managing Naloxone
Breaking Research: Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Pain
Low Back Pain: Risk factors, diagnosis, pharmaceutical & interventional treatment
5:30
Welcome Reception & Wine Tasting
8:00
4th Annual Legacy Lecture: Assuring the Best Care for Every Patient, Every Day
Eric J. Grigsby, MD, MBA
Founder of the Napa Pain Conference
9:00
Break
9:15
Improving Patient Self Management
PART 1 OF 2
Intrathecal Drug Delivery & Pump Management
Ultrasound Therapeutics in Pain Medicine
10:30
Break
11:00
Improving Patient Self Management
PART 2 OF 2
Mechanisms of Injury: Safety Considerations & Practices in Interventional Pain Management
HANDS-ON LAB: Ultrasound-guided Intrathecal Pump Refills
12:15
Lunch
1:45
Osteoarthritis: Pathophysiology, Altered Central Pain Pathway, & Ethnic Disparities
Nancy E. Lane, MD
Director, UC Davis Center for Healthy Aging; Endowed Professor of Medicine
Roger B. Fillingim, PhD
Distinguished Professor & Director, University of Florida, Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence
3:15
Lunch
3:30
Mindfulness as a Neuromodulation Therapy
Robert Bonakdar, MD, FAAFP, FACN, DAAPM
Director of Pain Management, Scripps Center For Integrative Medicine
4:30
The Opioid Epidemic: Providers, Patients, & the Public
Joseph Shurman, MD
Chair of Pain Management/Palliative Care, Scripps Memorial Hospital
8:00
Individualized Surgical Approaches to Pain Therapies
9:00
Pharmacology of Non-opioid Analgesics
10:00
Break
10:30
An Evidence-based Approach to Integrative Medicine for Chronic Pain Management
11:45