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The American Academy of Pain Management (the Academy), the onlyprofessional organization dedicated to educating clinicians about pain from aninterdisciplinary perspective, will address the undertreatment of pain as wellas new ways to treat pain at its 18th Annual Clinical Meeting, from September27-30, 2007, at the Red Rock Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Called, "Knowledge, Compassion, and Care," this meeting will bringtogether clinicians from a wide variety of disciplines and medical traditions(Eastern and Western) to learn about current diagnostic methods, treatmentstrategies, and research in pain management. The meeting will feature world-renowned speakers, and include presentations on the pharmacological managementof pain, behavioral therapies, and psychosocial aspects of pain. The meetingwill also include discussion about pain management from an ethicalperspective.
"Pain is arguably America's number one public health problem. Yet mostpain goes untreated or is undertreated," says Lennie Duensing, ExecutiveDirector of the Academy. "Millions of Americans suffer with pain that isdebilitating and prevents them from leading normal lives because mosthealthcare professionals have not been educated about how to treat pain.Another reason is that effective pain management most often requiresinterdisciplinary treatment, which most patients do not receive. To complicatethings more, many healthcare professionals are now fearful about prescribingopioids - powerful, but highly effective, medications that are often abused.At this unique meeting, clinicians will learn together and network to discoverways to provide quality care for people with chronic pain."
Highlights of the Academy's meeting include the following speakers,symposia, and presentations:
Ethics Symposium: Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Chronic NonmalignantPain This symposium will address discrimination (racial, class, ethnic,gender) in treating pain as well as the legal side of treating pain and theresponsibility of the physician. Featured speakers include:
Emerging Solutions in Pain: The Interface of Pain and Addiction is a 7-hour symposium that discusses addictions, solutions in pain management and therole of federal regulations. This symposium is supported through aneducational grant from Cephalon Pharmacy.
New Thoughts About Opioid Analgesia and Chronic Pain by Bill McCarberg,MD, family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, AssistantClinical Professor for the University of California, San Diego, and founderand former director of the Chronic Pain Management program for KaiserPermanente in San Diego. This symposium will address the many advances thathave occurred in our knowledge of the appropriate uses of opioids for avariety of pain syndromes.
Aberrant Drug Taking Behaviors During Pain Management - What do we know?by Steven D. Passik, PhD, Associate Attending Psychologist for the Departmentof Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering CancerCenter and Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at CornellUniversity in New York City.
Rational and Vigilant Prescribing of Controlled Substances by Scott M.Fishman, MD, Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and Professor ofAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California, Davis.
Keynote Presentation: The Pain Cycle from a Patient's
