9th Annual Kaua’i Pain Conference
Agenda
Thursday, March 2, 2023
7:45
8:00
State-of-the-art Postoperative Pain Management in the Age of COVID
Dr. Christopher Gharibo, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Peri-Operative Care & Pain Medicine; Professor of Orthopedics Medical Director of Pain Medicine, NYU Langone Health
8:45
Disentangling Self from Pain: Thalamic–Default Mode Network Decoupling & a Novel Self-referential Nociceptive Gating Mechanism to Reduce Pain
Fadel Zeidan, PhD, Director, Brain Mechanisms of Pain & Health Lab, UC San Diego
9:30
Break (30 min): Posters & Exhibits
10:00
Regenerative Medicine: Updates on Blood-based & Cell-based Therapies
Dr. Dmitri Souza, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Ohio University College of Medicine (OUCOM)
10:45
Gene-therapeutic Targets Elucidate Analgesic Mechanisms
Carolyn A. Fairbanks, PhD, Professor, Depts of Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology, Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
11:30
Lunch
12:15
1:15
1:45
Break (30 min): Posters & Exhibits
2:15
Emerging Interventions for Degenerative Disc Disease & Vertebral Endplate Pain
Dr. Daniel S. Choi, MD, MBA, President, Interventional Pain Specialist, Spine & Pain Center of Kaua’i
3:00
Neuromodulation for Axial Low Back Pain: SCS & PNS
Dr. Jonathan D. Carlson, MD, Founding Clinician, Hawai’i Pain & Spine
3:45
Break (30 min): Posters & Exhibits
4:15
Cultivating Individual and Organizational Wellness: The Journey to Alleviating Burnout
Alleviating Burnout, part 1: Assessing Individual Burnout
Amy Gallagher, PsyD, MSHCT, Resiliency Program Leader, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center; Dr. Amy Allen Case, MD, FAAHPM, Professor, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
5:00
Alleviating Burnout, part 2: Three steps toward institutional change
Amy Gallagher, PsyD, MSHCT, Resiliency Program Leader, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center; Dr. Amy Allen Case, MD, FAAHPM, Professor, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
5:45
Welcome Reception!
Pool Deck
Friday, March 3, 2023
7:30
Breakfast Symposium
8:30
Pain Physicians & Medical Cannabis: Attitudes, Beliefs, Preparedness & Knowledge
Dr. Amy Allen Case, MD, FAAHPM, Professor, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
9:30
Break (30 min): Posters & Exhibits
10:00
Immune-mediated Molecular Mechanisms of Pain
Dr. Luda Diatchenko, MD, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, and Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain
10:45
Spinal Analgesic Combinations: Mechanistic Studies
Carolyn A. Fairbanks, PhD, Professor, Depts of Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology, Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
11:30
Lunch
12:15
1:00
The Metamorphosis of Interventional Headache Medicine
Dr. Dmitri Souza, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Ohio University College of Medicine (OUCOM)
1:45
Break (30 min): Posters & Exhibits
2:15
3:00
3:45
Break (30 min): Posters & Exhibits
4:15
Clinician Wellness Workshop: Communication Facilitation Tools for an Empathetic Workplace
Communication Tools, part 1: Empathy building skills
5:00
Saturday, March 4, 2023
7:00
Breakfast
7:45
8:00
The 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain: What’s New? What Changed? What Matters.
Dr. Samer Narouze, MD, PhD, Chairman, Center for Pain Medicine, Western Reserve Hospital
8:45
9:30
Break and Poster Exhibits
10:00
Intrathecal Drug Delivery: Catheter Tip Placement & Dosing Strategies
Dr. Shane E. Brogan, MB Bch, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Huntsman Cancer Institute
10:45
11:30
Pathophysiology of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Dr. Christopher Gharibo, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Peri-Operative Care & Pain Medicine; Professor of Orthopedics Medical Director of Pain Medicine,, NYU Langone Health
12:15
Lunch
1:00
1:00
Governor Joshua B. Green, MD, Governor, Hawai’i
1:00
Governor Joshua B. Green, MD, Governor, Hawai’i; Dr. Carmen Renee Green, MD, Dean of the CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM), The City College of New York
3:45
Break Posters & Exhibits
3:00
3:00
3:00
Conference agenda is subject to change