General Lectures

MONDAY, 29 August, 2016

Ballroom Kempinski

07:40 Opening Remarks
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Program Director
Kris Vissers, MD, FIPP, President of WIP
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS, Local Arrangement Committee
Moderator
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP
08:00 Scaring Triangle Cases
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
08:30 Drugs and Pumps for Intrathecal Drug Delivery
Ira Fox, MD, FIPP
09:00 Surgical Interventions via the Lumbar Intervertebral Foramen for Degenerative Conditions
Anthony Yeung, MD
09:30 Current Trends in the Treatment of Facial Pain
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
10:00 Coffee Break
Moderators
Miles Day, MD, FIPP and Craig Hartrick, MD, FIPP
10:30 Ultrasound in Interventional Pain Management
Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
11:00 Progress in Regenerative Medicine Pain Therapy
Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP
11:30 Innovations in RF for Interventional Pain Management
Richardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP
12:00 Failed Neck Surgery Syndrome
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Transport to University
Labs Afternoon workshop

TUESDAY, 30 August, 2016

Ballroom Kempinski

Moderators
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP and Ira Fox, MD, FIPP
07:30-08:45 Industry Technical Presentations – not part of CME program!
Moderators
Javier de Andres, MD, FIPP and Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP
08:45 Peripheral Nerve Role in CRPS
John D. Loeser, MD, FIPP
09:15 Neuromodulation: New Directions
Robert Levy, MD, PhD
09:45 Is Cancer Pain Management Evolving?
Kris Vissers, MD, FIPP
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Electrical Neuromodulation Overview – Optimal Stimulation Site and Parameters
Peter Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP
11:15 Axial Back Pain Treatment with High Frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation Update
Adnan A. Al-Kaisy, MD, ChB, FIPP
11:45 Study Design
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, PhD, FIPP
12:15 Evolving Neuromodulation Systems
Richard Weiner, MD
12:45 Lunch
13:30 Transport to University
Labs Afternoon workshops

WEDNESDAY, 31 August, 2016

Ballroom Kempinski

Moderator
Kenneth B. Chapman, MD, FIPP
07:30 Current Trends in Radiofrequency Facet Denervation
Standiford Helm, MD, FIPP
08:00 Review of Evidence for Pulsed RF
Jan Van Zundert, MD, FIPP
08:30 Alert! Radiation Safety
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP
09:00 Common Low Back Pain
Hemmo Bosscher, MD, FIPP
09:30 Neurosurgical Approaches to Chronic Pain Management
Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP
10:00 Minimally Invasive Treatment of Spinal Stenosis
Peter Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP
10:30 Coffee Break
Moderator
Craig Hartrick, MD, FIPP
11:00 FOCUSED DISUSSION: The DRG - Linking Pain and Treatment Mechanisms
Impulse Discharge Originating in the DRG
Marshall Devor, PhD
The Clinical Science Behind DRG Stimulation and the ACCURATE RCT
Robert Levy, MD, PhD
Neuromodulation of the DRG
Adnan A. Al-Kaisy, MB, ChB, FIPP
Clinical Interpretation
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
12:45 Lunch
13:30 Transport to University
Labs Afternoon workshops