The national conference on pain for frontline practitioners.

“PAINWeek is to pain education as U2 is to the music industry. Both remain on the cutting edge.” –Stephen J. Ziegler PhD, JD

The following tracks will be presented from 7:00a – 5:30p. All courses are 60 minutes, except where noted.

Behavioral Pain Management ● Adolescent Pain Management ● Depression and Suicidal Behavior

With Pain and Concomitant Substance Abuse Disorders

● “It Could Be Worse” and Other Things NOT to Say to Patients With Chronic Pain

Complementary/Alternative Pain Management

● Biofeedback: Harnessing the Power Within to Improve Chronic Pain

● Nutrition and Pain: Rules for Success ● High-Density Platelet-Rich

Plasma and Stem Cell Prolotherapy for Musculoskeletal Pain

● Identifying and Unlocking Myofascial Pain

Frontline Focus: Nurse Practitioners (see left for details)

● Demystifying Pain Management: One Case at a Time (2 hours)

● Opioid Rotation: An Effective Technique in Reducing Opioid Dose and Mitigating Risk

● Safe Opioid Prescribing: From Genomics to Disposal

● The Complex Pain Patient: Addiction, Obesity, and the Elderly

● Opioid Monitoring at a Nurse Practitioner Managed Clinic

Health Coaching ● Outside the Box: Rethinking Pain

Management Paradigms ● The Pain Management

Coaching Toolbox

Master Class ● Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet

Syndrome (2 hours)

Medical/Legal ● Embrace 2015 Practice Changes and

Patient Education: Overview of Critical Pain Management Issues (2 hours)

Neuropathica Galactica: A Highly Interactive Journey in Pain Management and Education (see left for details)

Special Interest Sessions ● Injection Techniques for Frontline

Practitioners (2 hours) ● Let No Man Write My Epitaph:

Pain and Addiction (3 hours) ● State Dosage Thresholds and

Their Potential Impacts on Pain and Overdose Prevention

● Virtual Reality: Does It Have a Role in Pain Management?

● When Acute Pain Becomes Chronic

TUeSDAY/9.8MONDAY/9.7

PAINWeek® is the largest US pain conference for front-line practitioners with an interest in pain management. Convening at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas for its 9th year, PAINWeek expects to welcome 2100+ physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals for a comprehensive program of course offerings, satellite events, and exhibits. Over 120 hours of continuing medical education activities will be presented. To learn more and register for PAINWeek 2015, visit www.painweek.org, and follow us at Twitter @painweek. For planning purposes, please note that the first certified-for-credit course begins on Tuesday, September 8, at approximately 7:00a. The last certified-for-credit course concludes on Saturday, September 12, at 5:30p.

RETURNING ON TUESDAY/9.8

NeUROPATHiCA GALACTiCAA Highly Interactive Journey in Pain Management and Education

Neuropathica Galactica is a cerebro-cosmic, interplanetary voyage through the pathogenesis and symptom analysis of pain. Using case-based learning in a patient-tracer format, participants will assess a pain complaint, educate a simulated patient on their likely pain syndrome, and develop comprehensive treatment and monitoring plans. Pain etiologies such as fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, chronic postsurgical pain, chronic low back pain, rheumatoid arthritis, postherpetic neuralgia, and diabetic neuropathy will be discussed. This full-day workshop is an invaluable learning experience for those considering the Certified Pain Educator (CPE) credential.Note: This is an application-based activity; registration is limited to 60 learners, and there is a separate registration fee of $150 for this activity. Precourse work will be made available prior to the program.

FRONTLiNe FOCUS: NURSe PRACTiTiONeRSSince more and more healthcare services are delivered by nurse practitioners, it is vital that they have a reasonable understanding of the challenges facing them. This track will be comprised of a range of topics that include the pathophysiology of pain generators, multimodal management of chronic and acute pain, pharmacotherapy, behavioral management strategies, chart documentation, and when to refer to a pain specialist.

PLUS full-day programs presented by

American Academy of Pain Medicine American Headache Society American Pain Society American Society of Addiction Medicine American Society of Pain Educators National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators

OVeRVieWPAINWeek 101 will be presented from 6:00p – 7:00p. Please note this is not certified for credit.

DON’T FORGeT! PAINWeek 101—Making the Most of Your PAINWeek Experience!

PAINWeek 101 is a noncertified primer for first time attendees—or anyone seeking a refresher on the conference agenda, faculty, onsite technology, and venue logistics. Moderated by PAINWeek staff and faculty with Global Education Group, all questions as they pertain to course selection and CME protocol will be answered. With so much packed into the 5-day conference, PAINWeek 101 will make sure that you’re fully briefed and oriented to navigate, plan, select, and make the most of your PAINWeek experience!

The following tracks will be presented from 7:00a – 5:30p. All courses are 60 minutes, except where noted.

Master Classes ● Integrative Pain Management (2 hours) ● Trauma—Shaken, Not Stirred:

Concussion and Minor Traumatic Brain Injury (2 hours)

Medical/Legal ● Focus on Changes in Billing/Coding

Clinical Laboratory: Roll With the Changes and Learn How to Keep Payors Out of Your Bank Account (2 hours)

National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (NADDI)

● Rx Abuse: The Scope of the Problem in 2015

● Scammers, Shammers, and Thieves ● Opioid Overdose Strategies:

Are They Working? ● Addiction and Drug Histories:

A Cop’s Eye View from the Street to the Clinician’s Office

Neurology ● How to Perform a Neurologic Exam ● Diagnosis and Management

of Central Pain ● Small Fiber Neuropathies ● Peripheral Neuropathies

Pain Educators Forum ● Talking (and Perhaps Even Listening)

to Patients in Pain (2 hours) ● Risk Assessment: What Is It? How to Use It ● Creating a Treatment Plan for High

Risk Patients: A Case Based Approach ● Adult Learning: Not for the Faint of Mind

Podiatric Pain Syndromes ● Those “Under the Radar” Lower

Extremity Pain Generators ● Dx and Tx of Superimposed Chronic

Lower Extremity Nerve Entrapment in Patients With Metabolic Disease

● Morton’s Neuroma

Regional Pain Syndromes ● When Sex Hurts ● Simplifying the Gender Specific

Complexities of Female Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP)

Special Interest Sessions ● Controversies in Pain Medicine:

Widespread Pain: X = The Unknown ● Electronic Prescribing of Controlled

Substances ● Facet Joint Pain: Advances in

Diagnosis and Treatment ● The Imperfect Solution ● Suspicion: What Should I Do if I Suspect

My Patient is Diverting, Abusing, or Both?

6:30p – 8:30p Poster Session and ReceptionNot certified for credit

The following tracks will be presented from 7:00a – 5:30p. All courses are 60 minutes, except where noted.

American Headache Society (AHS) Comprehensive Migraine Education Program (CMEP)

● Diagnosis of Chronic Migraine and Episodic Migraine

● Transitions, Risk Factors, and Barriers to Care

● Case Studies and Q&A ● Pathophysiology of Chronic

Migraine and Episodic Migraine ● Acute Treatment Strategies ● Preventive Treatment Strategies

American Pain Society (APS) ● Why Does It Hurt to Get Older and

What Can We Do About It? ● Assessment of Pain in Older Adults ● Pain and Depression in Older Adults ● Management of Pain and

Maintaining Function in Older Adults

Master Class ● Back Pain

Medical/Legal ● A Legal Perspective on Practicing

Medicine and Offering Ancillary Services: When Wearing 2 Hats May Cause You Problems Beyond a “Glamour Don’t” (2 hours)

Pharmacotherapy ● Update on Methadone Safety and

Efficacy Guidelines ● Opioid Tapering ● Opioid Conversion Calculations ● PK and PD Drug Interactions ● Naloxone Kudos vs Kinetics:

A Debate on Emergency Response and Comparative Routes of Administration (IN, IM, Auto-IM)

Regional Pain Syndromes ● Neck and Back Pain

Special Interest Sessions ● Chronic Pain Patients Who Fail

Standard Treatments: Identification and Strategies

● Fire the Molecule, Not the Patient: Exit Strategies From the Dark Side of Pain

● Medical Cannabinoids: An Update on What You Need to Know for Your Practice (2 hours)

● Pain and Hormones ● It Hurts So Good: Examining the

Crossroads of Pain and Pleasure ● Rhapsody on a Windy Night: When

Pain and Sleep Share the Same Bed ● Visceral Pain

The following tracks will be presented from 7:00a – 5:30p. All courses are 60 minutes, except where noted.

American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)

● Medical Aspects of Marijuana Use ● Nonpharmacologic Management

of Pain ● Buprenorphine in Patients With

Chronic Pain and Opioid SUD ● Alcohol Use Disorder and

Chronic Pain

Interventional Pain Management

● Pain Management Economics: Surviving Reimbursement Changes

● The Role of Electrochemical Treatment (CET) for Chronic Pain Conditions (2 hours)

● Differential Diagnosis of Low Back Pain

● Management of Low Back Pain: Interventional Options

Master Class ● Patient Centered Urine Drug Testing

Palliative Care ● Let it Go! Let it Go! Pruning

Medications in Advanced Illness ● Black & White:

Chronic Pain and Palliative Care ● New Drugs and Drug News in Pain

Management and Palliative Care ● “Let’s Order Lunch Off the Beer

List” and Other Flagrant Medication Decisions in Advanced Illness

Pharmacotherapy ● Nonopioid Analgesics:

Antidepressants, Adjuvant Therapies, and Muscle Relaxants

● Could Levorphanol Levitate Above Methadone Misadventure?

● Topical and Transdermal Analgesics

Regional Pain Syndromes ● Knee and Hip

Special Interest Sessions ● When My Guitar Gently Weeps:

Music as Therapy for Chronic Pain ● Controversies in Pain Medicine:

Treatment Guidelines—A Help or Hindrance for Frontline Practitioners?

● Fudin vs Gudin: The Gloves Come Off!

● Skin and Pain (2 hours) ● Stem Cell Therapy: The Way to the

Future of Pain Management

The following tracks will be presented from 7:00a – 5:30p. All courses are 60 minutes, except where noted.

American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM)

Essential Tools for Treating the Patient in Pain™: What Every Primary Care and Pain Specialist Needs to Know

● The Anatomy of Ouch ● The Science Behind Medical

Marijuana as an Analgesic ● Strategies for Success for

Chronic Opioid Therapy ● Understanding and Treating

Neuropathic Pain

Health Coaching (encore presentation) ● Outside the Box: Rethinking Pain

Management Paradigms ● The Pain Management

Coaching Toolbox

Master Class ● Orofacial Head and Neck Pain

(2 hours)

Medical/Legal ● Get Your Specimens in Order:

The Impact of Changes to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule

Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions ● Assessing and Managing Acute

and Lower Back Pain (2 hours) ● Who Wins the Battle?

Man vs Gravity ● Whiplash ● Fibromyalgia

Pain Educators Forum ● Pain Terminology ● Pain Mechanisms ● Chronic Pain Assessment ● Pain Diagnostic Methods ● Pain Therapeutics: Pharmacologic

Special Interest Sessions ● Complex Regional Pain Syndrome:

Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment (2 hours)

● The Groundhog Day Phenomenon ● PDMPs: A Nail in Search of a Hammer ● Pain Management in Worker’s

Compensation: Overview of Spend, Utilization, and Treatment Guidelines

● A Tyranny of “Shoulds” ● Pain Clinical Trials ● The Bulletproof Prescriber ● Who’s on First? Figuring Out the

Specialist Line-Up

5:30p – 8:30p Keynote Address and Welcome ReceptionNot certified for credit

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Please note: courses and faculty are subject to change, and additional courses and industry supported activities will be added over time. Please follow us on Facebook, Twitter @painweek, and refer to www.painweek.org for conference schedule updates.

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“PAINWeek is a conference that has a rare blend of so many different aspects of pain management and practitioners—primary care physicians, specialists, nurse practitioners, nonphysicians, you name it—associated with managing patient care. It is a tremendous, exciting, dynamic conference that emphasizes patient care and science simultaneously in a manner that’s unique compared to other conferences.” –Charles E. Argoff MD, CPE

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The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas 3708 S Las Vegas Boulevard Las Vegas, NV 89109

Group Rate $150 per night. This rate can only be guaranteed if reserved by July 29, 2015.

Please note: You will receive hotel booking information upon completion of your conference registration.

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Over 120 hours of content will be presented! This activity is sponsored by Global Education Group. Global Education Group is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Global Education Group designates this live activity for a maximum of 40 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

This activity will be approved for continuing pharmacy, psychology, and nursing education. Applications for certification of social work NASW and family physician AAFP hours have been applied for and are pending decision. For more information and complete CME/CE accreditation details, visit our website at www.painweek.org.