6th Interdisciplinary Pain and Opioid Crisis Seminar

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Completed Event:

April 20, 2024

Overview
The 6th Pain and Opioid Crisis Seminar provides a unique opportunity for healthcare providers to achieve this much needed balance by enhancing their knowledge and competencies in the use of opioids. It will offer cutting-edge lectures and interactive panel discussions from worldwide expert faculty with diverse clinical and research backgrounds in pain and opioids. This exciting educational event will provide practical evidence-based guidance and solutions to address clinical, public health, and regulatory issues related to the use and nonmedical use of opioids. Attendees will obtain up-to-date information and acquire high-quality knowledge while earning valuable CE credits and NCPD contact hours as well as Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA).

Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:

Apply the basic principles of pain management and chronic opioid therapy.
Utilize practical strategies to manage patients with co-occurring cancer pain and nonmedical opioid use.
Implement ways to improve patient care and ensure patient/family safety related to the use of opioids.
Apply non-pharmacologic approaches to manage pain in patients with opioid use disorder.
Describe the basic principles of pain management.

Registration
The two-day 6th Interdisciplinary Pain and Opioid Crisis Seminar will begin on Friday, April 19, 2024, with Opening Remarks at 7:45 a.m. and will adjourn for the day at 5:35 p.m. The seminar will reconvene on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at 8:10 a.m. and adjourn at 1:20 p.m. Advanced registration is encouraged. Course registration includes online materials, presentation video recordings and PowerPoint presentations.

The deadline for advanced registration is Friday, April 12, 2024