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Archived Activities
- Clinical Aspects of Risk Management in Opioid Prescribing
- Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors: Determinants, Assessment, and Treatment Strategies
- Opioids and Pain What Does The Evidence Mean?
- Best Practices in Diagnosis and Multimodal Management of Fibromyalgia (Part One of a Two Part Series)
- Best Practices in Diagnosis and Multimodal Management of Fibromyalgia (Part Two of a Two Part Series)
- Controlling Baseline Pain With Opioid-based Therapy (Part 1 of 3)
- Assessing and Treating Breakthrough Pain (Part 2 of 3)
- Practical Approaches to Multidimensional Assessment and Opioid-Based Treatment of Chronic Pain (Part 3 of 3)
- Chronic Pain and Risk Management Compendium Video Commentary
- Persistent and Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Survivors: Multidimensional Assessment and Opioid-Based Multimodal Treatment
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How2Torial™ - Best Practices in Fibromyalgia: Individualized Assessment
This video-based activity will provide a venue for pain specialists and primary care physicians and other healthcare professionals to improve the assessment and diagnosis of patients with fibromyalgia.
Faculty
Ronald J. Rapoport, MD, FACR
Director, Osteoporosis and Research Center
Charlton Memorial Hospital
Medical Director, Phase III Clinical Research
The Truesdale Clinic, Inc.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Overview of Palliative Care
Guided by comprehensive assessment of clinical knowledge gaps and needs, this educational activity is intended to provide an introduction to essential concepts in palliative care with a focus on pain management.
Faculty
Perry G. Fine, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Pain Research Center
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah
How2Torial™ - Screening Scales, Pain Questionnaires, and Multidimensional Tools: Facilitating the Assessment and Treatment of Chronic Pain
Faculty
Paul P. Doghramji, MD
Douglas C. Schottenstein, MD
Beyond the Evidence Base in Opioid Therapy
This educational activity is intended to review best practice in the use of opioid analgesics to treat chronic pain.
Faculty
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
Chairman and Gerald J. and
Dorothy R. Friedman Chair in
Pain Medicine and Palliative
Care
Department of Pain Medicine
and Palliative Care
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York, New York
A Primer on Risk Management for Prescribers of Controlled Prescription Drugs
Faculty
Steven D. Passik, PhD
Associate Attending Psychologist
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York
Prescription Drugs With Abuse Potential: Perspectives From the Pain Medicine Community
This educational activity is intended to review current guidelines for the use of opioid analgesics in patients with chronic noncancer pain.
Faculty
Perry G. Fine, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Pain Research Center
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah
Prescribing Opioids for Pain: Challenges and Solutions
This educational activity addresses strategies that can help clinicians recognize aberrant behaviors, tailor opioid therapy consistent with the risk of nonmedical opioid use, and reduce the misuse, abuse, and diversion of opioid analgesics.
Faculty
Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH
Joanna L. Starrels, MD, MS
Effective Use of Urine Drug Screening
This educational activity reviews the role of urine drug screening (UDS) in the management of patients receiving opioid pharmacotherapy for pain.
Faculty
Randy M. Seewald, MD
Medical Director
Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program
Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York
Overview of Opioid Toxicity and Risks
This educational activity provides an overview of the risks associated with opioid pharmacotherapy.
Faculty
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
Chairman and Gerald J. and
Dorothy R. Friedman Chair in
Pain Medicine and Palliative
Care
Department of Pain Medicine
and Palliative Care
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York, New York
Challenges When Essential Drugs Are a Risk to the Public Health
Guided by comprehensive assessment of clinical knowledge gaps and needs, this educational activity is intended to highlight the essential role of pain management in interdisciplinary palliative care.
Faculty
Kathleen M. Foley, MD
Attending Neurologist, Pain & Palliative Care Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Medical Director, International Palliative Care Initiative
Network Public Health Program of the Open Society Institute
New York, New York