Cleveland Clinic 24th Annual Pain Management Symposium 2025 (Videos)

Overview

The Cleveland Clinic 24th Annual Pain Management Symposium 2025 (Videos) presents comprehensive on-demand education focused on recent advances in acute and chronic pain medicine. This symposium covers therapeutic innovations, regulatory issues, pharmacological and interventional treatments, and emerging technologies in pain management.

On-demand Pain Medicine education — accessible anytime, anywhere.

Agenda

This educational activity provides detailed sessions addressing foundational concepts, regulatory and ethical challenges, innovative treatments, neuromodulation techniques, and special topics in pain management.

• Percutaneous Cervical Spine Procedures: Guidelines, Technical Aspects and Safety — Richard W. Rosenquist, MD
• Guidelines for Use of Corticosteroids for Chronic Pain Interventions — David A. Provenzano, MD
• Persistent Pain After Joint Replacement Surgery — Kevin Vorenkamp, MD
• Infection Control Guidelines for Chronic Pain Procedures — David A. Provenzano, MD
• ACDF vs. ACDA: What’s the Evidence? — William Clifton, MD
• Artificial Intelligence and Pain Treatment — Maxim Eckmann, MD
• Closed Loop Spinal Cord Stimulation — Nagy A. Mekhail, MD, PhD
• Panel Discussion — Session Faculty
• Private Equity and Pain Practice: Challenges, Opportunities and Threats — Damean Freas, DO
• Optimizing Documentation to Ease Pre-Authorization — Kevin Vorenkamp, MD
• Advocacy in Pain Medicine: At the Table or On the Menu — Richard W. Rosenquist, MD
• Unethical Behavior as Encountered by the State Medical Board — Damean Freas, DO
• Interspinous Spacers — Salim Hayek, MD, PhD
• Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion — Sherif Costandi, MD
• Percutaneous Thermal Radiofrequency Ablation of Spinal Metastases — Sherif Costandi, MD
• Intradiscal Biologics for the Treatment of Chronic Discogenic Low Back Pain — Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD
• Nav 1.8 Inhibitors — Christy L. Hunt, DO
• Basivertebral Nerve Ablation — Maxim Eckmann, MD
• Panel Discussion — Session Faculty
• High Frequency — David A. Provenzano, MD
• Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation — Christy L. Hunt, DO
• Long Term Outcomes of Closed Loop Spinal Cord Stimulation — Nagy A. Mekhail, MD, PhD
• Peripheral Nerve Stimulation, Patient Selection, Technique and Pitfalls — Yashar Eshraghi, MD
• Intrathecal Drug Delivery — Salim Hayek, MD, PhD
• Neuromodulation: Peripheral Stimulation for Low Back Pain — Maxim Eckmann, MD
• High Frequency Bioelectric Nerve Block — Sherif Costandi, MD
• Matching the Diagnosis and the Technique/Device for the Best Patient Outcome – A Case Discussion with the Experts — Moderator: Sherif Costandi, MD; Multiple Faculty Panelists
• Evidence Based Approach to Infectious Complications of Neuromodulation Procedures — Salim Hayek, MD, PhD
• Navigating Difficult Patient Interactions in Patients With Chronic Pain — Jessica Hill, CNP
• Evaluating the Patient With Sacroiliac Joint Pain — Alisa Freas, PA-C
• Topical Capsaicin — Christy Hunt, DO
• Platelet Rich Plasma — Yashar Eshraghi, MD
• Stem Cells — Kevin Vorenkamp, MD
• Regulatory Considerations in Regenerative Medicine — Yashar Eshraghi, MD
• Vertebrogenic and Discogenic Pain — Sherif Costandi, MD
• Pseudoarthrosis — Maxim Eckmann, MD
• Keeping it Bipedal: Biomechanics of Sagittal and Coronal Balance — William Clifton, MD
• Panel Discussion — Session Faculty
• Optimizing Interventional Therapy Referrals — Alisa Freas, PA-C
• Low Dose Naltrexone for Pain Management — Jessica Hill, CNP
• Optimum and Appropriate Use of Urine Drug Screening in Clinical Practice — Damean Freas, DO
• Setting Patient Expectations for Interventional Procedures — Alisa Freas, PA-C
• Pain in CRPS — Salim Hayek, MD, PhD
• Thoracic Outlet Syndrome — Sherif Costandi, MD
• Pain in the Geriatric Population — Jessica Hill, CNP
• Chronic Pain Management in Opioid Misuse Disorders — Sherif Costandi, MD
• Acute Pain Management in the Chronic Marijuana User — Sree Kolli, MD
• Marijuana: Between Fantasies and Realities — Sherif Costandi, MD
• Current Opioid Landscape and CDC Prescribing Guidelines — Yashar Eshraghi, MD
• Panel Discussion — Session Faculty

Speakers

• Richard W. Rosenquist, MD
• David A. Provenzano, MD
• Kevin Vorenkamp, MD
• William Clifton, MD
• Maxim Eckmann, MD
• Nagy A. Mekhail, MD, PhD
• Damean Freas, DO
• Salim Hayek, MD, PhD
• Sherif Costandi, MD
• Christy L. Hunt, DO
• Yashar Eshraghi, MD
• Jessica Hill, CNP
• Alisa Freas, PA-C
• Sree Kolli, MD

Target Audience

This symposium is designed for pain medicine specialists, neurologists, internal medicine physicians, advanced practice providers, and other healthcare professionals involved in the management of acute and chronic pain. It is suitable for clinicians seeking to update their knowledge on current therapeutic approaches and regulatory issues in pain management.

Why This Topic Matters

The Cleveland Clinic 24th Annual Pain Management Symposium 2025 (Videos) addresses critical developments in pain medicine, providing in-depth clinical insights and analysis relevant to contemporary practice. This focused education enhances professional knowledge in pain pathophysiology, interventions, and emerging technologies within the pain management specialty.

Presented through MedHub Central, this symposium supports clinicians in strengthening their expertise and confidence in managing complex pain cases, aligning with current standards and evolving treatment paradigms.