Comprehensive Review of Pain Medicine 2022 (CME VIDEOS)

Overview

The Comprehensive Review of Pain Medicine 2022 (CME VIDEOS) is an on-demand digital educational program that offers in-depth coverage of acute and chronic pain management, including opioid analgesics, pain physiology, spine technology, and neuromodulation. This program includes 44 videos and 2 PDFs, totaling a file size of 11.10 GB. On-demand Pain Medicine education — accessible anytime, anywhere.

This course delivers multidisciplinary perspectives and clinical updates designed to strengthen expertise in effective, safe, and timely pain relief across various care settings.

Content

This program presents practical recommendations and evidence-based clinical strategies relevant to pain medicine practitioners. Key topics include:

• Limiting the Opioid Supply – Are Our Communities Safer?
• Psychotherapies for Pain – Underused But Effective
• Opioids and Perioperative Pain Management – A Reassessment
• Neuromodulation – Moving Past the Epidural Space
• Appropriate Prescribing and the Pharmacist’s Obligation
• Restorative Neurostimulation for Refractory, Mechanical, Nociceptive Chronic Low Back Pain
• And more

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Name non-pharmacological therapies for back pain
• Explain ways to treat patients with co-morbid substance use disorder and chronic pain in both acute and chronic settings
• List the benefits of virtual reality versus procedural sedation
• Identify genes that affect analgesic and anesthetic pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
• Discuss perioperative interventions to prevent or reduce long-term opioid use postoperatively
• Compare the benefits of dorsal root ganglion stimulation versus epidural stimulation
• Compare spinal cord stimulation versus targeted drug delivery for chronic pain
• List the advantages of minimally invasive lumbar decompression and interspinous decompression
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of limiting the opioid supply
• Name acute migraine attack outpatient treatments and preventative migraine therapies

Agenda

This comprehensive program features presentations from experienced clinicians and educators across relevant pain medicine subtopics:

• The CDC Guidelines, Version 2.0 — Charlie E. Argoff, MD
• My Patient is Taking Opioids for Chronic Pain – What Should I Do? A Step Wise Approach for Legacy Patients — Antje M. Barreveld, MD
• Pharmacogenomics, Opioids and Risk Assessment — Roseann S. Gammal, PharmD, BCPS
• Chronic Opioid Therapy – Is Your Patient Benefiting? — Robert N. Jamison, PhD
• Detecting Opioid Use Disorder — Mohammed A. Issa, MD
• Opioid Therapy in the Opioid Use Disorder Patient — Mohammed A. Issa, MD
• Opioids and Perioperative Pain Management – A Reassessment — Alexander B. Stone, MD
• Appropriate Prescribing and the Pharmacist’s Obligation — Michele Matthews, PharmD, BCACP, FASHP
• Limiting the Opioid Supply – Are Our Communities Safer? — Amie Goodin, PhD, MPP
• Understanding Insurance Contracting — Gerry Stanley, Jr., MD, P-CEO and Peter A. Brawer, PhD
• Someone Calls the Office to Report Your Patient is Misusing Opioids — Richard H. Blake, JD
• Management of Chronic Pain – A Primer for Mid-Level Practitioners — Michael Ferrick, RN, NP, AGPCNP-BC, DNP
• Long COVID and Chronic Pain — Shamik Bhattacharyya, MD
• Myofascial Pain Syndrome and Botulinum Toxin – Alternative During COVID? — Dajie Wang, MD
• New Treatment Options for Pain — Angeliki Vgontzas, MD
• Interventional Therapies for Headache — Yashar Eshraghi, MD
• Medical Cannabis – A Synthesis of the Evidence — Jessica S. Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA
• Integrative Medicine and Chronic Pain — Donald B. Levy, MD
• Psychotherapies for Pain, Underused but Effective — Robert N. Jamison, PhD
• Radiofrequency for Joint Pain — Zachary McCormick, MD
• Disparities in Pain Management — Samantha M. Meints, PhD
• Interventional Pain Procedure at the End of Life — Sanjeet Narang, MD
• Chronic Pain in Pregnancy – Outpatient Management of Pregnant Patients — David Berman, MD
• Sickle Cell Disease – Overview and Pain Management — Jason D. Ross, MD
• Insights into Clinical Decision-Making Mistakes — Edgar L. Ross, MD
• Updates on New Regional Anesthesia Techniques — David Yang, MD
• Orofacial Pain – Diagnosis and Management of Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain — Jeffrey R. Shaefer, DDS
• Use of Opioids in Pediatric Pain Management — Christine Greco, MD
• Ultrasound and Musculo-Skeletal Procedures — Erika Yih, MD
• Neuroimmune Responses and Chronic Pain — Ricardo Vallejo, MD, PhD
• Objective Measures of Pain — Robert Edwards, PhD
• Virtual Reality – Making New Connections — Gerry Stanley, Jr., MD, P-CEO
• Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD) Procedure — Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD
• Interspinous Decompression — Robert Jason Yong, MD, MBA
• Sacroiliac Joint Procedures — Robert Jason Yong, MD, MBA
• Vertebral Augmentation — Pritesh Topiwala, MD
• Endoscopic Spine Surgery — Sanjeev Kumar, MD
• Restorative Neurostimulation for Refractory, Mechanical, Nociceptive Chronic Low Back Pain — Christopher Gilligan, MD, MBA
• Optimizing Lumbar and Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Ablation Outcome – Focus on Multispecialty Guideline Recommendations — Steve P. Cohen, MD
• The Choice of Spinal Cord Stimulation vs. Targeted Drug Delivery for Chronic Pain – Conventional Wisdom or Data-Driven Choice — Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD
• Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation vs. Epidural Stimulation – The Search for Improved Efficacy — Timothy R. Lubenow, MD
• ElectroAnalgesia — Amitabh Gulati, MD
• Neuromodulation – Moving Past the Epidural Space — Edgar L. Ross, MD
• Imaging Pain in the Brain with Functional MRI — Vitaly Napadow, PhD

Speakers

• Charlie E. Argoff, MD
• Antje M. Barreveld, MD
• Roseann S. Gammal, PharmD, BCPS
• Robert N. Jamison, PhD
• Mohammed A. Issa, MD
• Alexander B. Stone, MD
• Michele Matthews, PharmD, BCACP, FASHP
• Amie Goodin, PhD, MPP
• Gerry Stanley, Jr., MD, P-CEO
• Peter A. Brawer, PhD
• Richard H. Blake, JD
• Michael Ferrick, RN, NP, AGPCNP-BC, DNP
• Shamik Bhattacharyya, MD
• Dajie Wang, MD
• Angeliki Vgontzas, MD
• Yashar Eshraghi, MD
• Jessica S. Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA
• Donald B. Levy, MD
• Zachary McCormick, MD
• Samantha M. Meints, PhD
• Sanjeet Narang, MD
• David Berman, MD
• Jason D. Ross, MD
• Edgar L. Ross, MD
• David Yang, MD
• Jeffrey R. Shaefer, DDS
• Christine Greco, MD
• Erika Yih, MD
• Ricardo Vallejo, MD, PhD
• Robert Edwards, PhD
• Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD
• Robert Jason Yong, MD, MBA
• Pritesh Topiwala, MD
• Sanjeev Kumar, MD
• Christopher Gilligan, MD, MBA
• Steve P. Cohen, MD
• Timothy R. Lubenow, MD
• Amitabh Gulati, MD
• Vitaly Napadow, PhD

Target Audience

This educational program is designed for anesthesiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, emergency physicians, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, oncologists, internists, and family physicians involved in pain management.

Why This Topic Matters

The Comprehensive Review of Pain Medicine 2022 (CME VIDEOS) addresses critical and evolving issues in pain medicine, providing clinicians with a thorough update on pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment strategies. Pain medicine specialists and related professionals can deepen their understanding of current advances and challenges in managing both acute and chronic pain.

Accessed via MedHub Central, this program supports ongoing professional development in pain medicine by presenting evidence-based practices and multidisciplinary perspectives essential for informed clinical decision-making.