This is the Portal for the Tennessee Pain Society Faculty registration including your hotel sleeping room needs.

You can use this link to register as faculty only one time per presenter. 

There is no fee to register.  The Society provides faculty with full meeting registration and complimentary 2023-24 society membership.  

The Society also provides up to 2 nights hotel at Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville TN..  Please complete the dates needed and add a "ticket" for each night that you wish to stay at the hotel. Any additional nights over the 2 nights complimentary will be payable by you at the society rate of $259 a night plus tax and resort fee of $25 a night and including late cancelation fees.  

Tennessee Pain Society – Agenda – Draft June 19, 2023

Friday September 22, 2023

6:45-7:45 AM – Board of Directors Meeting

7:00 AM  Registration Opens and Exhibitor Setup (7:00-9:00 am)

7:55 AM  Opening Session Special Guest Lecture with Breakfast provided by the Society

9:00 AM  Exhibits Open

Session One – Focus on Opioids and Pharmacologic Management of Pain – Tennessee Mandatory Prescriber Education with Moderator David A. Edwards MD PhD, President TPS

9:15 AM  Update on CDC Guidelines – Lawrence Kobak DPM Esq.

9:45 AM  Update on TN Prescribing Guidelines – Heather Sveadas Esq.

10:15 AM  Networking Break with Exhibitors

10:45 AM  Opioid Abatement Council – What is It and What is the Process? - Stephanie G. Vanterpool MD MBA

11:15 AM Special Guest Lecturer – Opioids to Manage Chronic Pain -Lynn Webster MD

12:00 Noon – Corporate Member Showcase with Platinum Corporate Member Salix Taking a Targeted Approach to Treating Opioid-Induced Constipation (OIC) – Richard Rauck MD

 (Lunch Provided by the Society, No CME Provided, CMS reportable)

Session Two -  Parallel Sessions

Interventional Pain Management

1:15 PM  -  Closed Loop – Leonardo Kapural MD

1:45 PM – Peripheral Nerve Stimulation – Christopher Gilmore MD

2:15 PM – TBD  Damon Dozier MD

2:45 PM – Networking Break with Exhibitors

3:15 PM  - Headache from a Plastic Surgeon’s Perspective – Salam Al Kassis MD

3:45 PM – Low Back Pain from the Neurosurgeon’s Perspective – Hamid Shah MD

4:15 PM – Coding and Billing for the Interventional Pain Practitioner – Amy Turner RN BSN MMHC CPC CHC CHIAP

5:15 PM – Networking Reception with Exhibitors and Trainee Poster Competition

Session Two – Parallel Session Option Two

Pain Management for the APP and Primary Care Physician

1:15 PM – Initiating a New Patient Protocol for your Practice – Scott Clingan PA-C

1:45 PM – Development and Implementation of an Opioid Stewardship Program – Tess Huggins MSN RN AG-ACNP

2:15 PM – A Survey of Physical Therapy Options for Pain Management – Ryan Dulling DPT

2:45 PM –  Networking Break With Exhibitors

3:15 PM  - Therapeutic Pain Care – Jason Therrien DPT, TPS, CHWC

3:45 PM – Opioid Therapy & Cancer Pain: Initiating, Monitoring and Weaning–Bethany Cones NP

4:15 PM – How to Implement and Opioid Taper in the Outpatient Setting – Karen Hande NP

4:45 PM -  Discussion Q & A

5:15 PM  - Networking Reception and Trainee Poster Competition

Saturday September 23, 2023

7:30 AM  - Registration Open   (Exhibits open at 8:00 AM)

8:00  AM  - Corporate Member Showcase with Gold Corporate Member Collegium Pharmaceuticals (no CME provided, Breakfast provided, CMS reportable)

Session Three – Hot Topics

9:00 AM  -Special Guest Lecturer – Jay Shah MD, National Institutes of Health

9:45 AM  -Stellate Ganglion Blocks for Long Covid – Deb McCutcheon MD

10:15 AM – Multimodal Acute Pain, Transitional Pain to Reduce Chronic Post-Surgical Pain – Che Solla MD MBA

10:45 AM – Networking Break With Exhibitors

11:15 AM – Special Guest Lecturer: Risk Factors for Acute-to-Chronic Pain Transition – Yian Chen MD

11:45 AM – Case Studies – Faculty Q& A

12:15 PM – Annual Business Meeting and Corporate Member Showcase with Platinum Corporate Member Legally Mine (Lunch Provided by the Society, CME provided by Legally Mine)

Session Four - Hot Topics

1:45 PM – Mental Health Diagnosis and Chronic Pain – Steven Prakken MD

2:15 PM -Addiction – Sarah Merritt MD

2:45 PM- Substance Use Disorders including Opioid Use Disorders and Effective Treatment of Pain – Stanton Elseroad MD

3:15 PM Networking Break with Exhibitors

3:45 PM  -Naloxone – State Laws, Patient Education, and Disposal – Taylor Butler PharmD

4:15 PM – Emerging Trends in Pain Management – Acupuncture and Integrative Health – Deepti Agarwal MD

4:45 PM – Demystifying Longevity Medicine – Dawn Sparks MD

5:15 PM – Closing Remarks and Thank-you – Michael Wilkinson MD (2023-25 President)