TENNESSEE PAIN SOCIETY 2024 LIVE ANNUAL MEETING

September 19-21, 2024

The Chattanoogan Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton, Chattanooga TN

Jointly Provided by The Tennessee Pain Society, Amedco, and Pri-Med

The  LIVE  Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions Program is again outstanding thanks to the tireless work by the Program Committee and Board of Directors. Sessions cover both basic and advanced topics germane to all physicians and practitioners who treat patients in pain.

 No matter your specialty, we have sessions for you!   

Please note that your membership dues for 2024-25 are included in your full meeting registration fee.  

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

At the end of this program, participants should be able to:

1.         Employ key diagnostic and treatment techniques for the management of pain.

2.         Identify and administer appropriate safe opioid usage in patients.

3.         Understand and include behavioral analysis in the evaluation of a chronic pain patient.

4.         Identify and resolve issues relating to the law for pain management.

5.         Apply evidenced based strategies to clinical practice for managing complex

            pain patients.

ACCREDITATION 

in support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and Tennessee Pain Society.  Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians (ACCME) Credit Designation

Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Nurses (ANCC) Credit Designation

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 10 ANCC contact hours.

 

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians (ACPE) Credit Designation

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 10 knowledge-based CPE contact hours.

NOTE to Pharmacists: The only official Statement of Credit is the one you pull from CPE Monitor. You must request your certificate within 30 days of your participation in the activity to meet the deadline for submission to CPE Monitor. 

 

Physician Assistants

PAs may claim a maximum of 10 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. NCCPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society.

 

Nurse Practitioners

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) recognizes the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as approved accreditors and allow reciprocity for AANPCP continuing education credit.

 

Please note that Session Six is Presented by Pri-Med and qualifies for an additional 3.5 CME/ CE from Pri-Med.  

 

TOTAL CME/CE for the full meeting is therefore:  13.5 CME/ CE

 

 HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS

 

La Quinta Hotel located next to the Chattanoogan Hotel (Chattanoogan Hotel is sold out)

We have secured a secondary room block at the brand new La Quinta Hotel located right next door to the Chattanoogan Hotel. The rate is $146 a night including parking plus tax.  To secure your room at the Law Quinta, use this LINK

 

REGISTRATION FEES

FULL LIVE MEETING (Includes 2024-25 Membership)                

Registration Type                                             Early by August 19, 2024     Regular Rate

MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, DC,  PsyD                $400.00                                   $500.00 

PA/ NP                                                              $300.00                                  $400.00

Health Care Practitioner / Administrator           $250.00                                  $350.00 

Trainee                                                              $50.00                                    $100.00

*Military and VA Physicians and Practitioners, please contact the Society office for additional discounts

 

CANCELATION POLICY

Cancelation Policy:  Registration Cancellations, minus a $25 fee will be honored to August 19, 2024.  After August 19, 2024, no cancellations are permitted.  You may however substitute a colleague if you cannot attend. Please contact Robin Hoyle, Executive Director at robin@painsocieties.org with your substitution.

ADA STATEMENT

If you require reasonable accommodation to attend the live meeting, please contact Robin Hoyle at the Society offices at 844-524-7246 or by email to Robin@painsocieties.org by September 10 so that we have time to coordinate with the hotel. We are pleased to assist you.

2024 Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions

The Chattanoogan Hotel, A Curio Collection by Hilton, Chattanooga, TN

September 19-21, 2024

FINAL PROGRAM 

Thursday, September 19, 2024

6:00 -7:30 PM- Registration /Exhibition Move-in

Chattanoogan Ballroom 3 &4 and Foyer

 

5:30-7:00 PM - Annual Board of Directors Meeting

 

7:00 – 9:00 PM – President’s Welcome  at High Rail Rooftop Bar – All are welcome to attend.

 

Friday, September 20, 2024

7:00 AM - Registration and Exhibits Open

Continental Breakfast  in the Exhibit Hall (7:00-8:00 am)  

Chattanoogan Ballroom 1 &2

 

7:55- AM 12:00 Noon -Session One – Hot Topics - Moderator David A. Edwards MD PhD

Chattanoogan Ballroom 3 &4

 

7:55 AM -  Welcome from Tennessee Pain Society President Michael “Indy” Wilkinson MD  

 

8:00 AM – Tennessee Legal Update and BME Update – Yarnell Beatty Esq., General Counsel, TMA

 

8:30 AM – Defending Payor Audits in the Pain Specialty World

-  Lawrence Kobak DPM Esq., General Counsel, TPS

 

9:00 AM –  Weaning and Ketamine – Ankush Jain DO and Damon Dozier MD

 

9:30 AM – Coding and Billing for Pain Management Part 1- Amy Turner RN BSN MMHC CPC CHC CHIAP

 

10:00 AM-  Networking Break with Exhibitors

Chattanoogan Ballroom 1 &2

  

10:30 AM-  Coding and Billing for Pain Management Part 2 - Amy Turner RN BSN MMHC CPC CHC CHIAP

 

11:00 AM -Painful Diabetic Neuropathy – Shravani Durbhakula MD

 

11:30 AM - Special Guest Lecturer –Psychedelics – Akash Goel MD

 

12:10 PM -  Trainee Poster Presentation - Increasing Naloxone Prescriptions for Outpatient Cancer Patients Co-Prescribed Opioids and Benzodiazepines – Cory Barrow DO, University of Tennessee

 

12:15-1:15 pm Corporate Member Showcase with Gold Corporate Member Collegium

Responsible Pain Management with Opioid Therapy for Patients with Severe and Persistent Pain with Sarah Merritt MD (Lunch Provided, No CME Provided, CMS reportable)

Walker Room

 

1:15-2:30 PM Session Two - Interventional Pain Management – A Case Based Approach to Care. Moderator:  Damon Dozier MD

Chattanoogan Ballroom 3 &4

 

Join our panel of experts as we review common pain syndromes and how each would diagnose and treat according to his or her expertise. 

Panelists:  Rett Blake MD (Interventional Pain) , Jordan Tate MD MPH (Interventional Pain) Heather Jackson PhD NP (Advanced Practice Provider), Hamid Shah MD (Neurosurgeon), Robert Devereaux PhD (Clinical Psychologist), Jason Therrien DPT (Physical Therapist)

 

2:30 PM - Networking Break with Exhibitors 

Chattanoogan Ballroom 1 &2

 

3:00 -5:00 PM. Session Three – Hot Topics – Moderator:  T. Scott Baker MD

Chattanoogan Ballroom 3 &4

 

3:00 PM – Remote Patient Monitoring – Bryan Marascalchi MD

3:30 PM – Cancer Pain Management – Vinita Singh MD, Special Guest Lecturer

4:00 PM – Special Guest Lecturer - Consciousness & Pain Management- Ancient Philosophy, Modern Science and The Way Forward – Ramarao Pasupuleti MD

4:45 PM – Discussion, Q&A

 

5:00 -6:00 PM – Welcome Networking Reception with Exhibitors all Attendees and Guests are Invited.

Chattanoogan Ballroom 1 &2

 

Dinner on Own

 

Saturday, September 21, 2024

 

7:30 AM – Registration and Exhibits Open (Breakfast provided by Society)

 

8:00 -9:30 AM Session Four – Case Based Panel Discussion – Multidisciplinary Approach to Care - Moderator: Stephanie Vanterpool MD MBA

Chattanoogan Ballroom 3 &4

 

Join our panel of experts as we review common pain syndromes and how each would diagnose and treat according to his or her expertise. 

Joseph DiChiara DO (Interventional)  Ankush Jain DO (Primary Care), Taylor Butler PharmD (Pharmacist) Robert Devereaux PhD (Clinical Psychologist), Brett Snodgrass NP (Advanced Practice Provider), Jason Therrien DPT (Physical Therapy)

 

9:30 AM – 12:00 Noon – Session Five – Pain Potpourri – Moderator: Michael “Indy” Wilkinson MD

Chattanoogan Ballroom 3 &4

 

9:30 AM – Special Guest Lecturer – Medicolegal Issues in Pain Medicine -Yian Chen MD

 

10:15 AM – Networking Break with Exhibitors

 

10:45 AM – Special Guest Lecturer – Ultrasonography, Self-Report Questionnaires and Physical Measures Quantify the Beneficial Effects of Acupuncture Dry Needling in Myofascial Pain Syndrome -Jay Shah MD

 

11:30 AM – President’s Special Guest Lecturer – Steven Cohen MD

 

12:15 pm  – 1:30 PM. Annual Business Meeting and Gold Corporate Member Showcase with Legally Mine  (no CME provided, lunch provided, not CMS Reportable)

Walker Room

Proper use of Legal Entities for Lawsuit Protection & Tax Reduction with Gary Harker

Legally Mine will show you how to stop the threat of lawsuits before they ever get started by protecting your assets in time tested and proven legal structures. These same structures allow us to help our tax attorneys save what you would normally pay in income taxes. These are little known tax helps that have significant case history and have stood the test of time.

 

1:30 – 5:15 PM – Session Six – P.A.C.T. Practical Approaches to the Comprehensive Treatment of Pain  -- with Katherine Galluzzi DO, CMD, FACOFP, Charles E. Argoff MD, FABPM, and Oscar A. de Leon-Casasola MD.

Chattanoogan Ballroom 3 &4

 

This interactive session focuses on improving physicians’ and practitioners’ ability to recognize, diagnose, and classify pain; educating clinicians on the full spectrum of pain management options, including non-opioid pharmacologic interventions; and providing risk reduction strategies through integration of opioids into individualized pain management plans.  Clinicians will learn to recognize signs and symptoms of opioid dependence and abuse in order to optimally manage the patient’s pain and medication use.

 

This afternoon session activity  is supported by an independent educational grant from the Opioid Analgesic REMS Program Companies. Please see https://www.opioidanalgesicrems.com/Resources/Docs/List_of_RPC_Companies.pdf for a listing of REMS Program Companies. This activity is intended to be fully compliant with the Opioid Analgesic REMS education requirements issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This activity satisfies training requirements for the MATE Act, which requires all DEA-registered practitioners to complete 8 hours of CME/CE credit on opioid or other substance use disorders. Please visit https://www.pri-med.com/state/mate-act-cme for more information about the MATE Act.

Note:  3.5 CME/ CE is awarded by Pri-Med for this Saturday afternoon session and a separate notification on how to claim CME / CE  will be emailed to your email provided at registration.

 

1:30 PM -  Part One

 

3:00 PM – Networking Break with Exhibitors

 

3:15 PM – Part Two

 

5:15 PM  Closing Remarks and Thank You – Michael “Indy” Wilkinson MD.

 

Adjourn

 

 

SAVE THE DATE!

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The Embassy Suites by Hilton Cool Springs, Franklin, Tennessee