2024 Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions
The Chattanoogan Hotel, A Curio Collection by Hilton, Chattanooga, TN September 19-21, 2024
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 - Guest Lecturer –Psychedelics – Akash Goel MD
12:00 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 – 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