Clinical Pain Advisor will be providing live coverage of the 11th annual PAINWeek conference, held September 5-9, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This meeting, which kicks off Pain Awareness month, will host lectures focused on hot topics in pain medicine including behavioral, interventional, and integrative pain management; chemical dependency; chronic pain syndromes; and palliative care. Numerous presentations receive support from some of the most renowned professional societies in the pain field, with speakers from the American Headache Society, the American Pain Society, and the American Society of Pain Educators.
In addition to the meeting’s most noteworthy lectures and this year’s keynote presentation, titled “Are you now or have you ever been? Saving pain from zealotry,” led by Michael R. Clark, MD, MPH, MBA, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, we will bring you the latest information in pain care and research from poster presentations, perspectives from leaders in the pain field, and interviews with prominent pain practitioners and researchers.
Stay tuned for Clinical Pain Advisor’s live conference coverage starting September 6, 2017, including, but not limited to:
- Virtual reality for pain management
- Preemptive analgesia for postsurgical pain
- Treatment options for diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- Pharmacogenetics
- Assessment of chronic pain
- Treatment of neuroinflammation
Visit PAINWeek for more information on the 2017 annual meeting, as well as past conferences and additional educational programs.