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Earn 5.5 CME Hours - AMA PRA Category 1 Credits

  

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Evidence-Based, Nontraditional Approaches to the Treatment of Back Pain
Moderated by Norman J. Marcus, MD

Earn 3.0 CME Hours - AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
Fee: $150  
Onsight Registration will begin 30 minutes before the event begins.

2:00 - 5:00pm

Millennium Broadway Hotel New York
145 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036-4012
(212) 768-4400 

      Osteoporosis: Compression Fracture in Low Back Pain
Jennifer Knopp-Sihota, NP MN PhD
Assistant Professor
Centre for Nursing & Health Studies
Athabasca University
Athabasca, AB, Canada
  Low Back Pain in Pregnancy
Vicki Pennick, RN BScN MHSc
Senior Clinical Research Project Manager
Managing Editor - Cochrane Back Review Group
Institute for Work & Health
Toronto, ON, Canada
  Pathophysiology of Low Back Pain
Siegfried Mense, MD PhD
Professor
Institute für Anatomie und Zellbiologie III
Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
 

Muscular Causes and Treatments of Low Back Pain
Norman J Marcus, MD
Clinical Associate Professor Anesthesiology and Psychiatry
Director Division of Muscle Pain Research
NYU School of Medicine
Director Norman Marcus Pain Institute
New York, NY

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Emerging Advances in Cancer Pain Management
Moderated by Vitaly Gordin, MD

Earn 2.5 CME Hours - AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
Fee: N/C

9:00 - 11:30am

New York Marriott Marquis Hotel
1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
(212) 398-1900

      Medical Management of Cancer Related Pain
Vitaly Gordin, MD
Director
Pain Division
Penn State University College of Medicine
Dept of Anesthesiology MC-HU32
Hershey, PA
  Ethical Issues in Cancer Pain Management
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
Chair
Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care
Beth Israel Medical Center
1st Ave At 16th St
New York, NY
  Current Trends in Cancer Pain Management
Allen W. Burton, MD 
Dept of Anesthesia
University of  Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
  Interventional Approach to Cancer Related Pain
Oscar de Leon-Casasola, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
University at Buffalo
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Chief - Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Roswell Park Cancer Insitute
Buffalo, NY

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