Scottsdale Healthcare Shea

The 7th Annual P.A.I.N. Summit hosted by the Power of Pain Foundation provides a great avenue for pain education for providers, patients and their caregivers. This year’s conference consists of an exhibit area and educational sessions that focus on better diagnosis and treatment options for pain patients, chronic pain issues (as a whole), prescription monitoring programs, and Proper Opioid Management. There will be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack provided to attendees.

RSVP Required: http://painsummit2013.eventbrite.com/, Limited in-person space.

The event will be hosted by Brittany Brannon, Miss Arizona USA 2011, model, and RSD patient. The event will also feature two celebrity speakers, Dr. Natalie Stand, MD winner of the

Amazing Race, and WWE star and professional wrestler, Raven.

The day will consist of two sessions.

8am – 1:00pm The morning sessions are focused for healthcare providers. This includes all areas of expertise; anesthesiologists, complementary medicine specialists, emergency room, general practitioners, internal medicine, neurologists, nurses, orthopedics, pharmacists, physiatrists, physician assistants, primary care physicians, psychiatrists, surgeons, and therapists. Any clinician who practices, or is interested in practicing, pain management from an integrative perspective, will benefit from the meeting. HCP’s will be introduced to the rapidly expanding field of diagnosis and treatment. This conference will proved attendees a greater awareness and understanding of the need to appropriately identify, diagnose (HCPs only) and treat/seek treatment of common types of pain, including fibromyalgia, painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy and other chronic pain conditions.

1:30pm – 4:30pm The afternoon sessions will be filled with patients and their family/ caregivers. This portion of the conference will provide attendees a greater awareness and understanding of the need to appropriately identify, and treat/seek treatment of common types of pain.

There is no charge to attend this conference.

Schedule (tentative)

HCP Sessions

8:00 am – 4:00 pm Ongoing Registration Breakfast served Hosted by Brittany Brannon

8:15 am – 9:00 am Keynote address: Preventing complications that arise from diabetes such as peripheral neuropathy (pain) Dr. Natalie Stand, MD, Amazing Race Winner, USC Pain Clinic

9:10 am – 9:55 am An Integrative Approach to Chronic Pain Dr. Philip Getson, DO, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

9:55 am – 10:40 am Cultural Competency and the Patient in Pain Dr. Maged Hamza, Virginia Commonwealth University Pain Clinic Director, Richmond, VA

10:40 am – 11:20 Evidence Based Chronic Pain Care Linda Watkins, PhD, University of Colorado

11:20 am – 12:00 Complementary Medicine and its role in Chronic Pain Management (TBD)

12:00 pm – 1:00 Open Discussion with the Speakers and Attendees Lunch is served, Exhibitors

Patient/ Caregiver Sessions

1:30 pm – 2:30pm An Integrative Approach to Chronic Pain Dr. Philip Getson, DO, Drexel University, NJ

2:30 pm – 3:15 pm Prescription Drug Monitor program Explained Rob Kronenberg, PharmD

3:15 pm – 4:00pm The Patients Perspective; At Home Pain Coping Skills Raven WWE Wrestler, Barby Ingle Power of Pain Foundation, and Diane Kennelly AZ Fibromyalgia Group Leader, Dr. Tory McJunkin, Arizona Pain Specialists

If you are unable to attend in person, you can attend by watching our UStream Channel http://www.ustream.tv/channel/power-of-pain-foundation