Section 1

Opening Remarks

Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
Dominic Hegarty, MD, PhD, FIPP

Cryoablation Techniques for the Pain Management Physician
Eleni Episkopou, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Greece)

Artificial Intelligence in Pain Medicine
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP (Turkey)

Digital Management of Pain Services
Dominic Hegarty, MD, PhD, FIPP (Ireland)

Radiation Safety in Vulnerable Patients. Is there a place for Hybrid Procedures?
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Argentina)

Bone Metastasis Cement Augmentation Techniques
Ricardo Plancarte Sanchez, MD, PhD, FIPP (Mexico)

Intradiscal Biologics
Doug Beall, MD, FIPP (USA)

KEYNOTE LECTURE (plenary)

The Interplay of Research and Technology in Refining the Practice of Regenerative Medicine in Treating MSK Pathologies
Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP (USA)

Cervical Anatomical Targets for Pain: Pain Procedures from New Research
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Argentina)

Advancements in the Treatment of Pelvic Pain
Jennifer Hah, MD, CIPS (USA)

Development of Directional RF with the RULO INTRAFORAMINAL SYSTEM for Spinal Stenosis. Early Outcomes
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP (Spain)

Cervical TFESI’s: A New, Safer Technique?
Carl Noe, MD, FIPP (USA)

Professor ‘s Time with Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP (USA)

Lunch

Cadaver Workshops
Semmelweis University

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: A Surgeon’s Perspective
Laszlo Entz, MD, FIPP (Hungary)

Dye Spread Patterns: When to inject and not to inject
Javier De Andres, MD, FIPP (Spain)

Advanced MISS: Case Presentations
Ovidiu Palea, MD, FIPP (Romania)

Intracranial Approaches to Pain Management
Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP (Hungary)

Vagus Nerve Stimulation for the Pain Physician
Sean Li, MD, FIPP (USA)

SPG/Trigeminal
Javier De Andres, MD, FIPP (Spain)

Coffee break

KEYNOTE LECTURE (plenary)

Electrical Neuromodulation for Non-Surgical Chronic Back Pain with Different Waveforms
Adnan Al-Kaisy, MD, FIPP (UK)

Looking for Balance and Synergy in Neuromodulation
Kenneth Chapman, MD, FIPP (USA)

Should we Combine Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) and Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) as Synergistic Modalities to Address Chronic Refractory Neuropathic Pain?
Fabricio Dias Assis, MD, FIPP (Brazil)

The Role Peripheral Nerve Simulation Management of Facial Pain and Headache
Miles Day, MD, FIPP (USA)

SCS – To Test or not to Test. That is the Question:
Maria Luz Padilla del Rey, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Spain)

Q&A

Lunch

Cadaver Workshops
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Maximizing Radiographic Imaging
Andre Mansano, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Brazil)

How to prevent complications of Interventional Pain Procedures
Giuliano Lo Bianco, MD, FIPP (Italy)

Spinal Injections: Do they work?
Ovidiu Palea, MD, FIPP (Romania)

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: An Interventional Pain Medicine Physician’s Perspective
Sudhir Diwan, MD, FIPP (USA)

Sacroiliac Joint Procedures
Sean Li, MD, FIPP (USA)

Multifidus Restoration
Sudhir Diwan, MD, FIPP (USA)

Coffee break

KEYNOTE LECTURE (plenary)

Pain Medicine Education
Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP (The Netherlands)

Cervical ESI/ Cervical Facet
Dominic Hegarty, MD, PhD, FIPP (Ireland)

Stellate Ganglion/T2T3 Sympathectomy
Bolkar Sahinler, MD, FIPP (USA)

LSB/Hypogastric
Jennifer Hah, MD, CIPS (USA)

Lum SNRB/LOA
Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP (Turkey)

Q&A

Lunch

Cadaver Workshops
Semmelweis University