PAINWeek 2022 kicks off with Advanced Practice Providers Track on pain management
This year’s PAINWeek conference, Sept. 6-9 in Las Vegas, will feature more than 75 credit hours of pain management tracks, including the Advanced Practice Provider Track, featuring diverse faculty with expertise in pain management.
According to a PAINWeek press release, the national conference will offer tracks on topics such as behavioral pain management, chronic pain syndromes, health coaching, and interventional and integrative pain management. Master classes, special interest sessions and sponsored courses will also be featured, along with tracks presented by the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and the International Pelvic Pain Society.
“As [advanced practice practitioner (APP)] attendance at PAINWeek continues to grow, so does the quality of its APP track offerings,” Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, PMGT-BC, ANP-BC, of the division of pain medicine at Stanford Outpatient Medical Center, who will lead a session on pain management during pregnancy, said in the release. “PAINWeek is committed to providing advanced pain education to APPs at all stages of their careers, and 2022 promises to be the best conference yet.”
The APP track will also feature speaker Jeremy Adler, DMSc, PA-C, a senior pain management PA and chief operating officer at Pacific Pain Medicine Consultants in California, who will discuss challenges and benefits of practice ownership. “Managing the complexity of patients with chronic pain generally requires a skilled and dedicated team,” Adler said in the release. “We have found that our team has thrived through joint ownership of the practice between PAs and physicians.”
Another presenter is Jackie Rowles, DNP, CRNA, ANP-BC, NSPM-C, associate professor of professional practice and director of the advanced pain management fellowship at Texas Christian University, who will detail the pathway, subspecialty education and typical clinical practice day of a certified registered nurse anesthetist pain practitioner.
Other courses in the APP track will highlight neuromodulation for APPs and the nurse practitioner’s role in transitional pain service.
For more information, visit painweek.org.