4Preliminary Scientific Program
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Day One
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Tuesday, October 27th
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Intercontinental Hotel,
Al Ain, UAE
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7:30
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Registration-Refreshment
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8:45
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Session One:
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Comprehensive Pain Management
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Chairperson :
Dr.Riad Abdelkarim
CMO-A Tawam Hospital
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9:00
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Introductory Lecture:
Pain why is it too hard to treat?!!
Tawam Experience
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Rasha Jabri, MD
Chief Pain Medicine
Consultant Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Tawam Hospital, UAE
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9:20
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Plenary Lecture:
Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Programs for the Treatment of Disabling
Chronic Pain Syndromes
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Michael Robert Clark, MD, MPH
Associate Professor & Director
Chronic Pain Treatment Programs Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral
Sciences JHM, USA
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9:50
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Refractory Chronic Pain Syndromes: Relationships to Psychopathology and
the Role of Psychiatric Treatment Objectives
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Michael Robert Clark, MD, MPH
Associate Professor & Director
Chronic Pain Treatment Programs Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral
Sciences JHM, USA
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10:15
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Q&A
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10:45
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Break
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10:45
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Opening Ceremony &
Exhibition
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12:00
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Lunch
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Session Two:
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Cancer Pain Management-1
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Chairperson
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Dr. Sanjay Jain
Chairman of Oncology Hematology Tawam
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1:00
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Plenary Lecture:
Challenges in the management of cancer pain
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Stuart A. Grossman, MD
Professor of Oncology, Medicine & Neurosurgery
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
JHM, USA
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1:30
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Cancer pain management and palliative care, Tawam Experience
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Mohammad Hidayatullah,MD
Head of the Palliative Care Division Department of Oncology Tawam
Hospital, UAE
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1:50
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Novel Opioid Delivery Systems for developing nations
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Stuart A. Grossman, MD
Professor of Oncology, Medicine & Neurosurgery
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
JHM, USA
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2:10
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Q&A
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Session Three: |
Cancer Pain Management-2
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Chairperson:
Mohammed Jaloudi ,MD
Chief Medical Oncology Tawamawam
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2:20
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Can we treat cancer pain with Neuromodulation therapies?
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Jean-Pierre Van Buyten, MD
Chairman of the Multidisciplinary Pain centre Anesthesia-Intensive-Care
medicine and Pain therapy Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
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2:50
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Vertebroplasty: indications and patients selection
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Ayman Saleh, MD
Head of Interventional Radiology
Chairman of Diagnostic Imaging, Tawam Hospital, UAE
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3:10
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Extemporaneous Compounding of Pain Medicines for Terminal Cancer
Patients
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Scott Snyder, R.PH. FIACP
President of the Snyder Center
of Pain Pharmacology, Florida, USA
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3:30
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Q&A
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3:45
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Break
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Session Four:
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Physiotherapy and Alternative Complementary Modalities in Pain Medicine
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Chairpersons :
Dr.Laeth S Nasir MBBS
Professor and Chair,
Department of Family Medicine, FMHS
Dr. Sabahat Asim Wasti
Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
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4:00
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Myofascial trigger points – do they exist, and does needling work?
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Mike Cummings, MD
Medical Director, British Medical Acupuncture Society, UK
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4:20
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Cultural Implications in the Management of Chronic Pain Patient
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Dr. Sabahat Asim Wasti
Consulatnt in Rehabilitation Medicine, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
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4:40
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Dry Needling in Pain Management, does it have a role?
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Claire Waumsley, BSc. PT, Dr.
Chinese Med South Africa
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5:00
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Does acupuncture relieve pain?
Interpreting the effects of sham acupuncture holds the answer
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Mike Cummings, MD
Medical Director, British Medical Acupuncture Society, UK
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5:30
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Q&A
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5:45
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Wrap up and closing remarks
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7:00
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Gala Dinner
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Intercontinental
Hotel
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Day Two
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Wednesday, October 28th
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Intercontinental
Hotel,
Al Ain, UAE
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7:30
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Registration-Refreshment
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Session Five:
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Update in Pain Management Pharmacological Therapy
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Chairpersons :
Dr.
Mohamed Yousif Hassan Baniyas
Vice
Dean and Professor of Pharmacology-Therapeutics
FMHS
UAE University
Dr. Hashem A Tarifi, MS, PhD, MBA, FASHP
Head
of Pharmacy Tawam Hospital
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9:00
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Plenary Lecture:
Pharmacological Management to Pain
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Honorio Benzon, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Chief of Pain Medicine Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, USA
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9:40
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Topical Treatment Options for Acute and Chronic Pain
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Scott Snyder, R.PH. FIACP
President of The Snyder Center,
of Pain Pharmacology, Florida, USA
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10:00
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Opioids for non malignant pain
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Michael Robert Clark, MD, MPH
Associate Professor & Director
Chronic Pain Treatment Programs Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral
Sciences JHM, USA
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10:30
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Q&A
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10:45
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Break
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Session Six:
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Chronic Non Malignant Pain and Interventional Pain Management
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Chairperson:
Dr. Rasha S. Jabri, MD
Chief
Pain Medicine Tawam
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11:00
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Plenary Lecture:
Low Back Pain
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Honorio Benzon, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Chief of Pain Medicine Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, USA
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11:40
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An Introduction to Non-Traditional Neuromodulation Therapies
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Hussein A. Huraibi, MD
Founder & Medical Director of the Michigan Institute of Pain Management,
USA
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12:00
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Spinal Cord Stimulation in Axial Low Back Pain in Failed Back Surgery
Syndrome
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Jean-Pierre Van Buyten, MD
Chairman of the Multidisciplinary Pain centre Anesthesia-Intensive-Care
medicine and Pain therapy Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
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12:30
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Q&A
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12:45
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Lunch
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Session Seven:
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Perioperative Acute Pain Management
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Chairperson :
Dr. M. Samy Abdel-Raheem,
MD Professor in Anaesthesiology
Consultant Anesthetist
Zayed Military Hospital
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2:00
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How to prevent acute post surgical pain from becoming chronic pain
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Narinder Rawal,MD,PhD
Professor of Anaesthesiology
University Hospital
Sweden
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2:20
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Build and Maintain Your Acute Pain Service
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Marie Hanna, MD
Director, Acute Pain Service,
Johns Hopkins
Medicine, USA
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2:40
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Perioperative IV infusions for postoperative pain
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Honorio Benzon, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Chief of Pain Medicine Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, USA
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3:00
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Neonatal Pain Management
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Aiman Rahmani, MD
Chief of Neonatology Tawam
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3:20
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Q&A
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3:30
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Break
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Session Eight:
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Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management
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Chairperson :
Dr. Andrea Kahlenberg
A- Chairman Anesthesiology Tawam
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3:40
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Regional analgesia and outcome studies
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Narinder Rawal,MD,PhD
Professor of Anaesthesiology
University Hospital
Sweden
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4:00
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Regional Anesthesia: What we should avoid in 2009?
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Patrick Narchi, MD
European Society of Regional Anesthesia Board (ESRA): France
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4:20
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Best in Upper Extremity Pain Management
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Marie Hanna, MD
Director, Acute Pain Service,
Johns Hopkins Medicine, USA
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4:40
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US guided peripheral Nerve blocks and catheters in LE
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Patrick Narchi, MD
European Society of Regional Anesthesia Board (ESRA): France
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5:00
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Q&A
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5:10
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Wrap up and closing remarks
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