Congress Program

Welcome Remarks
Sudhir Diwan, MD, Scott Woska, MD, Christopher Gharibo, MD

Use of Peridural Bone Marrow Aspirate in the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injuries
Victor Pacheco, MD (Brazil)

Intradiscal BMAC for Disc Regeneration after Microdiscectomy
Roger Hartl, MD

Peripheral Blood Derived VSEL Stem Cells, Expanded Indications
Shahzad Anwar, MD (Pakistan)

What’s the Evidence that PRP Works? Does Concentration Matter?
Christopher Centeno, MD

Intradiscal Injections of Biologics: Technical Aspects
Sudhir Diwan, MD

Panel Discussion with Doug Beall, MD
Panel members: Roger Hartl, MD, Victor Pacheco, MD, Shahzad Anwar, MD, Christopher Centeno, MD, Sudhir Diwan, MD

Clinical Advances on Culturing and Cryopreservation of MSC from Autologous Adipose Tissue
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD (Spain)

US Guided Upper Extremity Nerve Entrapments
George Chang Chien, DO

High Frequency Ultrasound for Chronic Pain
Amitabh Gulati, MD

Hydrogenolysis in Refractory Pain Conditions
Jen-Li Pan, MD (Taiwan)

Biologics for MSK: Review of Evidence
Agnes Stogicza, MD (Hungary)

Keynote lecture: Blurring the Boundaries between Biologics and Technology: 2023 and Beyond
Annu Navani, MD

Neuromodulation in 2030: Amazing Future!
Timothy Deer, MD

SCS for Craniofacial Pain Management
Adnan Al-Kaisy, MD (UK)

Neuromodulation for Peripheral Neuropathy vs. Mononeuropathy
Leonardo Kapural, MD

Neuromodulation for Visceral Pain
Andrew Kaufman, MD

Avoidable SCS Complications
Kenneth Candido, MD

Keynote Lecture: Politically Based Medicine vs Evidence Based Medicine: The Attack on SCS
Robert Levy, MD

Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in SCS
Steven Falowski, MD

SCS Trial: Do we Need a Trial?
Ashish Shetty, MD (UK)

Pulse Magnetic Therapy for Painful Diabetic Neuropathy
Harold Cordner, MD

DRG for Chronic Axial Back Pain
Kenneth Chapman, MD

SCS for Pain in Spinal Cord Injury
Rodrigo Diez Tafur, MD (Peru)

Keynote Lecture: Innovation Explosion in SCS Industries: What is the Best Option?
Sean Li, MD

Cancer Pain: Challenges and Solutions
Kris Vissers, MD (The Netherlands)

New Concept: Osteogenic Pain
Ricardo Plancarte Sanchez, MD (Mexico)

US and CT in Interventional Cancer Pain Management
Carolina Hernandez Porras, MD (Mexico)

ITDD PACC Guidelines for Cancer Pain
Vinay Puttanniah, MD

Complex Intrathecal Regimen and CSF Kinetics
Carlos Marcelo De Barros, MD, PhD (Brazil)

Nuances of Visceral Neurolytic Blocks for Cancer Pain
Dhanalakshmi Koyyalagunta, MD

Overview of Abstracts by Moderator and Prize Presentation

Top Three Abstracts and Prizes Presentation
Scientific Committee: Miles Day, MD, Gabor B. Racz, MD, Neel Mehta, MD, Karina Gritsenko, MD

Introducing Latin American Pain Society (LAPS): Non-Profit Educational Organization
Sudhir Diwan, MD, Ricardo Plancarte Sanchez, MD, Fabricio Dias Assis, MD

AI in Pain Management Advancements, Applications and Possibilities
Carlos Guerrero, MD (Colombia)

Innovative Interventions for Difficult Spine Cases
Neeraj Jain, MD (India)

Keynote Lecture: Education and Training in Pain Medicine: Past, Present and Future
Monique Steegers, MD, PhD (The Netherlands)

Evolving Evidence for Posterior Sacroiliac Fusion: What is the Future?
Dawood Sayed, MD

Interspinous Spacers: Review of Evidence
Lou Raso, MD

Managing Vertebral Fractures and its Sequelae
Steve Aydin, DO

Safety and Effectiveness of MILD
Stanley Golovac, MD

Vertebrogenic Pain
Brian Durkin, DO

Multifidus Dysfunction
Christopher Gilligan, MD

Keynote Lecture: Cost and Effectiveness of MISS vs. Fusions: Future Directions
Doug Beall, MD

Spinal Steroids for Chronic Spinal Pain: The Need of a Paradigm Shift
Yu-Chuan (Grace) Tsai, MD (Taiwan)

Endoscopic Spine: Discectomy to Fusion
Sukdeb Datta, MD

Radiofrequency of DRG: Indications and Evidence
Felipe Mejia, MD (Colombia)

RFA vs Cryo Neurolysis: Recent Advances
Reda Tolba, MD (Abu Dhabi)

Transforaminal Neuroplasty: Cervical vs. Lumbar
Victor Silva, MD (Mexico)

Keynote Lecture: Painful Spine: The Medical Diseases Often Ignored
Scott Woska, MD

CDC Guidelines: What is in? What is out?
Christopher Gharibo, MD

Navigating New LCDS
Hemant Kalia, MD

Local Politics, Lobbying and Legislators
Edward Rubin, MD

Getting Involved at NYSIPP/ASIPP
Karina Gritsenko, MD

Managing the Borderline Personality in an Interventional Pain Practice
Michael Schatman, PhD

Keynote Lecture: Challenging Times Practicing Interventional Pain
Robert Tiso, MD

Recent Advances in PNS: The Challenges and Solutions
Konstantin Slavin, MD

Complex Cases: Combinations of DRG and DCS
Fabricio Dias Assis, MD (Brazil)

Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain
Miles Day, MD

Neuromodulation in Cancer Pain Management
Jee Yoon Moon, MD, PhD (South Korea)

Neuromodulation for Functional Restoration: Can it Treat Paraplegia?
Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD

Panel Discussion with Konstantin Slavin, MD
Panel members: Fabricio Dias Assis, MD, Miles Day, MD, Jee Yoon Moon, MD, PhD, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD

NYSIPP State Society Meeting in Hudson Ballroom

NJSIPP State Society Meeting in Harborside Room