I am writing to you to let you know about our upcoming AADEP Annual meeting being held in Orlando, January 7-9, 2010. Our focus this year will be on "Science and Pain Management". I believe you will find this program helpful and informative, especially when you are asked to address the evidence to support some of these practices.
On Thursday, January 7th, we will have a number of preconference seminars to help you thaw out. I would ask you to look at Russel Travis's program on "Controversial Diagnoses Including MRIs and the Evidence to Resolve" Russell and his team (Jim Talmage and Trang Nguyen) will provide you with a large selection of about 100 recently published abstracts taken from reputable journals, dealing with various aspects of spine problems. This interactive program will acquaint you not only with the recent literature, but also on how to take these articles apart and learn the most from them. This will be a rare opportunity for you to sharpen your scientific skills and improve the quality of your reviews, by learning how the pro's do it.
Suzanne Novak and Bill Nemeth will once again provide a half day program dealing with opiates and the increasing problems we see with its' use.
The Annual program is designed to provide you with numerous pearls on the use of new (and old) science to refine your knowledge and use of the literature. Drs Gene Carragee and Rick Deyo will again join us to report on more recent advances in the Spine, both their own studies and those published by other authors. Jeff Buchalter, an anesthesiologist from the University of Florida, will talk to you about "real" pain management...(as opposed to what some of us have been seeing).
This is only skimming a few of the points about the program. You should soon be getting a brochure about this course in the mail, you may also click HERE to view the brochure, I would encourage you to look at the program and consider coming to Orlando (next to SeaWorld) and thawing out for a few days, while you learn a bit about more recent advances. We have tried hard to provide you with a different type of program this year. I hope you will like what you see and consider joining us for a few days.
Please click HERE to register online.
Dave Randolph
AADEP 23rd Annual Meeting Program Chair
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