UCSF Medical Center - Pain Management Center

The Challenges of Managing Pain Symposium (ChaMPS) is a free educational series for UCSF and other Northern California healthcare providers held the first Thursday of every quarter in Herbst Hall, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion and through distance learning programs, including live teleconferences and streaming video to healthcare organizations throughout California, the United States, and worldwide. Internationally known speakers discuss hot topics in pain management, challenging cases, and current treatment options.

Teleconference Sites: Individuals not in the San Francisco Bay Area may view the presentations at selected teleconference sites.

Andrew J. Gross, MD
Director, UCSF Rheumatology Clinical Programs
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF School of Medicine (Department of Medicine-Division of Rheumatology)

Topic: Making Sense of Fibromyalgia
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the series flyer (pdf format)
For faculty disclosures, view the event flyer (pdf format)

Charles Marmar, MD
Chief of Mental Health Services, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Vice Chair and Professor in Residence, UCSF Department of Psychiatry

Shannon McCaslin, PhD PTSD
Investigator, “Functional Brain Mechanisms of Mutual Maintenance of
PTSD and Chronic Pain: A Pilot fMRI Study”, San Francisco Veterans Affairs
Medical Center and Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF School of
Medicine (Department of Psychiatry)

Topic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Pain
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the series flyer (pdf format)
For faculty disclosures, view the event flyer (pdf format)

Joseph Acquah, LAc, OMD
Acupuncturist and Integrative Medicine Specialist, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Topic: The Use of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Pain
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the series flyer (pdf format)
For faculty disclosures, view the event flyer (pdf format)

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Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD, DSc
Professor, UCSF Department of Neurology and Director, UCSF Headache Center

Topic: Migraine 2008
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer (pdf format)

Daniel R. Pound, MD
Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine
Director, UCSF Lakeside Senior Medical Center

Topic: Pain in the Elderly
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer (pdf format)
View Dr. Pound's bio

Pamela Pierce Palmer, MD, PhD
Professor, UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and Director, UCSF PainCARE

Christine Zampach, BS PT, MEd, DPT
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science

Topic: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD): Medical and Physical Therapy Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer (pdf format)
View Dr. Palmer's bio (pdf format)
View Dr. Zampach's bio

Howard Kornfeld, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF School of Medicine
Lecturer and Consultant, UCSF Pain Management Center Fellowship Program

Topic: "Addiction Issues in Pain Management: From Opium to Buprenorphine"
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer (pdf format).
View program overview (pdf format).

Donald I. Abrams, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF Department of Medicine
Chief of Hematology/Oncology, San Francisco General Hospital
Director of Clinical Programs, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Topic: "Cannabinoids in Pain and Palliative Care"
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer (pdf format).
View Dr. Abram's bio: http://www.osher.ucsf.edu/About/bios/abrams.aspx

Pamela Pierce Palmer, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and Director, UCSF PainCARE – Center for Advanced Research and Education

Topic: "Neuropathic Pain: Basic Science and Clinical Treatment"
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer (pdf format).
View Dr. Palmer's bio (pdf format).

Nicholas M. Barbaro, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery, Residency Director, UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery, and Co-Director, Functional Neurosurgery Program

Topic: "Surgical Treatment of Facial Pain"
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer.

Lee A. Learman, MD, PhD
Residency Program Director and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Services and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

Topic: "A Comprehensive Approach to Pelvic Pain"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer.

Steven Z. Pantilat, MD
Associate Professor, UCSF School of Medicine and Director - Palliative Care Service, UCSF Medical Center

Topic: "Pain Management and End-of-Life Care"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer.

Sylver Quevedo, MD, MPH
Medical Director of Clinical Programs,
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Topic: "Integrative Medicine - the Promises and Challenges"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer.
Dr. Quevedo's bio:
http://www.osher.ucsf.edu/About/bios/quevedo.aspx

Daniel H. Burkhardt, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and
Director, UCSF Acute Pain Service

Topic: "Safe and Effective Acute Pain Management"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Michael Rowbotham, MD
Professor of Neurology, UCSF Department of Neurology
Director, UCSF Pain Clinical Research Center

Topic: "Opioids for Chronic Pain: Why, When, and How Much?"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer.

Andrew Ahn, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology and Anatomy
UCSF Neuroscience (Mechanisms of triptan action in migraine and pain)

Topic: "Migraine and Chronic Daily Headache"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer.

Karen J. Berkley, PhD
McKenzie and Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
The Florida State University

Topic: "Mechanisms of Pelvic Pain in Individuals: Lessons from and for the Clinic"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Pamela Pierce Palmer, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesia, UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Director, UCSF Pain Management Center

Topic: "Post-thoracotomy syndrome and other acute surgical pain management issues"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer

Gabor Maté, MD
Author, When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection

Topic: "When the Body Says No"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Cheryl Jay, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
UCSF Department of Neurology, San Francisco General Hospital

Topic: "Painful Neuropathies in HIV/AIDS"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Charles McNeill, DDS
Professor of Clinical Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Director-UCSF Center for Orofacial Pain

Patricia Rudd, PT
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Topic: "Challenges of Managing Orofacial Pain Including Dental Controversies"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor and Chair, Department of Physiological Nursing
UCSF School of Nursing

Topic: "Effective Approaches for the Management of Cancer Pain"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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James M. Wood, Partner
Reed Smith, LLP

Topic: "Over-prescribing vs. Not Prescribing Enough: Medical-Legal Aspects of Treating Pain Patients"
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Bradly Jacobs, MD, MPh
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Medicine
Director, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Topic: "Complementary and Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Back Pain"
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Michael Moskowitz, MD
Bay Area Pain Medical Associates

Topic: "Chronic Pain and Chronic Affective Disorder"
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Pamela Pierce Palmer, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Medical Director, UCSF Pain Management Center

Topic: "Referral to a Pain Center: Who, Why, and When?"
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Aimee C. Chagnon, MD
Director of Clinical Research and Teaching, UCSF Pain Management Center
Faculty Coordinator, UCSF Challenges of Managing Pain Symposium

Topic: "Challenges of Managing Pain"
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
For details, view the flyer