UCSF Medical Center - Pain Management Center

In response to the growing need for healthcare practitioners to be well trained in pain assessment and management, UCSF’s respected Challenges of Managing Pain Symposia (ChaMPS), are being made available to healthcare providers in an online format for CME/CE credit and non CME/CE credit.

Migraine (Date of Original Live Presentation: Thursday, June 5, 2008)
Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD, DSc
Professor, UCSF Department of Neurology
Director, UCSF Headache Center

Pain in the Elderly (Date of Original Live Presentation: Thursday, December 6, 2007)
Daniel R. Pound, MD
Professor, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine
Director, UCSF Lakeside Senior Medical Center

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD): Medical and Physical Therapy Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment (Date of Original Live Presentation: Thursday, September 20, 2007)
Pamela Pierce Palmer, MD, PhD
Professor, UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Director, UCSF PainCARE *
Faculty Director, UCSF Challenges of Managing Pain Symposia
Faculty Director, UCSF Postgraduate Certificate in Pain Management–Online Program

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

UCSF CHALLENGES OF MANAGING PAIN SERIES (ChaMPS) – ONLINE
UCSF CME COURSE #: MED11005
CME/CE Information

Presented by the Mount Zion Campus Committee and UCSF PainCARE * in collaboration with the UCSF Fresno Office of Continuing Medical Education.

Program Series Title
UCSF Challenges of Managing Pain Symposia (ChaMPS)

Target Audience
Primary Audience: Physicians and nurses (all medical specialties and subspecialties with emphasis on primary care, surgery, women’s health, anesthesiology, pain management, cancer/oncology, emergency medicine, geriatrics, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, neurology, oral/maxillofacial surgery, psychiatry, surgery, veterans care). Secondary Audience: Pharmacists, psychologists, physical therapists.

Objectives
The topics for each ChaMPS presentation address the wide spectrum of issues associated with the field of pain management and the diverse medical disciplines often involved in treating patients with acute and/or chronic pain. At the completion of each of these individual educational activities, participants should be better able to respond to the following standards for pain management as outlined by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO):

Furthermore, planners hope that these programs will help participants better understand when to refer patients to physicians at specialty acute/chronic pain centers and when not, enabling practitioners to better identify and manage those patients with pain who can be treated in “front line” settings while also ensuring that patients with the most serious pain conditions are seen more quickly by highly trained pain management practitioners who are most able to handle their unique diagnostic and treatment needs. Additional topic-specific session objectives will be shown on the opening slides presented at the beginning of each individual program video.

Anticipated Educational Outcomes
Planners anticipate that participants, after completion of this activity, will:

Date of Release, Expiration Date, Cost, and Time Required to Complete This Activity
Date of Release: October 1, 2007
Expiration Date: September 14, 2010
Cost: Free (a public service provided by the Mount Zion Campus Committee and UCSF PainCARE)

Time Required to Complete the Activity: 1 hour for each individual ChaMPS session (3 hours total for the series)

CME/CE Credit
The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

CME is accepted by the California Board of Psychology for psychologists. Psychologists are responsible for reporting their own activities to the California Psychological Association Accrediting Agency.

How to Obtain CME/CE Credit
In order to receive CME/CE credit for the online version of ChaMPS, the participant must submit a registration form to UCSF PainCARE by one of the following methods:

Upon receipt of the registration form, UCSF PainCARE will then provide the participant with a URL and log-in information, along with a post-test and activity evaluation form for each ChaMPS program. The participant then views the individual CME/CE presentation and slides, completes the post-test and evaluation forms for the activity he/she has finished viewing, and returns these forms to UCSF PainCARE within 7-10 days after viewing the program via one of the methods shown above (e-mail or U.S. mail).

UCSF PainCARE scores the post-tests and evaluations, and tracks students’ participation. (Evaluations are tracked separately to permit participants to respond anonymously if they so choose.) Letters of credit stating the amount of credit earned are sent annually to each student in July following the close of the academic year.

Note: Incomplete or illegible forms will not be processed for credit. Students only receive credit for the sessions in which they have participated, only for viewing each session once, and only if they submit legible, complete paperwork (separate registration and post-test forms for each session for which they are requesting credit). For example:

Planning Committee
Jeffrey M. Pearl, MD
Associate Dean, UCSF School of Medicine
Vice Chair, UCSF Department of Surgery
Associate Chief Medical Officer, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion
Sponsor, UCSF Challenges of Managing Pain Symposia (ChaMPS)

Pamela Pierce Palmer, MD, PhD
Professor, UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Director, UCSF PainCARE *
Faculty Director, UCSF Challenges of Managing Pain Symposia
Faculty Director, UCSF Postgraduate Certificate in Pain Management–Online Program

Carrie Woong Louie
Analyst to the Dean, UCSF School of Medicine and to the Director, UCSF Mount Zion Medical Center
Grand Rounds Coordinator, UCSF Challenges of Managing Pain Symposia (ChaMPS)

Laurie E. Snyder
Manager, UCSF PainCARE – Center for Advanced Research and Education
Program Administrator, UCSF Postgraduate Certificate in Pain Management–Online Program

Faculty
September 20, 2007 – Complex Regional Pain Syndrome:
Pamela Pierce Palmer, MD, PhD
Professor, UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Director, UCSF PainCARE *
Faculty Director, UCSF Challenges of Managing Pain Symposia
Faculty Director, UCSF Postgraduate Certificate in Pain Management–Online Program

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

December 6, 2007:
Daniel R. Pound, MD
Professor, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine
Director, UCSF Lakeside Senior Medical Center

June 5, 2008:
Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD, DSc
Professor, UCSF Department of Neurology
Director, UCSF Headache Center

Faculty Disclosures
All conflicts of interest have been resolved in accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Commercial Support.

Planning Committee: Dr. Jeffrey Pearl, Dr. Pamela Palmer, Carrie Louie, and Laurie Snyder disclosed that neither they nor their immediate families had relationships with the manufacturers of any commercial products that were discussed in these activities.

September 20, 2007 – Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Drs. Palmer and Zampach disclosed that neither they nor their immediate families had relationships with the manufacturers of any commercial products that were discussed in this activity.

December 6, 2007 – Pain in the Elderly: Dr. Pound disclosed that neither he nor his immediate family had relationships with the manufacturers of any commercial products that were discussed in this activity.

June 5, 2008 – Migraine 2008: Dr. Goadsby disclosed the following relationships: Almirall (lecture); Allergan, Advanced Bionics, Medtronic (research support-clinical trial); and Colucid, Glaxo Smith Kline, Minster, MSD (Advisory Board).

Investigational/Off-Label Uses Notice
Members of the ChaMPS Planning Committee and faculty advised participants verbally if products or procedures discussed were investigational or off-label.

Commercial Support
This CME activity was supported in part by educational grants from the Mount Zion Health Fund. Individual live ChaMPS programs supported by additional grants were:

December 6, 2007 – Pain in the Elderly: Élan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company.
September 20, 2007 – Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Élan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Educational Design, Media Used, and Method of Student Participation
Each ChaMPS activity was presented live in Herbst Hall at the UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, and was also teleconferenced live to multiple healthcare facilities. Additionally, each program was videotaped. The unedited videos and slides are now made available online via streaming video to healthcare providers by invitation of the ChaMPS Planning Committee through September 14, 2010.

System Requirements
In order to view the online versions of each presentation, your computer must have the media player Quicktime installed.

About Us and CME Contact Information
PainCARE, the Center for Advanced Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, was launched in 2004 with the help of a challenge grant from The Mayday Fund to expand upon the UCSF Pain Management Center’s nearly 20 years of caring for patients with the worst of the worst types of pain. UCSF PainCARE was created to go beyond the concept of the traditional treatment or resource center by integrating the Pain Management Center’s state-of-the-art clinical care services at the UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion with training and leadership development programs for healthcare professionals, patient education activities, basic and clinical research, and community, government, and media outreach efforts to foster true collaboration, locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally between patients, their families and other caregivers, researchers, policymakers, and the diverse range of healthcare providers inside and outside of UCSF involved in assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with acute or chronic pain.

UCSF PainCARE’s mission is to be a true center of excellence in pain medicine. By contributing to the overall body of research, an active program of educating professionals and lay people alike, and by providing unsurpassed patient care, we shall join with other policymakers to speak for those who are unable to speak for themselves, and change the face of pain from one of suffering to one of hope.

* UCSF PainCARE is supported in part by a challenge grant from The Mayday Fund. UCSF PainCARE and the UCSF Pain Management Center were jointly named as a 2007 Clinical Center of Excellence by the American Pain Society, the first organizations west of the Mississippi to receive this honor. This designation was awarded in recognition of PainCARE’s success in expanding educational opportunities for healthcare providers worldwide, as well as the for the outstanding level of care delivered by UCSF’s Pain Management Center.

For any questions regarding this Internet CME activity, please contact UCSF PainCARE at: (415) 885-7272.

Faculty indicated they obtained relevant permissions and used appropriate references for copyrighted materials in their lectures and/or that lecture materials fell within Fair Use Guidelines.

UCSF Best of ChaMPS (Challenges of Managing Pain Series) - Online (Non CME/CE Programs)

Neuropathic Pain: Basic Science and Clinical Treatment (Date of Original Live Presentation: December 7, 2006)
Pamela Pierce Palmer, MD, PhD, Professor, UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care; Director, UCSF PainCARE *; Faculty Director, UCSF Challenges of Managing Pain Symposia;
Faculty Director, UCSF Postgraduate Certificate in Pain Management–Online Program

Cannabinoids in Pain and Palliative Care (Date of Original Live Presentation: March 1, 2007)
Donald I. Abrams, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF Department of Medicine; Chief of Hematology/Oncology, San Francisco General Hospital; and Director of Clinical Programs, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

See CME/CE information above for Target Audience, Objectives and Planning Committee List.

How to Register
Although the Best of ChaMPS programs are no longer available for CME/CE credit, these programs can provide invaluable educational information to healthcare providers on a range of pain conditions. (Best of ChaMPS programs have been selected for this series because they were the programs that received the highest evaluation scores from our ChaMPS audiences from 2003-06.) We ask that you complete and submit the Best of ChaMPS registration form to UCSF PainCARE to help us analyze which programs are of greatest interest to healthcare providers locally, regionally, and worldwide. Return your completed registration form to UCSF PainCARE via one of the following methods:

Faculty Disclosures
All conflicts of interest were resolved in accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Commercial Support.

Planning Committee: Drs. Pearl and Palmer, Carrie Louie, and Laurie Snyder disclosed that neither they nor their immediate families had relationships with manufacturers of commercial products that were discussed.

Faculty: Dr. Palmer (12/7/06 – Neuropathic Pain) and Dr. Abrams (3/1/07: Cannabinoids in Pain) disclosed that neither they nor their immediate families had relationships with manufacturers of commercial products that were discussed. ChaMPS planners/faculty advised participants verbally when products or procedures discussed were investigational or off-label. Faculty indicated they obtained relevant permissions and used appropriate references for copyrighted materials in their lectures and/or that lecture materials fell within Fair Use Guidelines.

Commercial Support
This activity is supported in part by educational grants from the Mount Zion Health Fund. Live ChaMPS programs were supported by the following additional grants: Endo Pharmaceuticals (9/7/06; 12/7/06; and 3/1/07); Élan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (12/7/06 and 3/1/07), Cephalon, (12/7/06), and Eli Lilly and Company (12/7/06).