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TO HEALTH, AND MEDICAL EDITORS:
PAINWeekEnd Houston: A Day of Pain Management CME You'll Use All Year!
HOUSTON, April 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- There are 116 million people in
pain. There are 4,000 pain specialists. That's 29,000 patients per
pain specialist. There are simply not enough pain specialists to go
around.
What can frontline practitioners do to meet the challenges of this
growing public health issue? Attend PAINWeekEnd Houston!
The 2014 PAINWeekEnd Regional Conference convenes on Saturday, May 10,
in Houston at the Marriott Houston Westchase. Now entering its 4th
year, PAINWeekEnd Regional Conference series offers a concentrated day
of continuing education in pain management designed expressly for
frontline practitioners.
Currently, the state of Texas mandates up to 10 credits in pain
management as a component of the annual requirement for licensure
reregistration. PAINWeekEnd attendees can receive 6.0 AMA PRA Category
1 CreditsT as they enhance their capabilities in the assessment,
diagnosis, and management of chronic pain conditions. Course topics
include the fundamentals of pain and addiction; opioid conversions;
opioid-induced hyperalgesia; and special considerations for methadone
therapy. Attendees will also learn critically important skills in
documentation and lab testing that are essential to navigating today's
legal-regulatory environment for prescribers.
Commenting on the PAINWeekEnd Series, Debra Weiner, Aventine Managing
Partner and Director of Program Development noted, "The dual public
health crises of inadequate pain management and the challenges of
balancing access to medication with responsible prescribing continue
to be felt by primary care practices and their patients. The imbalance
between the number of patients with pain and the number of available
pain specialists is familiar to us all, and these PAINWeekEnd
Conferences are a cost- and time-effective way for primary care
clinicians to augment their skills in this critical arena."
The Prescription Access in Texas (PAT) program, administered by the
Texas Department of Public Safety, was opened online to prescribers,
pharmacists, and law enforcement in mid-2012. Commenting on this
enhancement to prescription drug monitoring in the state, Larry
Driver, MD, President-elect of the Texas Pain Society noted,
"PAINWeekEnd Houston provides frontline clinicians an excellent
opportunity to upgrade their pain management skills, and to learn how
to make full use of the PAT program for the benefit and safety of
their patients."
PAINWeekEnd Houston will be held on Saturday, May 10, at the Marriott
Houston Westchase, on 2900 Briarpark Drive.
The PAINWeekEnd curriculum is presented by a multidisciplinary
faculty, and is intended for frontline clinicians including
physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and
pharmacists. In addition, there will be commercially supported
activities, both certified and noncertified, addressing a range of
product, disease state, and medical information topics.
The online registration fee for PAINWeekEnd Conferences is $99.
PAINWeekEnd registrants are further offered the opportunity to
register for the PAINWeek National Conference, September 3-6, in Las
Vegas for $99 off of the current online published price. Groups of 5
or more PAINWeekEnd registrants also receive one FREE registration to
the PAINWeek National Conference.
To learn more about this or any other PAINWeekEnd Regional Conference
(in Columbus, Santa Clara, Tarrytown, and Chicago), review the
complete Houston agenda, and register online (at a savings of $25 over
the onsite registration fee), visit http://www.painweekend.org.
PAINWeekEnd is sponsored by Global Education Group and produced by
Aventine Co., developers of PAINWeek@-the nation's largest annual
conference on pain management.
SOURCE Aventine Co.
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/CONTACT: Debra Weiner, 973-233-4459, dw@aventineco.com
/Web Site: http://www.painweekend.org
CO: Aventine Co.; PAINWeekEnd Houston
ST: Texas
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