Cleveland Clinic 24th Annual Pain Management Symposium 2025

1. Percutaneous Cervical Spine Procedures: Guidelines, Technical Aspects and Safety — Richard W. Rosenquist, MD

2. Guidelines for Use of Corticosteroids for Chronic Pain Interventions — David A. Provenzano, MD

3. Persistent Pain After Joint Replacement Surgery — Kevin Vorenkamp, MD

4. Infection Control Guidelines for Chronic Pain Procedures — David A. Provenzano, MD

5. ACDF vs. ACDA: What’s the Evidence? — William Clifton, MD

6. Artificial Intelligence and Pain Treatment — Maxim Eckmann, MD

7. Closed Loop Spinal Cord Stimulation — Nagy A. Mekhail, MD, PhD

1. Private Equity and Pain Practice: Challenges, Opportunities and Threats — Damean Freas, DO

2. Optimizing Documentation to Ease Pre-Authorization — Kevin Vorenkamp, MD

3. Advocacy in Pain Medicine: At the Table or On the Menu — Richard W. Rosenquist, MD

4. Unethical Behavior as Encountered by the State Medical Board — Damean Freas, DO

1. Interspinous Spacers — Salim Hayek, MD, PhD

2. Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion — Sherif Costandi, MD

3. Percutaneous Thermal Radiofrequency Ablation of Spinal Metastases — Sherif Costandi, MD

4. Intradiscal Biologics for the Treatment of Chronic Discogenic Low Back Pain — Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD

5. Nav 1.8 Inhibitors — Christy L. Hunt, DO

6. Basivertebral Nerve Ablation — Maxim Eckmann, MD

1. High Frequency — David A. Provenzano, MD

2. Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation — Christy L. Hunt, DO

3. Long Term Outcomes of Closed Loop Spinal Cord Stimulation — Nagy A. Mekhail, MD, PhD

4. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation, Patient Selection, Technique and Pitfalls — Yashar Eshraghi, MD

5. Intrathecal Drug Delivery — Salim Hayek, MD, PhD

6. Neuromodulation: Peripheral Stimulation for Low Back Pain — Maxim Eckmann, MD

7. High Frequency Bioelectric Nerve Block — Sherif Costandi, MD

1. Matching the Diagnosis and the Technique/Device for the Best Patient Outcome – A Case Discussion with the Experts — Moderator: Sherif Costandi, MD + Multiple Faculty Panelists

1. Evidence Based Approach to Infectious Complications of Neuromodulation Procedures — Salim Hayek, MD, PhD

2. Navigating Difficult Patient Interactions in Patients With Chronic Pain — Jessica Hill, CNP

3. Evaluating the Patient With Sacroiliac Joint Pain — Alisa Freas, PA-C

4. Topical Capsaicin — Christy Hunt, DO

1. Platelet Rich Plasma — Yashar Eshraghi, MD

2. Stem Cells — Kevin Vorenkamp, MD

3. Regulatory Considerations in Regenerative Medicine — Yashar Eshraghi, MD

1. Vertebrogenic and Discogenic Pain — Sherif Costandi, MD

2. Pseudoarthrosis — Maxim Eckmann, MD

3. Keeping it Bipedal: Biomechanics of Sagittal and Coronal Balance — William Clifton, MD

1. Optimizing Interventional Therapy Referrals — Alisa Freas, PA-C

2. Low Dose Naltrexone for Pain Management — Jessica Hill, CNP

3. Optimum and Appropriate Use of Urine Drug Screening in Clinical Practice — Damean Freas, DO

4. Setting Patient Expectations for Interventional Procedures — Alisa Freas, PA-C

1. Pain in CRPS — Salim Hayek, MD, PhD

2. Thoracic Outlet Syndrome — Sherif Costandi, MD

3. Pain in the Geriatric Population — Jessica Hill, CNP

1. Chronic Pain Management in Opioid Misuse Disorders — Sherif Costandi, MD

2. Acute Pain Management in the Chronic Marijuana User — Sree Kolli, MD

3. Marijuana: Between Fantasies and Realities — Sherif Costandi, MD

4. Current Opioid Landscape and CDC Prescribing Guidelines — Yashar Eshraghi, MD