UCSF 15th Annual Pediatric Pain Master Class 2025

1. Welcome, Announcements & Introductions – Karen Sun, MD & Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD

2. Does prescribing opioids to children in acute pain increase the risk of substance use disorder in adulthood? – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

3. Integrative Medicine in the Treatment of Pain and Distressing Symptoms in Children – Jenifer Matthews, MD; Anna Hoffman, MSN, RN, FNP-C

4. Responding to Non-Medical Opioid Use in Children and Teenagers – Lucien Gonzalez, MD, MS, FAAP

5. The Global Comfort Promise: Prevention of Pain and Anxiety from Needle Procedures in Children with Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries – Michael McNeil, MD, MPH

6. Multimodal Analgesia Workshop: Advanced pediatric pain treatment and prevention – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

1. Treating Neuropathic Pain in Children: From graded motor imagery to adjuvant analgesics – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

2. Pain, Sex, and Death – Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC

3. Buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorder: An introduction – Lucien Gonzalez, MD, MS, FAAP

4. Massage Therapy in Pediatric Pain & Symptom Management – Carolyn Tague, MA, CMT

5. Pain Treatment in Neonates and Infants – Brian Carter, MD

6. Know Pain and Know Gain: Pain neurophysiology education – Michael Sangster, BScPT, MBA, DPT

7. Opioid Selection in the Pediatric Population (Part I) – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

1. The Comfort Promise: Preventing Pain and Anxiety Caused by Needle (and Other Painful) Procedures – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

2. The Comfort Promise: Utilizing quality improvement methodology to bring evidence to the bedside – Barbette Murphy, MSN, RN, CPNP; Kristen Beckler, M.Ed, CTRS, CCLS

3. How to Start a Movement: Innovative Physical Therapy Approaches for the Patient with Pain – Michael Sangster, BScPT, MBA, DPT

4. 10-minute Experiential “Qigong” – Robyn Adcock, DACM, L.Ac

5. Mistakes Were Made: How to fix pain research (and treatment) – Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC

6. How to Implement RN-Administered Nitrous Oxide Sedation into Clinical Practice – Mindy Brice, RN-BSN, CLC, CPN

7. Cannabis and Cannabinoids for Pain Treatment in Pediatrics: Safe and effective? – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

8. Acutherapy and East Asian Medicine in Pediatric Analgesia – Robyn Adcock, DACM, L.Ac; Karen Villanueva, DAIM, LAc, Dipl. OM, RN, FAIHM

1. The Neurobiology of Pain Generation and its Control – Allan Basbaum, PhD

2. Opioid Selection in the Pediatric Population. Part II: Full µ-opioid agonists – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

3. Back to the Future? Where did we come from, where do we go to in pain medicine? Looking into the crystal ball – Allan Basbaum, PhD

4. Meditation Experiential: From focusing, wandering or clearing your mind – Jennifer Smorgon, PsyD

5. 10-minute Experiential “Soothing Color Muscle Relaxation” – Anna Hoffman, MSN, RN, FNP-C

6. Psychotherapy for Kids in Pain: From Skills-based training to CBT and ACT – Cristina Benki, PhD; Colleen Cullinan, PhD; Mary-Jayne Sims, PhD

7. Opioid-Rotation in Infants & Children: The complete crux of the incomplete cross-tolerance – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD

8. Regional anesthesia modalities to treat and prevent pain in children – Jocelyn Wong, MD

1. Welcome, Announcements, Reflection, Teach-Back – Judie Boehmer, MN, RN, NEA-BC, FABC

2. Primary Pain Disorders: Chronic pain in head, abdomen, muscles, and joints – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

3. 10-minute Experiential “Biofeedback” – Anna Hoffman, MSN, RN, FNP-C

4. Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation: Treating Pain by Restoring Function – Will Bernal, MD & Neha Seth, PT, MSBKN

5. Beyond Nitrous Gas: Pediatric sedation & anxiolysis for painful procedures – Karen Sun, MD & Robin Alley, RN

6. Hypnosis and Hypnotic Language to Treat and Prevent Pain and Anxiety in Pediatric Patients – Leora Kuttner, PhD

1. Software problems unrelated to a hardware problem? The “Broken Smoke Detector” and other analogies explaining chronic pain to kids and their parents – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

2. The Magic Glove: A versatile hypnotic technique – Leora Kuttner, PhD

3. Pain – nothing but a memory? – Melanie Noel, PhD

4. Chronic intractable pain and irritability in children with neurological impairment – Julie Hauer, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM

5. 10-minute Experiential “Ear Seeds” – Robyn Adcock, DACM, L.Ac and Anna Hoffman, MSN, RN, FNP-C

6. Drowning in Sea of Pain: Advances in the Management of Pain in Sickle Cell Disease – Bill Zempsky, MD, MPH

7. Bias and Pediatric Pain Care – Marsha Treadwell, PhD

8. Intractable Pain and Suffering in Children with Advanced Diseases – Justin N. Baker, MD

1. Welcome, Announcements, Reflection, Teach-Back – Stephen Wilson, MD

2. 10-minute Experiential “Active Progressive Muscle Relaxation” – Anna Hoffman, MSN, RN, FNP-C

3. Methadone in Pediatrics: Taming of the shrew – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

4. How to grow your pain program (Part 1 & 2) – Stephen Wilson, MD & Bill Zempsky, MD, MPH

5. Rare things are rare… and difficult to treat? From Erythromelalgia to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease – Addressing pain in rare diseases – Bill Zempsky, MD, MPH

6. Is it Pain, Withdrawal, and/or Delirium…? Assessment and Treatment of Pain Behavior in Infants, Toddlers and Children on an Intensive Care Unit – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

7. It’s all in our bodies AND heads: Addressing mental health in children with pain – Melanie Noel, PhD

8. Long COVID, dysautonomia and chronic fatigue in patients with primary pain disorders – William Bernal, MD

9. Called to Arms: The adventure of pediatric pain management & next steps – Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP