PAINWeek is the national pain conference for frontline clinicians.
The collective goal and vision of PAINWeek is to disseminate knowledge and tools to frontline clinicians who are faced with treating the majority of patients in pain. PAINWeek is the only national pain conference that has been developed to meet the educational needs of physicians, nursing professionals, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, psychologists, and podiatrists.
PAINWeek offers a diverse curriculum and multidisciplinary faculty who will present courses in the following areas: addiction, complementary & alternative medicine, geriatrics, health coaching, hypnosis, medical/legal, narcoterrorism, neurology, pain & chemical dependency, palliative care, pediatrics, pharmacology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, primary care, regional pain syndromes, and rheumatology.
100+ hours of continuing medical education will be presented by experts from 12 medical and patient advocacy organizations. There is only one national pain conference for frontline clinicians—and it is PAINWeek!
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PAINWeek Welcomes Melanie Thernstrom as 2010 Keynote Speaker
PAINWeek® is excited to welcome Melanie Thernstrom as Keynote Speaker for this year’s conference. As a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Ms. Thernstrom has examined issues surrounding the management of chronic pain. She has also written for Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Food and Wine, Travel+Leisure, Elle, and other publications.
Her third book, The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering, has just been released this month. She lives with her husband and baby twins, Violet and Kieran, near Portland, Oregon and in New York City.
Ms. Thernstrom will deliver the PAINWeek Keynote Address on Wednesday, September 8, at 6PM in the Charleston Ballroom. A welcome reception will follow the address.