Heeding the Call for Safe and Responsible Pain Management in Our Communities

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Faculty

Kevin Gebke, MD
Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
Kevin Gebke, MD

Dr. Kevin Gebke has served as Chair of the Department of Family Medicine within Indiana University School of Medicine for the past nine years, and as a school faculty member for 17 years. He also functions as the service line leader of Primary Care for IU Health Physicians. He has been awarded numerous teaching and leadership accolades over the course of his career. He has been active within the school serving on countless committees and providing oversight for ongoing curriculum development. Dr. Gebke is currently a member of the IU Health Physicians Board of Directors and the Board of IU Medical Group Foundation. Last year, Dr. Gebke was elected to the position of Secretary of the Council of Clinical Chairs. Service to the school, the discipline, and to his patients continues to be the motivating force that drives Dr. Gebke. He maintains a busy Family and Sports Medicine practice and remains involved in the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship that he directed for 14 years. LEAN process improvement and combatting physician burnout are two areas of focus for Dr. Gebke and the healthcare system as a whole.

Neil Skolnik, MD
Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University
Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health, Jenkintown, PA
Neil Skolnik, MD

Dr. Neil Skolnik, MD, is an academic family physician who sees patients and teaches residents and medical students in the family medicine residency program at Abington Jefferson Health in Abington, Pennsylvania. He is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and Associate Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Abington Jefferson Health. Dr. Skolnik graduated from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and completed his residency training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Skolnik has written and edited 5 books: On the Ledge: A Doctor’s Stories From the Inner City; Essential Practice Guidelines for Primary Care; Essential Infectious Disease Topics for Primary Care; Sexually Transmitted Diseases for Primary Care; and Electronic Medical Records: A Practical Guide for Primary Care. He served as series editor for fifteen years, overseeing the development of over twenty-five titles in the Humana Press Current Clinical Practice in Primary Care series of medical textbooks, and has published more than 300 articles, columns, poems, and essays in both the medical and lay literature on a diverse range of subjects including laboratory diagnosis, disease management, guideline-based medical care, handheld technology in medicine, electronic health records, and medical humanities. He serves on the Expert Panel Report 4 (EPR-4) Working Group, National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee, National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLBI), and is on the Primary Care Advisory Committee for the American Diabetes Association. Dr. Skolnik lectures nationally on a range of topics, with a special interest in diabetes, asthma, COPD, exercise in medicine, and coronary disease risk factor management. He produces “Diabetes Core Update,” the American Diabetes Association’s monthly podcast, reviewing the most important new articles to come out in core journals for practicing clinicians, and hosts the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Guideline Podcast series.

Steven P. Stanos, DO
Executive Medical Director, Rehabilitation and Performance Medicine
Swedish Pain Services, Swedish Health System, Seattle, WA
Steven P. Stanos, DO

Steven P. Stanos, DO currently serves as Executive Medical Director of Rehabilitation and Performance Medicine, Swedish Pain Services at the Swedish Health System in Seattle, Washington. Aside from directing pain management services for the hospital system, he also leads Swedish’s pain rehabilitation center, Functional Restoration, an integral part of the pain medicine continuum of care. In addition to his work with Swedish Health System, he is active with committees work at Providence St. Joseph Health related to the system integration of pain management including primary and specialty care. Prior to joining Swedish and Providence, he served as medical director of the Center for Pain Management at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) Northwestern University Medical School from 2002-2014, and served as an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and program-co chair of the multidisciplinary pain fellowship.

Dr. Stanos is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine by the American Board of Pain Medicine and by the American Board of Anesthesia.

Dr. Stanos is a Past President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pain Medicine. He served as a panel member on the Service Delivery and Reimbursement work group for the National Pain Strategy, an invited consultant to the CDC for the CDC Opioid Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, and as a work group member for Healthy People 2020 and Healthy People 2030. He is active with the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and has served as the co- chair of education for the Pain and Neuromuscular Council.

Dr. Stanos’s work also includes ongoing educational initiatives for primary care, pain medicine, and physical medicine specialists around the United States and abroad. Dr. Stanos has published numerous scientific articles and book chapters related to pain management. He has been involved in the development and publication of treatment guidelines related to rehabilitation approaches for chronic pain and low back pain conditions. He also serves on the editorial board for the journal Pain Medicine and as a reviewer for other pain and rehabilitation journals.

A Mayday Foundation Advocacy fellow in 2013, Dr. Stanos’s advocacy has continued to focus on increasing awareness and access for inter-disciplinary biopsychosocially-based pain care for patients suffering with chronic pain. In 2014, the University of Washington Department of Pain Medicine awarded Dr. Stanos with the John J. Bonica, MD lecture. He has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio, Fox News, regional print, and television news covering various topics related to pain medicine and pain rehabilitation.

Statement of Need

Misuse and abuse of opioids has become a serious public health concern, leading to the FDA approving a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) for opioids. REMS introduced new safety measures; however, there are still gaps in knowledge among health care professionals (HCPs) regarding acute and chronic pain pathways and the underlying mechanisms to clinical assessment and appropriate management of pain.

This CME Outfitters live and on demand webcast will focus on the FDA’s Opioid Analgesic REMS Education Blueprint for Health Care Providers Involved in the Treatment and Monitoring of Patients with Pain as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report Updates, Gaps, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations. Expert faculty will discuss the underlying mechanisms of acute and chronic pain pathways and how to utilize this knowledge to implement appropriate pain management strategies and educate patients about their pain, thus optimizing safe and effective, multimodal treatment plans.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this CME/CE activity, participants should be able to:

  • Apply knowledge of acute and chronic pain pathways and underlying mechanisms to clinical assessment and appropriate management of pain.
  • Upon evaluation of your current clinical workflow for opioid prescribing, incorporate two best practice strategies to optimize safe and competent prescribing and minimize potential for abuse and diversion.
  • Educate patients about their pain to optimize safe and effective, multimodal treatment plans.

The following learning objectives pertain only to those requesting CNE or CPE credit:

  • Explain the acute and chronic pain pathways and underlying mechanisms to clinic assessment and appropriate management of pain.
  • Identify two best practice strategies to optimize safe and effective, multimodal treatment plans.
  • Educate patients about their pain to optimize safe and effective, multimodal treatment plans.

Financial Support

This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from Opioid Analgesic REMS Program Companies. Please visit OpioidAnalgesicREMS.com for additional programs. This activity is intended to be fully compliant with the Opioid Analgesic REMS education requirements issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Target Audience

Physicians, dentists, PAs, NPs, nurses, and pharmacists.

Credit Information

Physicians (ACCME) 1.0

CME Outfitters, LLC, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pharmacists/Pharmacy Tech (ACPE) 1.0

This application-based activity is approved for 1.0 contact hour (0.10 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy credit.

ABIM MOC 1.0

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MIPS Improvement Activity

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Royal College MOC

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Disclosure Declaration

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Dr. Stanos reports that he is a consultant for Pfizer Inc.; Salix Pharmaceuticals; Sanofi; and SCILEX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.


Dr. Gebke has no disclosures to report.


Dr. Skolnik has no disclosures to report.


Dr. Helfand (peer reviewer) has no disclosures to report.

Mae Ochoa, RPh (peer reviewer) has no disclosures to report.

Evan Luberger (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.

Jan Perez (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.

Sharon Tordoff (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.

Disclosures were obtained from the CME Outfitters, LLC staff: No disclosures to report.

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NOTE: Pharmacist CE Universal Activity Number, Enduring: 0376-0000-20-011-H01-P.

 

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Heeding the Call for Safe and Responsible Pain Management in Our Communities
Event Date: 03/25/2020