This is the Portal for Pain Society of the Carolinas Faculty registration including your hotel sleeping room needs.

You can use this link to register as faculty only one time per presenter. 

There is no fee to register.  PSOC provides faculty with full meeting registration and complimentary 2023-24 society membership.  

The Society provides up to 2 nights hotel at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Greenville, South Carolina.  Please complete the dates needed and add a "ticket" for each night that you wish to stay at the hotel. Any additional nights over the 2 nights complimentary will be payable by you including late cancellation fees.  

PRELIMINARY AGENDA - June 18, 2023

Pre-Conference Board Meeting: Thursday, September 14, 2023

Day One:  Friday, September 15, 2023

Registration Opens at 7:00 AM

Exhibition Opens at 9:30 AM

Session One – Update on Medicine - Moderator Christopher Gilmore MD

7:55 AM  Welcome and Opening Remarks – Todd Warrick MD, President

8:00 – 8:30 AM – New Guidelines for Urine Drug Screening – Binit Shah MD

8:30 -9:15 AM – NC, SC and Federal Prescribing Guidelines including the new MATE Act – Lawrence Kobak DPM Esq., PSOC General Counsel

9:15 – 9:45 AM -  Case Studies: Depression, Pain and Opiates – Steve Prakken MD

9:45-10:15 AM - Pain Advocacy and Awareness – Stephanie G. Vanterpool MD MBA

10:15-10:45  - Networking Break with Exhibitors

Session Two – Pediatric Pain

10:45-11:15  AM              Acute and Perioperative Pediatric Pain – Doug Ririe MD

11:15-11:45 AM                Interventional Treatment for Pediatric Pain – Blake Windsor MD

11:45-12:15 AM                Teens Between Pediatric and Adult Pain – Maryam Jowza MD

12:15 -1:15 PM                 Corporate Member Showcase with Platinum Corporate Member Salix – Taking a Targeted Approach to Treating Opioid Induced Constipation (OIC) with Richard Rauck MD  (Lunch Provided by the Society/ No CME Provided)

Session Three – Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session One – Interventional Therapies and Techniques to Manage Pain 

Moderator: Scott Runyon MD

1:15 -1:45 PM                    A Survey of Minimally Invasive Spine Therapies – Matthew Mauck MD

1:45-2:15 PM                     A Survey of Advances in Spinal Cord Stimulation – Richard Rauck MD

2:15 – 2:45 PM                  Update on Consensus Guidelines for Treatment of Lumbar and Cervical Facets,        SI Injections and RF – Brooke Chidgey MD

2:45 – 3:15 PM                  Update on Basivertebral Nerve Ablation – Todd Warrick MD

3:15 – 3:45 PM                  Networking Break with Exhibitors

3:45 – 4:15 PM                  Noninvasive Transcutaneous Axonnal Therapy for Focal Neuropathic Pain – Leonardo Kapural MD PhD

4:15-4:45 PM                     Novel Applications for Stellate Ganglion Blocks – Brooke Chidgey MD and Deb McCutcheon MD

4:45-5:30 PM                     Coding and Billing for Interventions – Amy Turner RN, BSN, MMHC, CPC, CHC,

OR Parallel Session – Non-Interventional Pain for the Physician and Advanced Practice Clinician Moderator:  Amanda Zimmerman PA-C

1:15 -1:35 PM                    Practice Protocols for Initiating Pain Patients Care – Scott Clingan PA-C

1:35 – 1:55 PM                  Interventional Referrals – How to and Who to – Christine Zdeb  NP

1:55-2:15 PM                     Empathy in Pain Practice – Amanda Zimmerman PA-C

2:15 – 2:35 PM                  Care for the Uninsured or Underinsured – Joan Priddy Southern NP

2:35-2:55 PM                     Substance Abuse in Chronic Pain – Steven Prakken MD

2:55-3:15 PM                     New Stimulation Paradigms and How Does it Apply to My Practice – Christopher Gilmore MD

3:15 – 3:45 PM                  Networking Break with Exhibitors

3:45-4:05 PM                     Neurofeedback and its Affects on Pain – Joan Priddy-Southern NP

4:15-4:45 PM                     TBD – David Lindsay MD

4:45-5:30 PM                     Case Studies

5:30 – 6:00 PM                  Annual Trainee Poster Competition on the Main Stage Moderator: Scott Clingan PA-C

6:00 – 7:00 PM                  Networking Reception with Exhibitors

7:00 – 9:00 PM                  Gold Corporate Member Showcase with Medtronic (RSVP required, Seating Limited, No CME Provided, CMS Reportable)

Day Two:  Saturday, September 16, 2023

Registration Opens at 7:00 AM

Exhibition Opens at 9:00 AM

7:30 –8:30 AM                  Gold Corporate Member Showcase with Collegium Pharmaceuticals (Breakfast provided by the Society, no CME Provided, CMS reportable)

Session Four – Ketamine and Buprenorphine for Pain – Moderator:  Brooke Chidgey MD

8:30 – 9:00 AM                Treating Overlapping Pain and Depression with Ketamine – Bobby Wunnava MD

9:00- 9:30 AM                   Use of Ketamine in the Inpatient Setting – James North MD  

9:30 -10:00 AM                 Trigeminal Blocks, Facial Pain and Ketamine – Leonardo Kapural MD PhD

10:00 -10:30 AM                Update on Buprenorphine and Pain -Irina Philips MD

10:30 -11:00 AM              Networking Break with Exhibitors

Session Five – The Great Debates   Moderator:  Ed Delorey MD

11:00-11:30 AM                Neurostimulation vs Ablation for Chronic Low Back Pain – Christopher Gilmore MD and Gabe Hillegass MD

11:30 -12:00 PM               Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery- Cheerag Uphadhyaya NSG and James North MD            

12:00 -12:15 PM               Annual Business Meeting of the Membership

12:15-1:15 PM                  Platinum Corporate Member Showcase with Legally Mine (lunch provided by the society.  CME provided by Legally Mine)

1:15 –1:45 PM                   JAMES CREWS MEMORIAL LECTURE

Session Six -NEW THIS YEAR!  Hot Topics Flash Talks (10 minutes each)

1:45                        Health Inequities and Implicit Bias in Pain – Meron Selassi MD

1:55                        Post Covid Neuropathies – Gabe Hillegass MD

2:05                        Impact of Lifestyle Habits – Amanda Zimmerman PA-C

2:15                        Sexual Health and Chronic Pain – Richard Rauck MD

2:25                        Kratom, Delta8 and Kava – Ed Delorey MD

2:35                        Rates of Addiction in the Pain Population – Irina Philips MD

Session Seven – Cancer Pain – Moderator:

2:45 – 3:15 – Cancer-related Pain – Carrie Johnson MD PhD

3:15-3:45 pm - Cancer-related Interventions: Kypho and RF for Metastatic Disease –Thomas Hopkins MD

3:45-4:15 PM   Networking Break with Exhibitors  (Exhibits close at 4:00 pm)

Session Eight – Geriatric Pain – Moderator:

4:15 -4:4 5 PM   Medicines for your Geriatric Patient – Richard Boortz-Marx MD MS

4:45-5:15 PM     Pain Treatment Plans – Evolving with Age – Scott Runyon MD

5:15 -5:45 PM    Pain Management’s Role at End of Life – Jen McEntee MD

5:45  PM              Demystify Longevity Medicine- Work Smarter not Harder on your Own and your Patients’ Perpetual Youth – Dawn Sparks MD

6:00 PM – President’s Reception (Invitation Only)

7:00 -9:00 PM  - Gold Corporate Member Showcase with Saluda ((RSVP required, Seating Limited, No CME Provided, CMS Reportable)

Day Three: Sunday, September 17, 2023

Registration Opens at 7:30 AM

Session Nine – Law School for Physicians and HCPs – Moderator: Todd Warrick MD

8:00 -8:30 AM   Certificate Of Need in the Carolinas – Christopher Grubb MD

8:30-9:00 AM      Legal Topic One – Scott Grubman Esq.

9:00-9:30 AM    Fighting the Feds – Ronald  Chapman II, Esq.

9:30-10:00 AM  Litigation Proofing your Practice – Matthew Massey Esq.

10:00 – 10:30 AM – The updated DEA Pratitioners Manual – What you Need to Know – Carlos Aquino DEA Ret.

10:30 AM  Closing Remarks and Thank-You – Brooke Chidgey MD, President 2023-2025