Event Description
6:00 p.m. Reception/Registration
6:30 p.m. Lecture
7:30 p.m. Dinner
Topic
When Pain Is Real, But Opioids Are Contraindicated: Pediatric
Primary Pain Disorders in Head, Abdomen, Muscles and Joints
Guest Speaker
Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, medical director, Department of Pain
Medicine, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota; associate professor of pediatrics, University of Minnesota
Learning Objectives
- Explore how primary headaches, centrally mediated abdominal pain syndromes, and chronic
musculoskeletal pain are considered to be symptoms of the same underlying pain vulnerability.
- Describe successful interdisciplinary approaches in managing primary pain disorders in children using
a rehabilitative pediatric pain approach.
- Discuss the low importance of pharmacotherapy to effectively treat chronic pain in children.
Target Audience
Physicians, pediatricians, family and general practioners, and nurse practitioners
Continuing Medical Education Credits
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the
accreditation requirements and policies of the PA Medical Society through joint providership of St. Christopher’s
Hospital for Children and Holy Redeemer Hospital. St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children is accredited by the
Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Christopher’s Hospital for
Children designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only
the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure
Speakers and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing medical education
activities sponsored by St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do
or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their
presentation(s).
All planners, moderators and speaker have nothing to disclose for this live event.
Additional Information
There is no fee for the lecture or dinner event, but online pre-registration is required.
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