Section 1

Opening Remarks

Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
Dominic Hegarty, MD, PhD, FIPP
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS

Interventional Treatments for SI Joint Pain
Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP (USA)

SCS versus Surgery on Spine
Laszlo Entz, MD, FIPP (Hungary)

PILD
Sean Li, MD, FIPP (USA)

Low Back Pain: More Options Available to Improve the Outcome
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, FIPP (Germany)

CMS Data on Open Decompression vs. MILD for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Peter Staats, MD, FIPP (USA)

Roundtable Discussion
Peter Staats, Aaron Calodney, Laszlo Enzt, Sean Li, Ludger Gerdesmeyer

Development of Directional Radiofrequency and Outcomes of Percutaneous Lumbar Extraforaminotomy in Spinal Stenosis Syndrome
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP (Spain)

Motor Sparing Medial Branch Radiofrequency Treatment
Javier De Andres, MD, FIPP (Spain)

Peripheral Nerve and Field Stimulation
Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP (Turkey)

Is Spinal Cord Stimulation under Attack: A review of the Cochrane and Jama Positions?
Annu Navani, MD (USA)

Roundtable Discussion about Epidurolysis
Miles Day, Gabor B. Racz, Ludger Gerdesmeyer, Ira Fox

Lunch

Cadaver Workshops
Semmelweis University

Interdisciplinary Pain Management
Carl Noe, MD, FIPP (USA)

How to Prevent Complications of Interventional Pain Procedures
Giuliano Lo Bianco, MD, PhD, FIPP (Italy)

Most Frequent Complications of Percutaneous Invasive Tools used in Degenerative Vertebral Conditions according to Pathologies
Ovidiu Palea, MD, FIPP (Romania)

Autonomic Dysfunction in Non-Pain Indications
Peter Staats, MD, FIPP (USA)

Vertebrogenic Pain
Sudhir Diwan, MD, FIPP (USA)

Facial Pain (Craniofacial Pain Syndromes, TN)
Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP (Hungary)

Coffee break

Advances in Imaging for Diagnosis of Spinal Chronic Pain
Chih-Peng Lin, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Taiwan)

Real Anatomic Relations between the Classical Way to the Target and Potential Complications and the Role of New Techniques Combining US and Fluoro to Reduce its Potential Complications
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Argentina)

WIP Guidelines: Interventional Therapy and Neuromodulation for Intractable Headache
Miles Day, MD, FIPP (USA)

Project for the Curricula renewal for the Post-Doctoral Education of Interventional Pain
Monique Steegers, MD, FIPP (The Netherlands)

Osteoplasty
Doug Beall, MD, FIPP (USA)

The role of the Microbiome in the Pathogenesis of Diabetes Type 2 and related Neuropathy
Richard Schwab, MD (Hungary)

Lunch

Cadaver Workshops
Semmelweis University

SCS for Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome
Adnan Al-Kaisy, MD, FIPP (UK)

Combined SCS and DRG Stimulation
Fabricio Dias Assis, MD, FIPP (Brazil)

The DRG as a Pain Generator and What to do About It
Marshall Devor, PhD, FIPP (Hon) (Israel)

DRG for Nonspecific Low Back Pain
Kenneth Chapman, MD, FIPP (USA)

Updates about Neuroplasty
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP (USA)

Roundtable Discussion
Adnan Al-Kaisy, Marshall Devor, Kenneth Chapman, Fabricio Dias Assis

Coffee break

Sphenopalatine and Trigeminal Ganglion Block/RF
Javier De Andres, MD, FIPP (Spain)

Lumbar Discogram
Sean Li, MD, FIPP (USA)

Cervical Epidural Injections
Dominic Hegarty, MD, PhD, FIPP (Ireland)

Stellate and T2,3 Sympathectomy
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Hungary)

Lumbar Sympathetic and Hypogastric Plexus Block
Arun Bhaskar, MD, FIPP (UK)

Selective Nerve Root Blocks and Caudal Lysis of Adhesions
Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP (Turkey)

Lunch

Cadaver Workshops
Semmelweis University