Expert Guidance for Effective Management and Appropriate Monitoring of Patients With Pain

FAQs: Individualizing Pain Treatment Plans

Episode Summary

In this podcast episode, Vanila M. Singh, MD, MACM, and Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, PMGT-BC, ANP-BC, answer audience questions from a webinar about developing individualized pain treatment plans.

Episode Notes

Listen as Vanila M. Singh, MD, MACM, and Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, PMGT-BC, ANP-BC, provide thoughtful answers and clinical insights to audience questions that were submitted at a recent webinar about developing individualized pain treatment plans. Topics covered in this podcast include risk assessment, navigating the balance between “law enforcement” and “healthcare professional” when prescribing opioids, and prescription drug monitoring programs.

Presenters:

Vanila M. Singh, MD, MACM
Clinical Associate Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California
FMR Chief Medical Officer
US Department of Health and Human Services
Chairperson
Congressionally Mandated Pain Task Force

Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, PMGT-BC, ANP-BC
Adult Nurse Practitioner
Division Pain Medicine
Stanford Health Care
Redwood City, California

This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from the Opioid Analgesic REMS Program Companies. Please see https://bit.ly/3mgrfb9 for a listing of REMS Program Companies. This activity is intended to be fully compliant with the Opioid Analgesic REMS education requirements issued by the FDA.

Provided by Clinical Care Options, LLC and in partnership with the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management, Practicing Clinicians Exchange, and ProCE.

Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3mcDHsi