Session 1: Power of Collaboration
Moderator: Miles Day, MD, FIPP (USA)

Ignacio Reyes Torres, MD, FIPP (Mexico, SMUD)
Power of Collaboration Between Educational Societies

Carlos Restrepo, MD, FIPP (Colombia)
Cultural Influences on Pain Perception: Shaping New Paradigms

Victor Silva, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Mexico, SMUD, Interventional Pain Leaders)
Expanding Scope of Practice: International Networking

Angel Juarez, MD, CIPS (Mexico, AMETD)
Research and Publications in Latin America: Is Language a Barrier

Carlos Monroy, MD (Mexico)
Challenges treating CRPS in Latin America

Carlos Marcelo De Barros, MD, PhD (Brazil, SBED)
Power of Multispecialty in Training of Pain Medicine

Roundtable Discussion: Raising the Bar and Changing Paradigms
Moderator: Miles Day, MD, FIPP (USA)
Ale Ismael Gonzalez MD, FIPP (Mexico), Tatiana Bravo, MD, CIPS (Brazil),
Ana Valencia, MD (Colombia), Renier Mendez, MD (Puerto Rico),
Mariana Palladini, MD (Brazil)

Coffee break

Session 2: Advances in Pharmacotherapy in Chronic Pain
Moderator: Fabricio Dias Assis, MD, FIPP (Brazil)

Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD, MPH, FASA (USA)
Intravenous Infusions in Chronic Pain

Maria Fernanda Arboleda, MD (Mexico)
Modulators of the Endocannabinoid System and Analgesic Medications

Diana Alvarez, MD, FIPP (Colombia)
Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Navigating Evolving Recommendations

Flor Montenegro, MD (Peru)
Ketamine Infusions in Palliative Care: Managing the Distressing at End-of-life Care

Paola Diaz MD, FIPP, CIPS (Colombia)
Non-Opioid Analgesics: Shifting Paradigms in Pain Management

Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP, CIPS (USA)
Balancing Pharmacotherapy and Advanced Technology for Chronic Pain Management

Lunch Symposium sponsored by Menarini

Session 3: Minimally Invasive Advanced Technologies
Moderator: Douglas Beall, MD, FIPP (USA)

Sukdeb Datta, MD (USA)
Endoscopic Discectomy: The Effectiveness and Complications

Tiago Freitas, MD, PhD, FIPP (Brazil)
Updates in Neuromodulation for Chronic Pelvic Pain

Rodrigo Diez Tafur, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Peru)
Patient-Centric Approaches in Spinal Cord Stimulation: Customizing Therapy for Individuals

Sean Li, MD, FIPP (USA)
Percutaneous Decompression: MILD vs. Spacers

Brian Durkin, DO (USA)
Basilovertebral Ablation for Vertebrogenic Back Pain

Didier Demesmin, MD, MBA (USA)
Percutaneous Facet Fusion

Arpit Patel, DO, FIPP (USA)
Minimally Invasive SI Joint Fusion Options

Keynote: Annu Navani, MD, FIPP (USA)
Blurring the Boundaries between Biologics and Technology: 2023 and Beyond

Coffee break

Session 4: Best Practices for MSK Interventions
Moderator: Cesar Carcamo, MD, FIPP (Chile)

Jose Luiz Campos, MD, FIPP (Brazil)
Radiofrequency Treatment of the Knee, Hip & Shoulder

Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP, CIPS (USA)
Cryoablation for Joints: Evolving Applications

Juan Pablo Paladino, MD, FIPP (Argentina)
Cost Effectiveness of Chronic MSK Pain: Steroids to Biologics

Andre Mansano, MD (Brazil)
Transforaminal techniques: Is there any difference?

Camila Lobo Ferreira, MD, CIPS (Brazil)
Dynamic Ultrasound: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Perspective

Juan De La Cruz Pineda, MD, FIPP (Mexico)
Endocanal Pulsed Radiofrequency

Roundtable Discussion: Best Practices for Chronic MSK Pain
Moderator: Cesar Carcamo, MD, FIPP (Chile)
Juan Carlos Sosa Nicora, MD (Paraguay),
Karla Madrigal, MD, FIPP (Mexico), Marcela Torreblanca, MD (Mexico),
Lisbeth Esther Godinez Ortiz, MD, MSc. (Guatemala), Imran Rafi Ahmed Punekar, MD, PhD (USA)

Welcome reception