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Track: Academy for Educational Excellence

EEP-01 - Updates in Pain Medicine Training

Thursday, November 13, 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Location: Lone Star Salon B
CE: 2.0

    Moderator(s)

  • Trent Emerick, MD, MBA

    Associate Chief of Pain Medicine; Pain Medicine Fellowship Director
    University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    • Associate Faculty(s)

  • Alex Bautista, MD, MBA

    Program Director, Professor of Anesthesiology
    University of Louisville

    • Faculty(s)

  • Meredith Barad, MD (she/her/hers)

    Clinical Associate Professor/ Program Director
    Stanford School of Medicine
    Redwood City, California, United States

  • Amy Pearson, MD (she/her/hers)

    Interventional Pain Physician
    Advocate Aurora Health Care
    Cudahy, Wisconsin, United States

  • Magdalena ANITESCU, MD, PhD, FASA (she/her/hers)

    Professor, Section Chief Pain Medicine Services, Program Director Pain Fellowship
    University of Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Lynn Kohan, MD

    Pain Medicine Medical Director
    University of Virginia Department of Anesthesiology
    Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

    • Associate Faculty(s)

  • Kristen Noon, MD

    Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
    The Ohio State University
    Columbus, Ohio, United States

Disclosure(s):
Trent Emerick, MD, MBA: No financial relationships to disclose

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe new teaching paradigms for adult learners in the AI-era.
  • Analyze novel ways to incorporate quality improvement and systems based practice into a pain medicine.
  • Discuss how novel interventional treatment modalities fit into a fellowship training program, and the post-fellowship period as well.

Presentations:

  • 10:00 AM - 10:05 AM CT
    Greetings and Overview of the Program

    Speaker: Trent Emerick, MD, MBA – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

  • 10:05 AM - 10:20 AM CT
    Key Takeaways and Future Directions from the 2025 Annual Pain Program Director (APPD) Meeting

    Associate Faculty: Alex Bautista, MD, MBA – University of Louisville

  • 10:20 AM - 10:35 AM CT
    How Did Signaling Work in 2025?

    Speaker: Meredith Barad, MD (she/her/hers) – Stanford School of Medicine

  • 10:35 AM - 10:50 AM CT
    What Are Employers Looking for in New Fellows?

    Speaker: Amy Pearson, MD (she/her/hers) – Advocate Aurora Health Care

  • 10:50 AM - 11:05 AM CT
    Freshen Up: Novel Topics for Pain Didactics

    Speaker: Trent Emerick, MD, MBA – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

  • 11:05 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    How Can Practice Management Topics (Finance, Systems-based Practice, Leadership Development, etc) Be Taught to Trainees and Junior Faculty?

    Speaker: Magdalena ANITESCU, MD, PhD, FASA (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago

  • 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM CT
    What Should the Future Pain Fellowship Look Like?

    Speaker: Lynn Kohan, MD – University of Virginia Department of Anesthesiology

  • 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Women in Pain Medicine - Improving Recruitment

    Associate Faculty: Kristen Noon, MD – The Ohio State University