RC-03 - Advancing Cancer Pain Management

Thursday, November 13, 2025

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT

Location: Lone Star Salon D - E

CE: 2.0

Moderator(s)

Sandy Christiansen, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon, United States

Lynn Kohan, MD

Pain Medicine Medical Director
University of Virginia Department of Anesthesiology
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Shane Brogan, MB BCh (he/him/his)

Director of Pain Medicine
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
Ehtesham Baig, MSc, MD, FRCPC (Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine)

Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Amitabh Gulati, MD (he/him/his)

Attending, Memorial Hospital
MSKCC
New York, New York, United States
Vinita Singh, MD (she/her/hers)

Division Chief, Emory Pain Division,
Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia, United States

Disclosure(s):

Sandy Christiansen, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Summarize key aspects of cancer pain training during pain medicine fellowships.
Articulate the components of a successful interventional cancer pain practice.
Choose appropriate opioids for terminally ill patients and cancer survivors.
Identify appropriate nerve blocks and non-implantative interventions for various cancer-related pain diagnoses.
Associate which patient characteristics relate to successful pain outcomes with intrathecal drug delivery and neuromodulation.

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM CT

Preliminary results from Antagonism of Endogenous Opioids – Use in Interpretation of Injections [AEOUI2] pilot study
Submitting Author: Gary Allen, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Co-Author: W. Evan Rivers, DO – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
1:35 PM - 1:50 PM CT

Lacunae In Cancer Pain Training During Pain Medicine Fellowships
Speaker: Lynn Kohan, MD – University of Virginia Department of Anesthesiology
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM CT

Building an Interventional Cancer Pain Practice
Speaker: Shane Brogan, MB BCh (he/him/his) – Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM CT

How to Manage Opioids in Terminally Ill and in Survivors
Speaker: Ehtesham Baig, MSc, MD, FRCPC (Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine) – University of Toronto
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM CT

Nerve Blocks and Other Non-Implantable Interventions for Cancer Pain
Speaker: Amitabh Gulati, MD (he/him/his) – MSKCC
2:50 PM - 3:05 PM CT

Intrathecal Drug Delivery and Neuromodulation for Cancer Pain
Speaker: Vinita Singh, MD (she/her/hers) – Emory University School of Medicine