Pain Management
Policy and Practice: A
Balanced Approach
September 5 &
6, 2008
We are very pleased that the Montana
Pain Initiative’s Second Annual Conference “Pain
Management Policy and Practice:
A Balanced Approach” brought pain to the forefront
in
Montana
. The success
can be directly attributed to strong planning, strategic
media coverage, quality local and national speakers, and
timeliness of the topics addressed.
We attracted 203 participants mostly
from
Montana
(one Doctor of Naturopathy from
Sidney
,
MT
drove almost 600 miles to attend), but also from
California
,
Kansas
,
North Dakota
, and
Washington
. The diversity of stakeholders (both in discipline
and geography) made for an invigorating environment with
stimulating discussions.
We are in the process of tabulating pre and post
tests and will get that information to you when we have it
analyzed. Our
initial view of the evaluations indicates that the
participants were pleased with the speakers and the content.
Conference speakers presented the
epidemiology and physiology of pain, the "ideal
world" of pain management, multiple components of best
practices in pain management, access to these best
practices, responsible opioid prescribing, and the
challenges of opioid diversion and addiction and possible
solutions.
We highly recommend all four of our
national speakers: Scott Fishman, MD; June Dahl, PhD;
Nathan Rudin, MD; Adam Wolf, ALCU Attorney.
Our current Attorney General, Mike McGrath spoke and
both of our candidates for Attorney General attended.
The speakers were excellent and the
audience was interactive and enthusiastic about the
diversity of information they were provided.
The conference was approved for 13.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Creditstm, Nursing Continuing
Education Credit, Social Work Credit, and 10 Law Enforcement
Post Credits.
Following are the demographics of the
conference participants.
Forty-three percent of the participants
were prescribing practitioners.
203 Participants, including:
57 Medical Physicians
12 Physician Assistants
14 Nurse Practitioners
4 Nurse Anesthesitists
1 Certified Operating Room Nurse
3 Masters of Science in Nursing
33 Registered Nurses
6 Doctors of Philosophy
1 Doctor of Physical Therapy
5 Masters of Science
2 Masters of Social Work
16 Pharmacists
1 Certified Pharmacy Technician
5 Attorneys
1 BA
5 Students
23 people without degrees
We did not have a formal request for
people with pain to identify that they experience pain but
we know that several attendees were pain patients.
Forty cities were represented including
Bigfork (2), Billings, (12), Bismarck, (ND) (1), Bozeman,
(13), Butte, (3) Clancy, (1), Cut Bank, (1), Deer Lodge,
(1), Drummond, (1), Ennis, (1), Great Falls, (19), Hamilton,
(5), Hardin, (1), Havre, (3), Helena, (17) Huson, (1),
Kalispell, (19) Lewistown, (1), Livingston, (6), Lolo, (1)
Madison, (2), Martinsdale, (1), Miles City, (2), Missoula,
(60), Philipsburg, (1), Plains, (3), Polson, (1), Rollins,
(1), Ronan, (1), Sacramento, (CA), (1) Santa Cruz, (CA),
(1), Sidney, (1) Spokane, (WA), (2), St Ignatius, (1)
Stevensville, (1), Topeka, (KS), (2), Turah, (1), Victor,
(1), Warm Springs (1), and Whitefish (2).
Media Coverage of the Conference:
Following are the links to articles that appeared in the
local papers and a link to the text that was voiced on one
of our major TV stations, the National Public Radio
Broadcasts, and the airing of the conference by Missoula
Community Access Television.
Missoula Community Access Television will air the
conference in 7 segments starting on Monday October 6 at
9:30 pm
on Bresnan Cable channel 7.
The first segment will be repeated on Saturday
October 11 at
7:30 pm
. Each segment
following that will be played and repeated on the next
Monday at
9:30 pm
and Saturday at
7:30 pm
until all of the segments have been aired.
If you do not use the Bresnan Cable service, you can
view the conference on your computer at www.mcat.org
.
Missoulian Newspaper Day 1
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/09/06/news/local/news04.txt
Missoulian Day 2
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/09/07/news/mtregional/news07.txt
KPAX TV coverage
Sept 6
http://www.kpax.com/global/story.asp?s=8963205
Butte
Montana Standard
http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2008/09/13/health/hjjbjajaijjjfg.txt
Missoula
Independent
http://missoulanews.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=299ADB47-14D1-13A2-9FA3DFD75761D3B1
Montana
Pharmacist News
http://mtpharmacist.blogspot.com/2008/08/second-annual-montana-pain-initiative_07.html
Montana
Evening Edition
mtpr_playnow.m3u
Radio interview of Scott Fishman
Yellowstone Public Radio “Health
Matters” will air a 30 minute discussion about the Montana
Pain Initiative and the September 5 & 6 Conference
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