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Online CEUs

What is Pain: Why is it so Difficult for Everyone?


Available until October 17, 2021
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David Tauben, MD, FACP
Course Description: 
Chronic pain is a common condition affecting at least 50 million US adults, with proportionate burden in children. Pain costs in excess of $700 billion per year, and despite this enormous expense continues to challenge population health. Pain remains very poorly understood by clinicians, patients, and health systems. When doctors, nurses, health systems, patients and their advocates better understand what pain “is” and how it’s assessed we can improve and treatment and outcomes.

Hours: 1 hr

Price: $29 | $18 for WASHAA Members
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Objectives:
  • Understand the neurobiological, psychological, and social mechanisms involved in the experience of pain.
  • Describe modern assessment strategies for comprehensive pain diagnosis.
  • Identify individual and system barriers and myths leading to ineffective doctor-patient communication about pain.

About the Presenter:
David Tauben, MD FACP is Chief of the University of Washington Division of Pain Medicine, jointly appointed Clinical Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, and the Hughes M & Katherine G Blake Endowed Professor.  He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Pain Medicine. Dr. Tauben is also UW Director of Medical Student Education in Pain Medicine and leads UW TelePain, an innovative tele-video-conferencing program delivering pain and addiction management educational consultative support to Pacific Northwest primary care providers.  He is principal investigator for the UW’s NIH Pain Consortium Center of Excellence for Pain Education, and a recently elected Board member of the American Pain Society.  Dr. Tauben was a member of the NIH National Pain Strategy task force on Pain Education, founding and continuing member of the State of Washington Agency Medical Directors panel of clinician experts developing opioid prescription guidelines for chronic pain. He was a peer reviewer for 2018 AHRQ report on Noninvasive Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain.  Dr. Tauben is an expert for US Centers for Disease Control clinical outreach activities supporting education and implementation of effective and safe opioids prescribing practices for management of acute and chronic pain.

NOTICE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION
WASHAA Webinar, “What is Pain: Why is it so Difficult for Everyone” is approved for 1 CE by the Patient Advocate Certification Board to satisfy the requirements for Board Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA).
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