Scientific Program

8:00 – 8:30	Opening Ceremony
	*Moderators: Giustino Varrassi, Serdar Erdine* Giustino Varrassi: President of WIP S.Erdine: Chair of WIP Registered Turkish Section İbrahim Aşık: Co Chair of WIP Registered Turkish Section Goals of WIP and FIPP exam *Giustino Varrassi*
8:30 – 8:50	Flouroscopic radiology for interventions and Radiation safety *E. A. Yentür*
8:50 – 9:10	Ultrasound in Interventional Pain Management Fabrizio Mitchelli
9:10 – 9.40	Epidural neuroplasty,indications and technique after half a century Gabor Racz
9:40 – 10:00	Progress in regenerative procedures for pain Ricardo Ruiz Lopez
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:50	Moderators; I.Aşık, K.Vissers Evolution of Radiofrequency,from conventional to pRF *Olav Rohov*
10:50 – 11:10	Recent advances in interventional treatment of facial pain *Serdar Erdine*
11:10 – 11:30	Evidence Neuromodulation Overview; Old and New Peter Staats
11:30 – 11:50	Subcutaneous stimulation (peripheric field) Mert Akbaş
11:50 – 12:10	Drugs and pumps for intrathecal drug delivery Athina Vadalouca
12:10 – 13:30	Lunch

Afternoon Session: Cadaver Workshop (for only participants who registered this particular Workshop)

For the symposium participants; Afternoon Sessions will be as follow;

13:30 – 15:30	Moderators: Ersin Tan, Alp Yentür (Head and facial pain)
13:30 – 13:50	The patient,flow from diagnosis to treatment Uğur Uygunoğlu
13:50 – 14:10	Primary Headaches Aksel Siva
14:10 – 14:30	Cranial Neuropathies Ersin Tan
14:30 – 14:50	Servicogenic headache: Diagnosis and treatment TBA
14:50– 15:10	Cranial Neuralgias Serdar Erdine
15:10-15:30	Fibromyalgia and fibrofog Ayşen Akıncı
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 16:20	Moderators: Kris Vissers, İ. Yegül The role of opioids in cancer pain *Giustino Varrassi*
16:20 – 16:50	Palliative care *Meltem Uyar*
16:50 – 17:10	Cancer Pain Management: Reducing Pain and Suffering through Combined Approach Therapy *Kris Vissers*
17:10 – 17:30	Neurolytic blocks and cordotomy in cancer pain *İbrahim Yegül*
17:30 – 17:50	Neurosurgical approach to intractable cancer pain *Ali Savaş*

8:00 – 8:20	*Moderator:* *Meltem Uyar, Can Eyigör* Cervical spinal interventions (Interlaminar, transforaminal injections, medial branch block) *Meltem Uyar*
8:20 – 8:40	Sympathetic nervous system: interventional treatments (Stellate, thoracic symphathetic, lumbar symphathetic ganglions) Sacit Güleç
8:40 – 9:00	Lumbar and sacral spinal interventions (Transforaminal injection, medial branch block, nerve root block (DRG) Olav Rohov
9:00 – 9.20	Interventional techniques for cancer pain Arun Bashkar
9.20: – 9.40	Intradiscal decompression techniques for LBP and radiculopathy *İbrahim Aşık*
9.40: – 10:00	Epiduroscopy Altan Şahin
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:50	Moderator: Ricardo Ruiz Lopez, Mert Akbaş Novel interventional procedures for the pain specialist Mild procedure,vertebral augmentation,cryoablation TBA
10:50 – 11.10	Techniques and Therapies for Chronic Pain Originating in Major Joints;Shoulder,Hip and Knee Şehim Kutlay
11:10 – 11:30	Sacroiliac joint pain,diagnosis and treatment Pasquale di Negri
11:30 – 11:50	Percutaneous Interventions on Spinal Nerve Root Ovidiu Palea
11:50 – 12:10	Complications of interventional pain procedures *Serdar Erdine*
12:10 – 13.30	Lunch

Afternoon Session: Cadaver Workshop (for only participants who registered this particular Workshop)

For the symposium participants; Afternoon Sessions will be as follow;

13:30 – 15:30	Moderators: Giustino Varrassi, Ayşen Yücel
13:30 – 13:50	Sedation for pain procedures TBA
13:50 – 14:10	Placebo effect in interventions,social benefit of interventions Arun Bashkar
14:10 – 14:30	TBA
14:30 – 14:50	Cervical pain and radiculopathy TBA
14:50 – 15:10	Thoracic pain,diagnosis and treatment TBA
15:10 – 15:30	Pelvic Pain,Diagnosis and treatment *Ayşen Yücel*
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:20	Moderators: İbrahim Aşık, İsmail Gültuna Role of injections in spinal stenosis,A surgeon’s perspective *Ahmet Alanay*
16:20 – 16:50	Individualized spinal sagittal plane and shape and alignment and its role as a back pain generator *Çağlar Yılgör*
16:50 – 17:10	Precautions during spinal cord stimulation,from assesment to implant İsmail Gültuna
17:10 – 17:30	Failed back surgery syndrome;Treatment options TBA
17:30 – 17:50	Future of Pain Medicine-Algology *S.Erdine*
18:00	Closing session