The World Congress Leadership Summit on Manage Chronic Pain to Drive High Efficacy Rates and Increase Productivity unravels the costs of pain, particularly back pain and arthritis as it impacts the workplace. Stakeholders will demonstrate new therapies for pain management—including medical, behavioral, wellness and complementary approaches, how to implement cost-effective programs and measure their outcomes in working populations. Disability, absence management, presenteeism and the effect on productivity will be examined.

Current Topics At This Executive Summit Include

• Addressing Back Pain: The Leading Cause of Sickness Related Absence From Work
• Demonstrate the Cost-Benefit and Cost-effectiveness Analysis of a Disability Prevention Model
• Manage Pain Absence, Disability and Return-to-Work
• Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Latest Pain Interventions: Pharmacologic and NonPharmacologic
• The Economic Burden of Depression and Pain
• Discuss Risk Factors for Pain: Hard Labor, Injuries from Accidents, Obesity, Smoking, Pregnancy
• How Employer Human Resources and Providers Can Utilize Community and Internet Resources to Assist Employees Dealing With Pain
• Examine Measures to Increase Productivity of Patients with Chronic Pain

Featured Speakers To Date
Chair Day One: Ronald S. Leopold, MD, MBA, MPH National Medical Director & Vice President MetLife	Chair Day Two: Dennis E. Richling, MD Vice President & Medical Director Matria Healthcare
Giancarlo Barolat, MD Professor of Neurosurgery Director Functional Neurosurgery Thomas Jefferson University Hospital	Howard Birnbaum Director, Health Economics Practice Analysis Group, Inc.
Jennifer Bolen, JD Chief Executive Officer Legal Side of Pain	Sheryl Bronkesh President The HSM Group, Ltd.
Micke Brown, BSN RN Director of Outreach American Pain Foundation Past President of the American Society of Pain Management Nursing	Jennifer Christian, MD, MPH President & Chief Medical Officer Webility
Daniel J. Clauw , M.D. Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology Assistant Dean for Clinical and Translational Research Director Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center Director Center for the Advancement of Clinical Research The University of Michigan	Yvette Colon, MSW Director of Education and Internet Services American Pain Foundation
Mark Disorbio, EdD. President Integrated Therapies	Salvatore Galante, M.D., M.P.H. Global Corporate Medical Director Delphi Corporation
Rollin (Mac) Gallagher, M.D., M.P.H Director, Pain Management Philadelphia VA Medical Center	Lisa Ghotbi, Pharm D Director Medical Informatics Blue Shield of CA
Lee S. Glass, MD Associate Medical Director Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Editor, Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelies American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Immediate Past Chair, Guidelines Committee American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine	David Groves Vice President Corporate Health Management Comerica
W. Michael Hooten, MD Senior Associate Consultant Anesthesiology Pain Medicine Clinic Pain Rehabilitation Center Mayo Clinic	David Hubbard, MD Medical Director Musculoskeletal and Chronic Pain CorSolutions
Robert D. Kerns, Ph.D. Chief, Psychology Service VA Connecticut Healthcare System National Director for Pain Management VA Central Office	John H. Klippel, MD Chief Executive Officer Arthritis Foundation
Carolyn Langer, MD, JD, MPH Medical Director, Fallon Community Health Plan Instructor in Occupational Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health Former Chief Medical Officer, Tufts Managed Comp	Bill McCarberg, MD Founder Chronic Pain Management Kaiser Permanente Program
Mark B. McClellan , MD, PhD Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services	Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD Chairman Cleveland Clinic Pain Management Department
Matthew Monsein Medical Director Abbot Northwestern Pain Management and Rehabilitation Abbot Northwestern Hospital	Thomas Morrow , MD Vice President and Medical Director Matria Healthcare, Inc.
Craig Nelson, MS,DC Director Health Services Research Initiatives American Specialty Health Networks	Thomas J. Pace, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
Edwin W. Quick, MA, MBA, CRC, CCM, CDMS Health Services GE Energy	Linda Reynolds, PharmD Clinical Pharmacist HealthNet Pharmaceutical Services
Rebecca Robinson, MS Health Outcomes Research Consultant US Medical Division Outcomes Research Eli Lilly and Company	Jacob Rosenberg, MD Medical Director Integrated Pain Management, Inc.
Christopher Sletten, PhD Consulting Staff Pain Rehabilitation Clinic, Rehabilitation Center Mayo Clinic Assistant Professor Mayo College of Medicine	Walter “Buzz” Stewart, MD, MPH Director Center for Health Research & Rural Advocacy Geisinger Health System
Aubrey A. Swartz, M.D., Pharm.D. Orthopedic Surgery, Oakland Executive Director American Back Society	Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. Director National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research National Institutes of Health Co-Chair, NIH Pain Consortium
Steven Wiesner, MD Chief Occupational Health Department Kaiser Permanente