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Angio-club Workshop

Pain Management/MSK

200 (intermediate)
Angio-club Workshop

Algorithm to Back Pain: Decoding Diagnosis, Delivering Image-Guided Relief

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM ET

Back pain is the leading cause of musculoskeletal-related morbidity in the world. Over 50 million people suffer from back pain in the USA, resulting in thousands of hospital visits and hospitalizations. Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologists are frequently at the forefront of diagnosis and treatment, and this session will take its audience through diagnostic imaging workup, patient evaluation, and procedural components for patients with back pain, both common and complex.

Learning Objectives:

  • Upon completion, participant will be able to identify various musculoskeletal cause(s) of back pain.
  • Upon completion, participant will be able to conduct a thorough physical examination of a patient and their imaging to determine the etiology of back pain.
  • Upon completion, participant will be able to list procedural options for various etiologies of back pain.

Presentations:

  • 1:15 PM - 1:25 PM ET
    Initial Evaluation of Patients with Back Pain

    Speaker: Junjian Huang, MD (he/him/his) – Emory University School of Medicine

  • 1:25 PM - 1:35 PM ET
    Evaluation and Therapy for Sacroiliac Joint Instability

    Speaker: Douglas Beall, MD, FSIR – Comprehensive Specialty Care

  • 1:35 PM - 1:45 PM ET
    Basivertebral Nerve Ablation: Past, Present, Future

    Speaker: Joshua Hirsch, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

  • 1:45 PM - 1:55 PM ET
    Novel Interventions for Disc Disease

    Speaker: Stefano Marcia, MD (he/him/his) – SS Trinità Hospital ASL CAGLIARI

  • 1:55 PM - 2:05 PM ET
    Spinal Cord Stimulation for Back Pain: Pearls and Pitfalls

    Speaker: J. Dana Dunleavy, MD – Atlas Interventional Radiology (AIR)

  • 2:05 PM - 2:15 PM ET
    Devices from Abroad: Procedures and Therapies from Across the Pond

    Co-Speaker: Alexis Kelekis, MD, PhD, FSIR (he/him/his) – University Of Athens

  • 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM ET
    Q&A