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Angio-club Workshop

Pain Management/MSK

300 (advanced)
Angio-club Workshop

Palliative IR: Solving the Unsolvable

Monday, April 13, 2026
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM ET

This session is intended to define a "blue ocean" for interventional radiology - beyond the basics of pain interventions currently being performed in IR. Specifically, advanced cancer patients and patients with difficult pain syndromes requiring palliative care represent an area where interventional radiology can problem solve, help human beings, and expand our skillsets.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define the population of patients referred to as "palliative" patients and differentiate them from the foundational advanced interventional pain management population (arthritic knees, intervertebral disc disease, nerve blocks).
  • Describe the problem solving approach necessary for management of these patients and contrast that approach to the antiquated "request for procedure" model.
  • Describe a long term clinical care model that involves management of implantable devices such as intrathecal pain pumps or spinal cord stimulators for patients with pain requiring palliative interventions.

Presentations:

  • 1:15 PM - 1:24 PM ET
    Palliative Interventions: A Blue Ocean for Interventional Radiologists

    Speaker: John David Prologo, MD – Emory University School of Medicine

  • 1:24 PM - 1:33 PM ET
    Advanced Imaging Guidance for Palliative Interventions

    Speaker: Neil J. Resnick, MD, FSIR – UMass Chan Medical School

  • 1:33 PM - 1:42 PM ET
    Cryoneurolysis: Predictable Denervation of Pain Generators

    Speaker: Dimitrios Filippiadis, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – 2nd Department of Radiology, University General Hospital "ATTIKON" Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

  • 1:42 PM - 1:51 PM ET
    Intrathecal Pain Pumps: A New Frontier for Interventional Radiology

    Speaker: George Zlotchenko, MD – University of Colorado

  • 1:51 PM - 2:00 PM ET
    Spinal Cord Stimulators in IR: New Technology for a New Time

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

  • 2:00 PM - 2:09 PM ET
    Problem Solving in Palliative Care - The Differentiator for Interventional Radiology

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

  • 2:09 PM - 2:18 PM ET
    Complex Case Review/Discussion

    Co-Speaker: Mehmet Fatih Inecikli – Bursa Uludag University School of Medicine

  • 2:18 PM - 2:30 PM ET
    Q&A