Melissa Walker – AOA CO*RE REMS: Pain Management & Opioids: Balancing Risks & Benefits

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This session, titled CO*RE/GOMA Pain Management and Opioids: Balancing Risks and Benefits curriculum, is newly updated to reflect the latest information in this vital area of healthcare. The thoroughly revised curriculum addresses: the nature and pathophysiology of pain, assessing patients in pain, creating a pain treatment plan, initiating opioid therapy; managing patients on opioid analgesics; educating patients and caregivers; and understanding opioid use disorder. This program meets many state’s requirements for opioid education. It covers the content in the Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) education requirement (-Blue Print), issued by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration in September 2018.

By the end of the presentation, learners should be able to:

1.       Describe the pathophysiology of pain as it relates to the concepts of pain management.
2.       Accurately assess patients in pain.
3.       Develop a safe and effective pain treatment plan.
4.       Identify evidence-based non-opioid options for the treatment of pain.
5.       Identify the risks and benefits of opioid therapy.
6.       Manageongoing opioid therapy.
7.       Recognize behaviors that may be associated with opioid use disorder.

Melissa Ann Walker DO, MPA, is a Family Practice Physician/Owner, of Carol Clinic for Family-Centered Healthcare. Dr. Walker is a family medicine physician and the owner and founder of Carol Clinic for Family-Centered Healthcare.   Carol Clinic is named for her late mother, Mrs. Carol Williams Walker.   Dr. Walker’s mother suffered a stroke at the age of 53 and was hospitalized for greater than two years before her death.   After her mother’s death, Dr. Walker’s initial desire to become a physician was reignited.   Dr. Walker is a graduate of Grambling State University where she received both a Bachelor Science in Biology and a Master of Public Administration in Health Services.   She received her medical degree from Midwestern University in Illinois and completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Walker takes very seriously her responsibility to better mankind and support the underserved and underrepresented.   She currently serves as President of C.A. Whittier Medical Society and as Chair for her region of the National Medical Association which encompasses nine states. Dr. Walker is vivacious public speaker. She travels the United States and abroad speaking on healthcare issues and other topics to which she gives a -medical and spiritual prospective.   Dr. Walker gives praises God for all her many blessings and talents.   She believes that medicine is a ministry for which she was chosen.   She often states, -My goal is to make a difference in the lives of families, all families.”

DISCLOSURE:   No relevant financial relationships to disclose.