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Advanced Clinical Focus Sessions

Advanced Clinical Focus Sessions

  • Saturday, October 25, 2025
  • 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM MT
    Neuro Rehab Advanced Clinical Focus Session: Translating Research into Practice in Real-Time: An Update on Disorders of Consciousness and a Look to the Future
    Location: SPCC, Ground Level, Grand Ballroom A/C
    Session Director: Terrence C. Carolan, MBA, PT – CARF International
    Faculty: Flora M. Hammond, MD – Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana
    Faculty: Kristen Harris, MD – Hackensack Meridian Health/JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute
    Faculty: Kenneth Ngo, MD – Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital
    Neurorehabilitation
  • 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM MT
    Neuro Rehab Advanced Clinical Focus Session: New and Emerging Therapies in DMD, ALS, and SMA
    Location: SPCC, Ground Level, Grand Ballroom A/C
    Session Director: Haibi Cai, MD – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
    Faculty: Nassim Rad, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington School of Medicine
    Faculty: Carolyn Black, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Providence St. Luke's Physiatry
    Neurorehabilitation
  • 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM MT
    Neuro Rehab Advanced Clinical Focus Session: Stump The Experts: Spasticity and Intrathecal Baclofen Pump Most Challenging Management
    Location: SPCC, Ground Level, Grand Ballroom A/C
    Session Director: Mary Beth Russell, DO, MS – University of Texas At Houston
    Faculty: Cindy B. Ivanhoe, MD – TIRR-Memorial Hermann
    Faculty: Michael Saulino, MD, PhD – Cooper University Hospital
    Faculty: Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD – UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine
    Faculty: Daniel K. Moon, MD – Jefferson Moss Magee Rehab
    Neurorehabilitation
  • 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM MT
    Pain and Spine Advanced Clinical Focus Session: Beyond the Break: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Osteoporosis and Fracture Management
    Location: SPCC, Ground Level, Grand Ballroom G/I
    Session Director: Katie A. Smolinski, DO (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    Faculty: Amy Powell
    Faculty: Aaron M. Conger, DO – University of Utah
    Faculty: William Ryan Spiker, MD – University of Utah
    Faculty: Todd Schwartz, DPT (he/him/his) – Hand & Orthopedic Physical Therapy Specialists
    Pain and Spine Medicine
  • 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM MT
    Pain and Spine Advanced Clinical Focus Session: To Bleed or Not to Bleed - That is the Question: Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Management for Interventional Spine Procedures
    Location: SPCC, Ground Level, Grand Ballroom G/I
    Session Director: Michael B. Furman, MD (he/him/his) – OSS Health
    Faculty: Gene Tekmyster, DO – Keck Medicine of USC
    Faculty: Jesse S. Bernstein, MD – Montage Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
    Faculty: Brian D. Steinmetz, DO – OSS HEALTH
    Faculty: Ameet Nagpal, MD, MS – Medical University of South Carolina
    Pain and Spine Medicine
  • 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM MT
    Pain and Spine Advanced Clinical Focus Session: Interventions for Facet Joint, Spinal Stenosis, and Sacroiliac Joint Pain: An Expert Panel
    Location: SPCC, Ground Level, Grand Ballroom G/I
    Session Director: David W. Lee, MD – UC Irvine Health - Fullerton and Yorba Linda
    Faculty: Aileen Padilla, DO, MBA – Comprehensive Centers for Pain Management
    Faculty: Benjamin Gill, DO, MBA – Private Practice
    Pain and Spine Medicine