Spine Interventions

Monday, March 6, 2023

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Location:Phoenix Convention Center, 222C

CE: 1.5 Credits

Coordinator(s)

Christine Kim, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
University of California Los Angeles

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):

Christine Kim, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

This angio-club will consist of a case based workshop in which treatment of conditions affecting the spine. The workshop encourages participation from the audience to promote discussion. This workshop includes discussion about pain management and treatment of various disease processes affecting the spine.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize available vertebral augmentation options and selection considerations.
Understand safe and effective access strategies for spine intervention.
Discuss preprocedural considerations that help determine targets for spinal pain injections.

Presentations:

1:00 PM – 1:20 PM

Tips and Tricks for Spinal Blocks
Speaker: Manraj Kanwal Singh Heran, MD (he/him/his) – BC Children's Hospital; Vancouver General Hospital
1:20 PM – 1:40 PM

Vertebral Augmentation Systems: Tailoring to the Appropriate Patient
Speaker: Sri Hari Sundararajan, MD – University Radiology Group / Robert Wood Johnson Universitu Hospital / St. Peter’s University University Hospital
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM

The Pre-procedural Assessment: Deciding When and Where to Inject for Spinal Pain
Speaker: Christine Kim, MD (she/her/hers) – University of California Los Angeles
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM

Neurointerventional Procedures in the Craniovertebral Region
Speaker: Juan P. Villablanca, MD, FACR (he/him/his) – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA/Univ. of CA Los Angeles
2:20 PM – 2:30 PM

Q & A