When: December 17, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time
Where:
Link: https://howard.zoom.us/j/81345755351?pwd=UjBqYUNFT1RoaGJlK3ZGOHpkOXhOQT09
Meeting ID: 813 4575 5351
Passcode: 24682468
Speaker: Mehrdad Michael Massumi, MD
Massumi Associates
www.Massumi.com
info@massumi.com
Language: Parsi/English
Synopsis:
Chronic pain affects one out of five Americans. It ranks as the most expensive malady in healthcare economic analyses. It leads to significant disability and co-morbidities such as depression and other diseases.
Treatment of chronic pain has been historically intertwined with the use of opioids. Hence the current troubles in our country with opioids in the management of chronic pain syndromes.
The talk will provide a quick historical backdrop of the development of Pain Management as a specialty field in medicine, the pharmacologic and interventional methods of treatment, and the directions in which future care of the chronic pain patient will be advancing. Alternatives to opioids are increasing – both in terms of medications and interventional techniques – and these will be reviewed.
Both the lay and professional medical audience should find the subject matter and contents of use as we all need to promote best practices in the management of patients suffering such long-term maladies.
About the Speaker:
Mehrdad Michael Massumi, MD is a board-certified specialist in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Integrative Pain Management.
After graduation with honors from the University of Birmingham Medical School, the United Kingdom in 1982 and two years of surgical residency training at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. he undertook and successfully concluded his residency in Rehabilitation Medicine in Seattle, WA in 1988. He remains active at the Harvard Postgraduate Medical Association since 2006.
Dr. Massumi has been in practice for thirty-three years in Maryland. He was the founder or director of many Rehabilitation, Spine and Pain clinics at a number of Baltimore Metropolitan hospitals. He is a former clinical faculty of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Currently, he is in private practice in Towson, MD and more recently also in Rockville, MD. He is active at the Maryland State Medical Society, Montgomery County Medical Society, and the International Association for Regenerative Therapy.
In his thirty-three years of practice of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Management in Maryland, Dr. Massumi has treated over 14,000 patients. Patients are from Maryland and other States and countries.