FARMINGTON — Franklin Memorial Hospital will host the “Management of Patients with Acute and Chronic Pain While Preventing
Diversion” conference from noon to 5
p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, in the Ben Franklin Center at the hospital.

Health care clinicians can register for the conference, which will provide an overview of the illicit drug problem in the area and enlist support and cooperation among the medical community. Physicians who present will share “best practices” in the area of pain control, addiction treatment and prevention.

The conference will feature the problem of prescription drug diversion, with a DEA agent; the prescription monitoring program, with Daniel Eccher, Office of Substance Abuse; fundamentals of physiatry and electro-diagnostic medicine, with Douglas Pavlak, MD; overview of other PM&R modalities of treatment, with Gene Guinti, DO; medical legal implications, by Gordon Smith, Esq.; and interventional pain procedures, by John Guernelli, MD.

The program is free, made possible from a grant by the Office of Substance Abuse, and will include lunch, continuing education credits and refreshments.

For additional information or to register, contact Karen Rogers, education director at 779-2575 or e-mail [email protected].