8th Interdisciplinary Pain and Opioid Seminar: Navigating the Opioid Use Conundrum - Use, Underuse, and Nonmedical Use

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Friday, April 24, 2026, 8:00 AM - Saturday, April 25, 2026, 5:00 PM, MD Anderson - Virtual


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (13.75 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (13.75 hours), ANCC - Nursing Contact Hour(s) (13.75 hours), Medical Ethics/Professional Responsibility (13.75 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (13.75 hours), Pain and Opioid (13.75 hours), Pharmacotherapeutics (13.75 hours)

Clinical evidence supports the use of opioid analgesics as the gold standard to treat cancer-related pain. Unfortunately, the opioid crisis has brought renewed attention and scrutiny to opioid prescriptions, thereby creating a dilemma in patient management. Clinicians are required to carefully balance the judicious prescription of opioids with the risk of nonmedical opioid use. The 8th Interdisciplinary Pain and Opioid Seminar provides a unique opportunity for healthcare providers to achieve this much needed balance by enhancing their knowledge and competencies in the use of opioids. It will offer cutting-edge lectures and interactive panel discussions from worldwide expert faculty with diverse clinical and research backgrounds in pain and opioids. This activity will provide practical evidence-based guidance and solutions to address clinical, public health, and regulatory issues related to the use and nonmedical use of opioids.

1. Apply the basic principles of pain management and chronic opioid therapy
2. Utilize practical strategies to manage patients with co-occurring cancer pain and nonmedical opioid use.
3. Implement and integrate ways to improve patient care and ensure patient and family safety related to the use of opioids.
4. Apply non-pharmacologic approaches to manage pain in patients with opioid use disorder.
5. Articulate the basic principles of pain management.
6. Describe practical strategies to manage patients with co-occurring cancer pain.

 A Virtual Live Streaming Course

The 8th Interdisciplinary Pain and Opioid Seminar: Navigating the Opioid Use Conundrum: Use, Underuse, and Nonmedical Use will begin at 8:00 AM on Friday, April 24, 2026, and will adjourn at 5:20 PM.

Instructions for accessing the virtual program will be sent via email 3–5 days prior to the conference.

The only requirement for online training is that you must have a laptop/desktop computer, webcam and access to stable internet connection.

Registration Details:

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES:	BEFORE April 17	AFTER April 17
MDA: Physicians	$180.00	$200.00
MDA: Staff	$125.00	$140.00
MDA: Trainee / Student	$60.00	$60.00
Non-MDA: Physicians	$250.00	$275.00
Non-MDA: NP/PA	$150.00	$175.00
Non-MDA: Nurse	$150.00	$175.00
Non-MDA: Other Healthcare Professional	$80.00	$95.00

Telephone registrations are not accepted.

We accept the following forms of payment:

• Credit Cards (MasterCard, VISA, and American Express)

• Check (payable to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center through U.S. banks only)

 Mail checks to:
     Continuing Professional Education – Unit 1781
     The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
     P.O. Box 301407
     Houston, TX 77230-1407

Telephone registrations will not be accepted.
When registering online a receipt (confirmation letter) will be automatically emailed to the e-mail address you list on the registration form.  Once your payment has been made, a receipt can be found in the MyCE tab of your PEP@MD Anderson account. 

Refund/Cancellation Policy The registration fee, minus a $50.00 administration-handling fee, is refundable if a written request is received on or before Friday, April 17, 2025.  No refunds will be granted after these dates. The request for a registration refund must include the tax identification number of the company or institution if registration was paid by a company or institution check. 

The Department of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) reserves the right to cancel activities prior to the scheduled date, if low enrollment or other circumstances make it necessary.  Each registrant will be notified by mail, e-mail, or at the phone or fax numbers given on the registration form.  In case of activity cancellation, the liability of the Department of Continuing Professional Education, is limited to the registration fee. CPE will refund the full registration fee. 

The Department of Continuing Professional Education, reserves the right to limit the number of participants in a program and is not responsible for any expenses incurred by an individual whose registration is not confirmed and for whom space is not available.

Special Assistance

For additional information contact Continuing Professional Education at 713-792-2223 or toll free at 866-849-5866 or via e-mail: [email protected]. If you have any ADA accommodation needs or need assistance.

Evaluation

A course evaluation tool will provide participants with the opportunity to comment on the value of the program content to their practice decisions, performance improvement activities, or possible impact on patient health status. Participants will also have the opportunity to comment on any perceived commercial bias in the presentations as well as to identify future educational topics.  The survey link will be provided during the review course.

In support of improving patient care, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation:

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 13.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 13.75 credit(s) of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 13.75 credit(s) of education in pain management and the prescription of opioids.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designates this live activity will award 13.75 Nursing Contact Hour(s) which includes 13.75 Pharmacotherapeutics credit(s)

American Board of Internal Medicine MOC Credit:

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 13.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center complies with all requirements of the identified accrediting body  (ACCME, ANCC, ACPE). Disclosure of speakers, faculty members, planning committee members and their commercial relationships will be shared with learners prior to the educational activity.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. All individuals in a position to control the educational content of a certified continuing education (CE) activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. There is no minimum financial threshold. An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used on or by patients. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the start of the activity.