Managing Chronic Pain: Maximizing Benefits and Minimizing Risks
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Description:
Chronic pain is common, debilitating, and complex to manage. This webinar is designed to increase primary care and behavioral health provider skills and confidence to assess patients’ chronic pain and to develop and implement evidence-informed, patient-directed care plans. Education will focus on effective patient-provider goal setting, risk mitigation, and communications strategies. Case studies will demonstrate how to apply what we learn to common clinical scenarios.
Earn 1 Behavioral Health continuing education credit (CEUs) for attending this webinar.
Objectives:
Participants in this webinar will be able to:
- Describe the benefits of multidimensional (pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic) treatment integration in chronic pain management.
- Apply evidence-based techniques to screen for and assess patients with chronic pain for concurrent behavioral health conditions and/or substance use disorders.
- Summarize a risk-benefit framework for opioid therapy that aligns with CDC recommendations.
- Apply communications strategies to effectively collaborate with patients on chronic pain management plans
Presenter:
Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, is a board-certified primary care physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where he specializes in general internal medicine, pain management, and opioid use disorder. He is also a professor of medicine, director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program, and associate dean of continuing medical education at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine while directing the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at BMC. Dr. Alford has been recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House and has received the American Medical Association Foundation Award for health education.