Orphan
Health Topics:
Public
Policy and Clinical Issues
Faulkner
Hospital
November
17, 2000
(CME Credits
for Medicine, Dental, Psychology)
7:45-8:15 Registration/Coffee
8:15-8:20 Noshir Mehta, DMD, MS; Director Gelb
Pain center and Chair Dept. of General Dentistry, Tufts University School of
Dental Medicine
8:30-8:40 Milton Glass, MBA; Renee Glass: Co-Founders and Co-Presidents of the Jaw
Joints Allied Musculo-Skeletal Disorders Foundation
Introductory Remarks: “Jaw Joints; TMJ Awareness”
840:8:45 Ronald J. Kulich, Ph.D. Program
Chair
The Clinical Syndromes
8:45-9:45 Daniel Clauw, MD“TMJ, Fibromyalgia, and other Pain Syndromes”
9:45-10:15 Granham
Sant, MD. “Interstitial Cystitis: Policy
Issues with Underserved Populations”
10:15-10:45 Elizabeth Loder, MD, “Chronic Headache: The Rising Controversy of Opioid Maintenance”
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
Public Policy Issues
11:00-12:00 Daniel Carr, MD, “Guideline Development and
Implementation: Practice Issues Confronting Clinicians”
12:00-12:45 Daniel Shimshak, Ph.D. & Maureen C.
DeFuria, MS, “Cost and Health Care
Utilization of Insured Claims Payments”
12:45-2:00 Lunch and Roundtable Discussion, Ronald J.
Kulich, Ph.D. Moderator
2:00-2:30 Anne Meneghetti, MD.Director of Health Policy & Education, Blue cross Blue Shield
of Massachusetts “Health Plan Coverage Decisions for Orphan Health Issues”
2:30-2:45 Peter Meade “Current Policy Issues Confronting Health Insurers”
2:45-3:30 Keynote:
The View from
Capital Hill: Providing Access Care for Underserved Populations
3:30 Questions
and Commentary
4:00 Adjourn
Sponsors: Tufts
University School of Dental Medicine
The
Faulkner Hospital
Jaw
Joints and Allied Muscular-Skelrtal Disorders Foundation Inc.
Purdue
Pharma L.P.
Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Orphan
Health Topics:
Public
Policy and Clinical Issues
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