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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Clinical

Ouch! What's New in Pain?

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Central Time

    Moderator(s)

  • Jason Liebowitz, MD

    Columbia University Medical Center
    Englewood, New Jersey, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • ED

    Eric Dein, MD, RhMSUS

    Institute of Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases, Overlook Hospital
    Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

Finding appropriate pain management therapies for rheumatology can be a real pain for patients and physicians. Non-inflammatory pain is common in rheumatic patients and requires different treatment from standard anti-rheumatic therapies. From cannabis to suzetrigine, novel therapies in pain management are in the physician armamentarium—but do they work? This session will review the latest on evaluation, non-pharmacologic, and medication treatments for pain therapies in patients with rheumatic disease.

Learning Objectives:

  • Assess rheumatology patients for the presence of inflammatory versus nociceptive pain
  • Construct multi-modal treatment plans for patients using integrative and non-pharmacologic therapies
  • Select the appropriate pharmacologic treatments for pain management in rheumatology patients

Presentations:

  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Central Time
    Where Is Fibromyalgia in 2025?

    Speaker: Michael Kaplan, MD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Central Time
    What's New in the Pharmacologic Treatment of Pain?

    Speaker: Yvonne Lee, MD, MMSc – Northwestern University