Integrating Pain Treatment into Your Spine Practice

This book fills the gap in knowledge and patient care by showing spine surgeons how to integrate pain management techniques into their practice. The first of its kind, Integrating Pain Treatment into Your Spine Practice is in tune with current efforts by major neurosurgical and neuromodulation societies and leading manufacturers of neuromodulation equipment to educate spine surgeons on the management of their patients’ post-surgical pain.   

Dr. Falowski is Director of Functional Neurosurgery at St. Lukes University Health Network in Bethlehem, PA with a practice involving spinal procedures, as well as neuromodulation. He trained in complex spinal procedures at Thomas Jefferson University, as well as completed a functional fellowship at Rush University.  

He is faculty of both Congress of Neurological Surgeons and American Association of Neurological Surgeons, as well as a board member of the CNS/AANS Pain Committee. He is on the board of directors for the North American Neuromodulation Society(NANS) as well as scientific program chair for the annual meetings.    

His major focus in society and industry revolves around education, integration of specialties, and practice management. He is the course director of the annual NANS spinal cord stimulation/neuromodulation workshop that is the largest international course available and brought to the forefront the integration of neuromodulation among various specialties including Pain, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. He also serves as course director for educational offerings across multiple surgical and pain societies including course director of the AANS workshop focusing on integrating pain therapies in spine practices. 

Dr. Pope is the President of Summit Pain Alliance in Santa Rosa, California.  He serves the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) as a Director-at Large, Membership Committee Chair, Advocacy and Policy Committee Co-chair, and is the Annual Meeting Co-Chair for the upcoming 2017 meeting.  He completed an Anesthesiology Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and went on Fellowship in Pain Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.  Following Fellowship, he advocated for pain care access and therapy as a congressional fellow to a member of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Sub-committee on Health

 

Dr. Pope is also engaged as the Co-Chair for the Special Interest Group in Neuromodulation for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA). Further, he is the Committee Chair for CME and Education for the International Neuromodulation Society (INS), working on efforts to improve global exposure to pain treatment and neuromodulation techniques.

 

Focused on education, Dr. Pope is centered on improving outcomes and safety.  He is well published in peer-reviewed journals, authored many chapters, textbooks and atlases, while presenting at regional, national, and international meetings.  Working foundationally on comprehensive workshops for fellows, residents, and physicians in practice, both domestically and internationally, Dr. Pope and his colleagues are working towards an improved neromodulation space.