Total Credits: 2 including 2 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)
Interventional Chronic Pain Management
During this presentation, the speaker will give a fresh outlook on interventional chronic pain management.
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy 101
This session will discuss basic indications for hyperbaric oxygen therapy and how that interacts with wound healing.
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Statement of Accreditation
The Texas Osteopathic Medical Association (TOMA) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. TOMA designates is program for a maximum of 2 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.
Grievance Policy
All grievances may be directed to TOMA's Executive Director at toma@txosteo.org. All grievances will receive an initial response within 30 days of receipt. If the participant does not receive a satisfactory response, they can submit a complaint to the Bureau of Osteopathic Education of the AOA at 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.
| Interventional Chronic Pain Management (2.9 MB) | 24 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy 101 (6.3 MB) | 29 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Dr. Panjak Mehta is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist trained at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He then completed an interventional pain fellowship at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic. During his training, Dr. Mehta was awarded a Harvard fellowship for NIH-sponsored research exploring the usefulness of drugs such as ketamine in chronic opioid therapy. His research on post-war chronic pain was highly acclaimed and published as a review article in a leading national journal.
Dr. Mehta has gained national recognition for his contributions to Interventional Pain Medicine and is considered a key opinion leader in the field of pain management. He runs a headache program in collaboration with local neurologists which encompasses multiple interventional strategies for chronic headaches and PTSD. He is also one of the first proctors for DRG-spinal modulation in Texas.
Dr. Mehta discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.
Raised in a poor town on the edge of St. Louis by his church elder Father and Mother who was the head of the Children's Ministry. His buddies called him Eins, which means one in German. He graduated with every honor from President of his class of 500 to Co-Captain of the football team. It was football that landed him a scholarship to Northeast Missouri State U., now renamed Truman State- The Harvard of the Midwest. It was here where he met his wife of 36 years. She started following him as he attended the founding Medical School of Osteopathy in Kirksville where he graduated in 1982. She then followed for a year to St. Louis for Internship. Four years to Chicago, where he completed a General Surgery Residency and then came his United States Navy payback. He did a tour in Puerto Rico as a General Surgeon then later went to Portsmouth Naval Medical Center as Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery. He returned to Midwestern University in Chicago with his wife Maureen and his now two girls, Katie and Michelle. Katie; later to be an Attorney Advisor in The US State Department, and Michelle, a Registered Nurse. It was there that he ran Surgical teams at a intercity Medical Center and then a Level One Trauma Center on the Southside of Chicago. His time was split between his duties of teaching Undergraduates, Medical Students and Surgery Residents as a Clinical Professor of Surgery. In 1996 he moved his family to Abilene, Texas and a community Surgical Practice, to His Chicago students dismay. He continued his connection to them by serving nationally to The American College of Osteopathic Surgeons first as a Treasurer, then Secretary and eventually as the Chairman of General Surgery of the ACOS. In the ladder fifteen years at Abilene Regional Medical Center he trained and practiced with a local physician doing Wound Care and Hyperbarics part of the time along with his General Surgery Practice. In 2010 he made it his Profession full time at Metroplex Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine in Killen, Texas. Here he has Partnered with Dr. Sprague Taveau to form Central Texas Wound Healing Associates. Conveniently named Dr. E and Dr. T have worked to expand their influence to include other Physicians and NPs in their Association. CTWHA has centers in Palestine, TXand at Rollins Brook Hospital in Lampasas, which has grown to include Hyperbaric Medicine along with a Swing Bed Unit for continued long term inpatient wound care. Always the teacher, the Doctor with the genuinely compassionate heart, who intently Listens. Dr. Einsteins Ears, humbly serves the community as DR. GLEN EINSPANIER.
Dr. Einspanier discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.
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