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Opioid Use Disorder & Pain Management in Older Adults

Every Tuesday, 8:00-9:00 AM

8AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ available

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The goal of this series is to help community-based primary care providers become more competent and comfortable delivering care to older adult patients with chronic pain and opioid use disorder by providing practical knowledge and skills for managing pain, utilizing multimodal and non-pharmacologic and appropriate pharmacologic approaches to pain in older adults, assessing and mitigating risks to older adults when prescribing opioids, and treating opioid use disorder in this patient population.

Topics for Case-Based Learning and Discussion Include:

  • Pain assessment
  • OUD Screening & Diagnosis
  • OUD Treatment
  • Special considerations for pain management in older adults (cognition, function, SDOH, caregivers)
  • Non-pharmacologic Pain Treatments
  • Pain medicine selection, titration, substitution, and tapering
  • Behavioral health and pain psychology
  • Opioid Prescribing

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Topic Specialists

Katherine Thompson, M.D.

Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, University of Chicago

Mim Ari, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago 

Stacie Levine, MD

Director of Geriatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program & Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago

George Weyer, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago 

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