OVERVIEW

2025 Opioids & Cancer ECHO: Caring for Patients with Chronic Pain is organized by VCU Health Continuing Education.

Start Date: December 2, 2025
End Date: December 2, 2028

Description:
Explain the basic definitions of chronic primary pain and chronic secondary pain and diagnose them in clinical practice and much more with Ajay Manhapra, MD.

Didactic and case discussion series on a cancer, opioid, pain management, and substance use topic with discussion guided by specialist providers. Our ECHO is a virtual network of serious illness care specialists and interdisciplinary team members seeking to improve patient care throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia and beyond. Our collaborators in addiction medicine and pharmacy provide insights in the management of high-risk patients.

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

Describe and identify nociplastic pain.
Explain the basic definitions of chronic primary pain and chronic secondary pain, including chronic cancer related pain, and diagnose them in clinical practice.
Verbalize the concepts of nociplastic pain, illness recovery, relief, and reward, and how they are integrated into the conceptualization of chronic pain and its management.
Organize comprehensive care for people with chronic pain.

ACCREDITATION & CREDITS

Accreditation:
In support of improving patient care, VCU Health Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

VCU Health Continuing Education designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

VCU Health Continuing Education designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (1.00 hours), General Attendance - Attendance without CE credit (1.00 hours), IPCE - Interprofessional Continuing Education Credit (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours)

1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

1 IPCE

1 CE Credits

1 Contact Hours

FACULTY

Ajay Manhapra

MDInternal Medicine, Addiction Medicine

Frederick Moeller

MDAddiction Medicine, Psychiatry

Teri Dulong-Rae

MSHAHealthcare Management

Susan Hong

MD, MPH, FACPInternal Medicine

SPECIALITIES

Behavioral HealthFamily MedicineGeneral and Internal MedicineGeneral PracticeHospital MedicineNurse PractitionerPain MedicinePharmacy TechnicianPhysician Assistants