Melissa Walker – AOA CO*RE REMS: Pain Management & Opioids: Balancing Risks & Benefits

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This CO*RE/GOMA Pain Management and Opioids: Balancing Risks and Benefits curriculum session has been recently revised to incorporate the most recent knowledge in this critical area of healthcare. The curriculum has been completely revised and now covers the following topics: the nature and pathophysiology of pain, assessing patients in pain, developing a pain treatment plan, initiating opioid therapy, managing patients on opioid analgesics, educating patients and caregivers, and understanding opioid use disorder. This training satisfies several states’ opioid education standards. It includes the material of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) education requirement (“Blue Print”), which was announced in September 2018.

Learners should be able to do the following by the end of the presentation: Describe the pathophysiology of pain in relation to pain management ideas. Assess people in pain accurately. Create a pain management strategy that is both safe and effective. Identify evidence-based non-opioid pain management alternatives. Determine the risks and advantages of opioid treatment. Continued opioid medication should be managed. Recognize behaviors that might indicate an opioid use issue.

Melissa Ann Walker, DO, MPA, is the founder and owner of Carol Clinic for Family-Centered Healthcare. Dr. Walker is the owner and creator of Carol Clinic for Family-Centered Healthcare, as well as a family medicine physician. Carol Clinic is named for Carol Williams Walker, her late mother. Dr. Walker’s mother died of a stroke at the age of 53 after being hospitalized for more than two years. Dr. Walker’s initial ambition to become a physician was renewed after her mother’s death. Dr. Walker earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master of Public Administration in Health Services from Grambling State University. She earned her medical degree from Midwestern University in Illinois and finished her family medicine residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Walker takes her responsibility to enhance humanity and help the disadvantaged and disenfranchised extremely seriously. She is now the President of the C.A. Whittier Medical Society and the Chair of her National Medical Association area, which includes nine states. Dr. Walker is a lively public speaker. She travels around the United States and overseas, speaking about healthcare concerns and other topics from a “medical and spiritual perspective.” Dr. Walker thanks God for all of her numerous blessings and abilities. She feels she was chosen for a vocation in medicine. “My objective is to make a difference in the lives of families, all families,” she frequently says.

DISCLOSURE: There are no relevant financial ties to reveal.

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