Congress for Pain Care Advancement Registry-Based Pain Care: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Path Forward

Wilmette, IL US
May 28, 2026
Patient registries have emerged as powerful tools to improve outcomes in pain medicine by enhancing our understanding of disease progression, evaluating therapeutic effectiveness, and informing both quality improvement and value-based care initiatives. Yet, despite their promise and technological advances, including EHR integration, machine learning, and automated analytics, the widespread and consistent application of registries in pain medicine remains limited.
 
This educational conference addresses critical professional practice gaps in knowledge, competence, and performance around the creation, integration, and utilization of registry-based pain care. Pain medicine clinicians recognize the potential of registries, but face significant technical, operational, and financial barriers to implementation and clinical workflow integration. Few healthcare systems currently exploit registries to their full potential for pain medicine, and key challenges have stymied broader adoption at scale.
 
Through a dynamic agenda of didactic presentations and interactive roundtables, this conference convenes interdisciplinary experts and stakeholders to explore opportunities in registry-driven patient care. Faculty will present practical insights and evidence-based strategies designed to overcome real-world barriers and leverage registries for improving outcomes, driving research, supporting equitable care, and facilitating point of care decision-making.
 
A core activity will be collaborative development of guiding principles for registry-based pain care: articulating value, detailing key challenges, and providing implementable solutions. Input from attendees in roundtable sessions will directly inform a consensus-driven white paper, ultimately defining a framework for advancing registry-based care in pain medicine.

Target Audience

This event is designed for Pain medicine physicians, clinicians, practice administrators, health informatics professionals, and other stakeholders interested in advancing registry-based care and improving patient outcomes in pain medicine.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Summarize the current state of registry-based pain care
  • Avoid common pitfalls and identify solutions to practical challenges in deploying patient registries for pain care
  • Implement strategies for using registries to improve patient outcomes, support quality improvement, advance research, and enhance value in pain care
  • Contribute to innovation in the use of patient registries to advance the field of pain medicine
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Medical Knowledge
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Michelle Knizer
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
[email protected]
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
(224) 251-2467

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Summary
Available credit: 
  • 8.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 8.50 Participation
Event starts: 
05/28/2026 - 8:00am
Event ends: 
05/28/2026 - 5:30pm
Activity opens: 
05/03/2026
Activity expires: 
06/28/2026
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Michigan Shores Club
911 Michigan Ave
Wilmette, IL 60091
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
For more information, contact Michelle Knizer via e-mail.
 
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing leqal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact us via email.
 
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
COURSE DIRECTOR
David Dickerson, MD
 
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and Endeavor Health. The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other Healthcare Professions Credit
Other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
 
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