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ECHO-Chicago: Opioid Use Disorder & Pain Management in Older Adults
September 30, 2025 to November 18, 2025
Sharpen Your Skills in Geriatric Pain and Opioid Management!
Are you ready to feel more confident managing chronic pain, opioid use, and opioid use disorder (OUD) in older adults?
This interactive, 8-week ECHO-based series is designed specifically for community-based primary care clinicians who want practical, real-world tools to improve outcomes for older patients. You'll gain up-to-date clinical insights and proven strategies to navigate the complex intersection of aging, pain, and substance use, while learning alongside an interdisciplinary team of leading geriatricians, addiction specialists, and pain experts.
Each week features:
- High-yield didactics focused on the latest clinical decision support tools, pain management updates, and best practices in OUD care for older adults
- Real-case consultations, where you'll bring your challenges and leave with solutions
- Collaborative learning grounded in shared decision-making, patient preferences, and whole-person care
Topics include:
- Navigating cognitive impairment and social factors in pain treatment
- Safe prescribing and deprescribing of opioids
- Non-pharmacologic pain solutions tailored to older adults
- Early identification and treatment of OUD
- Integrating patient-centered care into your everyday practice
Whether you're seeking to improve comfort in prescribing, reduce risk, or enhance your care team’s approach, this series delivers relevant, actionable guidance you can use immediately.
Join us to transform your approach to geriatric pain and opioid care one patient at a time.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for community-based primary care clinicians dedicated to providing the highest level of care to older adult patients with chronic pain and opioid use disorder.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify shared decision-making techniques for managing pain in older adults;
- Recognize unique considerations for managing pain in older adults, such as cognitive and functional impairments, pharmacokinetics, adverse drug events, and common types and chronicity of pain;
- Reiterate how to treat opioid use disorder in older adults;
- Select appropriate pharmacologic approaches to pain in older adults;
- Summarize how to assess risk factors for opioid use disorder in older adults;
- Describe how to assess pain in and set functional pain goals with older adults;
- Discuss multimodal and non-pharmacologic approaches to pain management in older adults;
- Explain how to mitigate risks to older adults when prescribing opioids.
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| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9/30/25 | Orientation to ECHO-Chicago & Pain assessment Kate Thompson, MD |
| 10/7/25 | Special considerations for pain management in older adults (cognition, function, SDOH, caregivers) Kate Thompson, MD |
| 10/14/25 | Behavioral health and pain psychology Nancy Beckman, PhD |
| 10/21/25 | Non-pharmacologic pain treatments Kate Thompson, MD |
| 10/28/25 | Pain medicine selection, titration, substitution, and tapering Kate Thompson, MD |
| 11/4/25 | Opioid Prescribing Mim Ari, MD |
| 11/11/25 | OUD Screening & Diagnosis Mim Ari, MD |
| 11/18/25 | OUD Management Mim Ari, MD |
Agenda is subject to change.
Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Visit the ECHO-Chicago website!
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal 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 ECHO-Chicago 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.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COURSE DIRECTORS
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 educational 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 before 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,e in the content.
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 educational 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 before 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,e in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (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 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants 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.
Other participants 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.
Please note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months may incur additional fees.
Registration: For more information about ECHO-Chicago, visit the program website below.
ECHO-CHICAGO WEBSITE
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Please note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months may incur additional fees.
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Please note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months may incur additional fees.
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