CRPS, RSD & Medical Thermography
CME Accredited Scientific Session
CME Accredited Scientific Session
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Greenville, South Carolina April 30th, 2011
South Carolina Society of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Scientific Session
South Carolina Medical Association Annual Meetings
Speakers
Srini Govindan, M.D.Neurology, Sleep Medicine & Pain ManagementDr. Govindan is the Executive Director of the American Academy of Thermology. Dr. Govindan practices at Neurodiagnotics/IDM in Wheeling, West Virginia His residency training in Neuropathology was from the in Neurology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD and completed his residency in Neurology at the West Virginia University Medical Center, Morgantown, WV.
He is Board Certified by the American Academy of Pain Management, The American Board of Forensic Medicine and the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. He is a Fellow of the American College of Angiology, The American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians, The American College of Forensic Examiners and The Fellow American Academy of Thermology.
We Help What Hurts
Sponsors:
South Carolina Medical Association
Piedmont Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, PA
Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, Greenville, SC
The American Academy of Thermology
The City of Greenville, SC
Southern Tide
Medtronic
Keynote Speakers:
An International Panel of Distinguised Professors
Guest Professors:
Moderator: Robert G. Schwartz, MDCourse Planner: Jeffrey Lefko
Course Planner: Jeffrey LefkoMarcos Leal Brioschi, MD, PhDGeneral Surgery, Forensic Sciences Dr. Brioschi is the president of the Brazilian Thermology Society. He is also the Editor in Chief of The Journal of Pan American Medical Thermology.Dr. Brioschi is a graduate in Surgery from Universidade Federal do Paraná in 1996 and received his master's in Medicine from Faculdade Evangélica do Paraná in 2000. He earned his PhD in Surgery from the Universidade Federal do Paranáin 2003. Dr. Brioschi is a Post-doctoral Faculty of Medicine at the Hospital and Clinics of the Universidade of Sao Paulo within the Department of Neurology. He has experience in Surgery, Forensic Medicine and Clinical Thermology (infrared imaging, thermography). He has special interest in the following subjects: pain management, breast cancer, angiology and surgery.
Kamayni Agarwal-Kozlowski, MDAnesthesiologyDr Agarwal-Kozlowski is Medical Director at the Center for Palliative Care and Pain Management, Hanseatic Care, in Hamburg, Germany. She has sub specialization in Pain Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Neural Therapy and Psychosomatic Care. Dr. Agarwal-Kozlowski is a member of the German Association for Anesthesiology and intensive Care, the German Association for Palliative Medicine, the German chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and the German Association for Acupuncture. She has utilized Medical Thermology for the past 16 years and has special interest in interventional pain management of neuropathic, sympathetically maintained and malignancy associated pain.Robert G. Schwartz, MDPhysical Medicine & Rehabilitation`Dr. Schwartz owns and operates Piedmont Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, PA, inGreenville, SC. Within his practice he specializes in pain diagnosis and treatment, physical medicine & rehabilitation, and peripheral vascular medicine.Dr. Schwartz completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, attended medical school at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and completed his residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. He is Board Certified Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Pain Management, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Orthopedic Medicine and Thermology. Dr. Schwartz is also a Fellow of the Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology. Dr. Schwartz is the President of the American Academy of Thermology, the Executive Director for the South Carolina Society for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and the Medical Director for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina.
Hisashi Usuki, MD, PhD. Surgical OncologyDr. Usuki is the Director and Chief of the Japanese Association of Thermology. Dr. Usuki is a Clinical professor and the Director of the Surgical Center at Kagawa University Hospital in Kagawa, Japan. Dr. Usuki is a member of the International Society of Surgery, the Society of Medical Innovation and Technology, and on the Editorial Board for the journal Thermology International. His published areas of research include Thermographic examination of breast disease, surgical therapy for digestive cancer and postoperative quality of life, efficiency improvement of surgical care centers and thermal management of patients in operative rooms.
Ho-Yeol Zhang, MD, PhDNeurosurgeryDr. Zhang is a Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at Yonsel University College of Medicine in Seoul, S.Korea and a Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery at Yongdong Severence Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine.Dr. Zhang completed his postdoctoral research in the Neurosurgery Spine Lab at Stanford University, California. He Chairs the Scientific Committee for the Korean Society of Thermology. Dr. Zhang also owns patents for the Cervical Artificial Disc,and Cervical Intervertebral Cage. Dr. Zhang has several Thermography related publications on topics including carpal tunnel syndrome, radiculopathy, lumbar degenerative disc disease, lumbar sympathectomy, discography in multiple HLD, whiplash, gastroesophogeal reflux, and airport security for travelers likely to commit crimes or be involved in narcotic abuse.
Kurt F. Heitman, M.D.
Opthamology
Dr. Heitman is a graduate of the Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and completed his residency in Ophthalmology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Heitman has been Chief of Surgery- 92nd Strategic Hosp. Fairchild AFB, WA, Chief of Dept. Ophthalmology- Greenville Hosp. System and President, South Carolina Society of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Heitman has been a pioneer in Somato Visceral involvement, especially
involving diseases of the eye, in patients with RSD and Barre Lieou Syndromes.
He has given several lectures on Ocular Manifestations of Reflex Sympathetic
Dystrophy and is a Medical Advisor to the South Carolina Reflex Sympathetic
Dystrophy Association.
Ashish G. Shanbhag, M.D.
Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Interventional Spine & Pain Management
Dr. Shanbhag is Board Certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He went to medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina and completed his Residency training at the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama.
Dr. Shanbhag is President of the Spartanburg County Medical Society and The
South Carolina Society of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is the Executive Director South Carolina Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and is a Board Member South Carolina Medical Disciplinary Commission. He has been a Clinical Instructor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Neurology – Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and at the University of Minnesota, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
