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An Impactful Pain Coaching Business: Solving the Opioid Epidemic

Physicians Practice Automation Summit - Oct 2021

<h6>Cheng-Huai Ruan, M.D.</h6>
So wonderful to have Dr. James Fricton on today. He&#8217;s a professor at the University of Minnesota, the School of Dentistry. And my gosh, I think that what we&#8217;re about to go through has blown my mind and I hope it blows yours because talk about an industry leading innovative technique, addressing chronic pain, but truly, truly getting to the root and not just talking about medications and stuff like that. So, Dr. Fricton&#8217;s got 35 years of full-time experience in healthcare and research and teaching with the focus on the field of chronic pain. And he&#8217;s developed something called PACT, which we&#8217;re gonna get into a little bit later on. And I think this is something that&#8217;s truly gonna change the world, and this is why I wanted him to be on our digital summit. So Jim, great having you here.

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Dr. James Fricton is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota in the Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, and Public Health and Senior Research Investigator for HealthPartners Institute. He has 35 years of full-time experience in clinical care, research, and teaching in with a focus on the field of chronic pain and more recently preventing chronic pain and addiction with research funding from National Institute of Health and other sponsors. He has developed and tested the Personalized Activated Care and Training (PACT) program to help providers implement patient centered care in routine care to prevent chronic pain and addiction. He also developed a Massive Open Online Course titled Preventing Chronic Pain: A Human Systems Approach at www.coursera.org. which has had over 60,000 participants from 176 different countries.

James Fricton

Dr. Ruan is the Founder and CEO of Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine. He devotes his career in practicing and building systems that allow for efficient delivery of healthcare. He is a board certified internal medicine physician but also have advised with companies to improve their workflow, company culture, marketing, and operations.
Dr. Ruan has over 600,000 social media followers across his platforms and has been vocal about improving doctor patient relationships in healthcare. Furthermore, he is part of a collaborative medicine coalition involving notable university healthcare systems such as Harvard, USC, and the Cleveland Clinic. He is also a clinical facilitator for University of Texas at Arlington Nursing School.

An Impactful Pain Coaching Business: Solving the Opioid Epidemic

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