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Lonnie K. Zeltzer, M.D.

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Lonnie K. Zeltzer, M.D.

Comprehensive Approaches to Managing Chronic Pain
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Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Pain Program
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Dr. Zeltzer is a Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA . She is also Associate Director of the Patients and Survivors Program in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and is Director of the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program. She has over 200 publications, including her recently published book, “Conquering your Child’s Chronic Pain: a Pediatrician’s Guide for Reclaiming a Normal Childhood,” (HarperCollins, 2005). She has been an invited expert on the Peter Jennings Show, Today Show, Discovery Channel, and Public Television, as well as others, including a recent filming for the update of the mind-body series on PBS. She and her husband co-hosted the most widely tuned in medical program for WebMD on the internet. She was also featured in a leading Newsweek story in May, 2004, on pediatric pain, and in a September, 2004, New York Times article on belly pain in children.

Objectives:

• To understand the development of chronic pain.
• To learn how to evalutate and manage chronic pain.