PAINWEEK 2026 · 20TH ANNIVERSARY
The GENIUS of Artificial Intelligence
Building the bridges that bring AI into modern pain medicine.
BECOME A GENIUS TODAY
Pick your next move.
Three session resources, all live: build your own AI avatar, try the pain diary, and take the roadmap with you.
- Live demo
MAKE IT YOURS
Create Your AI Avatar
Take a selfie and request a short sample avatar video delivered to your email.
Create your avatar - Live demo
GENIUS LIVE
Digital Pain Diary
A physician-guided post-injection check-in: a short clip before each question, answered on a phone in about a minute.
Try the demo - Ready
TAKE IT WITH YOU
Download the GENIUS roadmap
A practical Monday-morning guide to Govern, Evaluate, Navigate, Implement, Unite, and Sustain.
Download the one-pager
THE FRAMEWORK
Six letters. Six moves.
The same sequence whether you're a solo practice or a hospital pain service.
- Governbefore you buy anything
- Evaluatefind the bottleneck before you shop
- Navigateask the hard questions
- Implementsmall, on purpose
- Unitebuild the bridges
- Sustainkeep tending it
THE SPEAKER
Meet your presenter.
Ryan Budwany, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, PainHealth
Applying AI to pain medicine is the work that brought him to this stage: pairing emerging tooling with interventional expertise to change how pain is assessed, tracked, and treated.
His practice is built exclusively on interventional spine and pain procedures — targeted injections and minimally invasive techniques aimed at the source of the pain rather than at masking it. He trained under Dr. Tim R. Deer, and now teaches those techniques to other physicians.
He has published numerous book chapters, collaborated with NASA on research into spine health in space, presents at national meetings, and consults for medical and technology organizations.
Beyond the clinic: Executive Director of Medical Diplomats International, expanding care in underserved rural communities; a founder of the Global Spine Initiative; and a leader at the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience, where he advocates for early-career physicians.
FOLLOW UP
Keep building the bridge.
Questions after the session, or want this running in your own practice? Reach the practice directly.