Behavioral, Psychological, and Social Dimensions

BPS-01 - Choose Your Own Pain Adventure: You v. Artificial Intelligence, Can You Beat the Algorithm

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

1:05 PM - 1:55 PM PDT

Co-Presenter(s)

Carrie R. Hyde, MD

Chief Medical Officer
Gentiva Hospice, Illumia Health, Empatia Palliative Care
North Little Rock, Arkansas
Johnathan H. Goree, MD

Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurosciences Service Line Director
University of Arkansas for Medical Science
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Arkansas

In this fun and engaging session, faculty will present complex chronic pain cases using a “choose your own adventure” format. Through live audience polling and problem-based learning, participants will decide the next steps in diagnosis and management, actively shaping each patient’s care pathway. Audience decisions will then be compared in real time with recommendations generated by multiple lay and medical artificial intelligence platforms and clinical decision-support algorithms. This session allows participants to explore how clinical decisions influence patient trajectories while critically assessing whether current AI tools aid, hinder, or potentially replace real-world clinical experience. Attendees should expect to learn, reflect, debate, laugh, and leave with a clearer understanding of where human expertise still matters most in pain care.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize how early clinical decisions influence long-term pain trajectories, patient trust, and functional outcomes.
Assess the downstream clinical, economic, and ethical consequences of different pain management strategies.
Compare clinician-driven versus algorithm-informed treatment recommendations in complex pain scenarios.
Discuss how to collaborate instead of compete with AI pain platforms.
Apply principles of shared decision-making and collaborating care to complex patient care situation.