Dave Lysecki is the founder and Medical Director of the Quality of Life & Advanced Care program at McMaster Children's Hospital, an Associate Professor and Division Head of Pediatric Palliative Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University and has been recently appointed as the Medical Director of the Pediatric Hospice Project at the Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice Organization.

For more details on the Pediatric Hospice Project, please visit the following website: www.keatonshouse.org

Objectives:

1. Recognize methadone as a unique drug with unique properties.

2. Understand how methadone differs from other opioids and how this affects its utilization.

3. Understand scenarios where methadone may be a very important part of a multimodal pain plan.