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Liverpool ASM 2012

For a copy of the full programme please click here.

Scientific Programme

Wednesday 25th April 2012

09:20-09:45 Welcome in the Auditorium
Professor Richard Langford, President of the British Pain Society
Professor Gary Macfarlane, Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee
09:45-10:30 British Pain Society Patrick Wall Lecture, Plenary Session 1
Peripheral contributions to chronic visceral pain states
Professor Gerald Gebhart
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30

Parallel Sessions A1-A7
Participants are asked to choose one from the following seven sessions and indicate their preferred option on the registration form:

A1 Practical analgesia in the developing world: making a silk purse (Pain in Developing Countries SIG)
Dr Clare Roques, Chair

A2 Assessment and management of pelvic pain (Interventional Pain Medicine SIG)
Dr Sanjeeva Gupta, Chair

A3 Medicolegal aspects of pain management (MedicoLegal SIG)
Dr Jon Valentine & Dr Raj Munglani, Chairs

A4 Citius, Altius, Fortius: launching our Olympic pain education campaign (Pain Education SIG )
Dr Emma Briggs, Chair

A5 Data collection (Clinical Information SIG)
Dr Barbara Hoggart, Chair

A6 Getting in touch with reality; PMP effectiveness: perspectives from patient, clinicians and commissioners (Pain Management Programme SIG)
Dr Kerry Matthews, Chair

A7 Motivating the patient with chronic pain
Professor Mark Jensen, Chair

12:30-14:00 Lunch and Meeting
14:00-14:45 Plenary Session 2
Optimising pain management in older persons
Dr Gisèle Pickering
14:45-15:30

Plenary Session
A clinician's guide to the jungle of psychological therapies for pain
Professor Mark Jensen

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions B1-B7

Participants are asked to choose one from the following seven sessions and indicate their preferred option on the registration form:

B1 Pelvic pain - in the pelvis or in the mind?
Dr Beverley Collett, Chair

B2 Musculoskeletal pain: getting the best from existing treatments
Professor David Walsh, Chair

B3 Neuropathic pain -neuroinflammatory mechanisms and future treatments (Neuropathic Pain SIG)
Dr Mick Serpell, Chair

B4 Qualitative methods in chronic pain research
Dr Mike Osborn, Chair

B5 E-pain: what is it and where can it take us?
Professor Christopher Eccleston, Chair

B6 Face2Face: improving facial pain consultations
Professor Joanna M.Zakrzewska, Chair

B7 Current status of neuro-ablation in chronic pain
Professor Turo Nurmikko, Chair

Thursday 26th April
09:00-09:45 Plenary Session 4
The role of neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of neuropathic pain
Professor David Bennett
09:45-10:30 Poster Viewing Session (Session 5)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Poster Prize Presentations
12:15-13:30 Lunch & Meetings
13:30-15:00

Parallel Sessions C1-C7

Participants are asked to choose one from the following seven sessions and indicate their preferred option on the registration form:

C1 Cochrane Collaboration: evidence for interventions in pain and palliative care
Professor Christopher Eccleston, Chair

C2 Neuropathic pain management in vulnerable older adults
Dr Amanda Clarke, Chair

C3 Cancer survivorship: the pain of the gain
Professor Jon Raphael, Chair

C4 Road traffic accidents - more than just a pain in the neck
Dr Gareth Jones, Chair

C5 Motor disorders in patients with chronic pain: insights from complex regional pain syndrome and phantom limb pain
Professor Bob van Hilten, Chair

C6 Advanced nursing practice in pain management
Ms Felicia Cox, Chair

C7 Pain management with torture survivors presenting with PTSD
Dr Shoma Khan, Chair

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:15 Plenary Session 7
Chronic migraine - difficult for patients, difficult for doctors
Dr David Watson
16:15 - 16:20 Poster Prize Awards
Friday 27th April 2012
09:00-09:45

Plenary Session 8
Cancer pain classification: are we reaching an international system and how may it influence clinical practice?
Professor Stein Kaasa

09:45-10:30 Plenary Session 9
Evidence-based management of musculoskeletal pain in primary care
Professor Nadine Foster
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30

Parallel Sessions D1-D7

Participants are asked to choose one from the following seven sessions and indicate their preferred option on the registration form:

D1 Diagnostician, Technician or Physician? The dilemma of diagnosis in the pain clinic
Dr Andrew Lawson, Chair

D2 The future of pain medicine?
Dr Andrew Baranowski, Chair

D3 Suffering and how modern healthcare can best ensure good care of patients and their pain (Philosophy and Ethics SIG)
Dr Mike Platt, Chair

D4 Delivering the message (Pain in Children SIG)
Dr Alison Bliss, Chair

D5 Enhanced recovery: is ketamine the answer? (Acute Pain SIG)
Dr Jane Quinlan, Chair

D6 Self management strategies in the community/primary care setting (Primary Care SIG)
Ms Val Conway, Chair

D7 Guidelines for the management of pain in older adults (Pain in Older People SIG)
Professor Pat Schofield, Chair

12:40-13:30 British Pain Society Lecture, Plenary Session 10
A normal psychology of pain
Professor Chris Eccleston

 

 

 
 

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