Other Meetings

Please find below a list of meetings, events and seminars that may be of interest to our members and non-members working in the field of pain research and pain management.

2008

May

31st Annual SASP Congress & Pain Course
(Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain)
8-11 May 2008
Turku, Finland

For further information please email the Congress Secretariat at congress@utu.fi

The Many Facets of Back Pain - Royal Society of Medicine
Friday 16 May 2008
University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Belfast.

This meeting will focus on the varied clinical presentation of back pain and the multidimensional nature of its management.

For more information and to register online, please visit: http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/backpainire.php

For further information and assistance, please contact Chloe Waite:
020 7290 3844 - chloe.waite@rsm.ac.uk

British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis - National Conference BSCA
Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th May 2008
Stansted Hilton Hotel Essex

Open to non-members of BSCAH, there will be themed presentations concerning hypnosis and pain with various speakers.

For more details and application form contact Karen Mackrodt at karen.mackrodt@gp-f81149.nhs.uk

Early applications before March 31st will have discount.

Pathways to work - Royal Society of Medicine
Wednesday 21 May 2008
Freemason's Hall, 36 Bridge Street, Manchester, M3 3BT

Enjoyment of an optimal state of health is key to human wellbeing. Do the beneficial effects of work outweigh the risks to health and wellbeing of unemployment and prolonged absence from work on health grounds? What progress has been made in the roll-out of the Government's Pathways to Work Programme? What are the aims and objectives of the Government's Health, Work and Well-being Strategy and what outcomes are expected to be realised by this strategy?

These and other related issues will be explored in depth in this conference. For more information and to register online, please visit: http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/pathmay08.php

For further information and assistance, please contact Chloe Waite:
020 7290 3844 - chloe.waite@rsm.ac.uk

Two Day Interventional Cadaver Workshop
Friday 23 & Saturday 24 May 2008
Bialystock, Poland

With the Pain Management & Neuromodulation Centre, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK For further details e-mail: ciaran.wazir@gstt.nhs.uk, telephone 020 7188 4718 or visit www.paincentreatgstt.blogspot.com

13th International Pain Clinic Congress
29 May - 1 June 2008
Seoul, Korea

Further information can be found by visiting www.pain-wspc2008.org

June

5th International Low Intensity Laser Therapy Conference
5th - 7th June 2008
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Register online or by phone at: www.bioflexlaser.com or (888) 557-4004

Diagnostic Problems in the Pain Clinic - Royal Society of Medicine
Thursday 12 June 2008
Western Rooms, Liverpool Cathedral, 1 St James Mount, Liverpool

The aim of the meeting is to introduce diagnostic approaches employed in the management of chronic pain, with an emphasis on conditions refractory to conventional treatment. Treatment plans are not only based on aetiology but also presumed pathophysiology, type and quality of the pain itself. At the end of the course the attendees will have learned to diagnose different types of pain, essentials of assessment of chronic pain patients with diverse conditions, and how to develop a treatment plan.

For more information and to register online, please visit: http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/painliverpool.php

For further information and assistance, please contact Chloe Waite:
020 7290 3844 - chloe.waite@rsm.ac.uk

The 3rd Travelling Pain Symposium, Destination Avignon, France
13-15 June 2008
With the Pain Management & Neuromodulation Centre, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital

For further information please email: cezza_wazir@yahoo.com or call on +44 (0)20 7188 4718, or visit our website: www.paincentreatgstt.blogspot.com

5th EFIC-European Pain School
15 - 22nd June
University of Siena

This Summer School in a wonderful historical ambiente of Toscana will provide a Postgraduate Program on Pain for young biomedical scientists. The Scholars at the PhD or PostDoc level, working in a field of basic or clinical pain research, will have a week full of interactive encounter with experienced senior pain scientists.

The Pain School is promoted and partially funded by EFIC, and therefore the School is particularly aimed at attracting potential Scholars who are members or otherwise associated to European Pain Societies forming EFIC.

for more information please visit: www.unisi.it/pain-school

Completed applications should be sent to Professor Anna Maria Aloisi at europeanpainschool@unis.it

"PIECING IT TOGETHER”: Partnership Working to Meet the Palliative and End of Life Care Needs of People with Neurological Conditions
16th June 2008 the Royal College of Nursing, London

The key aims of this event are:

• Highlight the importance of palliative and end of life for people with neurological conditions
• Explore the current level of involvement between neurology and palliative care services and challenges that are faced
• Identify unmet training needs and address these
• Offer practical solutions to these challenges on managing people with neurological conditions towards the end of life
• Showcase good practice to influence clinical practice on the ground
• Provide a forum to discuss how the information learnt can be transferred into realistic actions to initiate change
  

100% of the delegates who attended our last Neurological Conditions & Palliative Care conference rated it as "very good" or "good".

For further information please contact Mridu Rana at m.rana@ncpc.org.uk

August

Satellite meeting of NeuP SIG
The Special Interest Group on neuropathic pain of IASP
Wednesday 13 - Friday 15 August 2008
The Royal Society of Medicine

For further information please go to www.kenes.com/neuropathic2008, telephone +41 22 908 0488 or email neuropathic2008@kenes.com

Satellite Meeting - 12th World Congress on Pain 2008
The changing face of pain management programmes
Wednesday 13 - Friday 15 August 2008
The Sherrington Suite, University of Liverpool
Hosted by The Pain Relief Foundation

For further information please go to www.painrelieffoundation.org.uk/pmpliv08, telephone +41 529 5822 or email pmpliv08.ac.uk

Satellite Meeting - 12th World Congress on Pain
Nociceptors - New Biology
15th and 16th August 2008 (preceding the World Congress)
Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland


This symposium will include:

* presentations by invited speakers on various aspects of nociceptor biology,

* workshops addressing emerging tools and strategies for study of nociceptors and

* poster presentations.


The registration fee includes a welcoming sandwich reception at The Royal Society of Edinburgh from 6 - 8 p.m. on Thursday 14th August and a Symposium Reception at The Royal Society of Edinburgh from 6 - 8 p.m. on Friday 15th August. Registration is limited; make reservations now.


For information about registration, lodging and the program, visit:
http://www.edinburghneuroscience.ed.ac.uk/nociceptorsymposium2008

Satellite Meeting - 12th World Congress on Pain 2008
Ultrasound guidance for the diagnosis and interventional management of pain
Friday 15th - Saturday 16th August 2008
Hunterian Museum and Laboratory of Anatomy, Glasgow, UK
Organised by Dr Colin McCarthney (Toronto) and Dr Barry Nicholls (Taunton)

For further information please go to www.painultrasound.com, telephone 0044 1823 343886 or email barrynicholls@doctors.org.uk

Satellite Meeting - 12th World Congress on Pain 2008
Using research to improve the lives of people with chronic pain in the community
Friday 14th - Saturday 15th August 2008
Kings College, Univeristy of Aberdeen, Scotland
Organised by Aberdeen Pain Research Collaboration, The University of Aberdeen, Scotland EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Primary Care Sciences Research Center, Keele University, England.

For further information please contact Lorraine Middleton, +44 (0)1224 552495 or epidemiology@abdn.ac.uk or visit www.abdn.ac.uk/aprc

Satellite Meeting - 12th World Congress on Pain 2008
Update on Urogenital Pain - Current Issues and controversies
August 15th and 16th 2008
Marriott Hotel Glasgow

For further information please contact: Karen.Kendall@stees.nhs.uk or by phone at
+44 (0)1642 854601

Web: http://indoorcat.org/pugo/

Organised by PUGO (SIG IASP)
Dr A P Baranowski London UK
Dr J Hughes Middlesbrough UK

International Association for the Study of Pain: 12th World Congress on Pain
Sunday 17-Friday 22 August 2008
Scottish Exhibition + Conference Centre, Glasgow UK

For further information please visit www.iasp-pain.org/2008congress.htm

October

Pain Symposium & 3rd Interventional Pain Management Workshop
17-19 October 2008
London, UK

With the Pain Management & Neuromodulation Centre, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK For further details e-mail: ciaran.wazir@gstt.nhs.uk, telephone 020 7188 4718 or visit www.londonpainworkshop.com

2009

March

5th World Congress World Institute of Pain – WIP
13-16 March 2009, New York USA

World Institute of Pain Congress will feature a rich and varied scientific program including Refresher Courses, Satellite Symposia sponsored by prominent pharmaceutical companies, Meet the Expert sessions with renowned pain specialists, Plenary Sessions and Topical Seminars.

For further information please visit http://www.kenes.com/wip/ or email wip@kenes.com

Natalie Shabi
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Tel: +41 22 908 0488
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