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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, Guys
& 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
1-3, Rue de Chantepoulet
PO Box 1726
CH-1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 0488
Fax: +41 22 732 2850
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