ASM 2026: 21 - 23 April 2026, Harrogate

The British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) is the UK’s leading multidisciplinary conference on pain. Bringing together clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience, the ASM offers a unique forum to share the latest research, clinical innovations, and best practice in pain management. Delegates come to learn, connect, and collaborate - gaining new insights and inspiration to improve the lives of those living with pain.

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ASM 2025

VENUE
International Convention Centre Wales (ICC Wales)
The Coldra, Catsash Rd, Caerleon, Newport NP18 1DE, UK

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ACCOMODATION
Kenes Group will obtain special accommodation rates for BPS ASM 2025 participants. Please visit the accommodation page periodically.

KEY DATES

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ASM 2024 Highlights

Best Poster Oral Presentation Awards

Masseh Yakubi, UK
A Service Evaluation of a Novel Persistent Perioperative Pain Pathway at St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Graeme W T Newton, UK
UK BioBank Participants Carrying SCN9A Rare Variants Implicated in Inherited Neuropathic Pain Show No Increase in Pain or Analgesic Prescriptions

Kathrine Louise Jensen, Denmark
PICK1 inhibitors relieve ongoing and evoked hypersensitivity in multiple mouse models of pain in female and male mice with cross-laboratory validation

Johannes Gausden, UK
SenseCheQ: Leaping out of the Lab to the Home Environment for Patient-Centred Quantitative Sensory Testing

Amira Daher Daher, Israel
The effectiveness of an aerobic exercise on patients with chronic neck pain during a short and long-term follow up: A randomized control trail

Catherine Borra, UK
Dysmenorrhea and chronic pain at midlife: evidence from the UK National Child Development Study

Winner
 

Kathrine Louise Jensen, Denmark
PICK1 inhibitors relieve ongoing and evoked hypersensitivity in multiple mouse models of pain in female and male mice with cross-laboratory validation

BPS ASM 2024 – Programme in Numbers

• 7 Plenary Sessions
• 18 Parallel Sessions
• 3 Industry Sponsored Symposiums
• 4 Oral Poster Presentation Sessions
• 2 Attended Poster Viewing Sessions
• 90+ Speakers & Chairs & Presenters from different countries
• 140 Abstract Submissions (20 Oral  Poster Presentations + 108 Poster Presentations)
• We’ve had 12 abstracts from Nottingham, the home city of BPS ASM 2024