PLENARY SESSION 5
Prof Stephen Hunt: Epigenetics and the challenge of chronic pain
Prof Michael Sullivan: The psychology of adverse pain outcomes
Dr Ivan Lin & Dr Juli Coffin: “His stoic indifference to pain” and other myths: Musculoskeletal pain in Aboriginal Australians
Q & A
PLENARY SESSION 4 Dr Judith Turner: Opioids, chronic pain and function: Recent findings and clinical perspective Prof Stuart Brierley: NaV1.1 and its contribution to chronic visceral pain Q & A
PLENARY SESSION 2 Dr Sean Mackey: Brain based biomarkers of acute and chronic pain Prof Mark Hutchinson: The “toll” of knowing you are sick: Implications for acute pain management and consequences for chronic agony SUNDERLAND LECTURE – Dr Judith Turner: Cognitive-behavioural treatments for chronic pain: Recent innovations, new insights & future directions
PLENARY SESSION 6 BONICA LECTURE – Dr Andrew Somogyi: Pain and analgesia in the era of genetics Prof Greg Crawford: Teaching medical students pain management in difficult end-of-life situations using simulation RISING STAR AWARD WINNER – Dr Melita Giummarra: Pain and psychological injury after trauma: Big data methods for big socio-economic problems PHD SCHOLARSHIP PRESENTATION…
PLENARY SESSION 1 Prof Stephen Hunt: New treatments for chronic pain: Rethinking the problem Dr Alexander McFarlane AO: The Patient Dilemma: The intertwined nature of chronic pain and post traumatic stress disorder
PLENARY SESSION 3 Dr Sean Mackey: Learning health systems: A new dawn in personalised pain care and real-world discovery research Dr Claire Ashton-James: In (certain) clinicians we trust TESS CRAMOND LECTURE – Dr Siobhan Schabrun: Non-invasive brain stimulation for treatment of pain: Therapeutic potential, limitations & controversies Dr Lee Gruner: A better MBS for all…