Prescribing for chronic pain - theory and practice
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE
Unlike acute pain, chronic pain management is often treated by some as a side issue to their main agenda of diagnosis. This meeting will look at what prescribed products are available now and in the future together with the political levers to put chronic pain management centrally on the medical map.
Registration Details:
Student: £40
Trainee: £80
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £50
Consultant/GP: £150
RSM Retired Fellow: £30
RSM Student: £30
RSM Trainee: £40
RSM Associate: £40
RSM Fellow: £60
Meeting ref: PMA02
CPD: 5 credits
9.00 am |
Registration and coffee |
9.30 am |
Chairman's introduction |
9.40 am |
What is chronic pain? |
| Professor Tony Dickenson, Professor of Neuropharmacology, University College London | |
10.20 am |
Where is chronic pain? |
| Professor Irene Tracey, Director, Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain | |
11.00 am |
Coffee |
11.20 am |
Does diagnosis matter? |
| Dr Mark Richie, General Practitioner, Swansea | |
12.00 pm |
Lunch |
1.00 pm |
How should we manage chronic pain now? |
| Professor Turo Nurimikko, Pain Research Institute & Dept of Neurological Science, The Walton Centre, Liverpool | |
2.00 pm |
The future - new treatment options |
| Professor Henry McQuay, Professor of Clinical Anaesthetics, University of Oxford | |
2.40 pm |
Tea |
3.00 pm |
Prescribing for chronic pain |
| Dr Beverly Collett, Consultant in Pain Management, Leicester Royal Infirmary | |
4.00 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms |
4.05 pm |
Panel discussion and questions |
4.40 pm |
Chairman's summary |
4.55 pm |
Presentation of the Oswald Morton Essay Prize 2009-10 |
5.00 pm |
Close of meeting followed by the Annual General Meeting of the Section |
