About this event

  • Date and time Fri 27 Jan 2023 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Pain Medicine

Visceral pain is largely overlooked compared to its somatic counterpart. However, visceral pain is often a significant part of many common medical conditions across different species, including irritable bowel syndrome and internal organ infections.

Attend this event to receive a detailed update on visceral pain. Throughout the day, our expert speakers will cover the sources and mechanisms of visceral pain, so that participants are able to effectively help patients and improve outcomes.

Participants will be able to understand:

  • The difference between visceral and somatic pain
  • Mechanisms associated with the aetiology of visceral pain
  • How to apply this knowledge in practice to benefit patients

 

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We would like to thank our sponsors Dechra Veterinary Products, Elanco and Zoetis for their support of this meeting. We would also like to thank Davies Veterinary Specialists who have provided sponsorship towards the drinks reception.
Please note that the main scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsors.

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Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Sibs Anwar, President, Pain Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Session 1

Chair: Dr Sibs Anwar, President of Pain Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Visceral pain: It’s complicated, but what are the opportunities for treatment?

Professor Stuart Brierley, Director, Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology. Director, Visceral Pain Research Group, Flinders University and South Australian Health
and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia

Chronic pelvic pain

Professor Katy Vincent, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow in Pain in Women and Honorary Consultant Gynaecologist 

Tea and coffee break

Session 2

Gut feelings; peripheral mechanisms of pain in IBS and IBD

Dr David Bulmer, Associate Professor and Part II Pharmacology Course Coordinator, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge

Psychophysiological phenotype in visceral pain

Professor Qasim Aziz, Professor of Neurogastroenterology, Queen Mary University of London

Questions and answers
Lunch

Session 3

Visceral pain in children and young people

Dr Helen Laycock, Consultant in Paediatric Pain and Anaesthesia, Great Ormond Street Hospital

Visceral pain in other species

Professor Richard Eddie Clutton, Clinical Director, Large Animal Research and Imaging Facility, Roslin Institute, Roslin Institute and University of Edinburgh

Questions and answers
Tea and coffee break
Talk title to be confirmed

Dr Peter Byrne, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Royal London Hospital and Dr Jayne Gallagher, Consultant, Pain Medicine, Cromwell Hospital

Panel discussion
Closing remarks

Dr Sibs Anwar

Close of meeting
Drinks reception
View the programme

Welcome and introduction

Dr Sibs Anwar, President of Pain Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Session 1

Chair: Dr Sibs Anwar, President of Pain Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Visceral Pain: It’s complicated, but what are the opportunities for treatment?

Professor Stuart Brierley, Director, Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology. Director, Visceral Pain Research Group, Flinders University and South Australian Health
and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia

Chronic pelvic pain

Professor Katy Vincent, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow in Pain in Women and Honorary Consultant Gynaecologist 

Comfort break

Session 2

Gut feelings; peripheral mechanisms of pain in IBS and IBD

Dr David Bulmer, Associate Professor and Part II Pharmacology Course Coordinator, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge

Clinical phenotyping of visceral pain

Professor Qasim Aziz, Professor of Neurogastroenterology, Queen Mary University of London

Questions and answers
Comfort break

Session 3

Visceral pain in children

Dr Helen Laycock, Consultant in Paediatric Pain and Anaesthesia, Great Ormond Street Hospital

Visceral pain

Professor Richard Eddie Clutton, Clinical Director; Large Animal Research and Imaging Facility, Roslin Institute, Roslin Institute and University of Edinburgh

Question and answers
Comfort break
Talk title to be confirmed

Dr Peter Byrne, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Royal London Hospital and Dr Jayne Gallagher, Consultant, Pain Medicine, Cromwell Hospital

Panel discussion
Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Dr Sibs Anwar, President of Pain Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Sponsors

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on 26 January 2023. Late registrations will not be accepted.  

The agenda is subject to change at any time 

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenters and RSM's discretion. 

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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