About this event

  • Date and time Wed 16 Oct 2024 from 9:00am to 16 Oct 2024 at 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Pain Medicine

Join us for a thought-provoking day that dives into the latest concepts and rapidly evolving research reshaping the field of pain medicine. This event features expert clinicians and researchers who will share their insights through compelling lectures on diverse topics in pain management, including issues that have received limited attention, complex and refractory chronic pain problems, and improve the management of patients.

By attending this event, you will learn about:

  • The assessment and management of patients with pain associated with chemotherapy
  • The assessment and management of the painful dislocating shoulder
  • The current evidence on trauma-informed care and the placebo effect
  • The effect of gut health on pain
  • Hypnosis and its use in pain conditions
  • How people with pain perceive time and how this affects their management 
  • The current evidence on virtual reality for chronic pain rehabilitation 

 

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We would like to thank our sponsor Optibac for their support of this meeting. Please note that the main scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsor.

Tickets

Standard pricing available until 15 October 2024.

Member

RSM Fellow
Day 1
£96.00 Event
£60.00 Optional dinner
RSM Associate
Day 1
£60.00 Optional dinner
£57.00 Event
RSM Retired Fellow
Day 1
£60.00 Optional dinner
£57.00 Event
RSM Trainee
Day 1
£60.00 Optional dinner
£57.00 Event
RSM Student
Day 1
£60.00 Optional dinner
£30.00 Event

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors
Day 1
£176.00 Event
£60.00 Optional dinner
AHP / Nurse / Midwife
Day 1
£105.00 Event
£60.00 Optional dinner
Trainee
Day 1
£105.00 Event
£60.00 Optional dinner
Student
Day 1
£60.00 Optional dinner
£55.00 Event

Agenda

View the programme

Registration, tea and coffee

Welcome and introduction

Chair: to be confirmed

What is trauma informed care and why is it important?

Dr Deepak Ravindran, Consultant in Pain Medicine, The Royal Berkshire Hospital and Visiting Lecturer, Reading University 

Hypnosis and its use in pain management: the scientific and clinical evidence

Dr Rebecca Berman, Consultant in Pain Management, Royal Derby Hospital

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Virtual reality for chronic pain rehabilitation

Professor Rui Loureiro, Professor of Surgical & Rehabilitation Engineering, Head of University College London Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science, University College London

Pain and the microbiome

Dr Gillian Chumbley, Consultant Nurse – Pain Service, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Panel discussion
Lunch break

Afternoon introduction

Chair: To be confirmed

The placebo effect and pain management

Professor Flis Bishop, University of Southampton 

Perceptions of the passage of time during periods of acute and chronic pain and its clinical implications

Professor Ruth Ogden, School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University 

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break
The assessment and management of the painful dislocating shoulder

Chair: to be confirmed

Ms Anju Jaggi, Consultant Physiotherapist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital 

The assessment and management of pain associated with chemotherapy

Dr Matthew Brown, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital and Honorary Associate, Faculty of the Institute of Cancer Research

Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Optional dinner

Sponsors

Location

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

Disclaimer: 

Registration for this event will close on 14 October 2024 at 8:00am(BST). Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time.

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

We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion.

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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