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Monday, 13 June 2022
Time Slot HALL A HALL B HALL C HALL D
09:45 - 10:10 Welcome

Arun Bhaskar
(BPS President)
with Tribute to Dr William Campbell

Stephen Ward
(BPS SPC Chair) 
     
10:10 - 10:50

Plenary Session 1
BPS Lecture
Chair: Arun Bhaskar

Innovation in spine and nerve treatment (Is less more?)
Dr Timothy R. Deer, USA

 
10:50 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 - 12:30 Topical Plenary 2
Low Back Pain
Chair: Paul Cameron

Modifying the Matrix: Virtual Reality and Low Back Pain
Owen Williamson, Australia

Understanding Inflammatory Back Pain
Raj Sengupta, UK
     
12:35 - 13:55 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:50 - 13:50 Industry Satallite Symposia 1      
13:55 - 15:15

Parallel Session A1
Understanding and managing pain: Opioids after surgery: An international co-produced patient information project launch
Chairs: Felicia Cox & Roger Knaggs

Opioid Awareness: An issue not just for clinicians, Amy Donnelly
Lessons from co-production and design, Louise Trewern, Frances Cole
Making change happen – putting evidence into practice, Elaine Clear

Parallel Session A2
The future of pain management programmes following NICE guidelines
Chairs: Donna-Marie Lord & Iain Jones

What puts PMPs at risk from NICE guidelines, Donna-Marie Lord
The changing face of PMP evidence in the content of the virtual world: outcomes from the Walton Centre, Selina Johnson
PMPs – their future moving forward: a blended model? John O’Sullivan

 

Parallel Session A3
The social and intergenerational context of childhood pain: How parents confer risk and resilience
Chair: Edmund Keogh

The intergenerational transmission of pain in families: An examination of veterans, spouses, and their children, Melanie Noel
Need and evidence for treating chronic pain in the family, Kathryn Birnie
How parent body mindsets confer risk in the context of youth with chronic pain, Lauren Heathcote

Parallel Session A4
Developing the pain workforce – Pain education SIG
Chair: Martin Galligan

Advanced Clinical Practice Pathway for pain clinicians what do you need? Martin Galligan
Harnessing patients to deliver care - does it work? Nick Ambler, Nicola Bryan
Working with IAPT, Debbie Joy/Mahdi Ghomi

 

15:15 - 15:45   COFFEE BREAK
15:45 - 16:45

Meet the Experts

Ultrasound imaging for common pain problems
Manojit Sinha, Ashish Shetty, Amod Manocha

Meet the Experts

Supported Self-Management
Louise Trewern, Mark Farmer, Nathan Hutting

 
 

Meet the Experts

Musculoskeletal Examination techniques
Jackie Walumbe, Diarmaid Denneny, Ian Goodall

Meet the Experts

How to run an effective PMP
Lucie Knight, Clair Jacobs

15:45 - 16:45 Booth Appointments
Poster Viewing
15:45 - 16:55 BREAK
16:55 - 17:55 Poster Oral Presentations
Chair: Stephen Ward

Capturing the Chronic Pain Patient Experience Using a Novel Digital Health Ecosystem, Simon Thomson
Mindfulness for adults with chronic low back pain, Michelle Barrow
Chronic back pain sub-grouped via psychosocial, brain and physical factors using machine learning: a UKBioBank study of 19,803 adults, Scott Tagliaferri
An investigation of behavioural experiments on pain management programmes, Emma Louise Harrold
Multifidus Stimulation in Patients with Refractory Chronic Low Back Pain and Functional Spine Insta-bility – Three-Year Pivotal Trial Results, Vivek Mehta

     
17:55 - 18:05 BREAK
18:05 - 19:05

Welcome Reception

Booth Appointments
Poster Viewing

Pain Management Programmes SIG Business Meeting
Chair: Iain Jones

 

Monday, 13 June 2022
Time Slot HALL A
09:45 - 10:10 Welcome

Arun Bhaskar
(BPS President)
with Tribute to Dr William Campbell

Stephen Ward
(BPS SPC Chair) 
10:10 - 10:50 Plenary Session 1
BPS Lecture
Chair: Arun Bhaskar

Innovation in spine and nerve treatment (Is less more?)
Dr Timothy R. Deer, USA
10:50 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 - 12:30 Topical Plenary 2
Low Back Pain
Chair: Paul Cameron

Modifying the Matrix: Virtual Reality and Low Back Pain
Owen Williamson, Australia

Understanding Inflammatory Back Pain
Raj Sengupta, UK
12:35 - 13:55 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:50 - 13:50 Industry Satallite Symposia 1
13:55 - 15:15

Parallel Session A1
Understanding and managing pain: Opioids after surgery: An international co-produced patient information project launch
Chairs: Felicia Cox & Roger Knaggs

Opioid Awareness: An issue not just for clinicians, Amy Donnelly
Lessons from co-production and design, Louise Trewern, Frances Cole
Making change happen – putting evidence into practice, Elaine Clear

15:15 - 15:45 COFFEE BREAK
15:45 - 16:45

Meet the Experts

Ultrasound imaging for common pain problems
Manojit Sinha, Ashish Shetty, Amod Manocha

Booth Appointments
Poster Presentations / Viewing  

15:45 - 16:55 BREAK
16:55 - 17:55 Poster Oral Presentations
Chair: Stephen Ward

Capturing the Chronic Pain Patient Experience Using a Novel Digital Health Ecosystem, Simon Thomson
Mindfulness for adults with chronic low back pain, Michelle Barrow
Chronic back pain sub-grouped via psychosocial, brain and physical factors using machine learning: a UKBioBank study of 19,803 adults, Scott Tagliaferri
An investigation of behavioural experiments on pain management programmes, Emma Louise Harrold
Multifidus Stimulation in Patients with Refractory Chronic Low Back Pain and Functional Spine Insta-bility – Three-Year Pivotal Trial Results, Vivek Mehta



17:55 - 18:05 BREAK
18:05 - 19:05

Welcome Reception


Booth Appointments
Poster Viewing

 

Time Slot HALL B
09:45 - 10:10  
10:10 - 10:50  
10:50 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 - 12:30  
12:35 - 13:55 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:50 - 13:50  
13:55 - 15:15

Parallel Session A2
The future of pain management programmes following NICE guidelines
Chairs: Donna-Marie Lord & Iain Jones

What puts PMPs at risk from NICE guidelines, Donna-Marie Lord
The changing face of PMP evidence in the content of the virtual world: outcomes from the Walton Centre, Selina Johnson
PMPs – their future moving forward: a blended model? John O’Sullivan

15:15 - 15:45 COFFEE BREAK
15:45 - 16:45 Meet the Experts

Supported Self-Management
Louise Trewern, Mark Farmer, Nathan Hutting

Booth Appointments
Poster Presentations / Viewing  
15:45 - 16:55 BREAK
16:55 - 17:55  
17:55 - 18:05 BREAK
18:05 - 19:05 Welcome Reception

Booth Appointments
Poster Viewing

 

Time Slot HALL C
09:45 - 10:10  
10:10 - 10:50  
10:50 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 - 12:30    
12:35 - 13:55 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:50 - 13:50  
13:55 - 15:15

Parallel Session A3
The social and intergenerational context of childhood pain: How parents confer risk and resilience
Chair: Edmund Keogh

The intergenerational transmission of pain in families: An examination of veterans, spouses, and their children, Melanie Noel
Need and evidence for treating chronic pain in the family, Kathryn Birnie
How parent body mindsets confer risk in the context of youth with chronic pain, Lauren Heathcote

15:15 - 15:45 COFFEE BREAK
15:45 - 16:45 Meet the Experts

Musculoskeletal Examination techniques
Jackie Walumbe, Diarmaid Denneny, Ian Goodall

Booth Appointments
Poster Presentations / Viewing  
15:45 - 16:55 BREAK
16:55 - 17:55  
17:55 - 18:05 BREAK
18:05 - 19:05

Welcome Reception


Booth Appointments
Poster Viewing

 

Time Slot HALL D
09:45 - 10:10  
10:10 - 10:50  
10:50 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 - 12:30  
12:35 - 13:55 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:50 - 13:50  
13:55 - 15:15

Parallel Session A4

Developing the pain workforce – Pain education SIG
Chair: Martin Galligan

Advanced Clinical Practice Pathway for pain clinicians what do you need? Martin Galligan
Harnessing patients to deliver care - does it work? Nick Ambler, Nicola Bryan
Working with IAPT, Debbie Joy/Mahdi Ghomi

 

15:15 - 15:45 COFFEE BREAK
15:45 - 16:45

Meet the Experts

How to run an effective PMP
Lucie Knight, Clair Jacobs


Booth Appointments
Poster Presentations / Viewing  

15:45 - 16:55 BREAK
16:55 - 17:55  
17:55 - 18:05 BREAK
18:05 - 19:05 Pain Management Programmes SIG Business Meeting
Chair: Iain Jones

 

Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Time Slot HALL A HALL B HALL C HALL D
08:00 - 09:00 Industry Satallite Symposium 2      
09:10 - 10:20

Plenary Session 3
Promising New Treatments
Chair: Roger Knaggs

Pharmacological treatments for pain – is there anything in the pipeline?
Gisèle Pickering, France

Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality for Orofacial Pain: Revolutionising Pain Research, Education and Treatment
Alex F. DaSilva, US

 
10:20 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK
10:50 - 12:10

Parallel Session B1
Opioid epidemiology in practice; What does it mean for primary care
Chairs: Georgia Richards, Johanna Theron

The epidemiology of opioids in the UK, Georgia Richards with contributions from Emma Davies and Harry Herbert
The East Kent targeted primary care opioid reduction project - the first year, Johanna Theron
Multi-disciplinary medicines management in the secure environment: the East Kent experience, Lesley Wright
Call to action for the National Registry of Opioid Safety Initiatives, Georgia Richards

Parallel Session B2
This house believes - Is it not possible to consent and still meet the legal requirements
Chair: Glyn Towlerton

Updates on medical consent, Bertie Leigh
For the motion, Michael Sidery
Against the motion, Nicholas Padfield
For the motion, Sarah Stanton
Against the motion, Gautam Chawla
Cross examination

Parallel Session B3
Dilemmas in Pain Management – and interactive discussion (Philosophy and Ethics SIG)
Chair: Tim Johnson

Panelists:
Jonathan Tomlinson
Paul Wilkinson
Felicia Cox

Please submit your dilemmas before the session here.

Parallel Session B4
Management of Headaches
Chair: Anna Andreou

Migraine: Real world evidence on the efficacy and safety of CGRP Abs in migraine, Georgio Lambru
NICE approvals and criteria for the use of CGRP mAbs in migraine, Mark Weatherall
Minimally invasive interventions for headaches, Manjit Matharu

 

12:10 - 13:40 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:30 - 13:30 Industry Satallite Symposia      
13:40 - 14:55

Plenary Session 4
Making a difference for children in pain
Chair: Edmund Keogh

Remembering the pain of childhood, Melanie Noel, Canada

Partnering for pain: Transforming pediatric pain through patient and family partnership, Katie Birnie, Canada

 
14:55 - 15:05 BREAK
15:05 - 16:25

Parallel Session C1
Back Pain Updates
Chair: Cathy Price

NERVES trial outcomes - do we need discectomy? Martin Wilby
Spinal Pathways 2022, Mike Hutton

Parallel Session C2
Interventional Pain Medicine – All about the joints
Chair: Sumit Gulati

RF for Shoulder, Dominic Hegarty
RF for Knees, Steve Cohen
RF for Hips, Anuj Bhatia
Panelist: Arun Bhaskar

Parallel Session C3
Pharmacology and basic science

Chair: Anthony Dickenson

Advancing the pharmacology of pain, Anthony Dickenson
Ketamine - useful or dangerous? Gisele Pickering
Prevention of Chronic pain – translational pain research, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn

 
16:25 - 16:55 COFFEE BREAK
16:55 - 18:10

Plenary Session 5
Debate: This House Believes that Pain Medications do More Harm than Good
Chair: Stephen Ward

For: Rachelle Buchbinder, Australia

Against: Andrew Moore

 
18:10 - 19:10 Industry Exhibition
Poster Viewing
Pain in Developing Countries SIG business meeting
Chair: Vicky Tidman
Interventional Pain Medicine SIG business meeting
Chair: Sumit Gulati

 

Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Time Slot HALL A
08:00 - 09:00 Industry Satallite Symposium 2
09:10 - 10:20

Plenary Session 3
Promising New Treatments
Chair: Roger Knaggs

Pharmacological treatments for pain – is there anything in the pipeline?
Gisèle Pickering, France

Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality for Orofacial Pain: Revolutionising Pain Research, Education and Treatment
Alex F. DaSilva, US

10:20 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK
10:50 - 12:10

Parallel Session B1

Opioid epidemiology in practice; What does it mean for primary care
Chairs: Georgia Richards, Johanna Theron

The epidemiology of opioids in the UK, Georgia Richards with contributions from Emma Davies and Harry Herbert
The East Kent Targeted Primary Care Opioid Reduction Project - the first year, Johanna Theron
Multi-disciplinary Medicines Management in the Secure environment: the East Kent experience, Lesley Wright
Call to action for the National Registry of Opioid Safety Initiatives, Georgia Richards

12:10 - 13:40 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:30 - 13:30 Industry Satallite Symposia
13:40 - 14:55

Plenary Session 4
Making a difference for children in pain
Chair: Ed Keogh

Remembering the pain of childhood, Melanie Noel, Canada

Partnering for pain: Transforming pediatric pain through patient and family partnership, Katie Birnie, Canada

14:55 - 15:05 COFFEE BREAK
15:05 - 16:25

Parallel Session C1
Back Pain Updates
Chair: Cathy Price

NERVES trial outcomes - do we need discectomy? Martin Wilby
Spinal Pathways 2022, Mike Hutton

16:25 - 16:55 COFFEE BREAK
16:55 - 18:10

Plenary Session 5
Debate: This House Believes that Pain Medications do More Harm than Good
Chair: Stephen Ward

For: Rachel Buchbinder, Australia

Against: Andrew Moore, UK

18:10 - 19:10 Industry Exhibition
Poster Viewing

 

Time Slot HALL B
08:00 - 09:00  
09:10 - 10:20  
10:20 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK
10:50 - 12:10

Parallel Session B2
This house believes - Is it not possible to consent and still meet the legal requirements
Chair: Glyn Towlerton

Updates on medical consent, Bertie Leigh
For the motion, Michael Sidery
Against the motion, Nicholas Padfield
For the motion, Sarah Stanton
Against the motion, Gautam Chawla
Cross examination

12:10 - 13:40 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:30 - 13:30  
13:40 - 14:55  
14:55 - 15:05 COFFEE BREAK
15:05 - 16:25

Parallel Session C2
Interventional Pain Medicine – All about the joints
Chair: Sumit Gulati

RF for Shoulder, Dominic Hegarty
RF for Knees, Steve Cohen
RF for Hips, Anuj Bhatia
Panelist: Arun Bhaskar

16:25 - 16:55 COFFEE BREAK
16:55 - 18:10  
18:10 - 19:10 Industry Exhibition
Poster Viewing

 

Time Slot HALL C
08:00 - 09:00  
09:10 - 10:20  
10:20 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK
10:50 - 12:10

Parallel Session B3
Dilemmas in Pain Management – and interactive discussion (Philosophy and Ethics SIG)
Chair: Tim Johnson

Panelists:
Jonathan Tomlinson
Paul Wilkinson
Felicia Cox

Please submit your dilemmas before the session here.

12:10 - 13:40 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:30 - 13:30  
13:40 - 14:55  
14:55 - 15:05 COFFEE BREAK
15:05 - 16:25

Parallel Session C3
Pharmacology and basic science
Chair: Anthony Dickenson

Advancing the pharmacology of pain, Anthony Dickenson
Ketamine - useful or dangerous? Gisele Pickering
Prevention of Chronic pain – translational pain research, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn

16:25 - 16:55 COFFEE BREAK
16:55 - 18:10  
18:10 - 19:10 Pain in Developing Countries SIG business meeting
Chair: Vicky Tidman

 

Time Slot HALL D
08:00 - 09:00  
09:10 - 10:20  
10:20 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK
10:50 - 12:10

Parallel Session B4
Management of Headaches
Chair: Anna Andreou

Migraine: Real world evidence on the efficacy and safety of CGRP Abs in migraine, Georgio Lambru
NICE approvals and criteria for the use of CGRP mAbs in migraine, Mark Weatherall
Minimally invasive interventions for headaches, Manjit Matharu

12:10 - 13:40 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
12:30 - 13:30  
13:40 - 14:55  
14:55 - 15:05 COFFEE BREAK
15:05 - 16:25  
16:25 - 16:55 COFFEE BREAK
16:55 - 18:10  
18:10 - 19:10 Interventional Pain Medicine SIG business meeting
Chair: Sumit Gulati

 

Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Time Slot HALL A HALL B HALL C HALL D
08:00 - 09:10

Plenary Session 6
Headache & Facial Pain
Chair: Joanna Zakrewska

The Diagnosis and Management of Common Headache Problems
Giorgio Lambru, UK

Understanding Orofacial Pain
Tara Renton, UK

     
09:10 - 10:10

Industry Satallite Symposium 4

 
10:10 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 - 12:00

Parallel Session D1
Practical pain management for Cancer Pain
Chair: Sam Ahmedzai

Cancer Pain – pharmacology, Sam Ahmedzai
Cancer pain – ablative treatments, Arun Bhaskar
Neuromodulation in Cancer Survivors, Ashish Gulve

Parallel Session D2
Management of difficult facial pain
Chair: Joanna Zakrzewska

National guidelines for manamgment of TN, Joanna Zakrzewska
Refractory orofacial pain, Tara Renton
New approaches to treatment of orofacial pain, Alexandre DaSilva

 

Parallel Session D3
Trust and validity in pain evidence
Chair: Stephen Ward

Neil O'Connell
Andrew Moore

Parallel Session D4
Stimulation 2022
Chair: David Pang

Who does best with neuromodulation, Simon Thomson
Failed back surgery how common and what is the cost? Sam Eldabe
Access to neuromodulation in England in the last 10 years. HES Analysis, Rui Duarte

12:00 - 13:15 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
13:15 - 14:45 AGM      
14:45 - 15:25

Plenary Session 7
Pat Wall Lecture
Chair: Arun Bhaskar

Pre-Clinical research: Why is it so difficult to translate into practice?
Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Germany

     
15:25 - 15:40 Poster Awards & Closing Ceremony      

 

Time Slot HALL A
08:00 - 09:10

Plenary Session 6
Headache & Facial Pain
Chair: Joanna Zakrewska

The Diagnosis and Management of Common Headache Problems
Giorgio Lambru, UK

Understanding Orofacial Pain
Tara Renton, UK

09:10 - 10:10

Industry Satallite Symposia

10:10 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 - 12:00 Parallel Session D1
Practical pain management for Cancer Pain
Chair: Sam Ahmedzai

Cancer Pain – pharmacology, Sam Ahmedzai
Cancer pain – ablative treatments, Arun Bhaskar
Neuromodulation in Cancer Survivors, Ashish Gulve

12:00 - 13:15 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
13:15 - 14:45 AGM
14:45 - 15:25

Plenary Session 7
Pat Wall Lecture
Chair: Arun Bhaskar

Pre-Clinical research: Why is it so difficult to translate into practice?
Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Germany

15:25 - 15:40 Poster Awards & Closing Ceremony

 

Time Slot HALL B
08:00 - 09:00  
09:00 - 10:10  
10:10 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 - 12:00

Parallel Session D2
Management of difficult facial pain
Chair: Joanna Zakrzewska

National guidelines for manamgment of TN, Joanna Zakrzewska
Refractory orofacial pain, Tara Renton
New approaches to treatment of orofacial pain, Alexandre DaSilva

12:00 - 13:15 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
13:15 - 14:45  
14:45 - 15:25  
15:25 - 15:40  

 

Time Slot HALL C
08:00 - 09:00  
09:00 - 10:10  
10:10 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 - 12:00

Parallel Session D3
Trust and validity in pain evidence
Chair: Stephen Ward

Neil O'Connell
Andrew Moore

12:00 - 13:15 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
13:15 - 14:45  
14:45 - 15:25  
15:25 - 15:40  

 

Time Slot HALL D
08:00 - 09:00  
09:00 - 10:10  
10:10 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 - 12:00

Parallel Session D4
Stimulation 2022
Chair: David Pang

Who does best with neuromodulation, Simon Thomson
Failed back surgery how common and what is the cost? Sam Eldabe
Access to neuromodulation in England in the last 10 years. HES Analysis, Rui Duarte

12:00 - 13:15 LUNCH BREAK / BOOTH APPOINTMENTS
13:15 - 14:45  
14:45 - 15:25  
15:25 - 15:40  

 

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