Scientific Program

Program Highlights

• Plenary Sessions
• Young Investigator’s Plenary
• Outstanding Contributor’s Plenary
• Regular and Rapid Workshops
• Media Festival
• Education Day
• Poster Sessions

Program Objectives

  • To provide a forum for exchange of the latest information about biological, psychological and social components that comprise childhood pain and to advance best practice concerning its management
  • To examine acute and chronic pain associated with childhood diseases and injuries
  • To examine the role of pain in the everyday lives of healthy children
  • To advance the transfer of basic and clinical knowledge into improved health care policy at an organizational level

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2010

07:00 - 18:30 Registration & Information Desk open
07:00 - 18:30 Speaker Ready Room open
19:00 - 20:30  WELCOME RECEPTION
   

MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010

07:00 - 17:00  Registration & Information Desk open
07:00 - 17:00 Speaker Ready Room open
08:30 - 09:00

OPENING CEREMONY
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTOR'S AWARD
(Sponsored by: The Mayday Fund)

Session: OC
Location: Ballroom A
Chair: Allen Finley, Canada

09:00 - 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 1:
PEDIATRIC PAIN: LESSONS LEARNED & CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE
Patrick McGrath, Canada
09:30 - 15:00 EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 CONCURRENT REGULAR WORKSHOPS 1
12:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00 POSTER SESSION 1
12:30 - 14:00 MEDIA FESTIVAL 1
14:15 - 15:00 CONCURRENT RAPID WORKSHOPS 1
15:00 - 15:45  Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 CONCURRENT RAPID WORKSHOPS 2
16:30-17:00 PLENARY 2: CHILDKIND INITIATIVE

TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010

08:00 - 17:00 Registration & Information Desk open
07:30 - 17:00 Speaker Ready Room open
08:30 - 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 3: LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN
08:35 - 09:00 CHRONIC MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN
Jacqui Clinch, UK
09:05 - 09:30 PSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION OF THE CHILD WITH PERSISTENT PAIN: MODELS, METHODS, AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Tonya Palermo, USA
09:35 - 10:00 PAIN AND MOVEMENT: SAME ROOM, DIFFERENT WINDOWS
TBA
09:30 - 16:30 EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 CONCURRENT REGULAR WORKSHOPS 2
12:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00 POSTER SESSION 2
12:30 - 14:00 MEDIA FESTIVAL 2
14:15 - 15:45 PLENARY SESSION 4: EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE
14:20 - 15:00 EVIDENCE BASED PEDIATRIC PAIN MANAGEMENT: WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE NEED
Phil Wiffen, UK
15:05 - 15:45 ACCESS TO PAIN MEDICINES: REGULATORY AFFAIRS, OFF LABEL PRESCRIBING AND BARRIES TO EFFECTIVE PHARMACOTHERAPY
Willem Scholten, Switzerland
15:45 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45 PLENARY SESSION 5 : BIOLOGICAL FRONTIERS
16:35 - 17:05 DETERMINANTS OF DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT PLASTICITY IN SENSORY PATHWAYS
Martha Constantine Paton, USA
17:10 - 17:45 CENTRAL NEUROIMMUNE INTERACTIONS ARE LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR NEUROPATHIC MECHANICAL PAIN HYPERSENSITIVITY
Michael Costigan, USA
   

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010

08:00 - 17:00 Registration & Information Desk open
07:30 - 17:00 Speaker Ready Room open
08:30 - 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 6: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN PRACTICE
08:35 - 09:00 THE MANAGEMENT OF PAIN IN PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE
Boris Zernikow, Germany
09:05 - 09:30 PAIN PRACTICE IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE: IMPACTING ALL CHILDREN’S HEALTH CARE
William T. Zempsky, USA
09:35 - 10:00 PAIN MEASUREMENT IN CRITICALLY ILL YOUNG CHILDREN
Monique van Dijk, The Netherlands
09:30 - 16:30 Exhibit Hall open
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 CONCURRENT REGULAR WORKSHOPS 3
12:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00 POSTER SESSION 3
12:30 - 14:00 MEDIA FESTIVAL 3
14:15 - 15:00 CONCURRENT RAPID WORKSHOPS 3
15:00 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 CONCURRENT RAPID WORKSHOPS 4
19:00 - 21:30 GALA DINNER
   

THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010

08:00 - 13:00 Registration & Information Desk open
07:30 - 13:00 Speaker Ready Room open
08:30 - 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 7: CROSSING BORDERS: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE
08:35 - 09:15 WORKING ACROSS AND WITHIN BORDERS
Allen Finley,
Canada
Somboon Thienthong, Thailand
09:20 - 10:00 PAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE CHILDREN OF AFRICA: CHALLENGES OF A MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND POLITICAL CARE
Rene Albertyn, South Africa
Jenny Mary Thomas, South Africa
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 CONCURRENT REGULAR WORKSHOPS 4
12:15 - 12:45 Coffee Break
12:45 - 13:15 PLENARY SESSION 8: YOUNG INVESTIGATOR’S PLENARY
To be Announced
13:15 - 13:30 CLOSING CEREMONY
 

 

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