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, JUNE 7, 2009

07:00 - 18:30 Registration & Information Desk open
07:00 - 18:30 Speaker Ready Room open
08:30 - 18:30 08:30 - 08:45


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09:45 - 10:45


10:45 - 11:15


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12:15 - 13:15


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15:15 - 16:15


16:15 - 16:45


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17:45 - 18.00
PAIN EDUCATION DAY WORKSHOP
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Ma. Antonieta Flores, Mexico

NEONATAL PAIN MANAGEMENT: CURRENT CONTROVERSIES 
Ricardo Carbajal, France
Anna Taddio
, Canada

NEW DATA ON NEONATAL PAIN
Sunny Anand

Morning Break


PAIN ASSESSMENT & DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS
Carl Von Baeyer, Canada
Ruth Grunau, Canada


PHARMACOLOGICAL & INVASIVE MANAGEMENT OF PAIN
Charles Berde, USA  

Lunch Break

PALLIATIVE CARE IN CHILDREN
Lonnie Zeltzer, USA
Chantal Wood
, France

SCHOOL PROGRAM IN THE HOSPITAL
Felicia Knoll

Afternoon Break


BIOETHICS ISSUES IN TERMINALLY ILL
PATIENTS AND IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNITS
Denis De Victor, France
Arnoldo Krausse
Ma. Antonieta Flores, Mexico


CONCLUDING REMARKS
Eufemia Jacob
19:00 - 20:30  WELCOME RECEPTION
   

MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2009

07:00 - 17:00  Registration & Information Desk open
07:00 - 17:00 Speaker Ready Room open
08:30 - 09:00 OPENING CEREMONY
09:00 - 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 1: OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTOR'S AWARD (Sponsored by: The MayDay Foundation)
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
12:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00 POSTER SESSION
12:30 - 14:00 MEDIA FESTIVAL
14:15 - 15:00 CONCURRENT RAPID WORKSHOPS
15:00 - 15:45  Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 CONCURRENT RAPID WORKSHOP
   

TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2009

08:00 - 17:00 Registration & Information Desk open
07:30 - 17:00 Speaker Ready Room open
08:30 - 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 2: 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 HUMAN MOVEMENT & ACTIVITY ENGAGEMENT
Lorimer Moseley, Australia
09:30 - 16:30 Exhibit Hall Open
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 CONCURRENT REGULAR WORKSHOPS
12:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00 POSTER SESSION
12:30 - 14:00 MEDIA FESTIVAL
14:15 - 15:45 PLENARY SESSION 3: EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE
14:20 - 15:00 EVIDENCE BASED PAEDIATRIC 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, Switerland
15:45 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45 PLENARY SESSION 4: BIOLOGICAL FRONTIERS
16:35 - 17:05 DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY IN SENSORY PATHWAYS: AN OVERVIEW
Martha Constantine Paton, USA
17:10 - 17:45 PAIN AND THE DEVELOPING IMMUNE SYSTEM
Michael Costigan, USA
19:00 - 21:30 TRAINEE RECEPTION
   

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009

08:00 - 17:00 Registration & Information Desk open
07:30 - 17:00 Speaker Ready Room open
08:30 - 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 5: 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
12:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00 POSTER SESSION
12:30 - 14:00 MEDIA FESTIVAL
14:15 - 15:00 CONCURRENT RAPID WORKSHOPS
15:00 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 CONCURRENT RAPID WORKSHOPS
19:00 - 21:30 GALA DINNER
   

THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009

08:00 - 13:00 Registration & Information Desk open
07:30 - 13:00 Speaker Ready Room open
08:30 - 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 6: 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
12:15 - 12:45 Coffee Break
12:45 - 13:15 PLENARY SESSION 7: YOUNG INVESTIGATOR’S PLENARY,
To be Announced
13:15 - 13:30 CLOSING CEREMONY
 

 

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