Pain meetings & conferences

Accelerating Translational Neurotechnology: Fourth Annual Aspen Brain Forum

September 18 - 20, 2013 Aspen Meadows Resort

Presented by The Aspen Brain Forum Foundation, Science Translational Medicine, and the New York Academy of Sciences

Neurotechnology encompasses electrical, chemical, and medical devices and products that can interact with or intervene in the activity of the central nervous system. These technologies include neuroprosthetics, neuroengineering, neuroimaging, optogenetics, neuromodulation, and neural stem cell therapies. Translating neurotechnologies from the laboratory into clinical and commercial products has been an arduous process. Yet many of these new tools show great potential to revolutionize the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders including depression, pain, headache, epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and traumatic brain injury.

Through a series of plenary sessions, panel discussions, and interactive breakout groups, this 2.5-day international conference shall explore innovative scientific, clinical, and organizational models for advancing the translation of neuroscience research into technology that can dramatically improve diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disease. Participants will also examine the ethical and regulatory challenges in translating neuroscience research, and the potential economic impact of their clinical application.

This conference includes a breakout session. During registration, you will be asked to choose a work group based on your area/disease of interest. Please pick your first and second choices for this session. You may also write in an alternate topic. We will create additional groups if there is sufficient interest. Registrants will receive an email with work group details several weeks prior to the conference.

Choices include: Parkinson's Disease, Major Depression and other Mood Disorders, Chronic Pain, Alzheimer's Disease, or Traumatic Brain Injury.

National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute Pediatric Clinical Hypnosis Skills Training Workshop

10/3/2013 through 10/5/2013 Chaska, Minnesota

Tri-level pediatric-specific medical hypnosis skills training, co-sponsored by the National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute (www.NPHTI.org), the University of Minnesota Department of Pediatrics, and the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Clinical Hypnosis is a therapeutic intervention with empirical support for a variety of clinical conditions: including chronic and procedure-related pain, anxiety disorders, stress-related conditions, habit problems, sleep disturbance, and various medical conditions. This workshop provides training in the use of clinical hypnosis and its applications to children and teens with various conditions in pediatric settings. The workshop is offered at three levels (Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced) depending on the clinician’s previous training in pediatric hypnosis. Strong emphasis is placed on experiential learning, with supervised practice of hypnotic techniques suitable for children/teens and of integrating a developmental perspective.

ELIGIBILITY AND TARGET AUDIENCE

These workshops would be ideal for persons holding a:

• Doctoral Degree in Medicine, Psychology, or Dentistry

• Masters Degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical or Counseling Psychology

• Masters Degree in Nursing or a Registered Nurse with subspecialty training and certification

• Other Advanced degree health care providers, e.g. Occupational and Physical Therapists, Speech and Language Pathologists, et. al.

• Child Life Specialists holding a Bachelor’s degree

• Students, Interns, Residents and Fellows actively enrolled in a graduate program leading to degrees or completion of training in any of the foregoing.

NOTE: All participants are expected to attend the entire workshop and participate in experiential activities, including trance experiences. No exceptions

Www.NPHTI.org  for Brochure and general information

And to register:  www.cme.umn.edu/intropedshypnosisinfo

3rd International Patellofemoral Pain - Research Retreat & Clinical Symposium

September 18 – 20, 2013 Vancouver, Canada

We invite researchers interested in learning about the latest in patellofemoral joint research to join us at the 3rd International Patellofemoral Research Retreat in Vancouver, British Columbia. The research retreat is a gathering of scientists who meet every two years to present new research findings and review the science regarding patellofemoral pain.

The retreat will take place over three days (September 18th – 20th, 2013) and include panel discussions and consensus building sessions. We are pleased to confirm two keynote speakers, Professor Paul Hodges (Brisbane, Australia) and Professor Irene Davis (Boston, USA).

In 2013, we are also pleased to announce the 1st International Patellofemoral Pain Clinical Symposium in Vancouver. This one-day symposium (September 21st, 2013) is aimed at health and medical practitioners who would like to hear from world experts in the field of patellofemoral pain.

Features of the symposium include…

Keynote presentations on innovations in the understanding of PFP

Debates from world-leaders in PFP research and management:

Proximal or distal contributions to PFP

Specific or local exercises for PFP

Case studies with expert opinions

This symposium will provide health and medical practitioners with the opportunity to hear from the foremost clinical researchers in the field of PFP.

If you have any questions, please contact David Adams at david.adams@hiphealth.ca.

International Conference on Deep Brain Stimulation - 25 Years

The International Conference on Deep Brain Stimulation - 25 years - will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 30 - 31 May, 2013.

The topics of the scientific program include

1) Basic mechanisms and animal models of DBS

2) Human electrophysiology and imaging

3) Deep Brain Stimulation in

- Movement disorders

- Neuropsychiatric disorders

- Dementia / epilepsy / pain

4) History, visions, ethics

In the past 25 years the development of deep brain stimulation has revolutionized the treatment of Parkinson´s disease and other movement disorders. Although the mechanisms of DBS are still not fully understood the remarkable therapeutic efficacy of DBS in Parkinson´s disease and tremor has prompted clinical and basic research to scrutinize further applications in neurological and psychiatric disorders. At the same time DBS has tremendously fostered research in basal ganglia physiology and pathophysiology.

This conference will provide a unique opportunity to cover and discuss the current state-of-the-art, hot topics, and future directions of DBS in plenary talks, symposia, short oral communications and poster presentations.

12th Annual  American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Pain Medicine Meeting

November 21-24, 2013 Phoenix, Arizona

ASRA, the largest subspecialty medical society in anesthesiology, has organized the 12th Annual ASRA Pain Medicine Meeting with the aim of providing the latest information on invasive and non-invasive targeted therapies in pain medicine.

ASRA Fall 2013 will feature experts in the field of pain medicine and offer lively discussions and leading-edge information about advances in the field of pain management. The stellar scientific program will include refresher courses, general sessions, parallel sessions, cadaver workshops, intensive lower back pain workshops, problem-based learning discussions, poster presentations and a comprehensive technical exhibition.

Join colleagues from across the United States and around the world at this premier educational forum.

Contact Us 

Meeting Organizer

Kenes International

For general inquiries regarding the Meeting, please contact:

Toll Free Number 1-866-739-4452
Fax:  1-718-269-6188
E-Mail: asra@kenes.com
Website: www.kenes.com/asra

8th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back & Pelvic Pain

October 27-31 2013, Dubai

The overall theme for the 2013 Dubai congress will be: Advances in Multidisciplinary Research for Better Spinal/Pelvic CareLumbopelvic Pain is still the second most common cause of sick leave in the industrialized world. It is a problem for patients as they try to seek clear consistent advice. For practitioners it is a complicated multi-factorial issue, especially when psychosomatic factors are involved and the sheer variety of treatments betrays our lack of precise knowledge in predicting outcomes. The great variation in clinical practice without consistent results would suggest sometimes less than ideal care. Too often the choice of treatment reflects the specific skills of the practitioner rather than the needs of the patient.

The congress promotes empowerment of the patients to participate in their own care and promotes cost effective prevention of treatment. The program will be developed in partnership with appropriate patient, professional and scientific organisations, companies, health care providers, governments and non-governmental organisations in consultation with global and regional stakeholders.

info@worldcongresslbp.com

International Conference on Opioids (ICOO)

June 9-11, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts

Join us in Boston for this unique educational opportunity to learn from leaders in the field of opioids!

The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

This intensive 2+ day program led by renowned specialists is designed to inform primary care physicians, pain specialists, pharmacists and other opioid prescribers in the uses,
abuses and legal ramifications of opioids.

Why should you attend? The conference features a full schedule of topics and speakers who will address all aspects of the medical use of opioids.

• Hear about exciting developments in opioid neurology and pharmacology
• Learn the latest concepts, ethics and legal aspects of opioid management from top medical professionals
• Gain an understanding of the newest methodologies for delivery of opioids
• Participate in constructive panel discussions and case studies with top professionals in opioid management
• Take advantage of meeting leaders and networking with colleagues

Melancholy Minds and Painful Bodies: Genealogy, Geography, Pathogeny

University of Liverpool, United Kingdom 9-11 July 2013

One of the major developments in the study of melancholia over the last thirty years has been the rise to aesthetic and cultural prominence of varieties of negative emotions proposed and discussed as melancholy, including different conceptions, analyses, and portrayals from grief to insanity. Most recently, Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia(2011) happens to be the melodramatic adaptation of the concept fuelled by cinematic symbols. Correspondingly, often observed as ‘a central European discourse’, melancholia has resurfaced to embody complementary or paradoxical notions not merely in the literary analysis of texts and contexts, but it has also emerged to retrieve its historical categorization. The cultural and social history of emotions entwined with modern medical and psychiatric lexicalization has opened new pathways to provide relative definitions of melancholia. However, theories about the choice of analogies for melancholy, whether aesthetic, cinematic, religious, or medical, somehow fail to distinguish the connections between contrary factors involved in melancholia.

It is also noteworthy that theories of characterization, no matter of what kind, tend to reformulate and evaluate contrary factors for the sake of preserving ‘superiority’ according to prevalent taste at each moment in time. In Britain, for example, individual and collective melancholia has been appreciated as a sign of genius and national pride at one time and announced as a national malady at another. Analogous is the contemporary history of behavioural rather than cognitive attributes to grief, e.g. tearfulness. Pain, in comparison, is bodily and often mental distress which in the past was closely perceived in relation to melancholia, but today research on pain is divorced from depression let alone melancholy. Thus, we miss the ‘melancholy-pain bridge’ in contemporary scholarship of mental and physical suffering. On the other hand, while pain is seen through the lens of universality, with management models stretching from Chinese medicine to Latin America, melancholia has rarely been investigated beyond the Western borders with regard to its genealogy, pathology, pathogeny, and management. Whether this geographical focus is a matter of re-establishing pre-eminence or in want of psycholinguistic reference, thereby centred on a gap in universal scientific communication, it invites intriguing and challenging enquiries.

Possible topics

Diversity in the geography of melancholia and pain
The relationship between Western theories of emotions and Oriental conceptions
The European hypothesis of melancholia-pain in non-European cultures
Orientalism, grief, and abstinence
Emotionality as negativity
Gender attributes and tearfulness
Art history, muscle tension, and the painful posture
Interpretation, assumption, semantic relation
Fear, Pain, and melancholy dominance
Depression and pain
Paranoia, melancholia, and pain
Misconceptions; cyclothymia and bipolar disorder
Melancholy appropriation, ethnicity, multicultural perspectives
Cosmology and elegiac pain management
Cinematic symbols
Literary emotionality, fictive superiority
Embodied cognition
Anaesthetics, the relationship between medical management and other models
Lyric manifestation of melancholy and pain

8th Congress of the European Federation of IASP Chapters - Europe against Pain 2013

Join us in Florence, Italy for Pain in Europe VIII. EFIC 2013 congress, taking place October 9-12, brings together over 4,000 pain specialists for a multidisciplinary forum that will focus on the latest developments in the study and treatment of acute or chronic and recurrent pain.

Presented by a leading international faculty, the scientific programme promises to provide new insights into basic science, clinical research and therapeutic interventions.

Secretariat and Congress Organisers

EFIC 2013 Congress Secretariat
Kenes International
1-3 rue de Chantepoulet, PO BOX 1726
CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 0488
Fax: +41 22 906 9140
E-mail: efic2013@kenes.com
Website: www.kenes.com/efic

WCN 2013 XXI World Congress of Neurology

September 21-26, 2013 Vienna, Austria

Join leading neurologists at WCN 2013, the world’s biggest neurology event. The XXI World Congress of Neurology will feature a rich scientific programme, including the latest developments in clinical practice and research, distinguished plenary speakers, teaching courses, workshops, and lectures, all on the increasingly global aspect of our work.

List of Proposed Topics

Epilepsy (Joint WFN & ILAE)
Movement Disorders
Stroke (Joint WSO & WFN)
Neuro-critical care
Dementia
MS & Demyelinating Diseases
Neuromuscular disorders
Headache
Pain
Neurorehabilitation
Neurooncology
CNS infection
Vertigo and balance disorders
Sleep
Leukoencephalopathies & Child neurology
Autoimmune encephalitis
Neurology, Health economics & outcomes
Metabolic and mitochondrial diseases
Neuroepidemiology
Environment, Climate Change
Autonomic nervous system
Neuroophthalmology
Brain & Behavior
Motor neuron disease
Channelopathies
Palliative care
Nutritional disorders & Neurotoxins
Stem cells in Neurology, hopes, uses and abuses
Neurological surgery for the neurologist
Psychiatry for the neurologist
Neuroethics
Interventional Neuroradiology
Advances in Neuroimaging
Advances in Neurophysiology
Therapeutic Neurotoxins
Biomarkers
World History of Neurology
You Tube neurology
Movies and neurology
Sports neurology
Training in neurology around the world
WHO Neurology Initiatives (Noncommunicable disease Initiative, MhGAP Program, ICD-11 revision of neurology codes)
Cases from around the world
Making the Case for Neurology

Contact Us
Please email us at wcn@kenes.com for more information or any queries.