Plenary Session 2
Prescribing - Opioid Tapering
Chair: Roger Knaggs

Leveraging Technology for Patient-Centred and Patient-Supported Prescription Opioid Tapering, Beth Darnall, US
Strategies for opioid deprescribing in England, Anthony Avery, UK

AGM

Parallel Session B1:
Digital Data in Pain Research
Chair: John McBeth

Using routinely collected electronic health record data to assess trends in opioid use and associated harms in chronic pain, Meghna Jani
Digital body mapping of pain: Using technology to assess and visualise chronic pain, Syed Mustafa Ali
Using sensors and wearables to develop and deliver personalised digital interventions for chronic pain, John McBeth

Parallel Session B2:
Early Life Experiences and Chronic Pain in Adulthood: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Link
Chair: Tim Hales

Introduction, Janine Rennie
The assessment of adverse childhood experiences in adults with chronic pain: a comprehensive approach to get it right, Lesley Colvin
What is the mechanism linking adverse early life experiences to chronic pain in adults: assessing and building on the epidemiological evidence, Gary J Macfarlane
How adversity in early life affects pain and responses to opioid analgesics in adulthood in preclinical models, Tim Hales

Parallel Session B3:
Pain in Cancer Survivors: The New Challenge for Supportive Oncology
Chair: Sam H Ahmedzai

I’ve overcome my cancer. So why am I living in pain? Felicia Cox
Who are the cancer survivors, and why do they have persistent pain? Diana Greenfield
What do pain management services have to offer for cancer survivors? Matthew Brown
Open discussion, Sam H Ahmedzai

Parallel Session B4:
Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics: Relevance to Pain Management
Chair: Roger Knaggs

Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics and pain management: a primer, Paul Farquhar-Smith
Predicting opioid response in cancer pain: clinical and pharmacogenetic considerations, Sophy Gretton
NHS Genomic Medicine Service and pharmacogenomics in the NHS, Aris Saoulidis

Grünenthal Industry Satellite Symposium:
Advancing the Management of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy

Plenary Session 3
UK Biobank & Pain
Chair: Edmund Keogh

Using OMIC data to understand chronic pain, Frances MK Williams, UK
Using population-based studies to understand the epidemiology of chronic pain: current knowledge and future prospects, Gary Macfarlane, UK

Parallel Session C1:
Long Term Effects of Opioids
Chair: Paul Farquhar-Smith

Opioid use disorder and the cancer patient, Paul Farquhar-Smith
The science behind opioid induced hyperalgesia and tolerance, Kirsty Bannister
Opioids and cancer: the final word? Matt Brown

Parallel Session C2:
Future Directions in Pain Psychology
Chair: Edmund Keogh

Challenges with embedding sex and gender into pain research (and some solutions), Edmund Keogh
Scaling access to pain care: A 1-session evidence-based intervention for acute, chronic and post-surgical pain, Beth Darnall
How understanding change could improve pain management? Katja Wiech

Parallel Session C3:
Interventions in Advanced Cancer
Chair: Ashish Gulve

Intrathecal drug delivery in advanced cancer pain, Sheila Black
Role of neuromodulation in cancer survivors, Ashish Gulve
Neurolytic procedures in advanced cancer, Arun Bhaskar

Parallel Session C4:
Pain After Solid Organ Transplant – A Complex Problem
How to Help the Fear Avoidant Practitioner- A Guide to Management
Chair: Ian D Goodall

Incidence, aetiology and predisposing factors after Solid Organ transplantation, Ian D Goodall
What Pain medication can we reasonably prescribe after SOT. Improving understanding of potential drug interactions, Haifa Lyster
The importance of psychological support therapy before and after SOT, Melissa Sanchez

Plenary Session 4
Pain and the DRG
Chair: Stephen Ward

The DRG as a pain generator and what to do about it, Marshall Devor, Israel
Recent advances in electrical neuromodulation: Combined spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion stimulation in the management of refractory neuropathic pain, Adnan Al Kaisy, UK

Plenary Session 5
Pain and Cognition: A Reciprocal Relationship
Chair: Cathy Price

The impact of cognition on pain, Katja Wiech, UK

The impact of pain on cognition, Edmund Keogh, UK

Parallel Session D1:
Supported Opioid Tapering – Emerging Evidence from UK Research
Chair: Roger Knaggs

Improving the wellbeing of people with opioid treated chronic pain, findings from a randomised controlled trial, Harbinder Sandhu
Can being a lay facilitator support people in opioid tapering? Experience of the I-WOTCH Intervention, Colin Tysall
Developing a Proactive clinical Review of patients taking Opioid Medicines long-term for persistent Pain led by clinical Pharmacists in primary care Teams (PROMPPT): Enabling a practice-based approach to reduce opioid overprescribing, Sarah Harrisson

Parallel Session D2:
The Social Impact of the Pain Experience: Perspectives from Injustice, Stigma, and Racial Disparities in Pain
Chair: Joanna McParland

Parental perspectives of injustice in the context of their child’s chronic pain: An interpretative phenomenological analysis, Joanna McParland
The experience and impact of stigma and discrimination in people with pain, Whitney Scott
Racial disparities in pain care: the role of observers' attentional processing of the pain of others, Ama Kissi

Parallel Session D3:
Meet the Experts Session 1

 Ultrasound imaging for common pain problems

Manojit Sinha,
Kiran Sachane,
Piera Santullo,
Alison Mitchell,
Major Tammar Al-Ani

Parallel Session D4:
Meet the Experts Session 2

“When is a flare up not a flare up”

Ian Goodall, Jacqueline Walumbe, Diarmuid Denneny

An interactive session looking at how to differentiate the new from the old.

Oral Poster Presentations 1
Chair: Paul Cameron

Clinical hypnosis for procedural pain and distress in children: A scoping review, Dali Geagea
Liposomal bupivacaine for peripheral nerve block in total knee arthroplasty: functional outcomes, Matthew Sinnott
Beliefs in a trial of treatment for pain, Marcus Beasley
Peri-operative intravenous lidocaine effect on acute and chronic pain after breast cancer surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Leticia Helena Kaça Do Carmo
Dancers in pain: developing a model for agency with chronic pain, Emma Meehan
Painful small fibre neuropathy following COVID-19 infection: clinical characteristics and skin biopsy signature, Rosario Privitera

Plenary Session 6
BPS Debate: This House Believes that Amputation should be Offered for Intractable Neuropathic Pain
Chair: Felicia Cox
 

For the motion, Barnabas Green, UK

Against the motion, Mike Sidery, UK

Plenary Session 7
Pat Wall Lecture
Chair: Roger Knaggs

The top-down control of pain in health and disease: From bedside to bench, Kirsty Bannister, UK

Poster Awards & Closing Ceremony