Scientific Programme

Time Slot	Duration
17:00 – 17:20	20	Opening Ceremony
17:20 – 18:20	60	Plenary Session 1 Pain Science education – a public health approach, Cormac Ryan UK and Global impact of pain and implications for pain management, Danielle van der Windt
18:20 – 19:30	60	Welcome Reception

Time

Duration

09:30 – 16:30

Education Workshop 1:
Opioids in Clinical Practice

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Time

Duration

09:30 – 16:30

Education Workshop 2:
Unlock the Future of Pain Management
with Lifestyle Medicine: A Transformative
Workshop for Clinicians

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Time Slot

Duration

10:00 – 16:30

Education Workshop 3:
Ultrasound-guided Neck and Shoulder
Intervention workshop

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Time Slot	Duration
08:00 – 08:30	30	Wellness
08:30 – 08:45	15	Comfort Break
08:45 – 09:25	40	Plenary Session 2 BPS Lecture: Acute pain and opioids: where have we been and where are we going? *Jane Quinlan*
09:25 – 09:30	5	Comfort Room Change Break
09:30 – 10:30	60	Best Abstract Prize Presentations The Chronic High Impact Pain Project (CHIPP): prevalence and socio-demographic variation of high-impact chronic pain in the UK Biobank, Charlotte Woolley Effects of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to improve sleep quality for people with fibromyalgia: a network meta-analysis, Jemma Hudson Understanding healthcare professionals’ experiences and perceived competencies for pain management in people with haemophilia – a qualitative study, Paul McLaughlin “Clinically Quirky”: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Neurodivergent Individuals with Fibromyalgia: A Qualitative Study, Lauren Wilkinson A summary of pain and psychosocial factors: Exploring data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, Hannah Sallis
10:30 – 10:50	20	Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:00	70	Parallel Session A1 Future Technologies for Chronic Pain Chair: Ben Seymour Future technologies: rehabilitation methodologies, Helen Dawes Future technologies: engineering considerations, Alexandra Vuckovic Using immersive virtual reality to deliver nature-based interventions for chronic pain, Sam Hughes
12:00 – 13:15	75	Guided Poster Walk 1
12:00 – 13:15	75	Industry Satellite Symposia 1 (12:15 – 13:15)
13:15 – 14:45	90	Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:45	90	Industry Satellite Symposia 2 (13:30 – 14:30)
14:45 – 15:45	60	Plenary Session 3 Managing acute &/or chronic pain after combat injuries and for veterans, Harriet Kemp Blast injuries in Children, Emma Fisher
15:45 – 15:50	5	Comfort Room Change Break
15:50 – 17:00	70	Parallel Session B1 Capturing multiple experiential dimensions of chronic pain: Lessons on leveraging wearables, self-report, and ethnography in natural environments Chair: Diego Vitali Decoding personal pain patterns using real-time data capture in daily life, Diego Vitali Through each other’s eyes: use of synchronized wearable ‘headcams’ and emotional expression coding to understand human-interactions, Rebecca Pearson An ethnographic approach to understanding the social influence on chronic pain in the context of everyday life routines, Samantha L Stone
17:00 – 17:20	20	Coffee Break
17:20 – 18:20	60	Plenary Session 4 Gender and inclusive pain management, Katelynn Boerner Neurodiversity, David Moore
18:20 – 19:20	60	Welsh Pain Society: Education Evening

Time Slot	Duration
10:50 – 12:00	70	Parallel Session A2 Unpacking self-identity in pain: New psychological insights into pain-related distress and suffering Chair: Tamar Pincus Pain distress: constructing a pragmatic model from theory and evidence, Tamar Pincus ‘Acceptance and reactivation’: understanding how to reduce distress related to pain, Hollie Birkinshaw Mental defeat as a window to pain-related suffering: A network analysis, Nicole Tang
12:00 – 13:15	75	Guided Poster Walk 1
13:15 – 14:45	90	Lunch Break
14:45 – 15:50	65
15:50 – 17:00	70	Parallel Session B2 A personalised and multi-disciplinary approach to supporting patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain in primary care Chair: Kalwant Sahota A model for supporting people with chronic pain in primary care, Benjamin Ellis Outcomes of an implementation pilot, Jen Pearson Health and wellbeing coaching in supporting people with complex chronic pain, Phoebe Williams
17:00 – 17:20	20	Coffee Break

Time Slot	Duration
10:30 – 10:50	20	Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:00	70	Parallel Session A3 Is there a problem with pain research? Understanding the dark to see the light. Chair: Paul Farquhar-Smith Fragility and fabrication in research, Emma Fisher ‘Lies, damn lies, and statistics’, Paul Farquhar-Smith Medical publishing, an interesting conflict, John Schutzer-Weissmann
12:00 – 13:15	75	Guided Poster Walk 1
13:15 – 14:45	90	Lunch Break
14:45 – 15:50	65
15:50 – 17:00	70	Parallel Session B3 Challenges in Pain Medications Chair: Devjit Srivastava Efficacy of pain medications, A Shetty Quality prescribing in pain, Roger Knaggs Prescribing challenges for pain in psychiatric patients, Michael Spencer

Time Slot	Duration
10:30 – 10:50	20	Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:00	70	Parallel Session A4 Neuroimmune basis of pain in rheumatic disease Chair: Shafaq Sikandar Painful Conditions in Translation – Insights from Antibody Transfer Studies, Camilla Svensson Pain Under Immune Control: Inhibitory receptors and Macrophages, *Niels Eijkelkamp* The mechanistic basis of neutrophil-mediated chronic widespread pain in fibromyalgia syndrome, Shafaq Sikandar
12:00 – 13:15	75	Guided Poster Walk 1
13:15 – 14:45	90	Lunch Break
14:45 – 15:50	65
15:50 – 17:00	70	Parallel Session B4 Neuropathic pain in malignant disease: time for focus and clarity Chair: Paul Farquhar-Smith Novel developments in the scientific basis of neuropathic pain in malignant disease: does translational data translate? Kirsty Bannister How neuropathic is ‘cancer pain’? Paul Farquhar-Smith Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) – a ‘true’ neuropathic pain in malignant disease, Richard Gordon-Williams
17:00 – 17:20	20	Coffee Break

Time Slot	Duration
08:00 – 08:30		Wellness
08:45 – 09:25	40	Plenary Session 5 Pat Wall Lecture: Unravelling the role of autoantibodies in chronic pain: New insights and therapeutic avenues, Camilla Svensson
09:25 – 09:30	5	Comfort Room Change Break
09:30 – 10:40	70	Parallel Session C1 Non-invasive sensory and neurofeedback modulation of cortical oscillations for chronic pain relief Chair: Christopher Brown Harnessing sensory alpha entrainment for pain modulation, Christopher Brown Neurofeedback for chronic pain spinal cord injury and fibromyalgia, Aleksandra Vuckovic Clinical implementation of alpha entrainment in real world settings, Stephen Halpin
10:40 – 11:00	20	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15	75	Guided Poster Walk 2
11:00 – 12:15	75	Industry Satellite Symposia 3 (11:15 – 12:15)
12:15 – 13:45	90	Lunch Break
12:15 – 13:45	90	Industry Satellite Symposia 4 (12:30 – 13:30)
13:45 – 14:55	70	Parallel Session D1 Sciatica – can we do better? Decoding Sciatica: Understanding and Classifying Spine-Related Leg Pain, Annina Schmid Where does neuropathic pain medication fit in the management of spine related leg pain?, Jennifer Ward Can we determine who benefits the most from epidural steroid injections for sciatica? Findings from the POISE cohort study, Siobhan Stynes
14:55 – 15:15	20	Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:15	60	Plenary Session 6 The neuroscience of pain: from brain circuits to clinical care, Ben Seymour Neuromodulation and pain intervention, Daniel Ciampi de Andrade
16:15 – 16:30	15	Poster Awards & Closing Ceremony

Time Slot	Duration
09:30 – 10:40	70	Parallel Session C2 Headache and facial pain – what is new? Chair: Joanna Zakrzewska Identifying primary headache disorders, Anish Bahra Temporomandibular disorders: a jaw problem and a pain problem? Chris Penlington How does the epidemiology of trigeminal neuralgia influence the care pathway? Joanna Zakrzewska
10:40 – 11:00	20	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15	75	Guided Poster Walk 2
12:15 – 13:45	90	Lunch Break
13:45 – 14:55	70	Parallel Session D2 Focusing on painful diabetic neuropathy and fibromyalgia syndrome Chair: Nicholas Fallon Mast cells are abnormal in fibromyalgia skin, Jamie Burgess Dermal vasculature in painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy, Gordon Sloan The transcriptional signature of painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy in the skin, Georgios Baskozos
14:55 – 15:15	20	Coffee Break

Time Slot	Duration
09:30 – 10:40	70	Parallel Session C3 Using population datasets to understand the impact of chronic pain: Identifying psychosocial risk factors and scalable interventions Chair: Victoria Collard Embracing causal thinking in pain research with causal directed acyclic graphs, Annick De Paepe Exploring trauma’s impact on high-impact chronic pain using Bayesian Causal Inference, Payam Amini The realities of using DAGS in established datasets: Defining concepts, matching variables and overcoming nuances in the data, Anna Gibby
10:40 – 11:00	20	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15	75	Guided Poster Walk 2
12:15 – 13:45	90	Lunch Break
13:45 – 14:55	70	Parallel Session D3 Bridging perspectives to design effective care services for patients with persistent pain Chair: Danielle van der Windt Understanding the population challenge of persistent pain: lessons from Wales, Owen Hughes Understanding the perspectives of patients and healthcare professionals: lessons from fibromyalgia, Catherine Pope Piecing it together: Designing effective care services for patients with nociplastic pain, Rosemary Hollick
14:55 – 15:15	20	Coffee Break

Time Slot	Duration
09:30 – 10:40	70	Parallel Session C4 Co-production: how it can be used to improve policy, practice and lived experience in relation to pain care Chair: Mark Agathangelou The principles of co-production in action, Niccola Hutchinson-Pascal Broadening awareness and encouraging people with chronic pain to engage in research: Participatory film making, Samina Begum & Sarah Harrisson Personalised cancer care in the West Midlands – a co-produced approach, Kafilla Munir
10:40 – 11:00	20	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15	75	Guided Poster Walk 2
12:15 – 13:45	90	Lunch Break
10:50 – 12:00	70	Parallel Session D4 A lifecourse approach to Women’s Pain: exploring factors that impact pain across the lifecourse Chair: Katy Vincent Dysmenorrhoea in adolescence and its influence on chronic pain as a young adult, Katy Vincent The experience of potentially painful procedures for those with neurodiversity, David Moore (Peri-)Menopausal hormonal changes and painful musculoskeletal conditions, Fiona Watt
12:00 – 13:15	75	Guided Poster Walk 1
14:55 – 15:15	20	Coffee Break

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