Scientific Programme

Plenary
Sessions

Parallel
Sessions

Industry Satellite Symposia

Society
Meetings

Poster Viewing Sessions

Pre BPS ASM 2024 Study Day - Monday, 3 June 2024

Time	Session
10:45 – 11:00	Coffee
11:00 – 12:30	Talk 1: Pain Management Programmes: Where are we now. Patrick Hill (11:00-11:30) Talk 2: Supporting young people with Persistent pain and fatigue. Greg Hobbs & Sarah White (11:30-12:00)
12:30 – 13:15	Lunch Break
13:15 – 15:15	Workshops Workshop Title: Reviewing Pain Management Programme design. An opportunity to reflect and discuss the design, implementation and effectiveness of your PMPs with your peers, in light of contemporary evidence and thinking. Facilitators: Patrick Hill and Hazel O’Dowd Clinical Psychologists North Bristol NHS Trust. Workshop Title: Implementing the Young Person’s Pathway for pain and fatigue. Designing a group-based intervention using the DNA-V model. Facilitators: Sarah White, Mandy Buckley, Caroline Neal Nottinghamshire Community Pain Pathway. Workshop Title: Sleeping Better with Chronic Pain: Using CBTi with chronic pain patients .
15:15 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00	Keynote Speaker Psychologically Informed Pain Care: Where are we now? Lance McCracken

Day 1 - Tuesday, 4 June 2024

	Hall A	Hall B	Hall C	HALL D
11:00 – 11:15	Welcome
11:15 – 11:55	Plenary Session 1 BPS Lecture *Chair: Roger Knaggs* Where does psychology belong in pain management?, Amanda Williams
11:55 – 12:00	BREAK
12:00 – 13:20	Parallel Session A1 Pain Assessment Across the Lifespan Chair: Felicia Cox, UK Biopsychosocial assessment of pain in children: beyond pain intensity, Sueellen Walker, UK The development of a pain assessment tool for people with a Learning Disability, Vicky Sandy-Davis, UK Pain is what the patient says it is, but what if they cannot say, Patricia Schofield, UK	Parallel Session A2 Distinct Phenotypes and Mechanisms of Pain in Fibromyalgia Syndrome Chair: Shafaq Sikandar, UK Neutrophil mediated sensitization of dorsal root ganglia neurons in FMS, *Shafaq Sikandar, UK* The role of the microbiome in fibromyalgia syndrome, Amir MInerbi, Israel Small nerve fibers and microRNAs in FMS – promising paths to better diagnostics and treatment? Nurcan Uçeyler, Germany	Parallel Session A3 Pain and Suicide: Exploring Risk Factors, Opioid Use and Potential Targets for Intervention Chair: Nicole Tang, UK Pain and Mental defeat: Insights into Suicide Risk, *Kristy Themelis, UK* The role of self-compassion in chronic pain and mental health outcomes, Jenna L. Gillett, UK Pain, Opioids and Suicide: Have we gone too far? Martin D. Cheatle, USA	Parallel Session A4 Pain Following Major Traumatic Injury: Lessons Learnt From Military Contexts Chair: Harriet Kemp, UK Pain Following Combat Injury, Alex Kumar, UK Pain and Musculoskeletal Injury, Fraje Watson, UK Pain following Major Traumatic Injuries in Civilian Populations, Harriet Kemp, UK
13:20 – 14:00	SIG Business Meetings Pain Management Programmes SIG	SIG Business Meeting Acute Pain SIG	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
14:00 – 15:20	Parallel Session B1 Beyond Tokenistic Involvement: Working with Patient and Public Contributors in Pain Research Chair: Ian Taverner, UK Embedding public contribution in pain research from the start, Carolyn Chew-Graham OBE, UK Using peoples’ life stories to drive the investigation of long-term causal pain pathways, Charlotte Woolley, UK Identifying, Engaging and Involving People Living with Pain with Diverse Backgrounds: A Role for Patient Ambassadors, Louise Trewern, UK & Sarah Harrisson, UK	Parallel Session B2 Pain Across the Continuum of Cancer Chair: Sam H Ahmedzai, UK Characterising the phenotype of neuropathic pain in cancer patients, Matthew Mulvey,UK Looking for biomarkers and genetic predictors of pain in cancer patients, Paul Farquhar-Smith, UK New therapies, new pains: the two faces of targeted biologics and CAR-T approaches, Jennifer Vidrine, UK	Parallel Session B3 Making Time to Talk About Pain Chair: Cathy Stannard, UK Getting pain to the top of the agenda, *Di Aitken, UK* Primary Care Group Consultations for people with Chronic Pain, Barbara Phipps, UK Evolution of a whole system approach to supporting people to live well with pain, Cathy Stannard, UK	Parallel Session B4 Interventional Pain Medicine How to best practice in RF Chair: Cathy Price, UK RF – Lumbar, Cathy Price, UK RF – Cervical, Ganesan Baranidharan, UK RF- Knee, Robin Correa, UK RF – Hip or SIJ, Vivek Mehta, UK RF – Shoulder, Thomas Haag,UK
15:20 – 16:20	Attended Poster Viewing Session (Odd Numbers) with Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:20	Industry Satellite Symposia 1	SIG Business Meetings Pain in Older People SIG	SIG Business Meetings Medicolegal SIG	SIG Business Meetings Primary & Community Care SIG
17:20 – 18:30	Plenary Session 2 Visceral Pain *Chair: Katy Vincent* Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches; What Causes Abdominal Pain in Gastrointestinal Disease, David Bulmer, UK Other Peas in the Pod: Abdominal pain in GI disorders is not an isolated story, Rona Moss-Morris, UK
18:30 – 20:00	Welcome Reception Exhibition Area

Day 2 - Wednesday, 5 June 2024

	Hall A	Hall B	Hall C	HALL D
09:00 – 10:10	Plenary Session 3 Women’s Health Chair: Ed Keogh Pelvic Mesh, Sohier Elneil, UK Endometriosis-associated pain: why we need to move the focus away from endometriosis and onto pain, Katy Vincent, UK
10:10 – 10:20	BREAK
10:20 – 11:20	AGM
11:20 – 11:50	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
11:50 – 13:10	Parallel Session C1 Why Don’t Gabapentinoids Work for Everyone? Chair: Paul Farquhar-Smith, UK What is the evidence for gabapentinoids in acute and chronic pain?, Mahindra Chincholkar, UK Why don’t gabapentoids work for all? A scientific explanation, Tony Dickenson, UK Mirogabalin: is there hope for gabapentinoids?, Paul Farquhar-Smith, UK	Parallel Session C2 Getting Started in Research Chair: Felicia Cox, UK The POPPY Study – Patient reported Outcomes, postoperative Pain and Pain relief in day case surgery-& the RAFT network, Adam Brayne, UK An overview of the PANDOS study, how to get buy in from local teams, Partice Forget, UK Getting started in research – An interactive discussion, Gary Macfarlane, UK	Parallel Session C3 Current Methodologies to Support the Study of Chronic Pain and Its Psycho-social Dynamics in Naturalistic Settings Chair: Diego Vitali, UK Bringing lab-tech in the wild: limitations and benefits of using wearable sensors to study chronic pain in naturalistic settings, Diego Vitali, UK Overview of AI approaches for addressing challenges relevant to automatic recognition of levels of pain and related constructs, Temitayo Olugbade, UK Designing a Virtual Reality intervention for chronic pain; challenges and consideration, Emma Fisher, UK	Parallel Session C4 Rethinking Pain: Collaborative Working Across the Clinical, Voluntary and Community Sector to Provide Person-centered Pain Care Chair: Mark I. Johnson, UK Rationale for greater collaborative working across the clinical, voluntary and community sector, Mark I. Johnson, UK Development & delivery of the Rethinking Pain Programme – system change to address the needs of diverse communities in Bradford District & Craven, Kerry Page, UK & Shahzad Jamil, UK Evaluation of system change and the Rethinking Pain programme – Theory of Change and findings from an independent evaluation, Kate Thompson, UK
13:10 – 14:30	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
13:20-14:20	Industry Satellite Symposia 2	Early Careers Networking Event
14:30 – 15:40	Plenary Session 4 Markers of Persistent Pain Chair: Kirsty Bannister Acute to Chronic Pain Transition: Biomarkers and Mechanisms, Kathleen Sluka Psychosocial risk factors for persistent pain: What can population based epidemiological studies tell us?, John McBeth
15:40 – 16:40	Best Poster Oral Presentations *Chair: Edmund Keogh* A Service Evaluation of a Novel Persistent Perioperative Pain Pathway at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Masseh Yakubi, UK UK BioBank Participants Carrying SCN9A Rare Variants Implicated in Inherited Neuropathic Pain Show No Increase in Pain or Analgesic Prescriptions, Graeme W T Newton, UK PICK1 inhibitors relieve ongoing and evoked hypersensitivity in multiple mouse models of pain in female and male mice with cross-laboratory validation, Kathrine Louise Jensen, Denmark SenseCheQ: Leaping out of the Lab to the Home Environment for Patient-Centred Quantitative Sensory Testing, Johannes Gausden, UK Dysmenorrhea and chronic pain at midlife: evidence from the UK National Child Development Study, *Catherine Borra, UK* The effectiveness of an aerobic exercise on patients with chronic neck pain during a short and long-term follow up: A randomized control trail, Amira Daher Daher, Israel	Practical Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Hosted by the Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group of the BPS Chair: Maureen Tilford, UK Clinical Hypnosis in obstetrics, painful procedures and neuropathy, Amelia van Manen, UK Clinical Hypnosis in Oncology, Sarah Patridge, UK Uses of Clinical Hypnosis from the Viewpoint of a Paediatric Anaesthetist, Caron Moores, UK
16:40 – 17:10	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
17:10 – 18:20	Plenary Session 5 BPS Debate Why invasive interventions should be a routine part of pain management Chair: Cathy Price For : Martin Underwood Against : Ganesan Baranidhan
18:20 – 19:20	SIG Business Meeting Interventional Pain Medicine SIG		BJP Editorial Board Meeting	SIG Business Meeting

Day 3 - Thursday, 6 June 2024

	Hall A	Hall B	Hall C	HALL D
08:30 – 09:30	Industry Satellite Symposia 3
09:30 – 10:40	Plenary Session 6 Barriers to Accessing Pain Management Services Chair: Felicia Cox, UK How political understanding(s) can shape pain care, Jackie WalumbeHow can we tackle inequalities in chronic pain care? – a GP perspective, David Blane
10:40 – 11:10	BREAK
11:10 – 12:10	Oral Poster Presentations 1 *Chair: Nicole Tang* The Effect of Psychological Interventions on Neck Pain and Disability in Patients with Whiplash. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Mohammad Al Wardat, Jordan Pro-inflammatory Dietary Intake Relates to Pain Sensitivity in Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain: A Case-Control Study, Omer Elma, UK Predictors for quality of life in patients with chronic pain: a longitudinal study using regression and mixed effect modelling, Thomas Bilterys, UK Medical cannabis for chronic pain in the UK: an 18-month longitudinal observational study of 1993 individuals enrolled in Project Twenty21, Andrew Lambarth, UK	Oral Poster Presentations 2 *Chair: Sam Ahmedzai* Childhood maltreatment increases risk of chronic pain all over: counterfactual analysis of UK Biobank, Gary J. Macfarlane, UK Self-regulation: a potential barrier to positive health behaviour change in Psoriatic Arthritis, Helen Jane Buckle, UK Will ageing perception and social relationships moderate the influence of health stressors on life satisfaction of the very old adults?, Abigail Olubola Taiwo, UK Quantifying pain impact in two longitudinal cohort studies: ALSPAC and ELSA, Amanda Ly, UK Gynaecological histories and chronic pain: ethnographic findings from a study of peri-menopause, Catherine Borra, UK	Oral Poster Presentations 3 Chair: Cathy Price Effect of caudal block on surgical stress response in pediatric population, Mostafa Somri, Israel Differential modulation of spinal somatosensory-evoked potentials / wide dynamic range neuronal activity by lacosamide, pregabalin and tapentadol, Kenneth A J Steel, UK ART26.12, a novel Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 5 inhibitor, shows efficacy in breast cancer-induced bone pain, Saoirse Elizabeth Osullivan, UK The effects of the Fatty Acid Binding Protein 5 inhibitor ART26.12 in a rat model of diabetic neuropathy, Saoirse Elizabeth Osullivan, UK Development of type-1 diabetes changes in evoked & non-evoked neuropathic pain endpoints and reversal with pregabalin in the rat streptozotocin model, Michael T Lanigan, UK
12:10 – 13:40	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION			12:30 – 13:30 How can basic scientists, healthcare professionals and patients work together for the advancement of BPS? Chair: Sam H Ahmedzai, UK The 2022 BPS TPVC national survey of public experience of UK pain services – benefits and weaknesses, *Sam H Ahmedzai, UK* Basic scientists engaging with patients leads to better fundamental research strategies, *Kirsty Bannister, UK* The TPVC 2023 strategy and how it can help BPS achieve its aims, *Victoria Abbot-Fleming & Tim Atkinson*
12:10 – 13:40	12:40 – 13:40 Attended Poster Viewing Session (Even Numbers)
13:40 – 15:00	Parallel Session D1 What is new in UK pain research? The Advanced Pain Discovery Platform (APDP) Chair: Edmund Keogh,UK Advanced Pain Discovery Platform: an overview, Edmund Keogh, UK Revisiting fundamental concepts in pain psychology, Amanda Williams, UK Understanding and assessing risk factors for chronic pain, Lesley Colvin, UK	Parallel Session D2 Opioids After Surgery, Prescribing and De-prescribing. Why and How? Chair: Felicia Cox, UK What do we know about opioid use after surgery?, Patrice Forget, UK What about patients’ opinions and perspectives about opioids after surgery?, Dalia Aljohani, UK How to personalise postoperative pain management during the acute and subacute phases?, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Germany	Parallel Session D3 Approach to Migraine Treatments: Who, When and Why Chair: Vivek Mehta, UK & Anna Andreou, UK Approach to the treatment of migraine: What to prescribe and when, Modar Khalil, UK Neuromodulation techniques in migraine: What is the current role?, Kavita Poply, UK The UK National Migraine Registry and Audit Tool, Anna Andreou, UK	Parallel Session D4 Basic Science Dissecting Mechanisms that Underlie the Pain Experience Using Novel Approaches *Chair: Kirsty Bannister, UK* How does the nervous system handle pain throughout life? Neuroplasticity in the developing and aging nervous system and the role of opioids in shaping pain experience, Gareth Hathway, UK Developing better translational biomarkers of activity in nociceptive circuits, Tony Pickering, UK The role of soluble epoxide hydrolase in regulating inflammation and pain: opportunities for novel analgesic strategies, Victoria Chapman, UK
15:00 – 15:40	Plenary Session 7 Pat Wall Lecture *Chair: Roger Knaggs* Pain : finding positives in the Wall of negatives, Tony Pickering, UK
15:40 – 16:00	Poster Awards & Closing Ceremony

Pre BPS ASM 2024 Study Day - Monday, 3 June 2024

Day 1 - Tuesday, 4 June 2024

	Hall A
11:00 – 11:15	Welcome Roger Knaggs & Ed Keogh
11:15 – 11:55	Plenary Session 1 BPS Lecture Chair: Roger Knaggs Where does psychology belong in pain management?, Amanda Williams, UK
11:55 – 12:00	BREAK
12:00 – 13:20	Parallel Session A1 Pain Assessment Across the Lifespan Chair: Felicia Cox, UK Biopsychosocial assessment of pain in children: beyond pain intensity, Suellen Walker, UK The development of a pain assessment tool for people with a Learning Disability, Vicky Sandy-Davis, UK Pain is what the patient says it is, but what if they cannot say, Patricia Schofield, UK
13:20 – 14:00	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
13:20 – 14:00	SIG Business Meeting Pain Management Programmes SIG
14:00 – 15:20	Parallel Session B1 Beyond Tokenistic Involvement: Working with Patient and Public Contributors in Pain Research Chair: Ian Taverner, UK Embedding public contribution in pain research from the start, *Carolyn Chew-Graham OBE, UK* Using peoples’ life stories to drive the investigation of long-term causal pain pathways, Charlotte Woolley, UK Identifying, Engaging and Involving People Living with Pain with Diverse Backgrounds: A Role for Patient Ambassadors, Louise Trewern, UK & Sarah Harrisson, UK
15:20 – 16:20	Attended Poster Viewing Session (Odd Numbers) with Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:20	Industry Satellite Symposia 1 Sponsored by Lundbeck CGRP targets in headache management: relevance to pain medicine Chair: Vivek Mehta Exploring Clinical Evidence and a Practical Insight into Managing Patients Fayyaz Ahmed Our experience of Infusion Services Kavita Poply
17:20 – 18:30	Plenary Session 2 Visceral Pain Chair: Katy Vincent,UK Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches; What Causes Abdominal Pain in Gastrointestinal Disease, David Bulmer, UK Other Peas in the Pod: Abdominal pain in GI disorders is not an isolated story, Rona Moss-Morris, UK
18:30 – 20:00	Welcome Reception Exhibition Area

	Hall B
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:55
11:55 – 12:00	BREAK
12:00 – 13:20	Parallel Session A2 Distinct Phenotypes and Mechanisms of Pain in Fibromyalgia Syndrome Chair: Shafaq Sikandar, UK Neutrophil mediated sensitization of dorsal root ganglia neurons in FMS, Shafaq Sikandar, UK The role of the microbiome in fibromyalgia syndrome, Amir MInerbi, Israel Small nerve fibers and microRNAs in FMS – promising paths to better diagnostics and treatment?, Nurcan Uçeyler, Germany
13:20 – 14:00	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
13:20 – 14:00	SIG Business Meeting Acute Pain SIG
14:00 – 15:20	Parallel Session B2 Pain Across the Continuum of Cancer Chair: Sam H Ahmedzai, UK Characterising the phenotype of neuropathic pain in cancer patients, Matthew Mulvey,UK Looking for biomarkers and genetic predictors of pain in cancer patients, Paul Farquhar-Smith, UK New therapies, new pains: the two faces of targeted biologics and CAR-T approaches, Jennifer Vidrine, UK
15:20 – 16:20	Attended Poster Viewing Session (Odd Numbers) with Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:20	SIG Business Meeting Pain in Older People SIG
17:20 – 18:30
18:30 – 20:00	Welcome Reception Exhibition Area

	HALL C
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:55
11:55 – 12:00	BREAK
12:00 – 13:20	Parallel Session A3 Pain and Suicide: Exploring Risk Factors, Opioid Use and Potential Targets for Intervention Chair: Nicole Tang, UK Pain and Mental defeat: Insights into Suicide Risk, Kristy Themelis, UK The role of self-compassion in chronic pain and mental health outcomes, Jenna L. Gillett, UK Pain, Opioids and Suicide: Have we gone too far?, Martin D. Cheatle, USA
13:20 – 14:00	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
13:20 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:20	Parallel Session B3 Making Time to Talk About Pain Chair: Cathy Stannard, UK Getting pain to the top of the agenda, Di Aitken, UK Primary Care Group Consultations for people with Chronic Pain, Barbara Phipps, UK Evolution of a whole system approach to supporting people to live well with pain, Cathy Stannard, UK
15:20 – 16:20	Attended Poster Viewing Session (Odd Numbers) with Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:20	SIG Business Meeting Medicolegal SIG
17:20 – 18:30
18:30 – 20:00	Welcome Reception Exhibition Area

	HALL D
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:55
11:55 – 12:00	BREAK
12:00 – 13:20	Parallel Session A4 Pain Following Major Traumatic Injury: Lessons Learnt From Military Contexts Chair: Harriet Kemp, UK Pain Following Combat Injury, Alex Kumar, UK Pain and Musculoskeletal Injury, Fraje Watson, UK Pain following Major Traumatic Injuries in Civilian Populations, Harriet Kemp, UK
13:20 – 14:00	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
13:20 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:20	Parallel Session B4 Interventionalist Best Practice in Radiofrequency Lesioning Chair: Cathy Price, UK RF – Lumbar, *Cathy Price, UK* RF – Cervical, Ganesan Baranidharan,UK RF- Knee, Robin Correa, UK RF – Hip or SIJ, Vivek Mehta, UK RF – Shoulder, Thomas Haag, UK
15:20 – 16:20	Attended Poster Viewing Session (Odd Numbers) with Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:20	SIG Business Meeting Primary & Community Care SIG
17:20 – 18:30
18:30 – 20:00	Welcome Reception Exhibition Area

Day 2 - Wednesday, 5 June 2024

	Hall A
09:00 – 10:10	Plenary Session 3 Women’s Health Chair: Ed Keogh, UK Pelvic Mesh, Sohier Elneil, UK Endometriosis-associated pain: why we need to move the focus away from endometriosis and onto pain, Katy Vincent, UK
10:10 – 10:20	BREAK
11:20 – 11:50	AGM
11:20 – 11:50	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
11:20 – 11:50	Parallel Session C1 Why Don’t Gabapentinoids Work for Everyone? Chair: Paul Farquhar-Smith, UK What is the evidence for gabapentinoids in acute and chronic pain?, Mahindra Chincholkar, UK Why don’t gabapentoids work for all? A scientific explanation, Tony Dickenson, UK Mirogabalin: is there hope for gabapentinoids?, Paul Farquhar-Smith, UK
13:10 – 14:30	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
13:20-14:20	Industry Satellite Symposia 2 Sponsored by Nevro Decoding HFXM spinal cord simulation. Longevity, benefits beyond pain relief and healthcare utilization Dr Sheila Black Mrs Katherine Dyer Martin Dingemans Craig Ferrante
14:20 – 15:40	Plenary Session 4 Markers of Persistent Pain Chair: Kirsty Bannister, UK Acute to Chronic Pain Transition: Biomarkers and Mechanisms, Kathleen Sluka, United States Psychosocial risk factors for persistent pain: What can population based epidemiological studies tell us?, John McBeth, UK
15:40 – 16:40	Best Poster Oral Presentations Chair: Edmund Keogh, UK A Service Evaluation of a Novel Persistent Perioperative Pain Pathway at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Masseh Yakubi, UK UK BioBank Participants Carrying SCN9A Rare Variants Implicated in Inherited Neuropathic Pain Show No Increase in Pain or Analgesic Prescriptions, Graeme W T Newton, UK PICK1 inhibitors relieve ongoing and evoked hypersensitivity in multiple mouse models of pain in female and male mice with cross-laboratory validation, Kathrine Louise Jensen, Denmark SenseCheQ: Leaping out of the Lab to the Home Environment for Patient-Centred Quantitative Sensory Testing, Johannes Gausden, UK Dysmenorrhea and chronic pain at midlife: evidence from the UK National Child Development Study, Catherine Borra, UK The effectiveness of an aerobic exercise on patients with chronic neck pain during a short and long-term follow up: A randomized control trail, Amira Daher, Israel
16:40 – 17:10	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
17:10 – 18:20	Plenary Session 5 BPS Debate Chair: Cathy Price, UK Why invasive interventions should be a routine part of pain management For: Martin Underwood Against: Ganesan Baranidhan
18:20 – 19:20	SIG Business Meeting Interventional Pain Medicine SIG

	Hall B
09:00 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:20	BREAK
11:20 – 11:50
11:20 – 11:50	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
11:20 – 11:50	Parallel Session C2 Getting Started in Research Chair: Felicia Cox, UK The POPPY Study – Patient reported Outcomes, postoperative Pain and Pain relief in daY case surgery-& the RAFT network, Adam Brayne, UK An overview of the PANDOS study, how to get buy in from local teams, Patrice Forget, UK Getting started in research – An interactive discussion, Gary Macfarlane, UK
13:10 – 14:30	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
13:20-14:20	Early Careers Networking Event
14:20 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:40	Practical Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Chair: Maureen Tilford, UK Hosted by the Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group of the BPS Clinical Hypnosis in obstetrics, painful procedures and neuropathy, *Amelia van Manen, UK* Clinical Hypnosis in Oncology, Sarah Patridge, UK Uses of Clinical Hypnosis from the Viewpoint of a Paediatric Anaesthetist, Caron Moores, UK
16:40 – 17:10	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
17:10 – 18:20
18:20 – 19:20

	Hall C
09:00 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:20	BREAK
11:20 – 11:50
11:20 – 11:50	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
11:20 – 11:50	Parallel Session C3 Current Methodologies to Support the Study of Chronic Pain and Its Psycho-social Dynamics in Naturalistic Settings Chair: Diego Vitali, UK Bringing lab-tech in the wild: limitations and benefits of using wearable sensors to study chronic pain in naturalistic settings, Diego Vitali, UK Overview of AI approaches for addressing challenges relevant to automatic recognition of levels of pain and related constructs, Temitayo Olugbade, UK Designing a Virtual Reality intervention for chronic pain; challenges and consideration, Emma Fisher, UK
13:10 – 14:30	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
13:20-14:20
14:20 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:40
16:40 – 17:10	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
17:10 – 18:20
18:20 – 19:20	BJP Editorial Board Meeting

	Hall D
09:00 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:20	BREAK
11:20 – 11:50
11:20 – 11:50	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
11:20 – 11:50	Parallel Session C4 Rethinking Pain: Collaborative Working Across the Clinical, Voluntary and Community Sector to Provide Person-centered Pain Care Chair: Mark I. Johnson, UK Rationale for greater collaborative working across the clinical, voluntary and community sector, Mark I. Johnson, UK Development & delivery of the Rethinking Pain Programme – system change to address the needs of diverse communities in Bradford District & Craven, Kerry Page, UK & Shahzad Jamil, UK Evaluation of system change and the Rethinking Pain programme – Theory of Change and findings from an independent evaluation, Kate Thompson, UK
13:10 – 14:30	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
13:20-14:20
14:20 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:40
16:40 – 17:10	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
17:10 – 18:20
18:20 – 19:20

Day 3 - Thursday, 6 June 2024

	Hall A
08:30 – 09:30	Industry Satellite Symposia 3 by Mainstay 5-Year Outcomes with Restorative Neurostimulation: Understanding the Mechanism of Action & Avoiding Palliative Treatments 5 year data Simon Thomson Mechanism of Action Vivek Mehta Real world experience of ReActiv8 Neil Collighan
09:30 – 10:40	Plenary Session 6 Barriers to Accessing Pain Management Services Chair: Felicia Cox, UK How political understanding(s) can shape pain care Jackie Walumbe, UK How can we tackle inequalities in chronic pain care? – a GP perspective, David Blane, UK
10:40 – 11:10	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
11:10 – 12:10	Oral Poster Presentations 1 Chair: Nicole Tang, UK The Effect of Psychological Interventions on Neck Pain and Disability in Patients with Whiplash. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Mohammad Al Wardat, Jordan Pro-inflammatory Dietary Intake Relates to Pain Sensitivity in Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain: A Case-Control Study, Omer Elma, UK Predictors for quality of life in patients with chronic pain: a longitudinal study using regression and mixed effect modelling, Thomas Bilterys, UK Medical cannabis for chronic pain in the UK: an 18-month longitudinal observational study of 1993 individuals enrolled in Project Twenty21, Andrew Lambarth, UK
12:10 – 13:40	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
12:30 – 13:30
12:40 – 13:40	12:40 – 13:40 Attended Poster Viewing Session (Even Numbers)
13:40 – 15:00	Parallel Session D1 What is new in UK pain research? The Advanced Pain Discovery Platform (APDP) Chair: Edmund Keogh,UK Advanced Pain Discovery Platform: an overview, *David Walsh, UK* Revisiting fundamental concepts in pain psychology, *Amanda Williams, UK* Understanding and assessing risk factors for chronic pain, *Lesley Colvin, UK*
15:00 – 15:40	Plenary Session 7 Pat Wall Lecture Chair: Roger Knaggs Pain : finding positives in the Wall of negatives, Tony Pickering, UK
15:40 – 16:00	Poster Awards & Closing Ceremony

	Hall B
08:30 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:40
10:40 – 11:10	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
11:10 – 12:10	Oral Poster Presentations 2 Chair: Sam Ahmedzai, UK Childhood maltreatment increases risk of chronic pain all over: counterfactual analysis of UK Biobank, Gary J. Macfarlane, UK Self-regulation: a potential barrier to positive health behaviour change in Psoriatic Arthritis, Helen Jane Buckle, UK Will ageing perception and social relationships moderate the influence of health stressors on life satisfaction of the very old adults?, Abigail Olubola Taiwo, UK Quantifying pain impact in two longitudinal cohort studies: ALSPAC and ELSA, Amanda Ly, UK Gynaecological histories and chronic pain: ethnographic findings from a study of peri-menopause, Catherine Borra, UK
12:10 – 13:40	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
12:10 – 13:40	12:40 – 13:40 Attended Poster Viewing Session (Even Numbers)
13:40 – 15:00	Parallel Session D2 Opioids After Surgery, Prescribing and De-prescribing. Why and How? Chair: Felicia Cox, UK What do we know about opioid use after surgery?, Patrice Forget, UK What about patients’ opinions and perspectives about opioids after surgery?, Dalia Aljohani, UK How to personalise postoperative pain management during the acute and subacute phases?, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Germany
15:00 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:00

	HALL C
08:30 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:40
10:40 – 11:10	BREAK
11:10 – 12:10	Oral Poster Presentations 3 Chair: Cathy Price, UK Effect of caudal block on surgical stress response in pediatric population, Mostafa Somri, Israel Differential modulation of spinal somatosensory-evoked potentials / wide dynamic range neuronal activity by lacosamide, pregabalin and tapentadol, Kenneth A J Steel, UK ART26.12, a novel Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 5 inhibitor, shows efficacy in breast cancer-induced bone pain, Saoirse Elizabeth Osullivan, UK The effects of the Fatty Acid Binding Protein 5 inhibitor ART26.12 in a rat model of diabetic neuropathy, Saoirse Elizabeth Osullivan, UK Development of type-1 diabetes changes in evoked & non-evoked neuropathic pain endpoints and reversal with pregabalin in the rat streptozotocin model, Michael T Lanigan, UK
12:10 – 13:40	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
12:10 – 13:40	12:40 – 13:40 Attended Poster Viewing Session (Even Numbers)
13:40 – 15:00	Parallel Session D3 Approach to Migraine Treatments: Who, When and Why Chair: Vivek Mehta, UK & Anna Andreou, UK Approach to the treatment of migraine: What to prescribe and when, Modar Khalil, UK Neuromodulation techniques in migraine: What is the current role?, Kavita Poply, UK The UK National Migraine Registry and Audit Tool, Anna Andreou, UK
15:00 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:00

	HALL D
08:30 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:40
10:40 – 11:10	COFFEE BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
11:10 – 12:10
12:10 – 13:40	LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION
12:30 – 13:30	How can basic scientists, healthcare professionals and patients work together for the advancement of BPS? Chair: Sam H Ahmedzai, UK The 2022 BPS TPVC national survey of public experience of UK pain services – benefits and weaknesses, Sam H Ahmedzai, UK Basic scientists engaging with patients leads to better fundamental research strategies, Kirsty Bannister, UK The TPVC 2023 strategy and how it can help BPS achieve its aims, Victoria Abbot-Fleming & Tim Atkinson
12:40 – 13:40	12:40 – 13:40 Attended Poster Viewing Session (Even Numbers)
13:40 – 15:00	Parallel Session D4 Basic Science Dissecting Mechanisms that Underlie the Pain Experience Using Novel Approaches Chair: Kirsty Bannister, UK How does the nervous system handle pain throughout life? Neuroplasticity in the developing and aging nervous system and the role of opioids in shaping pain experience, Gareth Hathway, UK Developing better translational biomarkers of activity in nociceptive circuits, Tony Pickering, UK The role of soluble epoxide hydrolase in regulating inflammation and pain: opportunities for novel analgesic strategies, Victoria Chapman, UK
15:00 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:00

See the last year’s Scientific Programme below.

Scientific Programme

Time

Session

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee

11:00 – 12:30

Talk 1: Pain Management Programmes: Where are we now.

Patrick Hill (11:00-11:30)

Talk 2: Supporting young people with Persistent pain and fatigue.

Greg Hobbs & Sarah White (11:30-12:00)

12:30 – 13:15

Lunch Break

13:15 – 15:15

Workshops

Workshop Title: Reviewing Pain Management Programme design.

An opportunity to reflect and discuss the design, implementation and effectiveness of your PMPs with your peers, in light of contemporary evidence and thinking.

Facilitators: Patrick Hill and Hazel O’Dowd Clinical Psychologists North Bristol NHS Trust.

Workshop Title: Implementing the Young Person’s Pathway for pain and fatigue.

Designing a group-based intervention using the DNA-V model.

Facilitators: Sarah White, Mandy Buckley, Caroline Neal Nottinghamshire Community Pain Pathway.

Workshop Title: Sleeping Better with Chronic Pain: Using CBTi with chronic pain patients .

15:15 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:00

Keynote SpeakerPsychologically Informed Pain Care: Where are we now?Lance McCracken

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

HALL D

11:00 – 11:15

Welcome

11:15 – 11:55

Plenary Session 1BPSLecture

Chair: Roger Knaggs

Where does psychology belong in pain management?,Amanda Williams

11:55 – 12:00

BREAK

12:00 – 13:20

Parallel Session A1Pain Assessment Across the Lifespan

Chair: Felicia Cox, UK

Biopsychosocial assessment of pain in children: beyond pain intensity, Sueellen Walker, UK

The development of a pain assessment tool for people with a Learning Disability, Vicky Sandy-Davis, UK

Pain is what the patient says it is, but what if they cannot say, Patricia Schofield, UK

Parallel Session A2Distinct Phenotypes and Mechanisms of Pain in Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Chair: Shafaq Sikandar, UK

Neutrophil mediated sensitization of dorsal root ganglia neurons in FMS, Shafaq Sikandar, UK

The role of the microbiome in fibromyalgia syndrome, Amir MInerbi, IsraelSmall nerve fibers and microRNAs in FMS – promising paths to better diagnostics andtreatment? Nurcan Uçeyler, Germany

Parallel Session A3Pain and Suicide: Exploring Risk Factors, Opioid Use and Potential Targets for Intervention

Chair: Nicole Tang, UK

Pain and Mental defeat: Insights into Suicide Risk, Kristy Themelis, UK

The role of self-compassion in chronic pain and mental health outcomes, Jenna L. Gillett, UK

Pain, Opioids and Suicide: Have we gone too far? Martin D. Cheatle, USA

Parallel Session A4Pain Following Major Traumatic Injury: Lessons Learnt From Military Contexts

Chair: Harriet Kemp, UK

Pain Following Combat Injury, Alex Kumar, UK

Pain and Musculoskeletal Injury, Fraje Watson, UK

Pain following Major Traumatic Injuries in Civilian Populations, Harriet Kemp, UK

13:20 – 14:00

SIG Business Meetings

Pain Management Programmes SIG

SIG Business Meeting

Acute Pain SIG

LUNCH BREAK / POSTER VIEWING / EXHIBITION

14:00 – 15:20

Parallel Session B1Beyond Tokenistic Involvement: Working with Patient and Public Contributors in Pain Research

Chair: Ian Taverner, UK

Embedding public contribution in pain research from the start, Carolyn Chew-Graham OBE, UK

Using peoples’ life stories to drive the investigation of long-term causal pain pathways, Charlotte Woolley, UK

Identifying, Engaging and Involving People Living with Pain with Diverse Backgrounds: A Role for Patient Ambassadors, Louise Trewern, UK & Sarah Harrisson, UK

Parallel Session B2Pain Across the Continuum of Cancer

Chair: Sam H Ahmedzai, UK

Characterising the phenotype of neuropathic pain in cancer patients, Matthew Mulvey,UK

Looking for biomarkers and genetic predictors of pain in cancer patients, Paul Farquhar-Smith, UK

New therapies, new pains: the two faces of targeted biologics and CAR-T approaches, Jennifer Vidrine, UK

Parallel Session B3Making Time to Talk About Pain

Chair: Cathy Stannard, UK

Getting pain to the top of the agenda, Di Aitken, UK

Primary Care Group Consultations for people with Chronic Pain, Barbara Phipps, UK

Evolution of a whole system approach to supporting people to live well with pain, Cathy Stannard, UK

Parallel Session B4Interventional Pain MedicineHow to best practice in RF

Keynote Speaker
Psychologically Informed Pain Care: Where are we now?
Lance McCracken

Plenary Session 1
BPS
Lecture

Where does psychology belong in pain management?,
Amanda Williams

Parallel Session A1
Pain Assessment Across the Lifespan

Parallel Session A2
Distinct Phenotypes and Mechanisms of Pain in Fibromyalgia Syndrome

The role of the microbiome in fibromyalgia syndrome, Amir MInerbi, Israel
Small nerve fibers and microRNAs in FMS – promising paths to better diagnostics and
treatment? Nurcan Uçeyler, Germany

Parallel Session A3
Pain and Suicide: Exploring Risk Factors, Opioid Use and Potential Targets for Intervention

Parallel Session A4
Pain Following Major Traumatic Injury: Lessons Learnt From Military Contexts

Parallel Session B1
Beyond Tokenistic Involvement: Working with Patient and Public Contributors in Pain Research

Parallel Session B2
Pain Across the Continuum of Cancer

Parallel Session B3
Making Time to Talk About Pain

Parallel Session B4
Interventional Pain Medicine
How to best practice in RF

Plenary Session 2
Visceral Pain

Welcome Reception
Exhibition Area

Plenary Session 3
Women’s Health

Parallel Session C1
Why Don’t Gabapentinoids Work for Everyone?

Parallel Session C2
Getting Started in Research

Parallel Session C3
Current Methodologies to Support the Study of Chronic Pain and Its Psycho-social Dynamics in Naturalistic Settings

Parallel Session C4
Rethinking Pain: Collaborative Working Across the Clinical, Voluntary and Community Sector to Provide Person-centered Pain Care

Plenary Session 4
Markers of Persistent Pain