Organising CommitteeDr Jennifer Stevens

Dr Martine O’Neill

Dr Andrew Paterson

Register onlinePlease visit www.asm.anzca.edu.au to register for this event online.

Meeting venueInternational Convention Centre, Sydney 14 Darling DriveSydney, New South Wales+61 2 9215 7100

Faculty Dinner Sunday May 6, 7-10.30pmLocation: Establishment Ballroom Level 2, Establishment 252 George Street, Sydney

Located in the centre of Sydney’s CBD on George Street, the Establishment Ballroom is a stunning, light-filled function space with an outdoor terrace. Buses will be available, departing at 6.30pm sharp from International Convention Centre, Sydney. Return transport will depart around 10.30pm. Please indicate on your registration whether you will require transport.

AccommodationA range of accommodation has been reserved. Please visit the ASM website asm.anzca.edu.au or see the accommodation section of this registration brochure on pages 54-55.

Professor Louise Sharpe

Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Sydney, New South Wales

Dr Regina Schultz

Clinical Neuropsychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Psychologist, New South Wales

Ms Bernadette Brady

Physiotherapist, NSW Health, awarded the 2017 Sir Robert Menzies Research Scholarship in the Allied Health Sciences, New South Wales

Dr Isabel Brouwer

Clinical Director, Forensic Medicine Unit, New South Wales

Dr Marianne Jauncey

Director, Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MISC), New South Wales

Dr Suzanne Nielsen

Pharmacist, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), New South Wales

Professor Jenny Martin

Chair, discipline of Clinical Pharmacology in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales

Professor Fiona Blyth

Epidemiologist and Associate Dean, Concord Clinical School, Professor of Public Health & Pain Medicine, New South Wales

Professor David A Scott, ANZCA president

Director, Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, Victoria

SponsorsThe Faculty of Pain Medicine acknowledges the generous sponsorship support of:

CPDThis event is claimable by ANZCA/FPM CPD participants within Knowledge and Skills; Lectures: 1 credit per hour.

ANZCA/FPM members will automatically have their attendance accredited to their CPD portfolio following the meeting.

Invited speakersProfessor Oscar de Leon-Casasola (FPM ASM Visitor)

Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and Professor of Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, US

Professor Tor Wager (FPM New South Wales Visitor)

Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, US

Professor Mark Hutchinson

Director, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics, South Australia

Associate Professor Elizabeth Scott

Director, Uspace and consultant psychiatrist, Brain and Mind Research Institute, New South Wales

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From 8am REGISTRATION

8.45-9am WELCOME

Session 1 “Brain damage”. Changes in the brain with chronic pain

9-9.30am Contribution of the brain to persistent/chronic pain, from both animal and human research perspectives

Professor Tor Wager

9.30-10am Does pain have a “colour” and can we use it to provide an objective biomarker

Professor Mark Hutchinson

10-10.30am The development of anxiety disorders and implications for pain

Associate Professor Elizabeth Scott

10.30-11am MORNING TEA

Session 2 “Breathe”. Scalable solutions for behaviour change

Extending the reach of physicians beyond the consulting room. Online anxiety treatment…a need for our age?

11-11.20am Online CBT/for pain and other chronic health problems

Professor Louise Sharpe

11.20-11.40am Telehealth for pain-online ePOCC

Dr Regina Schultz

11.40am-12pm Multicultural pain programs

Ms Bernadette Brady

12-12.30pm Refresher Course Day pre-lunch deluxe edition bonus track: Would you prescribe cannabis for chronic pain if you knew this?

Professor Oscar de Leon-Casasola

12.30-1.30pm LUNCH

Session 3 “Comfortably numb”. Risky prescribing…

1.30-2pm ...lessons from forensics. Prescription medication and polypharmacy deaths

Dr Isabel Brouwer

2-2.30pm …lessons from the Kings Cross Injecting Centre

Dr Marianne Jauncey

2.30-3pm …and from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre

Dr Suzanne Nielsen

3-3.30pm AFTERNOON TEA

Session 4 “The great gig in the sky”. The elderly population

In anaesthesia and pain medicine many of us are now geriatricians who occasionally operate outside of our scope of practice.

3.30-4pm Prescribing in the elderly

Professor Jenny Martin

4-4.30pm Chronic pain in the elderly

Professor Fiona Blyth

4.30-5pm Delirium, pain and the cognitive trajectory. Practical steps for anaesthesia and analgesia

Professor David A Scott

7-10.30pm FACULTY DINNER

Program“The lyrics of the album have been seen as a metaphor for darkness, a darkness that can destroy all positive emotions.”