Scientific Programme

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

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

Talk 3: Sleeping Better with Chronic Pain: Using CBTi with chronic pain patients.
Nicole Tang (12:00-12:30)

Welcome

Plenary Session 1
BPS Lecture

Chair: Roger Knaggs

Where does psychology belong in pain management?,
Amanda Williams

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

SIG Business Meetings

Pain Management Programmes SIG

SIG Business Meeting

Acute Pain SIG

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

Attended Poster Viewing Session (Odd Numbers) with Coffee Break

Industry Satellite Symposia 1

SIG Business Meetings

Pain in Older People SIG

SIG Business Meetings

Medicolegal SIG

SIG Business Meetings

Primary & Community Care SIG

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

Welcome Reception
Exhibition Area

Industry Satellite Symposia 2

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

AGM

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
Evaluation of system change and the Rethinking Pain programme – Theory of Change and findings from an independent evaluation, Kate Thompson, UK

Industry Satellite Symposia 3

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

Plenary Session 4
Markers of Persistent Pain

Chair: Kirsty Bannister

Acute to Chronic Pain Transmission: Mechanisms and Biomarkers, 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

Plenary Session 5
BPS Debate

Chair: Cathy Price

SIG Business
Meeting

Interventional Pain Medicine SIG

Early Careers Networking Event

BJP Editorial Board Meeting

SIG Business
Meeting

Industry Satellite Symposia 4

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

How can we tackle inequalities in chronic pain care? – a GP perspective, David Blane

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

Evaluating pain scores and clinical outcomes of serratus anterior plane blocks vs systemic analgesia of trauma patients with rib fractures, Divakar B Hamal, 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

12:30 – 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

Parallel Session D1
APDP

David Walsh

Amanda Williams

Lesley Colvin

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

Plenary Session 7
Pat Wall Lecture
Chair: Roger Knaggs

Pain : finding positives in the Wall of negatives, Tony Pickering, UK

Poster Awards & Closing Ceremony