The Interventional Section of the Polish Association for the Study of Pain and the London Pain Forum are once again joining forces to organise an expert programme of lectures, discussions and hands-on cadaver training with a leading international faculty. We are delighted to be introducing for the first time CT guided interventions to the hands-on workshop.
The conference is being hosted this year by the Medical University of Warsaw. Register your interest in attending the meeting on the online registration below. For further information, contact: ciaranwazir@gmail.com
CONFERENCE PATRON
Prof Mirosław Wielgoś, MD, PhD
Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw
CONFERENCE FACULTY
President, London Pain Forum
Past-President, Interventional Section,
Polish IASP Chapter
Founder, Polish Neuromodulation Society
Special Interest: Peripheral Stim & Retrograde SCS
Interventional Pain Management & Neuromodulation Practice
18 Wimpole Street, London, UK
UK Section Chair, World Institute of Pain
Board Member, Neuromodulation Society
of the UK & Ireland
Council Member, London Pain Forum
& British Pain Society
Consultant in Pain Medicine, Chairing Cross Hospital
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
London, UK
Prof Sam Eldabe
Chairman, IASP Neuromodulation SIG
Past-President, NSUKI
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia
The James Cook University Hospital
Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Dr Andrzej Krol
Past-President, Interventional Section, Polish IASP Chapter
Council Member, London Pain Forum
Founding Member, Polish Neuromodulation Society
Chairman, RA-UK Ultrasound in Pain Medicine Workshop, London
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia
St George's Hospital
London, UK
Dr Piotr Buczkowski
Board Member, Foundation for the Promotion of Pain Medicine
Past-President, Interventional Section, Polish IASP Chapter
Consultant Pain Specialist & Anaesthetist
Royal Derby Hospital, Derbyshire, UK
Swissmed Hospital, Gdańsk, Poland
Dr Przemyslaw Strulak
Consultant Pain Specialist & Anaesthetist
Special Interest: Pain Interventions (CT Guided)
Chairman, Private Pain Practice
Graz, Austria
Director, Annual Interventional Workshop, Bratislava
Founder, Interventional Section,
Slovakian Pain Society
Special Interest: Spinal Endoscopy Procedures
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia
EuroPainClinics
Prague, Czech Republic
Bratislava & Bardejov, Slovakia
Dr Grzegorz Hura
President, Interventional Section, Polish IASP Chapter
Consultant (Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy)
Sykehuset Innlandet Kongsvinger
Norway
Dr Jan Rykowski
Senior Advisor, Interventional Section, Polish IASP Chapter
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Special Interest: Pain Interventions/ITDD
Pain Clinic, University Hospital Orebro
Orebro, Sweden
Dr Ashish Shetty
Consultant in Pain Medicine
Course Director, Abdominopelvic Pain Symposium
Lead for Neuromodulation, Education & Research
Pain Management Centre
University College London Hospitals
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
25 Cleveland Street, London, UK
Prof Keyoumars Ashkan
President, British Society for Stereotactic
and Functional Neurosurgery
Professor of Neurosurgery
King's College Hospital
Denmark Hill
London, UK
Dr Raja Reddy
Special Interest: Ultrasound Guided Interventional Procedures
Consultant & Clinical Lead: Pain Medicine
Clinical & Educational Supervisor: Advanced Training Fellowship Programmes in Pain Medicine & Regional Anaesthesia,
Medway Maritime Hospital
Kent, UK
Dr Janina M. Pernak de Gast
Special Interest: Radiofrequency Treatment
Founding Member, World Society of Pain Clinicians
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Private Practice
Warsaw, Poland
Dr Wojciech Nierodzinski
Special Interest: Interventional Pain Treatment/Neuromodulation
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Private Practice
Bialystok, Poland
Dr Michal But
Special Interest: USG & Interventional Pain Medicine
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Regional Hospital
Koszalin, Poland
Dr Tomasz Zielinski
Special Interest: USG
Member of Polish Society of Ultrasound
Consultant Radiologist
Independent Children's Clinical Hospital
Warsaw, Poland
Dr Dariusz Kosson, MD, PhD
Secretary, Interventional Section
Polish Association for the Study of Pain
Consultant Anaesthetist
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
Medical University of Warsaw, Division of Teaching
Warsaw, Poland
Dr Marcin Kolacz, MD, PhD
Consultant Anaesthetist
I Department of Anaesthesiology
and Intensive Care
Medical University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
Dr Witold Libionka
Board Member, Polish Neuromodulation Society
Consultant Neurosurgeon
Special Interest: Neuromodulation
Nicolaus Copernicus Pomeranian Centre for Traumatology
Gdansk, Poland
Mr Roger Strachan
Immediate Past-President, Neuromodulation Society of the UK and Ireland
Consultant Neurosurgeon
The James Cook University Hospital
Middlesbrough, UK
Dr Ron Cooper
Representative for World Institute of Pain, Northern Ireland
Past Chair, Interventional SIG, British Pain Society
Special Interest: Interventional Pain/Neuromodulation
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Causeway Hospital
Coleraine
Northern Ireland
*FURTHER FACULTY TO BE ANNOUNCED
LOCAL PARTNERS
Medical University of Warsaw Forensic Medicine Department
Prof Paweł Krajewski, MD, PhD
Dr Marcin Fudalej, MD, PhD
Dr Aleksandra Borowska-Solonynko, MD, PhD
Dr Magdalena Kwiatkowska
I Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
Medical University of Warsaw
02-005 Warsaw, 4 Lindley Street
Assoc. Prof Janusz Trzebicki, MD, PhD
Dr Marcin Kołacz, MD, PhD
Dr Lidia Jureczko, MD, PhD
Dr Matthew Klukowski
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
Medical University of Warsaw, Division of Teaching Warsaw, Poland
02-005 Warsaw, 4 Lindley Street
Dr Dariusz Kosson, MD, PhD
Dr Grzegorz Górniewski, MD, PhD
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw
Dr Małgorzata Malec-Milewska, MD, PhD
OTHER PARTNERS
POLISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PAIN
INTERNATIONAL NEUROMODULATIION SOCIETY
EUROPEAN PAIN FEDERATION (EFIC)
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR REGIONAL ANAESTHESIA & PAIN THERAPY
CONFERENCE TIMETABLE
VENUE: Collegium Anatomicum, Medical University of Warsaw, Chałubińskiego 5,
02-004 Warsaw, Poland
(close to Warszawa Centralna Railway Station: Warsaw's Main Train Station)
*PLEASE NOTE the Conference Registration Desk will be located within the Main Entrance of the Collegium Anatomicum, on the corner of ul. Oczki and Chałubińskiego
DAY ONE (30.06.17): 09.00HRS-18.30HRS (LECTURE PROGRAMME)
DAY TWO (01.07.17): 08.15HRS - 17.20HRS (HANDS-ON TRAINING)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
To view the updated programme for the conference and workshop, CLICK HERE
LECTURE TOPICS (30.06.17)
ANATOMY AND IMAGING FOR PAIN INTERVENTIONS
OBSERVATIONAL INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MEDICINE
EVIDENCE BASED INTERVENTIONS
BACK PAIN AND FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PAIN MANAGEMENT
PRACTICAL INSIGHTS INTO INTERVENTIONAL PAIN TRAINING AND NEW EXAMS
CT-GUIDED INTERVENTIONS
PULSED RADIOFREQUENCY: ADVANCES
EPIDUROPLASTY (RACZ CATHETER)
SPINAL ENDOSCOPY PROCEDURES/EPIDUROSCOPY
SPINAL CORD STIMULATION: CLINICAL INDICATIONS AND WHERE TO REFER
SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PAIN
FREE PRESENTATIONS
PRESENT YOUR OWN WORK
If you are interested in submitting an abstract for free poster presentations or oral presentations at the conference, please contact: ciaranwazir@gmail.com
WORKSHOP HANDS-ON STATIONS (01.07.17)
1. X-ray Guided Lumbar Interventions: Facets/MBB/Racz catheter/Transforminal Epidural (cadaver)
2. X-ray Guided Cervical Interventions: MBB/Epidural/Transforaminal/
3. X-ray Guided Spinal Endoscopy Procedures: Epiduroscopy (Cadaver)
4. X-ray Guided Spinal Cord Stimulation/Peripheral Neuromodulation: Basic & Advanced Neuromodulation Techniques (cadaver)
5. Ultrasound Guided Pain Interventions: (cadaver)
6. CT Guided Pain Interventions (cadaver) incl. coeliac and hypogastic sympathetic blocks, bicuplasty and percutaneous decompression procedures
7. Ultrasound Guided Pain Interventions: (live model)
8. Ultrasound Guided Pain Interventions: (live model)
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
*The meetings have been granted 12 European CME credits (ECMEC) by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME).
CONFERENCE DINNER (30.06.17, 20.30hrs)
Conference Dinner Fee: £65 (GBP)
To register, for the conference contact: ciaranwazir@gmail.com
REGISTRATION FEES
International Participants
Before 30.06.17
Lectures and Hands-on Training (30.06.17 - 01.07.17): £450 (GBP)
Lecture Programme Only (30.06.17): £175 (GBP)
or
or
Lectures and Hands-on Training (30.06.17 - 01.07.17): 515 Euros
Lecture Programme Only (30.06.17): 200 Euros
Onsite Registration on 30.06.17
Lectures and Hands-on Training £500 (GBP)
Lecture Programme Only (30.06.17) £225 (GBP)
Local Participants
Before 30.06.17
Onsite Registration on 30.06.17
Lectures and Hands-on Training: 2200 PLN
Lecture Programme Only (30.06.17) 600 PLN
Before 30.06.17
Lectures and Hands-on Training (30.06.17 - 01.07.17): 2000 PLN
Lecture Programme Only (30.06.17): 500 PLN
Onsite Registration on 30.06.17
Lectures and Hands-on Training: 2200 PLN
Lecture Programme Only (30.06.17) 600 PLN
ONLINE PAYMENT
HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
Novotel Warszawa Centrum Hotel
ul Marszalkowska 94/98, 00-510 Warsaw, Poland
Tel: +48-22-5960000
*The Novotel Warszawa Centrum Hotel is approximately 10min walk from conference venue.
TRAVELLING TO WARSAW
Warsaw Chopin & Warsaw Modlin Airports
Poland's capital city has two busy airports, Warsaw Chopin and Warsaw Modlin. Both airports have good links by road to Warsaw's Main Railway Station, Warszawa Centralna, a short walk from the Conference venue, Collegium Anatomicum. Below are airlines that fly to Warsaw.
Aeroflot
Air Berlin
Air France
Austrian Airlines
British Airways
Brussels Airlines
Finnair
German Wings
Iberia
KLM
LOT Polish Airlines
Lufthansa
Norwegian Air
Ryan Air
SAS
Swiss
TAP Portugal
Turkish Airlines
Wizz Air
TRAIN
Warsaw's Main Railway Station, Warszawa Centralna, is very close to the conference venue, and it has fast modern trains to Poland's major cities as well as neighbouring countries. For trains timetables and to book a ticket online visit: http://intercity.pl/en/
