29-30 May 2025 - Aberdeen Interventional Pain Management Cadaver Workshop

 



QUICK LINKS

To register for the workshop in Aberdeen, CLICK HERE

To pay the registration fee for Consultant Level Doctors via card, CLICK HERE

To pay the registration fee for UK Trainee level/Junior Doctors via card, CLICK HERE


THE NEXT Aberdeen Interventional Pain Workshop will take place on 29-30 May 2025 at the Suttie Centre, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

An expert faculty will teach on the two day intensive course with lectures, live surgery demonstrations, hands-on cadaver training (X-ray & Ultrasound guided procedures) and question and answer sessions.

For further information, email: ciaranwazir@gmail.com



CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION


An application will be submitted European Accreditation Council for CME and Royal College of Anaesthetists, London, UK


WORKSHOP CHAIRMEN


Dr Saravana Kanakarajan
Course Director, Aberdeen Workshop
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Aberdeen
Scotland, UK






Dr Ravi Nagaraja
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Clinical Lead
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Aberdeen
Scotland, UK






INVITED WORKSHOP FACULTY




Dr Neal Evans
Special Interest: X-Guided RF Ablation Procedures
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Clinical Lead
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Aylesbury, Bucks, UK





Dr Andrzej Krol
Special Interest: USG RF Ablation Procedures
Committee Chair, ESRA European Diploma of Pain Medicine
ESRA USG Pain Cadaver Courses (London & Europe)
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia
St George's University Hospital
London, UK







Dr Hirachand Mutagi
Consultant Pain Physician & Anaesthetist
University Hospital of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK









Dr Robert Rapcan FIPP
Special Interest: Endoscopic Facet Joint & SI Joint Denervation Procedures, 
Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
Examiner, World Institute of Pain
Medical EuroPainClinics
Czech Republic & Slovakia




Dr Manojit Sinha
Chair, Interventional SIG, British Pain Society
Clinical Lead Pain Management
Consultant in Pain Medicine
King's College Hospital
London, UK







Dr Marius Ambrock
Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery 
Klinikum Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg. Germany








WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Overview of Day One: Lectures & Live Surgery

Workshop Venue: Suttie Centre, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill House, Ashgrove Road West, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK

  • Anatomy and nerve supply for facet and SI joints
  • Lumbar facet joint denervation (Live Surgery—Video link)
  • Sacroiliac Joint RF (Live Surgery—Video link)
  • Evidence and Complications of RF procedures
  • Endoscopic RF of Facets and SI joint
  • Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
  • Cryoanalgesia/Cryoablation
  • Ultrasound guided Interventions for Low Back Pain (lecture and demo)

Overview  of Day Two: Hands-on Stations (X-ray & Ultrasound)

Workshop Venue: Wet room, Department of Anatomy, Third Floor, Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD

Station 1: X-ray guided Diagnostic Blocks (cadaver)
Station 2: X-ray guided Lumbar Facet Joint Denervation (cadaver)
Station 3: X-ray guided Sacroiliac Joint Denervation (cadaver)
Station 4: X-ray guided Basivertebral Nerve Ablation (cadaver)
Station 5: 
X-ray guided Endoscopic Facet Joint & SI Joint Denervation (cadaver)
Station 6: Ultrasound guided Cryoablation/Cryoanalgesia for Low Back Pain (cadaver)
Station 7: Ultrasound Guided Interventions for Low Back Pain (live model)
Open session—candidates can attend any station of their choice


WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

To be updated


REGISTRATION FEES


Early Bird Reg Fees:  

£750 (Consultant Level Doctors)

£600 (UK Trainees/Junior doctors)


To pay the registration fee for Consultant Level Doctors via card, CLICK HERE

To pay the registration fee for UK trainee level/junior doctors via card, CLICK HERE


ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM

To register for the Aberdeen Workshop, CLICK HERE


TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION
 

Aberdeen has excellent travel links. By air, Aberdeen is well connected by British Airways, Eastern airways, Flybe, BMI, KLM and Air France to majority of the airports in UK and mainland Europe. The venue is 6 miles from the airport. There are 6 major roads to Aberdeen. A90 serves as the main arterial route connecting Dundee, Perth, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Aberdeen is on the main UK rail network and has frequent direct services to major cities such as Edinburgh Glasgow and London including Caledonian sleeper service