Past ASMs

Reports from the Liverpool 2008, Glasgow 2007, Harrogate 2006, Edinburgh 2005, Manchester 2004, Glasgow 2003 and Bournemouth 2002 Annual Scientific Meetings can be found below.

Liverpool 2008

The 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting was held at the Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) Liverpool.

Number of participants: 693 participants attended the meeting; 82% of these being members of the Society.

Scientific Programme: The plenary sessions for the 2008 ASM were as follows:

• Top down processing of pain - Pain the brain and spinal gains, Professor Tony Dickenson (London, UK)
• The nature and nurture of chronic pain, Professor Jeffrey Mogil (Montreal, Canada)
• Epidemiology of pain: from the laboratory to the bus stop, Professor Blair Smith (Aberdeen, UK)
• British children in pain: Is there any relief in site?, Professor Linda Franck (London, UK)
• Coping with chronic pain: worrying and problem solving, Professor Geert Crombez (Gent, Belgium)
• Neural mechanisms and neuromodulation of visceral pain, Dr Robert Foreman (Oklahoma, US)
• Neuropathic pain, Professor Ralf Baron (Kiel, Germany)
  
• Facial pain: toothache or trigemnial neuralgia, Professor Joanna Zakrewska (London, UK)
  
• A brief history of pain - back to the future? Dr Chris Wells (Liverpool, UK)
  

British Pain Society Patrick Wall Lecture: the seventh British Pain Society Patrick Wall lecture was given by Professor Tony Dickenson (London, UK) on 'Top down processing of pain - Pain the brain and spinal gains'

British Pain Society Lecture: the third British Pain Society Lecture was given by Dr Chris Wells on 'A brief history of pain - back to the future?'

Poster Exhibition: 117 posters made up this year's poster exhibition

Winners of the prize paper presentations:

• 1st Prize: Why do persons with chronic widespread pain have higher mortality from cancer and cardiovascular disease? Results from the 1958 birth cohort study
  Vandenkerkhof EG, MacDonal HM, Jones GT, Poer C, MacFarlane GJ

Runners up

• Influence of a selective GTP cyclohydrolase haplotype on clinical outcome, pain intensity and pain perception thresholds 3 months following lumbar disectomy.
  Dominic Hegarty
• Are patient-based educational interventions effective in the management of cancer pain? Stystematic review and meta-analysis.
  Michael Bennett, Anne-Marie Bagnall, Jose Closs
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  Chronic pain and 10 year mortality; a cohort record linkage study
  Nicola Torrance, Alison Elliott, Amanda Lee, Blair Smith
• Analgesic efficacy and safety of oxygen in combination with naxoline as prolonged release (PR) tablets in patients with moderate to severe chronic pain
  Meissner W, Hopp M, Leyendecker P, Ruckes C, Duerr H, Grothe B, Fleischer

List of exhibitors
Acomedical
Action on Pain
Archimedes Pharma UK Ltd
Arthrocare UK ltd
Bristol-Myers Squibb
British Pain Society
BVM Medical Ltd
CME McKinley UK Ltd
Cephalon UK ltd
Chronic Pain Policy Coalition (CPPC)
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh University
Eisai Ltd
Eli Lilly and Company Ltd and Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd Alliance
Expert Patients Programme Community Interest Company (EPPCIC)
Fresenius Kabi Ltd
Goldshield Pharmaceuticals
Grünenthal UK
International Association for the Study of Pain
Janssen-Cilag
Javelin Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd
Medtronic UK
Mela Solutions Ltd
Merk Sharp And Dome Ltd
Napp (second stand)
Napp Pharmaceuticals
NeuroTechnics Ltd
NeuroTherm Ltd
PACE
Pain Consultants
Pfizer Ltd
Physio-Med Services Ltd
Prostrakan
Smiths Medical
St Judes Medical
Tenscare
The Institute of Cancer Research
The Trigeminal Neuralgia Association UK
Tricumed Medizintechnik GmbH
Wisepress Ltd
Wolverson X Ray Ltd

Glasgow 2007

The 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting was held at the Scottish Exhibition + Conference Centre (SECC) in Glasgow.

Number of participants: 928 participants attended the meeting; 62% of these being members of the Society.

Scientific Programme: The plenary sessions for the 2007 ASM were as follows:

• The biology of infant pain, Professor Maria Fitzgerald (London, UK)
• New directions in CRPS rehabilitation - from science to practice, Dr Lorimer Moseley (Oxford, UK)
• Headache, Dr Peter Goadsby (London, UK)
• The cellular mechanisms of pain memory, Professor Jürgen Sankühler (Vienna, Austria)
• Microglia and pain, Professor Mike Salter (Ontario, Canada)
• Obstetric pain, Professor James Eisenach (North Carolina, USA)
• Moving from patient to person, Ms Penney Cowan (California, USA)
• Qualitative research in pain, Professor José Closs (Leeds, UK)
• What have systematic reviews told us about managing pain? Professor Henry McQuay (Oxford, UK)
  

British Pain Society Patrick Wall Lecture: the sixth British Pain Society Patrick Wall lecture was given by Professor Maria Fitzgerald (London, UK) on 'The biology of infant pain'

British Pain Society Lecture: the second British Pain Society Lecture was given by Professor Henry McQuay

Poster Exhibition: 166 posters made up this year's poster exhibition; 73 in the research category and 93 in the professional communication category.

Winners of the prize paper presentations:

• 1st Prize: Genetic and environmental Influences on non-specific low back pain in children: A twin study
  El-Metwally A, Ståhl M, Macfarlane GJ, Mikkelsson M, Jones GT, Kaprio J
• 2nd Prize: TRPV1 Antagonist SB-750364 Reduces spontaneous neuronal activity in a model of trigeminal neuropathic pain
  J.M.Yates, J.E. Biggs, N.M. Clayton, A.R. Loescher, F.M. Boissonade,
  P.P. Robinson
• 3rd Prize: Road traffic accidents predict the onset of axial pain but not widespread pain
  John McBeth, Barbara Nicholl, Nicola Wiles, Gareth T. Jones, Gwenllian Wynne-Jones

Copies of the 5 abstracts that were invited to present at the prize paper presentation will be published in Anaesthesia later this year.

List of exhibitors
Acomedical
Algotec Limited
ArthroCare UK Ltd
BOC Medical
Boston Scientific Inc
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd
BVM Medical Ltd
Cambridge Neurotechnology Ltd
Cephalon UK Ltd
Chronic Pain Policy Coalition
Codman Neurosciences
Eisai Ltd
Elsevier Ltd
Expert Patients Programme Community Interest Company
Fresenius Kabi
Grunenthal Ltd
Hospira UK Ltd
Janssen-Cilag Ltd
Lilly Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd
Link Pharmaceuticals Ltd
McKinley Medical (UK) Ltd
Meda Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Medtronic Ltd
Mela Solutions Ltd
Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd
Napp Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Neurotherm Limited
Norgine Ltd
Pain Association Scotland
NHS Scotland Counter Fraud Services
Nidd Valley Medical Ltd
PainConsultants
Pfizer Ltd
Physio-Med Services Ltd
Remedi (UK) Ltd
SMILE
Somedic AB Sales
St. Jude Medical UK Ltd
Strawberry Medical Limited
Tenscare Ltd
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Wisepress Online Bookshop
Wolverson X Ray Ltd

Harrogate 2006

The 39th British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting was held at the Harrogate International Centre (HIC)

Number of participants: 939 participants attended the meeting; 72% of these being members of the Society.

Scientific Programme: The plenary sessions for the 2006 ASM were as follows:
-The neurobiology of pain: from molecules to circuits, Dr Allan Basbaum (San Francisco, USA)
-Imaging and pain, Professor Irene Tracey (Oxford, UK)
-Gender and pain, Professor Roger Fillingim (Florida, USA)
-Sensory testing, Dr Nadine Attal (Boulogne, France)
-Post-herpetic neuralgia, Professor Turo Nurmikko (Liverpool, UK)
-Pain in survivors of torture, Dr Amanda C de C Williams (London, UK)
-Muscle function and musculoskeletal pain, Professor Gwen Jull (Brisbane, Australia)
-Mechanisms of arthritic pain, Dr Bruce Kidd (London, UK)
-Education and training in pain, Dr Douglas Justins (London, UK)

British Pain Society Patrick Wall Lecture: The fifth British Pain Society Patrick Wall lecture was given by Dr Allan Basbaum (San Francisco, USA) on 'The neurobiology of pain: from molecules to circuits'

British Pain Society Lecture: The inaugural British Pain Society Lecture was given by Dr Douglas Justins (London) on 'Education and training in pain'


Poster exhibition: 93 posters made up this year’s exhibition.

Winners of prize paper presentations:
The winners of the Prize Paper Presentations were as follows:

• 1st Prize: Predicting new onset widespread pain following a road traffic accident: pre-accident health is a more important risk factor than accident-specific factors
  G T Jones, G Wynne-Jones, N J Wiles, A J Silman, G J Macfarlane
• 2nd Prize: Intra-articular IL1ß or IL6 induces hypersensitivity and allodynia in the rat knee joint
  N J Barton, I T Strickland, A J Reeve, D S McQueen, I P Chessell
• 3rd Prize: Increased expression of ATF-3 in a rodent model of osteoarthritis
  S P Ivanavicius, A D Ball, C G Heapy, R Westwood, S J Read

Copies of the 5 abstracts that were invited to present at the prize paper presentation will be published in Anaesthesia later this year.

List of exhibitors
Amtec Medical Ltd
Abbott Laboratories
Acticare
Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc.
Algotec Limited
ArthroCare Spine
Boston Scientific Inc.
BVM Medical Ltd
Cambridge Neurotechnology Ltd
Cephalon UK Ltd
Chronic Pain Policy Coalition
Codman Neurosciences
Elsevier
Expert Patients Programme
Fresenius Kabi Ltd
Genzyme Therapeutics
GlaxoSmithKline
Grünenthal
Hospira UK
Janssen-Cilag Ltd
McKinley Medical (UK) Ltd
Medtel
Medtronic Ltd
Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd
Napp Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Neuro Resource Group (NRG)
Neurotechnics Ltd
Neurotherm Ltd
Nidd Valley Medical Ltd
North British Pain Association
PACS
Pain Association Scotland
Pain Consultants
Pfizer Ltd
Physio-Med Services Ltd
Real Health Institute
Remedi (UK) Ltd
Shaw Trust
SMILE
Somedic Sales AB
Stryker UK Ltd
Tenscare Ltd
UCL Analgesia Centre
University Hospitals Supplies
Wisepress Ltd
Wolverson X-ray Ltd

Edinburgh 2005

The 38th British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC)

Number of participants: 1,045 participants attended the meeting; 63% of these being members of the Society.

Scientific Programme: The plenary sessions for the 2005 ASM were as follows:
- Peripheral mechanisms of neuropathic pain, Prof. Stephen B McMahon (London, UK)
- Descending modulation from the rostral ventromedial medulla and neuropathic pain, Dr Frank Porreca (Arizona, USA)
- Physical activity in chronic low back pain, Dr Jeanine Verbunt (Hoensbroek, The Netherlands)
- Central mechanisms of neuropathic pain, Prof. Sue Fleetwood-Walker (Edinburgh, UK)
- Cogito Ergo Ouch: meditations on the psychology of pain, Dr Michael Sullivan (Montreal, Canada)
- Pain in older people, Prof. Peter Crome (Stoke on Trent, UK)
- Communication of pain in special circumstances, Prof. Kathleen Puntillo (San Francisco, USA)
- Acute pain therapy, Prof. Ian Power (Edinburgh, UK)
- Health economics of pain, Dr Ceri J Phillips (Cardiff, UK)

Pain Society Patrick Wall Lecture: The fourth British Pain Society Patrick Wall lecture was given by Prof. Stephen MacMahon (London, UK) on ‘Peripheral mechanisms of neuropathic pain’

Poster exhibition: 97 posters made up this year’s exhibition.

Copies of the 5 abstracts that were invited to present at the prize paper presentation will be published in Anaesthesia later this year.

List of exhibitors
Abbott Laboratories
Acticare
Algotec Limited
Arthrocare Spine
B Braun Medical Ltd
Baxter Healthcare Ltd
Blackwell’s Exhibitions
Brain Vision UK Ltd
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Cephalon UK Ltd
Codman Neurosciences
Fresenius Kabi Ltd
Genzyme Biosurgery
Genzyme Therapeutics
GlaxoSmithKline
Ipsen Ltd
Janssen-Cilag Ltd
Link Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Magmed Ltd
McKinley Medical (UK) Ltd
Medtronic Ltd
Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd
Napp Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Neurotechnics Ltd
Pfizer Ltd
Physio-Med Services Ltd
Promed Ltd
RDG Medical
Real Health Institute
Remedi (UK) Ltd
Smith & Nephew Endoscopy
Stryker UK Ltd
Wisepress Online Bookshop

Manchester 2004

The 37th Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting was held at the Manchester International Convention Centre & GMEX.

Number of participants: 1,047 participants attended the meeting; 72% of these being members of the Society.

Scientific Programme: The plenary sessions for the 2004 ASM were as follows:

- Opioids in non-malignant pain, Prof. Harald Brevik (Norway)

- The relief of severe pain in the world remains an elusive goal, Dr David E Joranson (USA)
- Challenges of secondary prevention in clinical and occupational settings, Prof. Chris J Main (Manchester)
- Integrating cognitive behavioural therapy, Prof. Michael K Nicholas (Australia)
- Angina, Dr Mike Chester (Liverpool, UK)
- Understanding pain: how does epidemiology contribute? Prof. Gary MacFarlane (Manchester, UK)
- Genetic approaches to pain mechanisms, Prof. John N Wood (London, UK)
- Effective cancer pain management - lessons learned from patients and family caregivers Dr Christine Miaskowski (USA)
- Mechanisms of cancer pain, Dr Patrick Mantyh (USA)

Pain Society Patrick Wall Lecture: The third Pain Society Patrick Wall lecture was given by Dr Patrick Mantyh (USA) on ‘Mechanisms of cancer pain’

Poster exhibition: 173 posters made up this year’s exhibition.

Winners of prize paper presentations:
The winners of the Prize Paper Presentations were as follows:

• 1st Prize: Increased sodium channel Nav1.8 immunoreactivity in painful human dental pulp
  T Renton, Y Yiangou, C Plumpton, S Tate, C Bountra, P Anand
• 2nd Prize: The effectiveness of manual therapy or pulsed shortwave diathermy in addition to advice and exercise for neck disorders; a pragmatic randomised controlled trial in physiotherapy clinics
  K Dziedzic, J Hill, M Lewis, J Sim, J Daniels, EM Hay
• 3rd Prize: Patients consulting in general practice with low back pain: symptom history and coping strategy influence outcome
  RE Johnson, GT Jones, AJ Littlewood, C Chaddock, RG Potter, NJ Wiles, C Roberts, DPM Symmonds, GJ Macfarlane

Copies of the 5 abstracts that were invited to present at the prize paper presentation will be published in Anaesthesia later this year.

List of exhibitors

Abbott Laboratories
Adam Rouilly Ltd
Algotec Ltd
Applied Medical Technology Ltd
Ariel Medical Ltd
Arthrocare Spine
Baxter Healthcare Ltd
Blackwell's Exhibitions
Cephalon UK Ltd
Codman A Johnson & Johnson Company
Glaxo Smith Kline
Ipsen Ltd
Janssen-Cilag Ltd
Mckinley Medical (UK) Ltd
Medtronic Ltd
Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd
Napp Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Neuropathy Trust
Neurotechnics Ltd
Pain Association Scotland
Pfizer Ltd
Physio-Med Services Ltd
Promed Ltd
RDG Medical
Remedi (UK) Ltd
Russell Medical Books
Smith & Nephew Endoscopy
Smith Medical
Somedic Sales Ab
Universal Hospital Supplies
Wisepress Online

Glasgow 2003

The 36th Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting was held at the Scottish Exhibition + Conference Centre in Glasgow (SECC).

Number of participants: 1,066 participants attended the meeting; 70% of these being members of the Society.

Scientific Programme: The plenary sessions for the 2003 ASM were as follows:
- Pain, learning & plasticity: results from imaging studies, Prof. Herta Flor (Germany)
- Models of muscle pain: experimental & clinical applications, Prof. Lars Arendt-Nielsen (Denmark)
- Assessment of function, Dr Maureen Simmonds (USA)
- Implementing evidence: possiblities & pitfalls for pain, Dr Kate Seers (Oxford, UK)
- The faces oof pain: an interpersonal core, Prof. Kenneth Craig (Canada)
- Postoperative pain: why can it become chronic? Dr William Macrae (Dundee, UK)
- Social policy and the welfare system: the challenge of chronic pain, Prof. Mansel Aylward (London, UK)
- Imflammatory pain mechanims, Prof. Peter Reeh (Germany)
- Setting the stage for pain, Prof. Howard Fields (USA)

Pain Society Patrick Wall Lecture: The second Pain Society Patrick Wall lecture was given by Prof. Howard Fields (USA) on ‘Setting the stage for pain’

Poster exhibition: 160 posters made up this year’s exhibition.

Winners of prize paper presentations:
The winners of the Prize Paper Presentations were as follows:

• 1st Prize: "Future Possible Selves" conditionality and adjustment to chronic pain.
  Prof. Stephen Morley
• 2nd Prize: Efficacy of two cannabis based medicinal extracts for relief of central neuropathic pain from brachial plexus avulsion: results of a randomized controlled trial.
  Dr Jonathan Berman
• 3rd Prize: The WEST Study - a cost effectiveness study of epidural steroids in the management of sciatica: 12 month effectiveness data.
  Dr Cathy Price

List of exhibitors

Abbott Laboratories Ltd
Adam Rouilly Ltd
Advanced Pain Management
Algotec Ltd
Applied Medical Technology Ltd
Baxter Healthcare Ltd
BOC Medical
Cambridge Neurotechnology Ltd
Cephalon
Codman A Johnson & Johnson Company
Glaxo Smith Kline
Granta Book Exhibitions
Graseby Medical Ltd
Ipsen Ltd
Janssen-Cilag Ltd
Mckinley Medical (UK) Ltd
Medtronic Ltd
Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd
Napp Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Neurotechnics Ltd
Oxylitre
Peacocks Medical Group Ltd
Pfizer Ltd
Pharmacia Ltd
Physio-Med Services
Portex
Promed Ltd
RDG Medical
Somedic Sales Ab
Tenscare Ltd
TRB Chemedica
Universal Hospital Supplies
Wisepress Ltd

Bournemouth 2002

The 35th Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting was held at the Bournemouth International Centre on 9-12 April.

Number of participants: 808 participants attended the meeting; 77% of these being members of the Society.

Scientific Programme: The plenary sessions for the 2002 ASM were as follows:
- Neuropathic pain: assessment & pharmacotherapy update, Dr Bradly Galer (USA)
- Measurement of pain in children, Prof. Patrick J McGrath (Canada)
- Acute pain teams - past, present and future, Prof. Brian Ready (USA)
- Molecular insights into the pharmacology of pain, depression and addiction, Prof. Stephen Hunt (London, UK)
- Pain coping skills training: issues and opportunities, Prof. Francis keefe (USA)
- The pain in migraine is mainly of the brain: neurobiology of a primary headache, Dr Peter J Goadsby
- Mechanisms of non-cardiac chest pain, Dr Thelma Lovick (Birmingham, UK)
- Dysfunctional pain: a challenge to taxonomy and treatment, Prof. Bengt H Sjolund (Sweden)

Pain Society Patrick Wall Lecture: The first Pain Society Patrick Wall lecture was given by Professor Troels Jensen (Denmark) on ‘Phantom limb pain: a manifestation of neuronal hyperexcitability’.

Poster exhibition: 126 posters made up this year’s exhibition.

List of exhibitors

Abbott Laboratories Ltd
Advanced Pain Management
Algotec Limited
Allergan Ltd
B Braun Medical Ltd
Baylis Medical Company
BOC Medical
Codman A Johnson & Johnson Company
Database of Individual Patient Experience
Duffield Medical
Graseby Medical Ltd
Janssen-Cilag Ltd
Kendle International Inc
Mckinley Medical (UK) Ltd
Medtronic Ltd
Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd
Napp Pharmaceuticals
Neuropathy Trust
Neurotech
Neurotechnics Ltd
Oxford Stress and Trauma Centre
Peacocks Medical Group Ltd
Pfizer Ltd
Pharmacia Ltd
Physio-Med Services
Portex Ltd
Promed Ltd
RDG Medical
Scarboroughs Ltd
Shire Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Somedic Sales Ab
Tenscare Ltd
Wisepress Ltd