The Alfred Pain Symposium

Overview

An opportunity for General Practitioners and physicians with an interest in pain medicine, and who seek guidance on how to manage patients with chronic pain in the community, to come together in a one day event for lectures and interactive case based clinical discussion, with the aim to stimulate GP audience input.

Speakers

• A/Prof Carolyn Arnold - VMO Acute Pain The Alfred Hospital and Director of Caulfield Pain Management and Research Centre
• Dr David Lindholm- VMO Acute Pain The Alfred
• Dr Evan Symons - Head of Unit, Consultation-Liaison & Emergency Psychiatry, The Alfred
• Dr Kerry McLaughlin -  VMO Acute Pain & Anaesthesia The Alfred
• Dr Alex Kontantatos - Head of Pain Services & Senior Staff Specialist Anaesthesia, The Alfred
• Dr Mir Wais Sekandarzad - VMO Acute Pain & Anaesthesia, The Alfred
• Dr Elspeth Hutton - VMO,Consultant Neurologist , The Alfred

Topics

• Multidisciplinary management of back pain
• Weaning patients off complex multimodal analgesics
• Managing opioids in the community
• The epidemic of prescription of prescription opioid use
• An approach to headaches, non-opioid analgesics
• Making use of pain measurement tools
• Pain from a psychiatric perspective

Cost

$180 (inc. GST). Morning tea and lunch provided.

Enquiries

Alex Konstantatos:

• Phone:  0425 702 049
• Email:  a.konstantatos@alfred.org.au