• Home
• General Information
• Program
• Registration
• Exhibition/Sponsorship
• Resources
• Contact

Milano Convention Centre | August 27-31, 2012

Refresher Courses

IASP is sponsoring a series of half-day Refresher Courses on Monday, August 27, 2012. The registration fee includes the course, syllabus, and a coffee break. Refresher Course attendees must register for the Congress (either one-day or full registration) and pay a separate registration fee for each Refresher Course attended.

Note: Titles, faculty, and scheduled times are subject to change.

Morning Refresher Courses (08:30 - 12:00)

• An Update on the Neurobiology of Acute and Persistent Pain (Michael Salter, Frank Porreca)
• Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Update: From Basic Science to Management (Daniel Clauw, Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Kim Bennell)
• Headache Update - Diagnosis and Therapy (Peter Goadsby, Rigmor Jensen, Zaza Katsarava)
• Pain Psychology for Non-Psychologists (Johan Vlaeyen, Lance McCracken, Amanda Williams)
• Clinical Pharmacology: Evidence-Based Guidelines and Defining the Proper Outcome (Ian Gilron, Eija Kalso, Stephan Schug)
• Neuropathic Pain Update: From Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Management (Rolf-Detlef Treede, David Bennett, Nadine Attal)
• Interventional Therapies for Chronic Pain: Indications and Efficacy (Maarten van Kleef, Richard Rauck, Richard North)
• Rational Opioid Therapy for Cancer and Non-Cancer Pain (Jane Ballantyne, Seddon Savage, Mary Lynn McPherson)
• Treating Pain in Children: An Update (Denise Harrison, Christiane Hermann, Maria Fitzgerald)

Afternoon Refresher Courses (13:00 - 16:30)

• Cancer Pain Update: From Mechanisms to Treatment (Michael Bennett, Anthony Dickenson, Anne-Kari Knudsen)
• The Basics of Neuroimaging and Brain Interference Techniques (Petra Schweinhardt, Giandomenico Iannetti, Felipe Fregni)
• Fundamentals of Neuropathic Pain Assessment and Diagnosis (Maija Haanpaa, Didier Bouhassira, Michael Rowbotham)
• Update on the Management and Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Lorimer Moseley, Frank Huygen, Frank Birklein)
• Orofacial Pain for Physicians (Rafael Benoliel, Antoon de Laat, Eli Eliav)
• Persistent Postoperative Pain: Pathogenic Mechanisms and Preventive Strategies (Henrik Kehlet, Robert Edwards, Asokumar Buvanendran)
• Pain Genes for Unraveling Pain: A Course for Non-Geneticists (Marshall Devor, Luda Diatchenko, Michel Ferrari)
• Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Persistent Abdominal/Pelvic Pain (Fred Howard, Karen Berkley, Emeran Mayer)
• Low Back Pain: Basic Mechanisms, Treatment, and Management (Steven Linton, Chris Maher, Jan van Zundert)
• Emergent Alternate Therapies for Chronic Pain (Vitaly Napadow, Ted Kaptchuk, Karen Sherman)