PAIN IN CHILDHOOD LEADERSHIP
- President: Marsha Campbell-Yeo
Canada
- Past President: Stefan Friedrichsdorf
USA
- President-Elect: Deirdre Logan
USA
- Secretary: Marcela Pizarro
Uruguay - Treasurer: Danielle Cadide
Brazil
- Council:
- Michael Jankowski
USA - Simon Beggs
UK - Lorenzo Fabrizi
UK - Clara Abadesso
Portugal - Folaju Oyebola
Nigeria - Angela Yeo
Singapore
- Michael Jankowski
PAIN IN CHILDHOOD SOCIAL MEDIA
Pain in Childhood Mission and Vision
The Pain in Childhood Special Interest Group aims to:
- Promote education about pain in children.
- Share relevant information about children’s pain control.
- Advance our ability to alleviate children’s pain from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.
- Encourage research, particularly multicenter studies and studies that focus on unique problems of pediatric patients, including newborns.
Pain in Childhood Events
International Symposium on Paediatric Pain (ISPP 2025)
17 - 20 June 2025 I Glasgow, UK
The International Symposium on Pediatric Pain is the premier interdisciplinary conference on pain in infants, children, and adolescents. It attracts a global audience of pediatricians, anesthetists, clinicians, researchers, nurses, psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, as well as professionals and scholars from other disciplines.
ISPP 2023 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was the most well-attended symposium in the IASP Pain in Childhood Special Interest Group's history. The SIG expects and even larger attendance in Glasgow for the 2025 Symposium. Don't miss your chance to connect with pediatric pain specialists from around the world.
Pain in Childhood Resources:
- "Why Children's Pain Matters"
GA Finley, LS Franck, RE Grunau, CL von Baeyer, Pain: Clinical Updates, Volume XIII, Issue 4 (September 2005) - Pediatric Pain Letter: Commentaries on pain in infants, children, and adolescents
- External SIG Website
- Faces Pain Scale - Revised
- Opioid Use in Pregnancy Alters Newborn Outcomes and Subsequent Development
- 2019 Global Year Against Pain in the Most Vulnerable
- 2006 Global Year Against Pain in Children