9th London Advanced Pain & Symptom Management Course – 2021
Hourly Schedule
Programme Day One
- 9.30 - 9.40
- Chairman’s introduction
- 9.40 - 10.20
- Cancer pain guidelines – any consensus?
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Speakers:
Dr Paul Farquhar-Smith
- 10.20 - 11.00
- Opioids – how do they work (and why don’t they work all the time)?
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Speakers:
Prof Graeme Henderson
- 11.00 - 11.30
- COFFEE BREAK
- 11.30 - 12.10
- Methadone
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Speakers:
Dr Andrew Dickman
- 12.10 - 12.50
- Hydromorphone – a German perspective
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Speakers:
Dr Michael Uberall
- 12.50 - 13.50
- LUNCH
- 13.50 - 14.30
- Opioid-induced constipation
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Speakers:
Prof Andrew Davies
- 14.30 - 15.10
- Radiotherapy & radionuclides for bone metastases
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Speakers:
Dr May Teoh
- 15.10 - 15.40
- COFFEE BREAK
- 15.40 - 16.20
- What else is new (pain)?
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Speakers:
Dr Andrew Dickman, Prof Andrew Davies
- 16.20 - 17.00
- Historical aspects of pain
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Speakers:
Prof Joanna Bourke
- 17.00 - 18.00
- Reception (networking)
Programme Day Two
- 9.30 - 9.40
- Chairman’s introduction
- 9.40 - 10.20
- Cannabinoids – white knights or white elephants?
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Speakers:
Dr Barry Laird
- 10.20 - 11.00
- “Off-licence” prescribing
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Speakers:
Jo Thompson
- 11.00 - 11.30
- COFFEE BREAK
- 11.30 - 12.10
- Mental capacity
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Speakers:
Dr Caroline Barry
- 12.10 - 12.50
- Hypoactive delirium and other causes of impaired consciousness
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Speakers:
Dr Jason Boland
- 12.50 - 13.50
- LUNCH
- 13.50 - 14.30
- Exercise in advanced disease – benefit or burden?
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Speakers:
Dr Matthew Maddocks
- 14.30 - 15.10
- QTc prolongation and extrapyramidal adverse effects: cause for concern?
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Speakers:
Dr Paul Paes
- 15.10 - 15.40
- COFFEE BREAK
- 15.40 - 16.20
- What else is new (symptoms)?
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Speakers:
Dr Andrew Dickman, Prof Andrew Davies
- 16.20 - 17.00
- Supportive care – new name or new paradigm?
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Speakers:
Dr Richard Berman














Speakers
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Dr Andrew Dickman
Consultant Pharmacist, Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool
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Dr Barry Laird
Reader in Palliative Medicine, Edinburgh University
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Dr Caroline Barry
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals
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Dr Jason Boland
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, University of Hull
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Dr Matthew Maddocks
Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research, King’s College London.
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Dr May Teoh
Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Royal Surrey County Hospital
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Dr Michael Uberall
Vice-President German Pain Association
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Dr Paul Farquhar-Smith
Consultant in Pain and Anaesthetics, Royal Marsden Hospital, London
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Dr Paul Paes
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust
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Dr Richard Berman
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Christie Hospital
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Jo Thompson
Lead Nurse Supportive & Palliative Care, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford
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Prof Andrew Davies
Professor of Palliative Medicine, Trinity College Dublin/University College Dublin/Our Lady’s Hospice Dublin
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Prof Graeme Henderson
Professor of Pharmacology, University of Bristol
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Prof Joanna Bourke
Professor History, Birkbeck College, University of London
