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Catching Up in Pain Management - PNA Professional Day
Oct 13

Catching Up in Pain Management - PNA Professional Day

by Pain Nurses Australia
$180.00
Registrations Closed
Date & Time
13 October 2023 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Timezone
(UTC+11:00) Australia/Sydney

Registrations Are Closed

As Chairperson of Pain Nurses Australia, it is my pleasure to invite you to our PNA Professional Day. We are excited to be able to join together again for this face to face event which will be held in Sydney on Friday 13th October 2023.

The theme this year is 'Catching up in Pain Management' and will cover a varied program from acute, chronic and palliative care pain issues. Speakers include an exceptional line-up of well-known speakers and the topics presented will be of interest to all healthcare clinicians interested in Pain Management. We look forward to you joining us.

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Gold Sponsors

Date: Friday 13th October 2023

Time: 8:30AM - 4:30PM

Venue: Waterview in Bicentennial Park, Sydney, NSW

Cost:

    • $130 for Pain Nurses Australia members
    • $180 for Non-members

Online attendance:

For healthcare professionals unable to attend face to face, we are pleased to offer a live stream of the event:

  • $130 for members
  • $180 for non-members

Note: due to the additional cost of live streaming the event, we are unable to offer early bird discounts on online attendance tickets.

Non-members can join PNA for the 2023 membership year (A$60) and then register for the event at A$130. Find out more and join PNA


Rural Scholarships:

Rural scholarships are available to support attendance of rural and remote members. For more information, please visit the scholarships page.


Directions:

waterview_map

Parking: Ample free parking available at the venue.

Gold Sponsors

08:30-08:45

Introduction and Housekeeping

Professor Mary Chiarella

08:45-09:30

Professor Mary Chiarella
RN, RM, LLB (Hons), PhD (UNSW), FACN, FRSM

Professor Emerita, Susan Wakil School of Nursing, The University of Sydney

Framing up your clinical practice: your legal and professional infrastructure

09:30-09:35

Gold Sponsor Presentation
Echo Therapeutics

Temgesic

 Ms Hayley Ryan

09:35-10:20

Ms Hayley Ryan
RN, MBA, PGCertWM, AICGG, Cert IV TAA, PhD

Director | Wound CNC (Australia & NZ) Wounds Australia Board Director & Chair

Pain-Free Pathways: Unlocking the secrets to managing wounds and pain

10:20-10:25

Gold Sponsor Presentation
Epic Medical

Nerve Infusion Devices

Morning Tea – Trade Display and Thank You to Sponsors
 Scott Oldman

10:55-11:35

Scott Oldman

Clinical Training Officer, Paramedic Specialist, RN, Mid North Coast NSW

Front Line Pain Management

11:35-11:40

Gold Sponsor Presentation
Medistar

Harnessing the Power of the Vagus Nerve

Dr Gavin Pattullo

11:40-12:20

Dr Gavin Pattullo
MBBS (Hons) FANZCA FFPMANZCA

Consultant Anaesthetist and Pain Medicine Physician

Regional analgesia: keeping it central to effective acute pain management

12:20-12:25

Gold Sponsor Presentation
PainChek

Facial Pain Assessment

Dr James Blogg

12:25-13:05

Dr James Blogg
Senior Staff Specialist, Drug Health Fellow of Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian Society of Physicians

MBBS, MPH, FAFPHM

Drug Health – Working together in pain management

13:05-13:10

Gold Sponsor Presentation
Seqirus

Tapentadol and Versatis

Lunch – Trade Display and Thank You to Sponsors

14:10-14:15

Geraldine Griffiths

Announcing 2024 Queensland

David Anderson

14:15-14:55

David Anderson

CNC, Interdisciplinary Pain Service | Dept. Pain & Palliative Care, SCH Randwick

Distraction technology across the pain and generational spectrums

Dr Vahid Mohabbati

14:55-15:35

Dr Vahid Mohabbati
MD, FRACGP, FFPMANZCA, FAChPM, AFRACMA

Medical Director of Sydney Pain Management Centre, Sydney Pain Research Centres, Sydney Pain Research Centre and Head of Departments of Pain & Palliative Medicine at Sydney Adventist Hospital. and chairperson of the board for Sydney Day Surgery

Cancer and advanced pain modalities

FINISH and Quick Break
AGM
Hotel

Options for accommodation convenient to the Waterview Convention Centre include:

Quest Apartment:

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Enter Promo Code: WATER15

Accor group (Pullman, Novotel and Ibis):

Call the Hotel Reservations team directly using the numbers below and quote WATERVIEW CONVENTION CENTRE to obtain the discount rate for PNA meeting attendees.

Pullman Sydney Olympic Park

https://www.pullmansydneyolympicpark.com.au/
(02) 8762 1700

Novotel Sydney Olympic Park

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(02) 8762 1111
 

Ibis Sydney Olympic Park

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(02) 8762 1111

 

Please quote "WATERVIEW CONVENTION CENTRE" to obtain the special discount rate at the Accor group (Pullman, Novotel and Ibis)
http://www.waterviewvenue.com.au/

 

Parking

Ample free parking is available at the venue. You will be provided with parking permits which will be available at the registration desk.

Prof. Mary Chiarella
Prof. Mary Chiarella
RN, RM, LLB (Hons), PhD (UNSW), FACN, FRSM
Professor Emerita, Susan Wakil School of Nursing, The University of Sydney

Mary has served as the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer at, NSW Health Department and as a Foundation Professor of Nursing in Corrections Health, with the University of Technology, Sydney. She was awarded an AM for significant contributions to nursing and midwifery education and healthcare standards in June 2019 Mary is the Deputy Chair of Northern Sydney LHD and chairs their Health Care Quality Committee. She also serves on the Australian Health Ethics Committee of NHMRC, the Health Ethics Advisory Panel to the NSW Minister for Health, and the Clinical Governance Advisory Committee to Healthdirect Australia. She serves the NSW Nursing and Midwifery Council as a panel and Tribunal member for impairment, performance, and conduct matters. Mary’s research interests focus on legal, policy, and ethical issues in nursing, midwifery, and health care delivery. She publishes and speaks nationally and internationally on her work. She has also undertaken a number of projects for the World Health Organisation and has been a Visiting Scholar to ICN.

Ms Hayley Ryan
Ms Hayley Ryan
RN, MBA, PGCertWM, AICGG, Cert IV TAA, PhD
Director | Wound CNC (Australia & NZ) Wounds Australia Board Director & Chair

Hayley has 20 years experience in nursing and has worked in wound care over this time. Hayley has a passion for healing wounds as a Clinical Nurse Consultant across Australia and New Zealand in private practice with her own company WoundRescue. Hayley has a wide range of postgraduate experience in wound management, while also completing a Master of Business Admin (MBA). Hayley is currently completing her PhD. Hayley has presented at national and international conferences and has a proven track record of providing advanced wound care and aged care education. Hayley also lectures at Universities and has been appointed as an adjunct fellow at the University of technology Sydney. Hayley is also chair of the board for Wounds Australia. Hayley’s interest includes, aged care, chronic wound management, palliative care and Telehealth technologies whilst optimising comfort. Hayley has won many awards which include; 2020 Award for Quality care and outcomes in wound management 2021 Awarded Clinical Excellence and Leadership ANZ Her Current 2021/22 Projects: Editor and chair of the Aseptic Technique in Wound Dressing Procedure, 3rd ed Member of the Chronic Wound Taskforce Committee Member in the development of Aligning good Nutrition and Wound Healing outcome Guidelines Chapter author of Clinical Guidelines: Diabetic Foot Australia

Scott Oldman
Scott Oldman
RN
Clinical Training Officer – Paramedic Specialist, RN

Scott Oldman has worked in the NSW ambulance Service for 27 years. He is currently an intensive and extensive care paramedic and clinical training officer for the Mid North Coast NSW. Before working on the front-line he completed training as a registered nurse and worked in a busy Sydney emergency department.

Dr Gavin Pattullo
Dr Gavin Pattullo
MBBS (Hons) FANZCA FFPMANZCA
Consultant Anaesthetist and Pain Medicine Physician

Dr. Gavin Pattullo is an anesthetist and pain medicine physician. He has a keen interest in the optimisation of postoperative analgesia with interventional techniques incorporated into a comprehensive psychosociobiological approach. His training includes: Fellowships at the Michael J Cousins Pain Unit, Sydney and with the University of Toronto, Canada.

Dr James Blogg
Dr James Blogg
MBBS, MPH, FAFPHM
Senior Staff Specialist, SLHD Drug Health Drug Health Fellow of Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian Society of Physicians

James Blogg is a senior staff specialist who works at Canterbury Hospital providing outpatient drug health clinics and at Concord Hospital supervising the detoxification ward and providing drug health consultations for inpatients including liaising with the Concord Pain Team. James is a Public Health Physician who has worked in opioid dependence for nearly 30 years. His work has previously focused on preventing HIV and HCV transmission amongst people who inject drugs (PWID) and their partners – usually in resource poor settings which included running a HIV prevention programme for PWID in Indonesia for 8 years. He has published articles on a range of public health topics and his current research projects include:

  • investigating the clinical and service needs of people who use performance and image enhancing drugs in the Canterbury area
  • use of microdosing to assist in high dose transfer from methadone to buprenorphine in inpatient and outpatient settings
  • use of medical marijuana to assist with chronic pain and cannabis dependency
Kirsty-Leah Goymour
Kirsty-Leah Goymour
 
Child Life Therapist – SCH Randwick

Kirsty-Leah has a Bachelor of Teaching from UNE and has worked as a Child Life Therapist for 26 years in areas that include: emergency, Intensive Care, neurology and orthopaedics. Her practice involves providing patients and their families with therapeutic play opportunities, pain management strategies, procedural preparation and support and memory making. Currently Kirsty is manager of child life and music therapy and senior child life therapist for complex pain and palliative care at the Sydney Childrens Hospital, Ranwick, and has a keen interest in trauma informed care in the hospital setting, distraction for patient across the spectrum of pain and play and documenting of Life for palliative care patients.

David Anderson
David Anderson
 
CNC in the Complex Pain Service - SCH Randwick

David Anderson is CNC in the Complex Pain Service at SCH Randwick, a role he has been doing since 2009 and has presented at numerous conferences on paediatric pain management. Having trained in the UK he has worked in a variety of specialties which include anaesthetics and recovery, adult and paediatric ICU and paediatric cardiac / renal wards. David has a special interest in medication safety and paediatric transitional care and is an active member of ePPOC , ACI, APS PIC SIG and PNA committee

Dr Vahid Mohabbati
Dr Vahid Mohabbati
MD, FRACGP, FFPMANZCA, FAChPM, AFRACMA
Medical Director of Sydney Pain Management Centre, Sydney Pain Research Centres, Sydney Pain Research Centre and Head of Departments of Pain & Palliative Medicine at Sydney Adventist Hospital. and chairperson of the board for Sydney Day Surgery

Dr Mohabbati is an interventional pain and palliative medicine physician with an interest in using modern modalities to treat pain – including neuromodulation and spinal implants (intrathecal pumps, spinal cord stimulators, DRG and peripheral nerve stimulators), Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) and other advanced pain therapies. Dr Mohabbati is the Medical Director of Sydney Pain Management Centre, Sydney Pain Research Centres, Sydney Pain Research Centre and Head of Departments of Pain & Palliative Medicine at Sydney Adventist Hospital. and chairperson of the board for Sydney Day Surgery. He is also an experienced physician in the treatment of cancer pain, nerve pain, musculoskeletal pain and joint pain

 

Event Type
Face to Face Event
Accreditation Available
5 CPD points
Event Location
Waterview Conference & Function
Bicentenary Park NSW 2127
Contact Details
Ms Sandra Tutt
sandra.tutt@health.nsw.gov.au

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