PNA Professional day 2025 - Pain in Vulnerable Populations
Oct 17

PNA Professional day 2025 - Pain in Vulnerable Populations

by Pain Nurses Australia Ltd
Date & Time
17 October 2025 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Timezone
(UTC+11:00) Australia/Sydney

As the Chairperson of Pain Nurses Australia I am excited to bring you our 2025 Pain Nurses Australia Professional Day, Pain in Vulnerable Populations. This educational opportunity is guaranteed to pique the interest of clinicians who work with vulnerable individuals or populations who experience pain. Our committee are very proud of the line-up of presenters we have secured.

Poster abstracts are being accepted!

Why not gather your work colleagues and make a weekend out of it? I look forward to seeing you all there.

Belinda Mikaelian

Date: Friday 17th October 2025

Time: 8:30AM – 4:00PM

Venue: Waterview in Bicentennial Park, Sydney Olympic Park New South Wales 2127

Cost: 

  • $160 for Pain Nurses Australia members
  • $210 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:

  • $160 for members
  • $210 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 2025 membership year (A$60) and then register for the event at A$160. Find out more and join PNA

Coming soon
Professor Michael Nicholas
Professor Michael Nicholas
 
Director, Pain Education and Pain Management Programs University of Sydney, Pain Management Research Institute

Prof Nicholas is the Director of Pain Education at the Pain Management Research Institute. He has an international reputation in this field with over 190 publications in scientific journals and books on psychological aspects of pain and pain management. His current research interests include ways of enhancing the self-management of persisting pain, and early psychosocial interventions to prevent disabling chronic pain in injured workers.

Prof. Ghauri Aggarwal
Prof. Ghauri Aggarwal
 
Deputy Clinical Director Cancer Services and Palliative Care, SLHD - Concord Centre for Palliative Care

A/Prof Aggarwal has been the Head of the Palliative Care Department at Concord Hospital since 1996. Her practice includes hospital consultancy, ambulatory and inpatient care in palliative medicine within the district wide Sydney Palliative Care Service, SLHD. She has been involved in the development of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Chapter of Palliative Medicine and is the chair of the Executive of the Sydney Institute of Palliative Medicine. She is currently the Deputy Clinical Director of Cancer Services and Palliative Care, SLHD. Her interests include interface between oncology and palliative medicine, undergraduate and postgraduate education in palliative care, communication skills and ethics and end of life decision making. She has been involved for a number of years in the strategic development of Palliative Care in New South Wales, Australia. Currently she is involved in teaching and development of Palliative Care in the Asia-Pacific region and is the Co-Vice Chair of the Asia Pacific Hospice and Palliative Care Network (APHN).

Professor Lorimer Moseley
Professor Lorimer Moseley
 
Bradley Distinguished Professor, UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance

Professor Lorimer Moseley is a clinical scientist investigating pain in humans. After posts at The University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Sydney, Lorimer was appointed Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. He is also Senior Principal Research Fellow at NeuRA and an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow. He has published over 310 papers, six books and numerous book chapters. He has given over 150 keynote or invited presentations at interdisciplinary meetings in 30 countries. He has provided professional education in pain sciences to over 25,000 medical and health practitioners and public lectures to as many again. His research group’s videos and articles have been viewed over 4.5 million times.

Fiona Hodgson
Fiona Hodgson
 
Vice Chair Chronic Pain Australia

Interested in new Models of Care and funding to enable affordable and accessible evidenced based pain management in primary care for all accross the lifespan. Pain Management Clinical Nurse Consultant with the Hunter Integrated Pain Service NSW, Australia who has worked in all aspects of pain service delivery over the last 22 years. She was a member of the Pain Taskforce to develop the NSW Pain Model of Care in 2011. Pain Project Officer for the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) Pain Management Network, which culminated in the launch of the Pain Network website March 2014 and remains an active member on the pain network executive and other working parties. Fiona was President of the Australian Pain Society (APS) from 2017-2019 with a particular interest in pain in the elderly. During her tenure on the APS board, she coordinated the revision of the internationally recognised Pain in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Management Strategies, 2nd Edition (RACF2), as well as being a co-author. She is currently working collaboratively with the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI), on developing a Pain Management Guidelines Implementation Toolkit to align with the RACF2 pain guidelines. Fiona’s passion for advocating for people experiencing pain is evidenced by her ongoing clinical and consumer representation on various national committees and working parties and is current Vice President of Chronic Pain Australia (CPA).

Pain Nurses Australia invites you to submit an academic poster for display at the upcoming Professional Day Poster abstracts must be no more than 300 words. Please include an introduction/purpose, methods, results and conclusions or introduction, main body and conclusion on your topic. Suggested topics include pain and trauma, pain management, pain education, nursing management of pain, or choose your own.
 
Key dates:
  • 15 August Abstract submission due to c.johnston-devin@cqu.edu.au
  • 18 August Authors advised of outcome along with proposed template
  • 29 August Authors to confirm attendance
  • 29 September Authors registrations due
 
A Poster presentation information leaflet will be available for download soon.

Accommodation

There is a variety of accommodation options available within walking distance of the Waterview Convention Centre, all located in Sydney Olympic Park.

Quest Apartment:

https://www.questapartments.com.au/properties/nsw/sydney-olympic-park/quest-at-sydney-olympic-park/overview

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

https://www.novotelsydneyolympicpark.com.au/
(02) 8762 1111

Ibis Sydney Olympic Park

https://all.accor.com/hotel/2734/index.en.shtml
(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

Parking is available near the venue in Sydney Olympic Park. On weekdays, all parklands areas have 2 hours free parking across, then a $3/hour parking fee will apply afterwards. Parking conditions apply in Bicentennial Park between 8am – 6pm daily and there are ample spots available.

Payment can be made via the Pay and Stay app or through physical meters placed across the parklands.
For more information please see attached document or click here to be directed to Sydney Olympic Park Engagement Hub.

Public Transport

There are many forms of public transport when travelling into Sydney Olympic Park, including buses, trains and ferries.

Pain Nurses Australia (PNA) is a national not for profit organisation that relies on the support of sponsors to provide high quality education for our members. Our Annual Professional Day usually attracts over 200 nursing and other allied health clinicians from around Australia.

If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please email our Public Relations team at info@painnurses.au and request the sponsor prospectus.

Event Location
Waterview in Bicentennial Park
Bicentennial Drive
Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127

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