PNA Professional day 2025 - Pain in Vulnerable Populations
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.
GOLD SPONSORS
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
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
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
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).
Bicentennial Drive
Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127
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