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CRPS 2017 PROGRAMME

DAY 1: Thursday August 31st


Session 1 / Theme: Brain Training in CRPS

09:00-09:15

Theme: Offical Opening: Welcome to CRPS Cork 2017
Speaker: Dr. Dominic Hegarty, Cork University Hospital

09:15-09:30

Theme: State of the Art Address:
Risk factors and predictors of CRPS
Speaker: Prof Roberto Perez, University Medical Center Amsterdam

09:30-10:00

Theme: Brain Training in CRPS-More Barriers or New Opportunities?
Speaker: Prof Lorimer Moseley, University of South Australia (Via Skype)

10:00-10:15

Theme: Q&A

10:15-10:45 Networking & Tea/Coffee Break- Sponsored by Medtronic
Session 2 / Theme: Brain Power

10:45- 11:15

Theme/Title: Spatial Neglect and Chronic CRPS
Speaker: Prof. Andre Mouraux, Institute of Neuroscience Belgium

11:15-11:45

Theme/Title: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT):
Can it influence outcomes in CRPS?
Speaker: Prof. Lance McCracken, King’s College London

11:45-12:15

Theme/Title: Can Graded Motor Imagery “rewire” the brain? A clinical perspective.
Speaker: Tim Beams, NOI Clinic, London

12:15-12:30

Theme/Title: Q&A

12:30-13:30 Lunch
Lunch- Sponsored by Medtronic
Session 3 / Allied Health Professional Masterclass

13:30-13:55

Theme/Title: Does Body Perception Disturbance in CRPS really matter?
Speaker: Jenny Lewis, The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases

13:55-14:20

Theme/Title: No Pain No Gain: How far can you go?
Speaker: Robert Van Dongen

14:20-14:45
Theme/Title: How to Optimise Nutritional Impact
Speaker: Benjamin Brown, BCNH College of Nutrition and Health

14:45-15:00

Theme/Title: Q&A
Speaker: Panel discussion

15:00-15:30 Networking & Tea/Coffee Break- Sponsored by Pfizer
Session 4 / Theme: Making MDT Work

15:30-15:55

Theme/Title: The Importance of Building a Symbiotic Multidisciplinary Team
Speaker: Prof Candy McCabe, University of the West of England, Bristol and RNHRD

15:55-16:15

Theme/Title:The Whole Picture of The Impact of CRPS on Patients
Speaker: Victoria Abbott Fleming, Chair Person, Barrister and founder of Burning Nights CRPS Support

16:15-16:30

Theme/Title: Type I Radial Fractures & CRPS: The Liverpool Experience
Speaker: Fiona Cowell

16:30-16:45

Theme/Title: Accelerating CRPS Management: The Cork Experience
Speaker: Aoife Maloney

16:45-17:00

Theme/Title: Q&A

17:00-17:10

Theme/Title: CRPS UK Living with Pain Launch
Speaker: Prof Candy Mc Cabe & Amanda Nelson

19:00 CRPS Networking & Social Event

Buses will leave Rochestown Park Hotel for the Cork City Gaol at 18:30

DAY 2: September 1st


07:15-08:15 / Theme: Wellness Window
Session 5 / Theme: Putting Technology to Work

08:30-09:05

Theme/ Title: Peripheral nerve stimulation:
what is new, and how can we perform
meaningful trials to find out what is relevant?
Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Slavin, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine

09:05-09:40

Theme/ Title: Neuromodulation and CRPS: what direction should we go?
Speaker: Matthew Thomas, General Manager & Vice- President at Medtronic

09:40-10:15

Theme/ Title: What role does Interventional
medicine have in CRPS?
Speaker: Prof. Frank Hugyen, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands

10:15-10:30

Theme/ Title: Q&A

10:30-11:00 Networking& Tea/Coffee Break- Sponsored by Grunenthal
Session 6 / Theme: Understanding the Bioscience

11:00-11:25

Theme/ Title: Treating the Immune system in persistent CRPS
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Gobel, The Walton Centre Liverpool/ University of Liverpool

11:25-11:50

Theme/ Title: How can we unlocking the mystery of CRPS?
Speaker: Prof. Frank Birklein, University Medical Centre Mainz, Germany

11:50-12:15

Theme/ Title: Does bisphosphonate treatment hold the key?
Speaker: Prof. Robert Norman Harden, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

12:15-12:30

Theme/ Title: Q&A

12:30-13:30 Lunch- Sponsored by Pfizer
Session 7 / Top 5 Abstract Presentations

13:30-14:30

Theme/Title: The SIG CRPS Top 5:
Oral Poster presentations (10 min each)
Speaker: Dr. Lone Knudsen, Spinal Cord Injury Centre of Western Denmark/Danish Pain Research Center.

Session 8

14:30-15:30

Theme/ Title: Pro v Con debate. Key note speakers will debate:
Therapy Resistent CRPS: to Amputate or Not?

15:30-16:00

Theme/ Title: The Golden Nuggets of Cork 2017!
Conference overview
Speaker: Dr. Lone Knudsen, Spinal Cord Injury Centre of Western Denmark/Danish Pain Research Center.

16:00-16:30

Theme/ Title: Closing Comments & Prize Giving
Speaker: Dr.D.Hegarty,
Cork University Hospital

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