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Programme - Thursday 18 March 2021

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7.30am - 8.15am   Registration Desk Open, Welcome Tea & Coffee                                                  Treaty Rooms Foyer

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8.15am - 8.50am   Pōwhiri                                                                                                                    Treaty Rooms 1 & 2
Conference Opening: Associate Professor Nicola Swain, President NZPS
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Chair: Brigitte Gertoberens
8.50am - 9.10am
Guest Speaker: Lynette Stewart, Chief Executive, Ki A Ora Ngātiwai, Whangarei, NZ

​9.10am - 10.00am                                                                                                                                             
​PATRICK WALL LECTURE  : Neuroglial Interface and Implications for Pain (presentation via video link)
Professor Mark Hutchinson, Director, Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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10.00am - 10.30am    Morning Tea with Top Displays                                                                         Waitaha Events Centre

10.30am - 11.30am   
The Role of Emotion in the Treatment of Chronic Pain:  Are Hybrid Treatments the Solution? (presentation via video link)
Professor Steven Linton, Senior Professor, Clinical Psychology; Scientific Leader, Center for Health and Medical Psychology, Örebro University, Sweden ​​
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The NZ Pain Society Inc. Annual Scientific Meeting, has been endorsed by The RNZCGPs for up to 18 CME credits for GPEP and CPD purposes.
11 .30am - 12.00pm   
The Role of ‘Story’ in Chronic Pain. On Working as an Integral A-Perspectivalist
​Dr Brian Broom, Consultant Physician; Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychotherapy, Auckland University of Technology, NZ
12.00pm - 12.30pm      Lifetime Membership Award Presentation
12.30pm - 1.30pm      Lunch with Table Top Displays                                                                                                                            Waitaha Events Centre
12.30pm - 1.00pm      Faculty of Pain Medicine AGM 
Free Paper Presentations
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                                        Treaty Room 1,   Chair: Natalie Tuck
1.30pm-1.40pm
Māori Health Providers’ and Kaiāwhina (Community Workers)’ Perspectives on Online Educational Resources for Persistent Pain Management
Dr Hemakumar Devan, School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, and Cheryl A Davies, Tu Kotahi Maori Asthma and Research Trust, Wellington, NZ
 
1.40pm-1.50pm 
Opioid Prescribing after Appendix and Gallbladder Surgery in an Australian Tertiary Centre
Dr Jie Zhao, John Hunter Hosptial, Australia
 
1.50pm-2.00pm 
Initial Outcomes from a Targeted Interdisciplinary Pain Management Group Program for Women with Chronic Pelvic Pain
Karen Joseph, Canterbury DHB & Jessica Mills, Clinical Psychologist,
Pain Management Centre, Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, NZ
Free Paper Presentations
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                         Treaty Room 2, Chair: Louise Sheppard
1.30pm-1.40pm
Effects of Hypohydration and Menstrual Cycle Phase on Pain Perception
Beverly Tan, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
 
1.40pm-1.50pm 
​The Pain Avoidance and Meaning Model (PAMM) – A Framework for Educating Patients and Clinicians about Persistent Pain Development and Management
Dr Sharryn Lydall-Smith, Monash Health Pain Clinic, Melbourne, Australia
 










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Free Paper Presentations
                                 Rangatira Room, Chair: Debbie Rafferty
1.30pm-1.40pm
The Effectiveness of Yoga@work Among Office Workers with Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain (CNNP): A Randomized Controlled Trial
Dr Neha Sharma, Yog-Kulam, London, UK
 
1.40pm-1.50pm 
The Effect of the Fear Reduction Exercised Early (FREE) Approach Training on GP Attitudes, Knowledge and Confidence; and Low Back Pain Management Behaviour
Dr Ben Darlow, University of Otago, Wellington, NZ










Allied Health 
                                 Treaty Room 1, Chair: Deb Glendinning

​2.00pm-2.30pm
Practical Applications of DIMs and SIMs
Associate Professor David Butler, University of South Australia; Director, Neuro Orthopaedic Institute, Adelaide, Australia
 
2.30pm-3.00pm
There’s Therapy for That??
Pelvic Health Physiotherapy - What You Should Know and How it Can Help your Patients
Shelley Solomon, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, Fresh Start Physiotherapy, Whangarei, Auckland, NZ

3.00pm-3.30pm
The Role of Non-Verbal Communication in the Patient-Therapist Interaction
Clint Good, Physiotherapist, Auckland DHB, Auckland, NZ
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​Pharmacy
                               Treaty Room 2, Chair: Grant Thompson
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2.00pm - 2.30pm
The Use of Methadone in Palliative Care, the Northland Perspective
Dr Warwick Jones, Medical Director, North Haven Hospice, Northland, NZ

 
2.30pm-3.00pm
Buprenorphine as a new opiate substitute therapy – “Back to the Future”
Dr Alistair Dunn, Lead Clinician, Northland Health Community Mental Health & Addictions, Northland DHB
General Practitioner, Bush Rd Medical Centre, Whangarei, NZ 


3.00pm-3.30pm
Update on Therapeutic Uses of Cannabinoids in Pain
Dr John Alchin,  Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Pain Management Centre, Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, NZ
Māori/Cultural Aspects
                         Rangatira Room , Chair: Hemakumar Devan

2.00pm - 2.30pm
Paora Joseph, Filmmaker & Clinical Psychologist, Northland, NZ
 
2.30pm - 3.00pm
Ko tou Manawa, ko toku Manawa ka ora: Suffering and Culture
Marara Grace Rogers-Koroheke, Maori Health Research, Hauora Hokianga, Northland, NZ
 
3.00pm - 3.30pm
Decolonialising Biomedical Science: Bringing Together Spirituality, Culture, Measurement and Logic
Dr Melanie Cheung, Neurobiologist

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​3.30pm - 4.00pm     Afternoon Tea with Table Top Displays                                                                                                                  Waitaha Events Centre
                Treaty 1, Chair: Bryony Parkes​
4.00pm-5.00pm
Psychologists' Meeting
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           Treaty 2, Chair: Jan Haraldsson 
4.00pm-5.00pm
Nurses' Special Interest Group AGM
    Rangatira, Chair: Louise Sheppard
4.00pm-5.00pm
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​Physio​therapists' Meeting
                  Treaty 3 , Chair: Joanne Hughes 
4.00pm-5.00pm
Occupational Therapists' Meeting

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5.00pm - 6.00pm     Welcome Reception with Table Top Displays                                                                                         Waitaha Events Centre
                                   Official Introduction to the Creative Exhibition
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