About this event

  • Date and time Thu 5 Jun 2025 from 8:30am to 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Pain Medicine

Join this transformative event to gain an in-depth understanding of cutting-edge pain management techniques and technologies. Attendees will enhance their expertise in advanced procedures, including neuromodulation, cryotherapy and basivertebral nerve ablation while exploring the integration of emerging innovations such as cloud-based solutions into everyday clinical practice.

This event offers a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between traditional pain management strategies and revolutionary, minimally invasive interventions. Learn from world-renowned experts through dynamic lectures, real-world case discussions, and valuable networking sessions with leading professionals in the field.

By attending this event, you will learn:

  • To assess neuropathic pain  
  • Neuromodulation techniques for the management of complex pain condition
  • To assess spinal pain
  • The current best practices in the management of pain

 

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Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 23 April 2025.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£77.00 £46.00 £46.00 £46.00 £24.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£141.00 £84.00 £84.00 £44.00

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Introduction

Professor Ashish Shetty, Consultant in Pain Medicine, University College London Hospital

Session one

Chair: Professor Ashish Shetty, Consultant in Pain Medicine, University College London Hospital and Professor Julia Manning, Dean of Education, Royal Society of Medicine

Neuromodulation and the role of spinal cord stimulation in pain medicine

Dr Simon Thompson, Consultant in Pain Medicine & Neuromodulation, Mid & South Essex University Hospitals

Advances in Neuromodulation, MRI and closed loop technology

Dr Ashish Gulve, Consultant in Pain Management and Anaesthesia, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Closed loop stimulation, new paradigm in SCS

Speaker to be confirmed

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Session two

Chair: Dr Christopher Barringer, Consultant in Pain Medicine, University College London Hospital

Basi Vertebral Nerve Ablation: Experience from a UK centre

Speaker to be confirmed

Restorative stimulation: A new paradigm in pain management

Dr Vivek Mehta, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust 

Cryotherapy in pain medicine

Dr Igor Filipovski, Copenhagen Cryo Center

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed

Panel discussion
Lunch

Annual general meeting for Pain section members only

Session three

Artificial intelligence and cloud computing in neuromodulation

Professor Ashish Shetty, Consultant in Pain Medicine, University College London Hospital

State to current “evidence for pain intervention” future direction

Dr Gayathri Delanerolle, Founder of DEBM lab and Charted Scientist, University of Birmingham 

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed

Panel discussion
Close of day

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Disclaimer: 

Registration for this event will close on 4 June 2025 at 12pm (BST). Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time.

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.

We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion.

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.

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Key information

Date: TBC

Time: 8.30am - 7.00pm. This includes a networking event at 5pm.

Location: 1 Wimpole Street, London

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