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About the National Acute Pain Symposium

 

​​​​The National Acute Pain Symposium (NAPS) is the largest acute pain meeting in the UK. Having completed the 30th year in 2021, making it the longest running acute pain meeting in the world.

Acute Pain is most commonly seen after surgery or trauma, but it is an experience that everyone has encountered. All doctors and nurses, not just those with specific pain training, will look after patients with pain. It is by learning from experts, keeping up to date with current research, working together and sharing good practice that we can improve the care of our patients. 

 

NAPS is a truly multidisciplinary meeting whose delegates include doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and psychologists, and we welcome clinicians and trainees from any speciality who have an interest in pain. It is a relaxed and friendly meeting intended to encourage and develop acute pain expertise.

 

We attract nationally acclaimed speakers and in recent years have been treated to top quality lectures on a broad range of pain topics from intensive care to veterinary medicine, rheumatology, acute medicine, gastroenterology, obstetrics and orthopaedics, as well as developing themes in basic science research.

Now, meet the team behind the National Acute Pain Symposium......

 

 

Dr Jane Quinlan is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management at the Oxford University Hospitals Trust where she is Trust Lead for Pain, and is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford  She is secretary of the Acute Pain Special Interest Group (APSIG) for the International Association for the Study of Pain and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Pain.

Her pain interests include acute pain management, factors affecting the development of persistent postsurgical pain, and opioid prescription dependence.

Outside work her interests include spending time with her family (even if her teenagers don’t always feel the same), Shakespeare and running.

Dr Jane Quinlan is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management at the Oxford University Hospitals Trust where she is Trust Lead for Pain, and is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford  She is secretary of the Acute Pain Special Interest Group (APSIG) for the International Association for the Study of Pain and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Pain.

Her pain interests include acute pain management, factors affecting the development of persistent postsurgical pain, and opioid prescription dependence.

Outside work her interests include spending time with her family (even if her teenagers don’t always feel the same), Shakespeare and running.

The National Acute Pain Symposium is organised in conjunction with the NAPS Committee by Cloud 9 Event Management Ltd. Based in the East Midlands, Cloud 9 was established in 2003 and specialises in delivering a range of meetings and events for a diverse range of professions. To find out more about Cloud 9 and how they can help you with your next event, please get in touch - we'd love to hear from you: paula@cloud9em.co.uk

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