About the National Acute Pain Symposium
Celebrating 35 Years of Pain Management
Education
The National Acute Pain Symposium (NAPS) is the largest acute pain meeting in the UK and we will be marking 35 years in 202, 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 NHS Foundation Trust, and is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford. She is past secretary of the Acute Pain Special Interest Group (APSIG) for the International Association for the Study of Pain and past chair of APSIG of the British Pain Society.
Jane has an interest in prescribed opioid dependence and runs a clinic supporting pain patients to reduce long-term high-dose opioids. She also has an interest around the safe prescribing of opioids in postoperative pain to avoid the conversion to long-term use. She lectures nationally and internationally on opioid stewardship. She sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Pain and is an expert advisor to the Beyond Pills All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).
Having run 4 marathons (Stockholm, New York, Chicago and London) and disappointed not to win any of them, she now just runs for pleasure.
