Past events

The Australian Pain Society’s ASM is the only multidisciplinary conference in Australia offering insights into the complex nature of pain management from a variety of medical, nursing and allied health perspectives. The 2021 Australian Pain Society 41st Annual Scientific Meeting (APS 2021) is being held from 18 – 21 April 2021, in Canberra, ACT.

The Australian Pain Society continues to align their conference theme with the IASP Global Year; in 2021 this is, ‘the IASP Global Year Against Back Pain’.

The Scientific Program Committee is thrilled to have procured three most impressive international speakers; Professor Allan Basbaum, Professor Siri Leknes and Dr Amanda C de C Williams. They will be joined by an inspiring range of national speakers who will provide a glance into some of the most complex and dynamic areas of pain management.

The APS is focused on bringing the APS membership, and all those with an interest in pain management, back together again in 2021.

NSANZ is pleased to offer an additional Cadaver Workshop in 2021!

COVID 19 meant NSANZ was not able to offer the Cadaver workshop in 2020, so in 2021 NSANZ is offering two cadaver workshops with the first workshop being held in Sydney on Saturday 17 April 2021.

This workshop will be held at the newly upgraded cadaver lab in Macquarie University and focus on neurostimulation. It will be a full day event consisting of didactic lectures on advanced cutting-edge topics and hands-on cadaver lab covering a wide range of different neurostimulation modalities.

The second workshop will be held in conjunction with the Annual Scientific Meeting in August 2021.

The Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (NSANZ) Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 7.00pm (AESTD) on Tuesday 15 December via Zoom Videconference (details provided upon registration).

PAIN2020 is a virtual meeting that will take place from 14-15 November 2020. Join us online to engage in the high calibre and contemporary program, enhanced for a virtual platform. Virtual registrations allow for full access to all sessions live and one-month post-conference, and includes complimentary access to the afternoon workshops. Virtual networking opportunities are also available.

PAIN2020 will be the only conference on pain management this year allowing medical education to continue and CPD points to be gained through this pandemic.

All profit from the meeting will be donated to healthcare societies supporting research and outreach efforts such as Painaustralia, the Australian Pain Society, the Faculty of Pain Medicine and the Neuromodulation Society of Australia & New Zealand.

We look forward to meeting with you virtually.

More information available at www.dcconferences.com.au/pain2020 or @PAIN2020SYD on Twitter.

NSANZ is hosting the 14th International Neuromodulation Society (INS) Congress in Sydney from the 25 – 30 May 2019. In association with the Congress, NSANZ is pleased to offer a pre-congress hands-on Cadaver Workshop on Radiofrequency Procedures. The workshop will be held on Saturday 25 May 2019 at Macquarie University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The clinical program will address hands-on aspects of radiofrequency (RF) interventional pain procedures. It will support those starting out but also cater for the more experienced interventional physician.

The NSANZ Cadaver Workshop will focus on the radiofrequency ablation technique of the spine (lumbar, thoracic, cervical), pelvic and sacroiliac joint. Radiofrequency technique for craniofacial pain, hip and knee along with sympathetic plexus will also be demonstrated. The hands-on workshop will feature conventional RF, Pulsed RF, Cooled RF and Bipolar RF technique.

The panel of educators will include NSANZ Executive Board members: Dr Richard Sullivan, Dr Nick Christelis, Dr Murray Taverner, Dr Phil Finch and Dr James Yu.

At the 2019 workshop, additional faculty with extensive experience in RF technology will be joining the panel: Dr Lewis Holford, Dr Peter Georgius, Dr Romil Jain, Dr KE Khor and Dr Dan Bates and Dr Rob Wright.

On behalf of the Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (NSANZ), I extend a warm invitation to doctors and allied health members to join us as at the 2018 Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand 13th Annual Scientific Meeting, 7 – 8 April 2018, being held at the International Convention Centre, Sydney.

The meeting program will be led by a number of esteemed international and national guest speakers including Professor Julie Pilitsis from Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA and Professor Frank Huygen from the University Hospital Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Between them they have over 250 publications and have contributed significantly to neuromodulation. They bring expertise in both spinal cord, dorsal root ganglion, peripheral nerve and deep brain stimulation as well as advanced management of complex regional pain syndrome and evidence based medicine.  To view the full program, please click here.

The theme for this year’s meeting is Neuromodulation – Delivering on Patient Outcomes and we look forward to welcoming you to this successful, world–class gathering.

Further to this, I am excited to confirm a Cadaver Pre-Conference Workshop will be held on Friday 6 April. The program will include theoretical and practical sessions and is specifically designed to serve both pain physicians and surgeons starting out in neurostimulation as well as the more experienced clinicians. For further information please click here.

We look forward to welcoming you to Sydney in April.

Dr Richard Sullivan, NSANZ President and National Chapter President Australia INS

The Executive and Scientific Program Committee of the Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand is pleased to invite you to attend the NSANZ 12th Annual Scientific Meeting being held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, SA from 8 – 9 April 2017. The 2017 overarching theme ‘Mechanisms of Action’ will be explored by an exciting line up of International speakers led by Dr Elliot Krames.

The President, Executive and Scientific Committee of the Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand welcomes you to the 11th Annual Scientific Meeting, to be held at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre from Saturday 12 – Sunday 13 March 2016.  The theme for this meeting is Neuromodulation: Mainstream Medicine, this meeting continues to explore the diversifying science and therapeutic applications of neuromdulation in pain and other applications.

We are very pleased to be hosting an exciting and enticing group of international and local invited speakers and expect this to be our best meeting yet. We will hear from our esteemed guest speakers about landmark research including recent pivotal studies from the US that are evolving the quality of evidence in this space.

In addition to the usual high quality plenary lectures we will be holding special interest sessions for pain trainees and novice implanters, a nursing and allied health breakout session and a focus session on sacral stimulation.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Dr Richard Sullivan
NSANZ President

The Brisbane organising committee of the Australian Pain Society 35th Annual Scientific Meeting invites you to our wonderful city for an intensive look at “Managing Pain: From Mechanism to Policy” from 15 – 18 March 2015.

The program this year will focus on key topics including: brain pain, immune stressors, acute pain, chronic pain, opioids, neuromodulation, emerging interventional techniques, paediatrics, physiotherapy, psychology and much, much more.

The scientific program committee has drawn up an exciting program that includes three exceptional international speakers: Professor Herta Flor from the Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany, Dr Mary Lynch of Dalhousie University, Canada and Dr Frank Porreca from the University of Arizona College of Medicine, USA.

Our venue, the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, lies within the South Bank district at the heart of our beautiful city on the Brisbane River, which curves and curls around the inner city area out to Moreton Bay. South Bank is a food and cultural hub which includes art galleries, theatres, museums, pools and green spaces; as well as a wide selection of pubs, cafes and eateries. Explore the city area and South Bank out to trendy urban villages aboard the City Cats which ply the river from early morning to sparkling night.

Brisbane is also a handy base to explore Moreton Bay, the Gold Coast with its theme parks, the Sunshine Coast or Australia Zoo. The mountains behind both coasts offer a wide range of rainforest walking tracks and craft shops. Easter weather in South-East Queensland is glorious with pleasant daytime temps so stay for a little longer and enjoy all that our area has to offer.

We look forward to sharing the Conference and Brisbane with you in 2015.

Paul Gray
Conference Convenor

Thank you for attending APS 2014. We hope you enjoyed the conference and we look forward to seeing you again next year. To visit the APS 2015 website, please click here

To view the conference photos, please click here

For a link to the conference survey, please contact the Conference Secretariat

All conference and pre-conference workshop certificates have now been emailed out, if you require yours to be resent please contact the Conference Secretariat