Annual SASP-meeting 2010 in Oslo, April 8-10

Working with pain patients or pain research?
Basic scientist? Nurse? Doctor? Psychologist? Physiotherapist? Social worker? Occupational therapist?

We welcome you all to a high class scientific meeting:

• of interest for all “pain professions”
• presenting frontlines in clinical- and  basic pain research

Link to All information needed for registration, hotel booking, abstracts etc here!

Download full first announcement here

When? April 8-10, 2010
Where?  Hotel Radisson Blue, in central Oslo

Abstracts? Deadline  March 1.
The presentations will be published in the Scandinavian Journal of Pain, the official publication of newSASP.  Abstract prizes!

Preliminary program:

• Top-down control of pain- modulation of pain from the brain to the periphery. Imaging.
• Global Year Against Musculoskeletal Pain
• Genetics of Pain. From bench to bedside.
• Pain anatomy and physiology. Visceral pain, musculoskeletal pain, cutaneous pain
• Facial Pain
• Pain Research networking in Scandinavia.  How should we do it?
• Free papers- posters and orals presentations
• Social program

Speakers:
The list of prominent speakers include Gerald Gebhart, Jeff Mogil, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Stein Kaasa, Martin Schmelz, Eija Kalso, Satu Jääskeläinen, Antti Pertovaara, Camilla Svensson, Torsten Gordh, Per Kristian Eide and several more not yet confirmed. See final program on www.sasp.org in January.

Let us meet the spring in Oslo!
We are looking forward to an interesting meeting with many scientific interactions and networking!

You are all most welcome!!
Organizing committee:  Audun Stubhaug, Ulf Kongsgaard,, Sara Maria Allen, Frøydis Haugan, Gunnvald Kvarstein