OPIUM - Brain Pain webpage

Oxford Pain: Interdisciplinary Update Meeting (OPIUM) is a unique meeting designed to encourage collaboration between researchers and clinicians.  Each year it addresses a different topic with speakers from various medical and research disciplines coming together to provide a broad and comprehensive review of a subject. 

Oxford has an international reputation both in pain research and as a centre of clinical excellence, so we are able to draw on extremely high quality local, national and international speakers. 

OPIUM has now grown to become a 2 day residential meeting in Oriel College.  This year the theme is “Brain Pain” and we are fortunate to have world-class speakers on a variety of topics including phantom limb pain, migraine and the use of deep brain stimulation for the treatment of pain. 

The research theme has been developed further to include interactive workshops on current and developing research tools.  Our hope is that this will enable clinicians to better understand and appraise research literature, and generate discussion with basic scientists to develop areas of collaborative research relevant to clinical practice.

Dates: 2-3 September 2011

Scope

The meeting is aimed at:

• clinicians with a pain interest, both senior trainees and consultants, who wish to further their medical expertise, develop their research appreciation and forge alliances with the research community;
• non-pain clinicians working in neurology, neurosurgery or rehabilitation medicine who wish to improve their pain knowledge;
• and basic science researchers who wish to understand clinical problems in pain medicine and issues surrounding the translation of research into medical practice, and to develop links with clinicians to advance patient-centred research. 

Program schedule

This year's theme is Brain Pain. The full details of the programme can be downloaded here.

Abstracts

All participants are invited to submit poster abstracts for exhibition at the Meeting. Abstracts must be submitted by Monday August 1st.

Guidelines for the poster can be found here. 

Bookings

The full course costs £150. Bookings can be made online here.

If there are any problems contact Marion Greenleaves, course administrator, by email anaesthetics@nda.ox.ac.uk or on 01865 231513.

Location

The meeting is being held at Oriel College, one of the oldest colleges in Oxford.

Oriel College,
Oriel Square,
Oxford
Ox1 4EW

Website: www.oriel.ox.ac.uk

Accommodation

Suggestions for accommodation may be found at the University of Oxford website here.

Social

There will be a formal dinner in the beautiful dining room of Oriel College on the evening of Friday 2nd September that is not to be missed.