AN INTERNATIONAL faculty of experts taught the latest techniques in interventional pain medicine and neuromodulation with x-ray and ultrasound guidance at the Forensic Medicine Dept, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland on Saturday, 17 September 2016. The 9th Hands-on Interventional Cadaver Workshop in Poland took place as a satellite meeting of the 9th Congress of the Polish Association for the Study of Pain. For further information about meetings in Poland, email: ciaranwazir@gmail.com
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Dr Tedor Goroszeniuk
President, London Pain Forum
Past-President, Interventional Section, PTBB
Founder, Polish Neuromodulation Society (INS Chapter)
Expert in Peripheral Neuromodulation
Interventional Pain Management & Neuromodulation Practice
18 Wimpole Street, London, UK
Dr Andrzej Krol
Past-President, Interventional Section of PTBB
Founding Member, Polish Neuromodulation Society
Chairman, RA-UK Ultrasound in Pain Medicine Workshop, London
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia
St George's Hospital
London, UK
FACULTY INCLUDED
Dr Christophe Perruchoud
President, Swiss Neuromodulation Society
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
Ensemble Hospitalier de la Côte (EHC)
Morges, Switzerland
Dr Ashish Shetty
Consultant in Pain Medicine
Course Director, Abdominopelvic Pain Symposium
Neuromodulation, Education & Research Lead
Pain Management Centre
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Queen Square, London, UK
Dr Anthony Hammond
Senior Fellow, London Pain Forum
European Tutor, International Spine Intervention Society
Consultant Physician & Rheumatologist
Special Interest: Spine/Disc Interventions
KIMS Hospital, Maidstone
Kent, UK
Dr Anuj Bhatia
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Director, Anesthesia Chronic Pain Clinical Services
Staff, Department of Anesthesia & Pain Management
University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital
and Women's College Hospital
Toronto, Canada
Dr Jacek Rykowski
Consulant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Pain Clinic
University Hospital Orebro
Sweden
Dr Christian Egeler
Chair, Welsh Pain Society
Lead Clinican, Chronic Pain Servics
Morriston Hospital
Swansea, Wales
United Kingdom
Dr Piotr Buczkowski
Gdansk Workshop Director
Gdansk Workshop Director
Board Member, Foundation for the Promotion of Pain
Medicine
Past-President, Interventional Section of PTBB
Consultant Pain Specialist & Anaesthetist
Royal Derby Hospital, Derbyshire, UK
Swissmed Hospital, Gdańsk, Poland
Dr Wojciech Nierodzinski
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Special Interest: Interventional Pain Treatment/ Neuromodulation
General District Hospital
Bialystok, Poland
Dr Michal But
Special Interest: USG & Interventional Pain Medicine
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Regional Hospital
Koszalin, Poland
Dr Witold Libionka
Board Member, Polish Neuromodulation Society
Consultant Neurosurgeon
Special Interest: Neuromodulation
Nicolaus Copernicus Pomeranian Centre for Traumatology
Gdansk, Poland
WORKSHOP TOPICS
LUMBAR PAIN RELIEF INTERVENTION
CERVICAL PAIN RELIEF INTERVENTIONS
DISC PAIN RELIEF INTERVENTIONS
SYMPATHETIC BLOCKS FOR CANCER PAIN
ULTRASOUND GUIDED PAIN INTERVENTIONS: CADAVER/LIVE MODELS
SYMPATHETIC BLOCKS FOR CANCER PAIN
ULTRASOUND GUIDED PAIN INTERVENTIONS: CADAVER/LIVE MODELS
SPINAL CORD STIMULATION
PERIPHERAL NEUROMODULATION
PERIPHERAL NEUROMODULATION
FREE STATIONS
WORKSHOP VENUE
Forensic Medicine Department
(Zakład Medycyny Sądowej Gdańskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego)
ul. Dębowa 23
80-204 Gdańsk
POLAND
2016 PROGRAMME
TO VIEW THE WORKSHOP PROGRAMME, CLICK HERE
HOTELS
Hilton Gdansk (Faculty Hotel)
Novotel Gdansk Centrum
Hotel Mercure Gdansk Stare Miasto
Hotel Impresja
TRAVELLING TO GDANSK
PLANE
Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport
Below are some of the airlines that fly to Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport.
Lufthansa
LOT Polish Airlines
Wizz Air
Eurolot.com
SAS
Ryan Air
Air Berlin
Bydgoszcz Airport
Below are some of the airlines that fly to Bydgoszcz Airport. Onward direct trains to Gdansk are available from Bydgoszcz Główna Railway Station.
Eurolot
LOT Polish Airlines
Ryanair
Warsaw Chopin & Warsaw Modlin Airports
Poland's
capital city has two busy airports, Warsaw Chopin and Warsaw Modlin.
Below are airlines that fly to Warsaw. There are direct train services
from Warsaw Central Station (Warszawa Centralna) to Gdansk.
Aeroflot
Air Berlin
Air France
Austrian Airlines
British Airways
Brussels Airlines
Finnair
German Wings
Iberia
KLM
LOT Polish Airlines
Lufthansa
Norwegian Air
Ryan Air
SAS
Swiss
TAP Portugal
Turkish Airlines
Wizz Air
There are fast direct trains running between Gdansk,Warsaw and Krakow.
For timetables and to book a ticket online visit: http://intercity.pl/en/