Thursday 20 March 2025

7.30am-8.30am Registration, Exhibition Open & Arrival Tea & Coffee

​Welcome & Keynote Presentations                                                                                                                                            

8.30am-9.00am Mihi Whakatau / Conference Opening
9.00am-9.15am Whakawhanaungatanga - Introducing the Theme, Hui Process, Facilitation

9.15am-10.00am Patrick Wall Lecture ~ How Pain Impacts on Learning?
Professor Mark Hutchinson, Director, Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics, The University of Adelaide, Australia

10.00am-10.30am Morning Tea & Industry Exhibition

10.30am-10.45am Life Member Award Presentations                                                                                                         

Learning and Pain
10.45am-11.10am Contemporary Evidence on Learning and Learning Styles
Dr Tehmina Gladman, Education Adviser, Co-Director, Education Development and Staff Support Unit (EDSSU), University of Otago, Wellington, NZ 

11.10am-11.40am  Learning from Lived Experience - Peer Support

11.40am-12.00pm Inter-Professional Ways of Learning and Doing
Professor Jean Hay-Smith, University of Otago, NZ confirmed

12.00pm-12.30pm Panel Discussion

12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch & Industry Exhibition

      1.00pm-1.30pm Specialist Pain Medicine Physicians SIG Meeting

​1.30pm-2.00pm Hi-5 Rapid Poster Presentations

Diverse Learning Needs and Pain
2.00pm-2.10pm Neurodiversity Summary
Paul Vroegop, Child and Adolescent Consult-Liaison Psychiatrist & Pain Specialist, Counties Manukau Health, Auckland, NZ (TBC)

2.10pm-2.30pm Neurodiversity & Pain

2.30pm-2.50pm Neurodiversity & Learning

2.50pm-3.00pm Neurodiversity Panel​

3.00pm-3.30pm Afternoon Tea & Industry Exhibition

Critical Reflexivity and Learning
​3.30pm-3.50pm Health Literacy Based Approaches to Support Learning

​3.50pm-4.10pm Critical Reflexivity in Pain Care
Dr Karime Mescouto, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RECOVER Injury Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (virtual)

​4.10pm-4.30pm Reflective Learning / Frameworks in Practice

​4.30pm-4.45pm Panel Discussion

Close of Day One
4.45pm-5.00pm Poroporoaki - Summary & Reflections
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      5.00pm-5.30pm Pelvic Pain SIG Meeting

​5.00pm-6.30pm   WELCOME RECEPTION                                                                                                                
                                  With our Sponsors and Exhibitors - all delegates and exhibitors are welcome to attend.

from 7.00pm           PUB QUIZ                                                                                                                                        The Green Man Pub