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, Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), University of Adelaide, Australia

10.00am-10.30am Morning Tea & Industry Exhibition

Learning and Pain

10.30am-10.55am 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 

10.55am-11.25am  Learning from Lived Experience - Peer Support

11.25am-11.45am Inter-Professional Ways of Learning and Doing
Professor Jean Hay-Smith, Professor of Rehabilitation, University of Otago, Wellington, NZ

11.45am-12.00pm Panel Discussion

12.00pm-1.00pm Lunch & Industry Exhibition

      12.15pm-1.45pm Specialist Pain Medicine Physicians SIG Meeting

​1.00pm-1.35pm Hi-5 Rapid Poster Presentations

Diverse Learning Needs and Pain

1.35pm-2.00pm Neurodiversity Summary
Paul Vroegop, Child and Adolescent Consult-Liaison Psychiatrist & Pain Specialist, Counties Manukau Health (TBC)

2.00pm-2.20pm Neurodiversity & Pain

2.20pm-2.40pm Neurodiversity & Learning

2.40pm-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
Susan Reid, Health Literacy NZ

​3.50pm-4.15pm Critical Reflexivity in Pain Care
Dr Karime Mescouto, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RECOVER Injury Research Centre, The University of Queensland (virtual)

​4.15pm-4.30pm Reflective Learning / Frameworks in Practice

​4.30pm-5.00pm Panel Discussion

Close of Day One
5.00pm-5.15pm Poroporoaki - Summary & Reflections
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    5.15pm-5.45pm Pelvic Pain SIG Meeting

​5.15pm-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