Pediatric Pain Master Class in San Francisco, CA from January 24-30, 2026. The conference will be in-person (offered hybrid - with live online availability). Scholarships for clinicians from low-medium income countries are available. Information & Registration: virtualce.ucsf.edu/pediatric-pa...

Excited to be at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne/Australia. Looking forward to learn from amazing colleagues (and teach) over next 2 weeks. www.rch.org.au/bioethics/ed...

Register for tomorrow’s 15 May webinar: “Innovative Approaches for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Youth.” Join us for this installment of the Placebo Beyond Opinions Organized Research Center guest lecture hybrid series presented by Laura E. Simons, PhD. bit.ly/42M2XuO

🦙 Cuddle a llama and brush its fur? Sign us up! ✅ Therapy llamas returned to Mission Bay last week to bring joy to UCSF staff, learners and community members!

We’re looking for a rockstar part-time social worker to help build a Pediatric Palliative dream team here at Yale New Haven. Position is part-time, 24h/wk with benefits. Come join us as we grow and support better QOL for our pediatric patients and their families! jobs.ynhhs.org/jobs/75299?l...

REGISTRATION OPENED for "Become an EPEC-Pediatrics Trainer Conference" plus Professional Development Workshop. Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC)-Pediatrics. Mission Bay Conference Center at @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social. San Francisco, CA. August 27-29, 2025 epecpediatrics.ucsf.edu

Our next @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Global Lecture Series presents @noneedlesspain.bsky.social "Integrative Medicine Modalities in Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management: Show me the Evidence!" Thursday, June 1st, 2025. 3pm (PT) Registration: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Save the Date: Thur, May 1, 2025 at 3pm Pacific Time California @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Stad Center Global Lecture Series: “From Erythromelalgia to Suzetrigine: Sodium Channels in Painful diseases and New Treatment Options” by Charles Berde, MD, PhD Registration: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Check out articles like “The effects of psychosocial aftercare following pediatric chronic pain treatment withstand the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: long-term outcomes of a randomized controlled trial” by Rau et al. in #PainReports bit.ly/4hwhfnM

Save the Date: Wed, April 2nd, 2025 at 9am Pacific Time California @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Stad Center Global Lecture Series: “Neural circuitry and pain and itch: A Yin and Yang story” by Allan Basbaum, PhD (Professor & Chair Department of Anatomy) Registration: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Save the Date: March 6, 2025 at 3pm (15:00hrs) Pacific Time California Global Lecture Series: "Unequal burden: Pain and psychosocial functioning in sexual and gender minority youth with chronic pain." by Lauren Harrison, PhD (Stanford Univ School Medicine) Register: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Interesting @biomedcentral.bsky.social article about the experience of painful healthcare procedures for children. Needle pain creates a lasting effect from childhood onwards and is not as inevitable as it seems. "Moments that matter" - the healthcare experiences that affect future expectations.

Hot off the press: Our recent publication in British Medical Journal: Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life-we can do better every time in every child bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The Six Principles of Stupidity by David Brooks www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

It was fabulous…

Opening of our Healing Environment @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social Stad Center Clinic for children in pain and for kids with serious illness. Thanks to Elisa and Marc Stad for their vision. And thank you to so many people joining the opening - including Orlando Bloom. www.wric.com/business/pre...

Watch the ABC7 Live News Coverage from our Stad Clinic opening. Amazing healing environment space for children with pain and children with serious illness - combining Western medicine, physical therapy, psychology with massage, acupuncture, hypnosis and more urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

My first post here and I can't think of a more fitting occasion: sharing our paper on chronic pain experiences in gender-diverse youth has been published! This work was an amazing team effort and a labour of love, and I'm so proud to be sharing it now: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39820473/ 🌈

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“Chronic pain is a disorder of the central nervous system. In some cases, pain signals just keep firing, driven by what researchers now think is a complex set of genetic, endocrinological and immunologic processes.” By Jennifer Kahn @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...

Save the Date: Our next Global Lecture on Feb 13, 2025 @3pm Pacific Time "Using Regional Anesthesia to Manage Pediatric Acute Pain" by David Burns, MD Register: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Tomorrow, Jan 9, 2025: 3pm PT / 6 pm ET UCSF Stad Center Global Lecture Series “How To Implement Nitrous Oxide Analgesia, Anxiolysis and Minimal Sedation into Your Clinical Practice” Mindy Brice, RN-BSN, CLC, CPN, Mary Kay Farrell, RN, PED-BC, Children’s Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

You don’t want to miss that!

1/ 🧠 Excited to share our new preprint: Convergent state-control of endogenous opioid analgesia We uncover how cognitive + contextual factors—like injury, fear, and placebo—modulate pain through dynamic opioid signaling in the periaqueductal gray (PAG) biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I will never get tired of posting articles like this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Insurance cartels impose denials or unaffordable co-payments to the majority of opioids we prescribe for cancer pain. Opioid rotation has become extremely difficult. Will this year bring Robin Hood or a French Revolution to limit their unethical practices?

Follow-up of adolescents in chronic pain 6 years later: Higher pain intensity, more pain locations, lower sleep quality, and greater anxiety symptoms in adolescence predicted worse pain outcomes in young adulthood pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38916525/

Hot off the press: Chronic Postsurgical Pain observed in 41% of adolescents at 3 months postsurgery, declining to 14% at 24 months after surgery. Presurgical pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, and pain anxiety were presurgical predictors for CPSP at 3 months. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39047258/

Happy to present Mindy Brice & Mary Kay Farrell as our next Global Lecture Series speaker on Thursday, Jan 9th, 2025 at 3pm (15:00 hrs) Pacific Time (California) “How To Implement Nitrous Oxide Analgesia, Anxiolysis and Minimal Sedation into Your Clinical Practice” ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is a crisis www.doximity.com/newsfeed/1e8...

I have cared for children who have been killed by polio, measles and chickenpox. Let’s not go back. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

The Comfort Promise: How to eliminate or ease pain caused by needles (vaccinations, lab draws, intravenous cannulations etc.) for every child. Every time. Everywhere. #PedsPMC pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30324169/ www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/services/com...

Spreading Holiday Cheer: A Special Song by @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Pediatric Patients and Music Therapists www.bchcreativearts.org/blog/holiday...

Save the Date! 16th Pediatric Pain Master Class January 24 - 30, 2026 Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF San Francisco, California #PedsPMC @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social

Thank u so much for a fantastic course and a possibility to extendy network. I have learned so much and talked to so many people… and most of all thanks to Dr Friedrichsdorf (@noneedlesspain.bsky.social) for his patience for all my questions…

The Comfort Promise: How to eliminate or ease pain caused by needles (vaccinations, lab draws, intravenous cannulations etc.) for every child. Every time. Everywhere. #PedsPMC pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30324169/ www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/services/com...

Day 5 of @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social Pediatric Pain Master Class #PedsPMC Prof Leora Kutter extraordinaire teaching Hypnosis and Hypnotic Language in ped The magic of “not yet” “Isn’t it interesting that…”

ASYMPTOMATIC FINDINGS: People without (!) pain have these findings in MRIs The groovy physiotherapist Michael Sangster (Halifax) talking pain neurophysiology education for kids Day 2 #PedsPMC

Day 2 of UCSF Pediatric Pain Master Class #PedsPMC And so much to talk about: @jeffreymogil.bsky.social talking about sex, pain & death And… final count is in: 25 countries And…many winners in the Awesome Analgesia Animal Challenge

Administering buprenorphine for kids with opioid use disorder. According to Dr Lucien Gonzalez doses are usually lower than in adults. On average only 6mg per day (max has been in few cases 16 mg/day) #PedsPMC

How is screening of kids for substance-use disorder supposed to help? Dr Lucien Gonzalez is one of less then 10 pediatric addiction specialists in the United States speaking at #PedsPMC UCSF Pediatric Pain Master Class How to respond to medical opioid use in children and teenagers?

Integrative Medicine as part of multimodal analgesia rocks! #PedsPMC 15th Pediatric Pain Master Class @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social in San Francisco

Day 1 of #PedsPMC Pediatric Pain Master Class @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social 104 Participants. 34 Faculty. 24 countries. 6 continents. Exciting. Looking forward to 7 days of interdisciplinary multimodal learning & teaching. Anna Hoffman, NP & Dr Jen Matthews on stage now

Offering monthly live/recorded Global Lecture Series in pediatric pain, palliative and/or integrative medicine. Hosting the Pediatric Pain Master Class and Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC)-Pediatrics If you like monthly invite/updates from us, contact: [email protected]

Are you engaged in Pediatric Pain Treatment, Prevention, and/or Research? Join the Pediatric Pain Mailing Listserv: pediatric-pain.ca/resources/pe...

Playing "Uno Attack" with my family - little did I know that our cat was all in...

Only 4 more days to go - and then we will be hosting 104 participants & 31 Faculty from 24 countries at the @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social 15th Pediatric Pain Master Class! Hosted by UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine virtualce.ucsf.edu/pediatric-pa...

Need to Renew your DEA License? This Pediatric focused course on treatment of kids with pain and substance use disorders meets requirements of MATE (Medication Access & Training Expansion) Act. $75 - free for UCSF staff cme-reg.configio.com/pd/4284/mult...