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...

@j-palliativemed.bsky.social Information on the compatibility of opioid analgesics with IV drugs commonly used in palliative care is lacking. Study aimed to determine physical compatibility of 4 opioid analgesics with 64 drugs during simulated Y-site administration www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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...

🦙 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!

Hear how gene therapies can address serious genetic diseases before birth. Dr. Tippi MacKenzie will deliver a George Stamatoyannopoulos Memorial Lecture at the @asgct.bsky.social Annual Meeting on May 15. #ASGCT2025 #GeneTherapy #PrenatalResearch #raredisease

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...

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

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...

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...

See below, you still have time for your early bird rate to attend the International Symposium for Paediatric Pain. Get booking!

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...

It was fabulous…

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....

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:/...

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

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/

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/

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...

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

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

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...

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

There is still time to submit a symposium (and/or poster!) to ISPP which will be held in lovely Glasgow this summer (June 2025). See here for dates and how to submit ispp2025.com/call-for-pap...

Pain management without discrimination is a fundamental human right. SKIP, with the Health Standards Organization, co-developed the first Pediatric Pain Management standard to ensure equitable care for all kids in Canada. #ItDoesntHaveToHurt #HumanRightsDay Download the standard tinyurl.com/a2bbs5r2

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

A big congratulations to UCSF physician-scientist David Raleigh, MD, PhD on being honored with the Michael McDermott, MD Endowed Professorship! 🎉 @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

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...

🔥 New video: “Hard Questions” We get asked a lot of hard questions in pediatric palliative care. Often, they’re different than you might think. #Medsky #hapc

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…”

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

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

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

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

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...

Excited! Only seven more days until opening of the 15th Pediatric Pain Master Class. UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine. Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF. San Francisco, CA. December 7-13, 2024 virtualce.ucsf.edu/pediatric-pa...

Chronic Pain in Kids = Huge Problem Largest systematic review by @drcchambers.bsky.social et al (119 studies; >1 mio kids 0 to 19 years from all countries): - 1 in 5 kids experience chronic pain - for most types higher pain prevalence among girls than among boys pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38743558

Exposure to childhood trauma associated with higher prescription rates for opioids throughout adolescence and young adulthood -Highest incidence rate ratio in adolescence observed for sexual abuse -In young adulthood for physical violence pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38126936/

Rotating Oral to Intravenous Methadone (Guess which presentation I am currently working on for Pediatric Pain Master Class Dec 7-13, 2024 #PedsPMC)

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...

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...

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