St Andrews is situated 15 miles South of Dundee.

The closest airports

are Dundee (20 miles) or Edinburgh (50 miles). The closest railway
station is Leuchars on the east coast main line, 4 miles from St Andrews
THIRD ST ANDREWS
PAIN SYMPOSIUM
and which has an excellent taxi service.

Accommodation is in New Hall a 3-star VisitScotland graded hotel during

the summer months. The accommodation is situated a pleasant 15
minute walk from the meeting venue in United College on North Street. June 11 – 12, 2009
Here the 15th century St Salvatore’s Chapel forms the entrance to a College Hall, North Street
grassy quadrangle which is bordered by the 155 seated “School 3” St Andrews
lecture theatre with breakouts to be in the elegant Lower College Hall.
Lower College Hall will also be the venue for the sit down evening meal
with the upstairs Upper College Hall as the venue for the Ceilidh, both This one and a half day meeting is wide ranging in the field of
on the 11th.
pain, with excellent speakers in a convivial venue.

The meeting marks the retiral of Dr Bill Macrae, Consultant

Anaesthetist and Pain Physician, the leading light of the Tayside
Pain Service over the last decades and founder member of the
North British Pain Association.

The 1st and 2nd St Andrews Pain Symposia were organised by Bill
in 1986 and 1989.

Samuel Johnson (1709-84) an English man of letters who wrote:

"St Andrews seems to be a place eminently adapted to study and

education,
being situated in a populous yet cheap country, and exposing the minds
and
manners of young men neither to the levity and dissoluteness of a
capital
city, nor to the gross luxury of a town of commerce, places naturally
unpropitious to learning; in one the desire of knowledge easily gives
way
to the love of pleasure, and in the other, is in danger of yielding to the
love of money."

Meeting organisers Dr Phil Lacoux and Helen Thornton

phil@lacoux.u-net.com helen.thornton@nhs.net Dr Alison Powell What do we know about changing routine
practice?

Programme

Thursday 11th June (note midday start)

Registration and Lunch (12.30 – 13.30)

Session 1: Pain and Evolution Thursday 13.30 – 15.00

Prof Tony Dickenson
Dr Bill Macrae
Dr Amanda Williams

Session 2: Change I Thursday 15.30 – 17.00

Professor Stephen Morley How Psychology and Pain have
evolved -
Heading for extinction
Professor Chris Main How back pain Management has
evolved
Dr Lance McCracken How Pain Management Programs
have evolved

Thursday evening meal and Ceilidh at College Hall (bar available)

Friday 12th June

Session 3: Brain Stuff Friday 09.00 – 10.30

Professor Irene Tracey Imaging
Mr TRK Varma 30 years of Neurosurgery for Pain

Session 4: Change II Friday 11.00 – 12.30

Dr Ed Charlton How things have changed on the shop
floor.
From Luddite to WMD
Xavier Lassalle Pain and Médecin sans Frontières

Session 5: Basic Science Friday 13.30 – 15.00

Professor Tony Dickenson How pain changes the system
Dr Lesley Colvin Translating basic science into the clinic

Session 6: All Change Friday 15.30 – 17.00

Professor Huw Davies Systems organisations and culture
Accommodation at New Hall a 15 minute stroll from College Hall (see Accommodation per night
over).
Single £40 10th  11th 12th  ………………….
Symposium (1½ day, incl dinner/ceilidh) £160 Double £65 10th  11  12 
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½ day (Thursday, incl lunch and coffee) £65
Full day (Friday, incl lunch and coffee) £80 TOTAL ………………
Dinner/Ceilidh (Thursday)(excl wine) £45
Please list any dietary requirements.
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Single £40 ………….
Double £65

Applications and enquiries to helen.thornton@nhs.net

Postal address: Helen Thornton, Third St Andrews Pain Symposium, Tayside Pain
Service, Pain Clinic, South Block Level 6, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, DD1 9SY
Cheques payable to the “Pain Research Fund”
CPD applied for
ONLY 120 places, please book early to avoid disappointment

There is no disabled access, however School 3 (lectures) and Lower College Hall
(breakouts) are on the ground floor and involve few steps. The Ceilidh, in
Upper College Hall, has two flights of stairs with no lift. Please email us with
queries.

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