Pre-Conference Workshops
Date: Tuesday 13 April 2027
The APS’s Pre-Conference Workshop Day provides delegates with a flexible approach when it comes to choosing what they attend. All workshops are offered as half days, giving delegates the opportunity to personalise their own learning.
Customise your conference experience by attending the Acute Pain Workshop in the morning, before heading over to the Psychology in Pain Management afternoon session.
APS Members who attend the conference are rewarded with more competitive workshop registration fees, so start planning your week in Gold Coast today by becoming an APS Member. You will be joining us at the only conference in Australia offering multidisciplinary insights into the complex nature of pain management from a variety of medical, nursing and allied health perspectives.
Full Day Workshop
Paediatric Pain Pre-Conference Education Day
Transforming Paediatric Pain: From Clinical Care to Creative Innovation
Date: Tuesday 13 April 2027
Time: 8:30am - 5:30pm
This interactive pre-conference workshop brings together international and Australian experts to explore contemporary, practical and innovative approaches to paediatric pain. Across four sessions, participants will consider biopsychosocial approaches to acute pain and distress, supporting children with persistent pain to participate in school and everyday life, creative arts-based approaches to understanding and communicating lived experience, and the emerging role of immersive technologies in paediatric pain care and research.
Please note: This is a preliminary program and is subject to change as speakers, session content and timings are finalised.
08:30–08:45 | Welcome and Introduction
08:45–10:15 | Session 1: Biopsychosocial Approaches to Acute Pain in Children
Contemporary approaches to preventing and managing acute pain and distress, integrating psychological, developmental and clinical strategies across the peri-procedural journey.
11:00–12:30 | Session 2: Pain in Schools — Supporting Participation and Return to Function
Exploring how healthcare teams, families and schools can work together to support children and young people with persistent pain to remain engaged with, or return to, education.
13:30–15:00 | Session 3: Arts-Based Research in Paediatric Pain
An interactive introduction to drawing, Photovoice and research poetry as creative approaches to exploring lived experience and translating paediatric pain research.
15:30–17:30 | Session 4: From Idea to Impact — Immersive Technology in Paediatric Pain
Exploring how clinicians, researchers and technology developers can collaborate to translate ideas for XR, VR and other immersive technologies into practical solutions for paediatric pain.
Morning Workshops
Acute Pain (AM)
Basic Pain Research
Purpose Beyond Pain
Psychology in Pain Management
Afternoon Workshops
Acute Pain (PM)
Pelvic Pain - NEW!
Pharmacology in Pain Management
Physiotherapy in Pain Management
Tuesday Pre-Conference Workshop Fees
| Earlybird (until 29.01.27) | Standard (until 05.04.27) | Late (From 06.04.27) | |
|---|---|---|---|
One x Half Day Workshop | |||
| Member (Pre-Conference Workshop AND Conference Registration) | AU$185.00 | AU$205.00 | AU$230 |
| Member (Pre-Conference Workshop ONLY) | AU$240.00 | AU$265.00 | AU$290 |
| Non-Member | AU$340.00 | AU$350.00 | AU$375 |
Two x Half Day Workshops OR One x Full Day Workshop | |||
| Member (Pre-Conference Workshop AND Conference Registration) | AU$240.00 | AU$265.00 | AU$290.00 |
| Member (Pre-Conference Workshop ONLY) | AU$300.00 | AU$320.00 | AU$345.00 |
| Non-Member | AU$460.00 | AU$490.00 | AU$520.00 |