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UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine
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Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine. University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Benioff Children's Hospitals in Oakland and San Francisco, California, USA.
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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...
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...
October 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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@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/...
May 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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...
Clinical Social Worker - Pedi Palliative Care in New Haven, Connecticut | Yale New Haven Health
Yale New Haven Health Services is hiring a Clinical Social Worker - Pedi Palliative Care in New Haven, Connecticut. Review all of the job details and apply today!
jobs.ynhhs.org
May 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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🦙 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!
May 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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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
May 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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...
May 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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
May 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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...
April 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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...
March 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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See below, you still have time for your early bird rate to attend the International Symposium for Paediatric Pain. Get booking!
The early bird registration deadline for #ISPP2025 is this Friday on 7 March. Don’t miss your chance to save on registration to the premier interdisciplinary conference on pain in infants, children, and adolescents. Register today: bit.ly/3UDnTjd
March 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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...
February 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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It was fabulous…
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

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January 31, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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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....
Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life—we can do better every time in every child - BMC Medicine
Background Needle procedures, such as vaccinations, blood draws, and intravenous cannulation, are the most frequent source of childhood pain, causing fear and reducing the uptake of medical procedures...
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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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...
January 31, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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:/...
January 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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...
January 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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
January 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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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/
January 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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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/
Adolescent predictors of young adult pain and health outcomes: results from a 6-year prospective follow-up study - PubMed
Adolescent chronic pain may lead to persistent disability and long-term health impairments in adulthood. However, our understanding of which youth are more likely to experience adverse outcomes remain...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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...
December 30, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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Are you engaged in Pediatric Pain Treatment, Prevention, and/or Research?

Join the Pediatric Pain Mailing Listserv:

pediatric-pain.ca/resources/pe...
December 6, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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Integrative Medicine as part of multimodal analgesia rocks!

#PedsPMC

15th Pediatric Pain Master Class @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social in San Francisco
December 7, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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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…
December 13, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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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...
December 11, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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