THE NEXT Aberdeen Interventional Pain Workshop on Low Back Pain will take place on 30-31 May 2024 at the Suttie Centre, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

An expert faculty will teach on the two day intensive course with lectures, live surgery demonstrations, hands-on cadaver training (X-ray & Ultrasound guided procedures) and question and answer sessions. This year the scientific committee are delighted to add new procedures for low back pain to the workshop such as USG cryoablation/cryonalgesia procedures, basivertebral nerve ablation and endoscopic facet joint and sacroiliac joint RF.

WORKSHOP FACULTY

Dr Saravana Kanakarajan
Course Director, Aberdeen Workshop
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Aberdeen
Scotland, UK

Dr Ravi Nagaraja
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Clinical Lead 
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Aberdeen
Scotland, UK

Dr Naomi Scott
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Aberdeen
Scotland, UK

Dr Andrzej Krol

Special Interest: USG RF Ablation Procedures

Committee Chair, ESRA European Diploma of Pain Medicine

ESRA USG Pain Cadaver Courses (London & Europe)

Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia
St George's University Hospital
London, UK

Dr Robert Rapcan FIPP

Special Interest: Endoscopic Facet Joint & SI Joint Denervation Procedures, 

Basivertebral Nerve Ablation

Examiner, World Institute of Pain

Medical EuroPainClinics

Czech Republic & Slovakia

Dr Neal Evans
Special Interest: X-Guided RF Ablation Procedures
Consultant in Pain Medicine & Clinical Lead
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Aylesbury, Bucks, UK

Dr Lars Williams

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer

University of Glasgow

Scotland, UK

Overview of Day One (30.05.24): Lectures, Anatomy & Live Surgery

Anatomy and nerve supply for facet and SI joints
Lumbar facet joint denervation (Live Surgery—Video link)
Sacroiliac Joint RF (Live Surgery—Video link)
Evidence and Complications of RF procedures
Endoscopic RF of Facets and SI joint
Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
Cryoanalgesia/Cryoablation
Ultrasound guided Interventions for Low Back Pain (lecture and demo)

Overview  of Day Two (31.05.24): Hands-on Stations (X-ray & Ultrasound)

Station 1: X-ray guided Diagnostic Blocks
Station 2: X-ray guided Lumbar RF Denervation (cadaver)
Station 3: X-ray guided Sacroiliac Joint Denervation(cadaver)

Station 4: X-ray guided Basivertebral Nerve Ablation (cadaver)
Stations 5: X-ray guided Endoscopic Facet Joint & Sacroiliac Denervation (cadaver)
Station 6: Ultrasound guided Cryoabalation/Cryoanalgesia (cadaver)

Station 7: Ultrasound guided Interventions for Low Back Pain (live model)
Open session—candidates can attend any station of their choice

WORKSHOP TIMETABLE

Venue: Suttie Centre, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill House, Ashgrove Road West, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, Scotland, United Kingdom

Day One (30.05.24): 09.00- 17.00hrs

Day Two (31.05.24): 09.00 - 17.00hrs

REGISTRATION FEE

Early Bird Registration Fee: £750.00

Early Bird Registration Fee (UK trainee doctors): £600.00

(includes attendance of all scientific programme and tea/coffee and lunch catering  breaks)

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION
 
Aberdeen has excellent travel links. By air, Aberdeen is well connected by British Airways, Eastern airways, Flybe, BMI, KLM and Air France to majority of the airports in UK and mainland Europe. The venue is 6 miles from the airport. There are 6 major roads to Aberdeen. A90 serves as the main arterial route connecting Dundee, Perth, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Aberdeen is on the main UK rail network and has frequent direct services to major cities such as Edinburgh Glasgow and London including Caledonian sleeper services.