Highlights from the 2025 FPM Symposium

Held this year at the Pullman Cairns International, the symposium precedes the ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM), which will run from 2-6 May 2025 at the Cairns Convention Centre (CCC).

Interviews with keynote speakers

Delegates heard from two renowned international speakers, Professor Nadine Attal, a neurologist, pain specialist and clinical researcher and is the current director for the Centre of Evaluation and Treatment of Pain in Ambroise Parѐ Hospital, France and Professor G Allen Finley, a paediatric anaesthetist, professor of anaesthesia and psychology at Dalhousie University and Medical director of paediatric pain management at IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Canada. 

Media coverage

We released three media releases today: 

• “Chatbots can be a useful tool to help manage chronic pain, according to new Australian research”
• "AI and virtual reality in pain management explored at pain specialists’ meeting”
• “Urgent need to improve children’s pain management, key conference hears”

To keep up with the latest ASM media coverage check the media digest here. 

Pain medicine sessions at the ASM

The symposium may be over for another year, but many delegates will stay on in Cairns to participate in the pain medicine stream of the ANZCA ASM.

Meet the co-convenors

The program is the product of many months of effort from FPM ASM Scientific Co-convenors Dr Hannah Bennett and Dr Anju Tessa James. We spoke to them both today. You can catch the convo on Instagram.

onDemand available soon

Couldn't make it to Cairns? We've got you covered! ANZCA ASM and FPM Symposium onDemand packages will be available from 13 May, enabling you to view content from the scientific programs at a time that suits you.