Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Pediatric 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... 031
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Excited to be at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne/Australia. Looking forward to learn from amazing colleagues (and teach) over next 2 weeks. www.rch.org.au/bioethics/ed... 280
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDInternational Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Register for tomorrow’s 15 May webinar: “Innovative Approaches for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Youth.” Join us for this installment of the Placebo Beyond Opinions Organized Research Center guest lecture hybrid series presented by Laura E. Simons, PhD. bit.ly/42M2XuO 031
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Health @ucsfhealth.bsky.social · 13/05/2025🦙 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! 192
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDKristen “KC” Campbell @kriscams.bsky.social · 13/05/2025We’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...jobs.ynhhs.orgClinical Social Worker - Pedi Palliative Care in New Haven, Connecticut | Yale New Haven HealthYale 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! 072
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 02/05/2025REGISTRATION 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 021
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Our 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... 011
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Save 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... 051
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDPAIN Reports @painreports.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Check out articles like “The effects of psychosocial aftercare following pediatric chronic pain treatment withstand the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: long-term outcomes of a randomized controlled trial” by Rau et al. in #PainReports bit.ly/4hwhfnM 021
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Save 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... 022
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Save 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... 011
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDCharles Hay, PhD @thecharleshay.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Interesting @biomedcentral.bsky.social article about the experience of painful healthcare procedures for children. Needle pain creates a lasting effect from childhood onwards and is not as inevitable as it seems. "Moments that matter" - the healthcare experiences that affect future expectations.rdcu.beMoments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life—we can do better every time in every child | BMC Medicine 041
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Hot 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....bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.comMoments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life—we can do better every time in every child - BMC MedicineBackground 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... 3103
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The Six Principles of Stupidity by David Brooks www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Six Principles of StupidityI define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it. 050
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Opening 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... 031
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Watch 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:/... 011
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDEduardo Bruera @brueraeduardo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39847449/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govDistribution of opioid analgesics by community racial/ethnic and socioeconomic profiles, 2011-2021 - PubMedRapid declines in opioid analgesics dispensed in American communities since 2011 raise concerns about inadequate access to effective pain management among patients for whom opioid therapies are approp... 011
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDKatelynn Boerner @katelynnboerner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025My first post here and I can't think of a more fitting occasion: sharing our paper on chronic pain experiences in gender-diverse youth has been published! This work was an amazing team effort and a labour of love, and I'm so proud to be sharing it now: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39820473/ 🌈pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govExperiences of Gender-Diverse Youth Living With Chronic Pain - PubMedIn a diverse sample of gender-diverse youth who live with chronic pain, experiences of invalidation and difficulty managing pain were experienced in the context of unique stressors and sources of joy ... 062
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Prevention @ucsfprevention.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Follow the UCSF Division of Prevention Science on Social and be sure to like, share, and subscribe. Sign up for our quarterly CAPS/PRC e-newsletter - lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/NUtGask #socialdisparities #healthdisparities #HIVpreventionmedia.tenor.coma cartoon drawing of a mailbox with a red cape on itALT: a cartoon drawing of a mailbox with a red cape on it 011
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 13/01/2025“Chronic pain is a disorder of the central nervous system. In some cases, pain signals just keep firing, driven by what researchers now think is a complex set of genetic, endocrinological and immunologic processes.” By Jennifer Kahn @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...nytimes.comChronic Pain: Five Things We Know About Causes, Treatments and DiagnosesAfter developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned. 040
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDSarah Bernstein, MD @sbernsteinmd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025 312444
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Save 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... 021
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Tomorrow, 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 011
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 04/01/20251/ 🧠 Excited to share our new preprint: Convergent state-control of endogenous opioid analgesia We uncover how cognitive + contextual factors—like injury, fear, and placebo—modulate pain through dynamic opioid signaling in the periaqueductal gray (PAG) biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 45423
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDVoices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I will never get tired of posting articles like this. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comHPV vaccine stops 90% of cervical cancer casesEngland began vaccinating teenage girls in 2008 and results show it is paying off. 28926
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDEduardo Bruera @brueraeduardo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Insurance cartels impose denials or unaffordable co-payments to the majority of opioids we prescribe for cancer pain. Opioid rotation has become extremely difficult. Will this year bring Robin Hood or a French Revolution to limit their unethical practices? 043
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Follow-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/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govAdolescent predictors of young adult pain and health outcomes: results from a 6-year prospective follow-up study - PubMedAdolescent 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... 021
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Hot 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/ 031
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Happy 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... 022
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDWilliam Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This is a crisis www.doximity.com/newsfeed/1e8...doximity.comThe Salary Problem in Pediatric SubspecialtiesAt the peak of COVID-19, I was on call in the NICU with a medical student, an aspiring pediatrician. Watching Dr. Fauci on the news, she asked me a... 052
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDWilliam Zempsky @kidspainmd.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I have cared for children who have been killed by polio, measles and chickenpox. Let’s not go back. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...nytimes.comSix Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to VaccinesMost Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s. 072
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDStefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 11/12/2024The 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... 183
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Spreading Holiday Cheer: A Special Song by @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Pediatric Patients and Music Therapists www.bchcreativearts.org/blog/holiday...bchcreativearts.orgUCSF Music Therapy Holiday Music Video - An Annual Tradition — Creative Arts Therapy at UCSFJoin us for a heartwarming holiday music therapy experience! Watch as pediatric patients and their dedicated music therapists come together to perform an original song. This touching video showcases t... 061
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Save the Date! 16th Pediatric Pain Master Class January 24 - 30, 2026 Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF San Francisco, California #PedsPMC @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDHenrik Söderholm @orsettoswe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Thank 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… 072
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 11/12/2024The 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... 183
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Day 5 of @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social Pediatric Pain Master Class #PedsPMC Prof Leora Kutter extraordinaire teaching Hypnosis and Hypnotic Language in ped The magic of “not yet” “Isn’t it interesting that…” 011
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 08/12/2024ASYMPTOMATIC FINDINGS: People without (!) pain have these findings in MRIs The groovy physiotherapist Michael Sangster (Halifax) talking pain neurophysiology education for kids Day 2 #PedsPMC 031
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Day 2 of UCSF Pediatric Pain Master Class #PedsPMC And so much to talk about: @jeffreymogil.bsky.social talking about sex, pain & death And… final count is in: 25 countries And…many winners in the Awesome Analgesia Animal Challenge 021
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Administering buprenorphine for kids with opioid use disorder. According to Dr Lucien Gonzalez doses are usually lower than in adults. On average only 6mg per day (max has been in few cases 16 mg/day) #PedsPMC 021
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 07/12/2024How is screening of kids for substance-use disorder supposed to help? Dr Lucien Gonzalez is one of less then 10 pediatric addiction specialists in the United States speaking at #PedsPMC UCSF Pediatric Pain Master Class How to respond to medical opioid use in children and teenagers? 041
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Integrative Medicine as part of multimodal analgesia rocks! #PedsPMC 15th Pediatric Pain Master Class @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social in San Francisco 074
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Day 1 of #PedsPMC Pediatric Pain Master Class @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social 104 Participants. 34 Faculty. 24 countries. 6 continents. Exciting. Looking forward to 7 days of interdisciplinary multimodal learning & teaching. Anna Hoffman, NP & Dr Jen Matthews on stage now 071
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Offering monthly live/recorded Global Lecture Series in pediatric pain, palliative and/or integrative medicine. Hosting the Pediatric Pain Master Class and Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC)-Pediatrics If you like monthly invite/updates from us, contact: EPEC.Pediatrics@UCSF.edu 042
Reposted by Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MDUCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Are you engaged in Pediatric Pain Treatment, Prevention, and/or Research? Join the Pediatric Pain Mailing Listserv: pediatric-pain.ca/resources/pe... 032
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Playing "Uno Attack" with my family - little did I know that our cat was all in... 042
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Only 4 more days to go - and then we will be hosting 104 participants & 31 Faculty from 24 countries at the @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social 15th Pediatric Pain Master Class! Hosted by UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine virtualce.ucsf.edu/pediatric-pa... 041
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Need to Renew your DEA License? This Pediatric focused course on treatment of kids with pain and substance use disorders meets requirements of MATE (Medication Access & Training Expansion) Act. $75 - free for UCSF staff cme-reg.configio.com/pd/4284/mult...cme-reg.configio.comMultimodal Treatment of Pediatric Pain to Avoid Addiction and Opioid Use DisorderAccess and Training Expansion (MATE) Act 8-hour training requirement for DEA licensing or renewal.</b> (PEDIATRICS) 021