UCSF 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineJournal of Palliative Medicine @j-palliativemed.bsky.social · 08/05/2025@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/... 011
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineKristen “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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineUCSF 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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineUCSF Broad Stem Cell Center @ucsfstemcell.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Hear 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 053
UCSF 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
UCSF 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
UCSF 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
UCSF 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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineDr Abbie Jordan @drabbiejordan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025See below, you still have time for your early bird rate to attend the International Symposium for Paediatric Pain. Get booking! 021
UCSF 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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 31/01/2025It was fabulous… 041
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
UCSF 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
UCSF 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
UCSF 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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
UCSF 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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineUCSF 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineUCSF 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineHenrik 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineDr Abbie Jordan @drabbiejordan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024There is still time to submit a symposium (and/or poster!) to ISPP which will be held in lovely Glasgow this summer (June 2025). See here for dates and how to submit ispp2025.com/call-for-pap...ispp2025.comCall for Papers – ISPP2025 053
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineSolutions for Kids in Pain @kidsinpain.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Pain management without discrimination is a fundamental human right. SKIP, with the Health Standards Organization, co-developed the first Pediatric Pain Management standard to ensure equitable care for all kids in Canada. #ItDoesntHaveToHurt #HumanRightsDay Download the standard tinyurl.com/a2bbs5r2 083
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineWilliam 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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineUCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024A big congratulations to UCSF physician-scientist David Raleigh, MD, PhD on being honored with the Michael McDermott, MD Endowed Professorship! 🎉 @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social 073
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineWilliam 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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineJared Rubenstein, MD @drjrubenstein.bsky.social · 12/12/2024🔥 New video: “Hard Questions” We get asked a lot of hard questions in pediatric palliative care. Often, they’re different than you might think. #Medsky #hapc 3216
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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 UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
UCSF 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
UCSF 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
UCSF 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Excited! Only seven more days until opening of the 15th Pediatric Pain Master Class. UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine. Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF. San Francisco, CA. December 7-13, 2024 virtualce.ucsf.edu/pediatric-pa...virtualce.ucsf.edu15th Pediatric Pain Master Class 041
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Chronic Pain in Kids = Huge Problem Largest systematic review by @drcchambers.bsky.social et al (119 studies; >1 mio kids 0 to 19 years from all countries): - 1 in 5 kids experience chronic pain - for most types higher pain prevalence among girls than among boys pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38743558 0135
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Exposure to childhood trauma associated with higher prescription rates for opioids throughout adolescence and young adulthood -Highest incidence rate ratio in adolescence observed for sexual abuse -In young adulthood for physical violence pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38126936/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih 121
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Rotating Oral to Intravenous Methadone (Guess which presentation I am currently working on for Pediatric Pain Master Class Dec 7-13, 2024 #PedsPMC) 041
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan 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
Reposted by UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative MedicineStefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Playing "Uno Attack" with my family - little did I know that our cat was all in... 042