International Low Back Pain Forum

Conference Programme
Tuesday 15th March
5.30 for 6.00pm start – 7.30	Welcome Reception Coaches will depart from Hilton on the Park at 5.15 sharp
9.00 – 5.00	Cochrane Back Group Meetings
Wednesday 16th March
8.30 - 8.45	Welcome Professor Rachelle Buchbinder – Chair, Local Organising Committee
8.45 – 9.45	*1.1.1 Evidence to practice to policy* – ensuring our research makes a difference Dr Shelley Bowen – Senior Public Health Advisor, Prevention and Population Health Branch, Department of Health, Victoria *1.1.2 The global burden of disease project* Dr Fiona Blyth – Epidemiologist, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
9.45 – 10.30	*1.2 Mars and Venus, Policymakers and Researchers – Panel and Discussion* Professor Jim Bishop – Chief Health Officer of Australia Dr Shelley Bowen – Senior Public Health Advisor, Prevention and Population Health Branch, Department of Health, Victoria, Australia Ms Fran Thorn - Secretary of the Department of Health, Victoria, Australia Professor Martin Underwood Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK Professor Maurits van Tulder, Department of Health Sciences & EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University, The Netherlands
10.30 - 11.00	Morning Tea
11.00 – 11.40	*1.3 High impact research from around the world relating to evidence to practice to policy* Oral presentations from submitted abstracts
11.40 – 12.40	*1.4 Mini abstracts Concurrent session* Oral presentations from submitted abstracts
12.40 - 2.00	Lunch and networking *1.5 Poster viewing*
2.00 - 3.30	*1.6 Workshop session1* 1.6.1 International consensus, refinement and validation of the new measure of burden of back pain questionnaire (BP-Quest) 1.6.2 Walking programmes for low back pain – Translating the evidence into clinical practice 1.6.3 Upskilling primary care clinicians to integrate psychosocial factors into their management of low back pain patients: where are we now and where next? 1.6.4 Economic evaluation in low back pain 1.6.5 Diagnostic research in a condition without a diagnosis: the use of novel approaches in the classification of back pain in primary care
3.30 - 4.00	Afternoon tea
4.00 - 5.00	*1.7 Do research questions and research methods for low back pain need a makeover? - Debate* Professor Dan Cherkin – Senior Investigator, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative and Department of Family Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, USA Professor Bart Koes - Department of General Practice, Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands Professor Danielle Van Der Windt - Professor in Primary Care Epidemiology, Keele University, UK
7.00 – 11.00	Free Evening
Thursday 17th March
8.30 – 9.50	*2.1 Guidelines and implementation strategies in primary care* Professor Paul Glasziou – NHMRC Australia Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Australia Professor Nadine Foster - Professor of Musculoskeletal Health in Primary Care Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre Primary Care Sciences Keele University, UK Professor Roger Chou – Department of Medicine and Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, USA Dr Simon French - Primary Care Research Unit, The University of Melbourne, Australia
9.50 - 10.30	*2.2 High impact research from around the world relating to evidence to practice to policy* Oral presentations from submitted abstracts
10.30 – 11.00	Morning Tea
11.00 – 12.00	*2.3 What is the role of social marketing, advertising authorities and journalists?* Associate Professor Alex Barratt – School of Public Health, University of Sydney and Journalist, ABC Radio National Health Report, Australia Associate Professor Dr Doug Gross - Department of Physical Therapy, University of Alberta, Canada Mr Ray Moynihan – Freelance health journalist and The University of Newcastle, Australia
12.00 – 1.00	*2.4 Mini abstracts Concurrent session* Oral presentations from submitted abstracts
1.00 - 2.15	Lunch and networking 2.5.1 Poster viewing 2.5.2 Junior Researchers Workshop- coordinated by Steve Kamper
2.15 - 3.45	*2.6 Workshop session 2* 2.6.1 Back pain mass media campaigns: Next Steps? 2.6.2 ‘Fatal flaws’ in randomised controlled trials of interventions for low back pain 2.6.3 How are we doing? A critical look at the use of ‘global perceived effect’ instruments in back pain research 2.6.4 Is it time to move beyond MCID? 2.6.5 Understanding the burden of back complaints in older people 2.6.6 Troublesome translation: designing implementation interventions to improve the management of low back pain in primary care
3.45 - 4.10	Afternoon tea
4.10 - 5.00	*2.7 State of the art:* *Is there a place for biology in back pain?* Professor Michele Battie – Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada Dr Lorimer Moseley - Neuroscience Research Australia, Australia
5.00 – 7.00	Free time
7.00 – 11.00	Conference Dinner
Friday 18th March 2010
8.30 - 9.30	*3.1 The real truth about misconceptions* Professor Bob Lewin – Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK Professor Steve Linton – School of Law, Psychology and Social Work, Örebro University, Sweden Professor Chris Main – Arthritis Research Campaign National Primary Care Centre, Keele University, UK
9.30 - 10.10	*3.2 High impact research from around the world relating to evidence to practice to policy* Oral presentations from submitted abstracts
10.10 - 10.40	Morning Tea
10.40 – 11.15	*3.3 Hot topics* Dr Glenn Pransky - Center for Disability Research, Liberty Mutual Research Institute, USA
11.15 – 12.15	*3.4 What can we learn about the life course of back pain from registries?* Dr Kate Dunn - Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Keele University, UK Professor Leon Straker - School of Physiotherapy, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Associate Professor Lise Hestbæk - Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics and Institute of Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
12.15 – 1.30	Lunch and networking *3.5 Poster viewing*
1.30 – 2.15	*3.6 Workshop summations*
2.15 - 3.15	*3.7 High impact research from around the world: Poster Snapshots*
3.15 – 3.45	Afternoon tea
3.45 – 4.45	*3.8 Forum XI in review*
4.45 – 5.00	*3.9 Forum XII*
This is a provisional program and as such is accurate at the time of publication but maybe subject to variations, please keep an eye on the website for future updates