Blog: BPS/CPS Meeting in Scotland!

Welcome back to Melanie, Mark, and Katie, Clinical Psychology PhD students in the Chambers’ lab, who recently returned from Edinburgh, Scotland where they attended the Joint British Pain Society and Canadian Pain Society’s 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting (June 21^st – 24^th).

At the meeting they were able to meet with colleagues, discuss new and exciting research at the lectures and poster exhibits, and present and discuss their own research (click on the title below to download a pdf of their poster). Congratulations to Mark, who won a Highly Commended Poster award!

Birnie, K.A., Chambers, C.T., Cummings, E.A., Fernandez, C.V., Finley, G.A., Forgeron, P.A., Latimer, M.A., & McGrath, P.J. (2011, June). Patient- and parent-reported pain prevalence and management in a Canadian pediatric hospital. Poster presented at the Joint Scientific Meeting of the British Pain Society and the Canadian Pain Society, Edinburgh, UK.

Noel, M.E., Chambers, C.T., McGrath, P.J., Klein, R., & Stewart, S.H. (2011, June). Use of a stress induction task to study state anxiety among children undergoing cold pressor pain. Poster presented at the Joint Scientific Meeting of the British Pain Society and the Canadian Pain Society, Edinburgh, UK.

Petter, M., Chambers, C.T., & MacLaren-Chorney, J. (2011, June). Comparing mindfulness-based attention instructions and distraction for cold-pressor pain in children. Poster presented at the Joint Scientific Meeting of the British Pain Society and the Canadian Pain Society, Edinburgh, UK. (*Highly Commended Poster award)