Intl Conference on Recent Advance in Pain concludes

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 29: An International Conference on Recent Advance in Pain concluded here today.
The global pain conference was attended by 300 faculty and delegates from seven countries including UAE, USA, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia and others. The conference was spread on two days with more than 40 sessions during which different aspects of pain management, both conventional and interventional techniques were discussed.
The speakers included Head of the Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine from AIIMS New Delhi, TATA Memorial Cancer Institute, Rajiv Gandhi Institute, PGI Chandigarh, JIPMER Pondicherry, CHC Vellore, and others.
The conscious was made on the availability of chronic pain and Cancer Pain Management for the general public so that these modalities should reach common mass and sufferers.
The conference was organized by CAPSI Pain India in collaboration with PG Department of Anatomy GMC Jammu. Award ceremony was held on September 28 in which the awards were distributed among the pain specialists from different countries for their various contributions.
The conference was inaugurated by NMH, Director Health Service Jammu, Bhupinder Kumar, who graced the occasion as chief guest. Dr Sunanda Raina, Principal of GMC Jammu, was the guest of honour. Other delegates present in the dais were Dr Chander Prakash, Deputy Director DHS Jammu and Dr Sanjay Turki, CMO Jammu.
The organizing team of the conference included Dr Gautam Dass, patron of the conference, Dr Pankaj Surange, chairman of the conference, Dr Gurmeet Singh, vice chairman of the conference, Dr Sunanda Raina, chairman of the cadaveric workshop and Dr Rohit Lohari, organizing secretary.
Dr Rohit Lohari, Pain Specialist posted as In-charge, Pain Clinic, Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar Jammu and also organizing secretary of the ICRA Pain 2018 was awarded with International Pain Ambassador of the year 2018-19 for his contribution and mass awareness regarding the Chronic and Cancer pain Management.
The cadaveric workshop will be held on September 30 at Department of Anatomy of GMC Jammu.