24 May 08 - 1st Pain Workshop, Bialystok, Poland

FACULTY


Dr Teo Goroszeniuk
Consultant in Pain Medicine
Pain Management & Neuromodulation Centre
Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital
London, UK



Dr Adnan Al-Kaisy
Consultant in Pain Medicine
Pain Management & Neuromodulation Centre
Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital
London, UK


Dr Joseph Azzopardi
Consultant in Pain Medicine
Pain Management & Neuromodulation Centre
Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital
London, UK




Dr Andrzej Krol
Consultant in Pain Management & Anaesthesia
St George's Hospital
London, UK







Dr Piotr Buczkowski
Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist
Derby Hospitals NHS Trust
Derby, UK

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

INTERNATIONAL: Dr Teo Goroszeniuk, Mr Ciaran Wazir, Dr Adnan Al-Kaisy

LOCAL: Professor Janusz Dzięcioł, Professor Lech Zimnoch, Dr K Piekarewicz, Dr W Nierodzinski

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME

Sat 24 May 2008, 8am-5pm

Venue: Department of Anatomy, Medical University of Bialystok, Mickiewicza 2A, 15-089 Białystok


Pain Related Anatomy Lecture (Dr Magdalena Szkudlarek)


Cadaver Workshop Topics:


Neuromodulation techniques (including spinal & peripheral)

Interventional Pain Relief procedures (pulsed R/F, etc)

Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Nerve Blocks (live models)

Regional Anaesthesia Techniques



ACCOMMODATION

Hotels in Bialystok

Best Western Hotel Cristal *** 3 Lipowa St, Bialystok, Poland

The Best Western Hotel Cristal is located directly in Bialystok city center 2km from PKP train station.

Catching a bus to Hotel Cristal - full ticket price 2 zloty (available from shops and news-stands)

Leave the train station through the main door (opposite the train platforms) and take the city bus line 10 (leave the bus at 2nd bus stop at Plac Uniwersytecki). Then you have to return about 200 meters down the Liniarskiego Street. You can’t miss the hotel.

Catching a taxi to Hotel Cristal: 5 minutes journey, costing 10 to 15 zloty.

Hotel Mosir** ul. Wołodyjowskiego 5, Białystok
tel. 085 749 62 00, 085 749 62 10, fax 085 749 62 33
E-mail: hotel@bialystokmosir.com.pl


GETTING THERE


Flights to Warsaw from UK

Polorbis Holidays Ltd
1st Floor, 234 King Street Hammersmith London W6 0RF

Tel 020 8748 3062
Fax 020 8741 5797

E-mail: sales@polorbis.co.uk
Website: http://www.polorbis.co.uk/


* Some workshop participants are catching the 08.45am British Airways flight from Gatwick to Warsaw on 23 May 2008.

Frederic Chopin Airport, Warsaw

Frederic Chopin Airport is located 10km (6 miles) southwest of Warsaw.

Bus stops are located immediately in front of the Arrivals hall. MZA City Buses (tel: 9484; website: www.ztm.waw.pl) 175 and 188 serve Warsaw, including the train station (30 minutes journey) during the day, while night bus N32 provides a link to the central railway station overnight. Standard ticket costs approximately 2.4 Zloty.

The taxi stand is located in front of the Arrivals hall. Cost of a taxi ride to Warsaw Central Railway Station is approximately 50 Zloty.

Money and communications: There is a bank in the Terminal 1 Departures hall, and bureaux de change and ATMs in Arrivals and Departures. There is also a post office in the Departures hall. Wireless Internet access is available in the main terminals.

Trains to Bialystok from Warsaw

We will catch a shuttle train from Warsaw Central Railway Station (Warszawa Centralna) for Bialystok at 3.20pm on 23 May 2008.

For train times click here