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Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excited to be at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne/Australia. Looking forward to learn from amazing colleagues (and teach) over next 2 weeks.

www.rch.org.au/bioethics/ed...

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International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) @iasp.bsky.social · May 14

Register for tomorrow’s 15 May webinar: “Innovative Approaches for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Youth.” Join us for this installment of the Placebo Beyond Opinions Organized Research Center guest lecture hybrid series presented by Laura E. Simons, PhD. bit.ly/42M2XuO

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UCSF Health @ucsfhealth.bsky.social · May 12

🦙 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!

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Kristen “KC” Campbell @kriscams.bsky.social · May 12

We’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...

Clinical Social Worker - Pedi Palliative Care in New Haven, Connecticut | Yale New Haven Health

Yale 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!

jobs.ynhhs.org

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UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · May 2

REGISTRATION 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

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UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · May 2

Our 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...

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UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · Apr 8

Save 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...

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PAIN Reports @painreports.bsky.social · Mar 5

Check out articles like “The effects of psychosocial aftercare following pediatric chronic pain treatment withstand the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: long-term outcomes of a randomized controlled trial” by Rau et al. in #PainReports bit.ly/4hwhfnM

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UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · Mar 9

Save 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...

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UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · Feb 14

Save 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...

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Charles Hay @drcharleshay.bsky.social · Feb 7

Interesting @biomedcentral.bsky.social article about the experience of painful healthcare procedures for children. Needle pain creates a lasting effect from childhood onwards and is not as inevitable as it seems.

"Moments that matter" - the healthcare experiences that affect future expectations.

Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life—we can do better every time in every child | BMC Medicine

rdcu.be

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Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · Feb 5

Hot 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....

Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life—we can do better every time in every child - BMC Medicine

Background 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...

bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com

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Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · Feb 3

The Six Principles of Stupidity by David Brooks www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

Opinion | The Six Principles of Stupidity

I define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it.

www.nytimes.com

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Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · Jan 31

It was fabulous…

UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · Jan 31

Watch 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

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Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · Jan 31

Opening 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...

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UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · Jan 31

Watch 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:/...

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Eduardo Bruera @brueraeduardo.bsky.social · Jan 24

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39847449/

Distribution of opioid analgesics by community racial/ethnic and socioeconomic profiles, 2011-2021 - PubMed

Rapid declines in opioid analgesics dispensed in American communities since 2011 raise concerns about inadequate access to effective pain management among patients for whom opioid therapies are approp...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Katelynn Boerner @katelynnboerner.bsky.social · Jan 23

My first post here and I can't think of a more fitting occasion: sharing our paper on chronic pain experiences in gender-diverse youth has been published! This work was an amazing team effort and a labour of love, and I'm so proud to be sharing it now: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39820473/ 🌈

Experiences of Gender-Diverse Youth Living With Chronic Pain - PubMed

In a diverse sample of gender-diverse youth who live with chronic pain, experiences of invalidation and difficulty managing pain were experienced in the context of unique stressors and sources of joy ...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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UCSF Prevention @ucsfprevention.bsky.social · Jan 21

Follow the UCSF Division of Prevention Science on Social and be sure to like, share, and subscribe.

Sign up for our quarterly CAPS/PRC e-newsletter - lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/NUtGask

#socialdisparities #healthdisparities #HIVprevention

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Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · Jan 13

“Chronic pain is a disorder of the central nervous system. In some cases, pain signals just keep firing, driven by what researchers now think is a complex set of genetic, endocrinological and immunologic processes.” By Jennifer Kahn @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...

Chronic Pain: Five Things We Know About Causes, Treatments and Diagnoses

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned.

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Bernstein, MD @sbernsteinmd.bsky.social · Jan 11

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UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · Jan 11

Save 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...

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UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · Jan 9

Tomorrow, 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

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Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD @noneedlesspain.bsky.social · Jan 9

You don’t want to miss that!

UCSF Stad Center for Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social · Jan 9

Tomorrow, 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

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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · Jan 4

1/ 🧠 Excited to share our new preprint:

Convergent state-control of endogenous opioid analgesia

We uncover how cognitive + contextual factors—like injury, fear, and placebo—modulate pain through dynamic opioid signaling in the periaqueductal gray (PAG)

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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