THE 30TH MEETING of the London Pain Forum took place at The Reform Club, London on Friday, 8 November 2024. We were delighted to welcome Prof Frank Huygen from Erasmus MC University Hospital, Rotterdam who spoke on "New insights in the Pathophysiology of CRPS" and Dr Luis Garcia-Larrea, President, European Pain Federation, who talked about "Pain and its (human) brain".
GUEST SPEAKERS
Professor in Anesthesiology
Director of the Centre of Pain Medicine
Erasmus MC University Hospital
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dr Luis Garcia-Larrea
Head, Central Integration of Pain, Centre for Neuroscience of Lyon
University Hospital Pain Center (CETD)
Hôpital Neurologique
Lyon, France
Dr Teodor Goroszeniuk (President, London Pain Forum)
Dr Arun Bhaskar (Immediate Past-President, British Pain Society)
Dr Rajesh Munglani (Vice-President, British Pain Society)
Dr Andrzej Krol, St George's Univ. Hospital, London
Dr Damien Smith, Hillingdon Hospital, London
MEETING TIMETABLE
Venue: The Library, The Reform Club, 104 Pall Mall, St. James's, London SW1Y 5EW
18.00hrs-18.30hrs: Registration
18.30hrs-20.15hrs: Welcome from LPF Council & Special Guest Lectures
20.15hrs-23.30hrs: Dinner & After Dinner Discussions/Debates
CLOSE OF MEETING
HISTORY OF REFORM CLUB
The Reform Club was founded in 1836, in Pall Mall, in the centre of what is often called London’s Clubland. The founders commissioned a leading architect of the day, Charles Barry, to build an imposing and palatial clubhouse. It is as splendid today as when it opened in 1841. Membership was restricted to those who pledged support for the Great Reform Act of 1832, and the many MPs and Whig peers among the early members developed the Club as the political headquarters of the Liberal Party.
The current membership embraces a wide range of professions; there are academics, artists, business people, doctors, lawyers, politicians, writers and so on. J. M. Barrie, Henri Cartier Bresson, Winston Churchill, E. M. Forster, Henry James, Lord Palmerston, William Makepeace Thackeray, and H. G. Wells were all members, and the Club continues to attract members of distinction.
The Club will forever be associated with Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, as the place where the idea of this incredible journey was conceived and the famous bet made.
