BPS ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS 2024
Sex, gender and chronic pain

Scientific program

08:00 – 08:30 Registration and coffee
08:30 – 09:00 General Assembly (Members only)

Plenary sessions (with simultaneous translations Dutch <-> French)

09:00 – 09:35 Considerations on the influence of genetic sex on tolerance and sensitivity to pain, Jean-Michel Wattier (Lille)

​09:35 – 10:10   Chronic pelvic pain : gynaecological insights, Emilie De Smedt (Ghent)

10:10 – 10:45    Pelvic floor rehabilitation: first line treatment of provoked vestibulodynia, Alexandrine Close (Brussels)

​10:45 – 11:15     Coffee break

11:15 – 11:50      Neurophysiological mechanisms through which sex may modulate pain, Charlotte Cornil (Liège)

11:50 – 12:25     Inclusive minds: gender diverse care from a mental health perspective, Rick Roels (Leuven)

​12:25 – 12:35    BPS Award Prize Giving,  André Mouraux

12:35 – 14:00    Lunch

Workshops 14:00 to 16:00

Workshop 1 : 14:00 - 15:00
                     Chronic pain centre and medical centre: a new insight into collaboration? Anne Berquin, Audrey Huysman & Florence Verhegghen (Brussels)

Workshop 2 : 15:00 - 16:00
                     Multidisciplinary treatment of endometriosis, Carla Tomassetti (Leuven)

Accreditation has been requested for medical doctors and physiotherapists.

Registration