UCSF 16th Pediatric Pain Master Class 2026

UCSF 16th Pediatric Pain Master Class 2026

Advanced Multimodal & Integrative Pediatric Pain Management

📦 Product Details

Course dates: January 24–30, 2026. The UCSF program addressed multidisciplinary pediatric pain management for pediatricians, anesthesiologists, pain specialists, nurses, psychologists, and allied clinicians.

🩺 Program Overview

The UCSF 16th Pediatric Pain Master Class 2026 is a comprehensive educational program dedicated to advancing the management of complex pain conditions in infants, children, and adolescents.

This highly specialized course explores modern pediatric pain medicine through evidence-based approaches in neurophysiology, multimodal analgesia, opioid stewardship, behavioral therapies, procedural anxiety reduction, rehabilitation medicine, and integrative care strategies.

Participants gain practical clinical guidance for treating acute, chronic, neuropathic, procedural, and complex pain syndromes while learning how to improve pediatric comfort, safety, and long-term quality of life using multidisciplinary treatment approaches.

The program combines expert lectures, experiential sessions, case-based discussions, and integrative therapeutic techniques designed for clinicians involved in pediatric pain management across inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, and procedural care settings.

🎯 Key Features

• Comprehensive pediatric pain medicine curriculum
• Advanced multimodal analgesia education
• Integrative and behavioral treatment strategies
• Focus on opioid safety and stewardship
• Evidence-based chronic pain management approaches
• Procedural anxiety and sedation training
• Includes experiential mindfulness and relaxation sessions
• Practical guidance for pediatric pain program development

📚 What You Will Learn

• Understand pediatric pain neurophysiology and pain processing
• Apply multimodal analgesia techniques in clinical practice
• Optimize opioid prescribing, rotation, and withdrawal management
• Integrate CBT, ACT, hypnosis, meditation, and relaxation therapies
• Reduce procedural pain and anxiety in pediatric patients
• Manage chronic and neuropathic pain syndromes effectively
• Utilize integrative medicine including acupuncture and massage therapy
• Improve pain rehabilitation strategies for complex pediatric cases
• Develop multidisciplinary pediatric pain management plans
• Expand and strengthen pediatric pain programs and services

4. Topics

1. 01 Welcome. Announcements & Introductions
2. 02 Does prescribing opioids to children in acute pain increase and 03 Integrative Medicine in the Treatment of Pain and Distressing Symptoms in Children
3. 04 Pain – nothing but a memory and 05 Pain Treatment in Neonates and Infants
4. 06 Multimodal Analgesia Workshop Advanced pediatric pain treatment and prevention
5. 07 Welcome. Announcements 10-minute Experiential and 08 Treating Neuropathic Pain in Children. From graded motor Imagery to adjuvant analgesia
6. 09 Pediatric Pain Prevention and Treatment as a Human Right and 10 Pediatric pain treatment – what have we learned over the past 40 years and where are we going
7. 11 Know Pain and Know Gain Pain neurophysiology education
8. 12 It’s all in our bodies AND heads Addressing mental health in children with pain
9. 13 From Erythromelalgia to Suztrigine sodium channel and non-sodium channel genes in painful
10. 14 Pediatric Pain Treatment in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Vietnam
11. 15 The Comfort Promise Preventing Pain and Anxiety Caused by Needle (and Other Painful) Procedures
12. 16 The Comfort Promise Utilizing quality improvement methodology and 17 How to Start a Movement Innovative Physical Therapy
13. 18 Soothing Color Muscle Relaxation 19 Opioid Selection in the Pediatric Population (Part I) 20 Responding to Non-Medical Opioid Use in Children and Teenagers
14. 21 Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) and Pediatric Pain 22 Cannabis and Cannabinoids for Pain Treatment in Pediatrics
15. 23 The Neurobiology of pain and itch processing 24 Buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorder
16. 25 Imaging pain processing in the brain and spinal cord 26 Opioid Selection in the Pediatric Population. Part II
17. 27 10-minute Experiential “Qigong” 28 How to Implement (and Maintain) an RN-Administered Nitrous Oxide 29 Pediatric Pain Treatment in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
18. 30 Opioid-Rotation in Infants & Children 31 Meditation Experiential From focusing, wandering or clearing your mind
19. 32 Primary Pain Disorders Chronic pain in head, abdomen, muscles, and joints
20. 33 10-minute Experiential “Progressive Muscle Relaxation” 34 Pain. Sex, and Death 35 The Global Comfort Promise
21. 36 How to use Language Hypnotically to Alleviate Pain and Anxiety in Pediatric Patients
22. 37 Software problems unrelated to a hardware problem 38 The Magic Glove A versatile hypnotic technique
23. 39 Mistakes Were Made How to fix pain research 40 From Nerve Blocks to Epidural Infusions 41 Chronic Intractable pain and irritability in children with neurological impairment
24. 42 10-minute Experiential ‘Ear Seeds’ 43 Intensive Inpatient Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation 44 Basic Analgesia Often Misunderstood, Underestimated, and Underused
25. 45 CBT versus (or and) ACT Evidence- Based Behavioral Treatment for Kids with Chronic Pain
26. 46 Welcome, Announcements, Reflection, Teach-Back 47 The Pain JEDI 48 Methadone in Pediatrics
27. 49 From Acupuncture Research to Clinical Service 50 Pediatric Sedation and Anxiolysis for Children Undergoing Painful Procedures
28. 51 How to grow your pain program 52 Is it Pain, Withdrawal, and/or Delirium 53 Massage Therapy in Pediatric Pain & Symptom Management 54 Called to Arms