Philosophy & Ethics SIG - Exploring self-management - what does it mean?

14th to 15th Dec 2020

The Philosophy & Ethics SIG of The British Pain Society have arranged a series of monthly Zoom meetings to discuss some of the issues and dilemmas that face us in managing chronic pain. Each discussion will be limited to 25 participants to debate and explore the key areas or challenges, in everyday clinical practice.

The format will be a 30-minute plenary talk by a well known clinician to stimulate 60 minutes of moderated discussion. 

The first meeting is:

Monday December 14th 2020, 7.45pm-9.15pm, GMT

Topic: Exploring self-management - what does it mean?

Jackie Walumbe, MSc Global Public Health, MSc Pain, Her current DPhil research project is focussed on Exploring self management of chronic pain.

Jackie is a physiotherapist and doctoral researcher in London/Oxford, UK. She works as part of a multidisciplinary inpatient team (complex pain team) based in a tertiary care hospital and is involved in the management of complex pain in an integrated system across specialities as well as primary, community, secondary and tertiary care. Jackie is an independent prescriber and clinical researcher. She is in the third year of a four-year DPhil (PhD) in Primary Health Care at the Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford as part of a NIHR/HEE Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship. Her research is focused on understanding how self-management is understood and enacted by people living with chronic pain, and how they are supported (or not) in policy and practice using mixed qualitative methods.

If you would like to attend, please register your interest by emailing Maureen Tilford, SIG Secretary, at: [email protected].