The Global Spine and
Nerve Revolution

A hands-on morning of ultrasound-guided technique led by faculty from across the globe. The lab opens with ultrasound fundamentals and sonoanatomy essentials, followed by a rapid-fire, case-based session on patient selection and procedure strategy.

From 8:35 to 11:35 AM participants rotate through five hands-on stations, 35 minutes per rotation: MSK and peripheral nerve entrapments of the upper limb with David Dickerson (USA) and Reda Tolba (UAE); the lower limb with Adnan Al-Kaisy (UK) and Robert Moghim (USA); lumbar spine and sacrum with Anuj Bhatia (Canada) and David Brinkman (Netherlands); trunk, covering thoracic spine and abdomen, with Victor Pacheco (Brazil) and Remco Liebregts (Netherlands); and cervical spine and head pain with Michael Gofeld (Canada) and Hesham Elsharkawy (USA).

Massimo Allegri closes the session on advanced applications and future directions, covering regenerative approaches, peripheral nerve stimulation, and hybrid imaging.

The afternoon counterpart to the morning ultrasound lab, directed by Christopher Robinson and Ansar Mahmood and running onsite at the Mövenpick from 1:00 to 5:00 PM on the Thursday of conference week.

The lab covers four topics: BMAC with Sudhir Diwan and Aaron K. Calodney; mFAT with Timothy Davis and Adnan Al-Kaisy; PRP and protein concentrate with Ricardo Ruiz Lopez, Victor Pacheco and Jordan Lee Tate; and the business of regenerative medicine with Ansar Mahmood and Ariana DeMers.

ISPN closes conference week with a full day of cadaveric training, held offsite at the Amsterdam Skills Centre for Health Sciences.

The session is built around extended hands-on time at the table, with a facility to attendee ratio set deliberately low so that every participant gets substantial time on each technique rather than watching from the back of a crowded station.

Two back-to-back sessions built for early-career pain physicians, run by the ISPN Young Innovators and directed by Harry Soar and David van Vemde, with Young Innovators Committee Chair Martina Rekatsina.

From Fellow to Force: Building a High-Impact Career in Pain Medicine offers practical, real-world guidance for engaged and motivated early-career pain physicians. Topics include making the most of training and the early consultant and attending years, personal and professional development, skills acquisition, research involvement, and building meaningful professional networks. Faculty: Vinny Francio, Anuj Shah, Benjamin Gill, Sheila Black, and Timothy Deer.

Inventing Impact: Turning Pain Innovation into Clinical Reality follows how an idea becomes a real-world clinical solution, covering the full journey from idea generation and IP protection, through prototyping, regulatory pathways and early clinical trials, to commercialization and widespread clinical adoption. Speakers include industry representatives, regulators, and clinician-researchers. Faculty: Jason Hannon, Ben Goss, Christopher Gilligan, Ganesan Baranidharan, and Kavita Poply.

A Young Innovator Reception follows immediately afterwards from 4:30 to 5:00 PM, hosted by Harry Soar, David van Vemde, and Jan Willem Kallewaard.