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Pain management expert, UNC researchers to speak at conference

CHAPEL HILL -- Dr. Roxie Foster, a nationally recognized speaker and consultant on evidence-based pediatric clinical practice, will be the keynote speaker of the "Pediatric Pain Management: The Next Step – Application to Practice" conference Tuesday (Nov. 12) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education.

The conference is sponsored by the UNC schools of nursing and medicine, and the UNC department of pediatric surgery. The focus will be on applying the latest in effective pain assessment and management in infants, children and adolescents to clinical practice.

Other speakers are:

· Dr. Diane Hudson-Barr, a neonatology clinical nurse specialist with the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center’s Brenner Children’s Hospital.

· Dr. Elizabeth Farrington, a clinical assistant professor with the UNC School of Pharmacy.

· Dr. Clay Bordley, with the Duke University Medical Center emergency department.

· Dr. Don Nakayama, a professor of surgery and pediatrics with the UNC School of Medicine and a practitioner at the N.C. Children’s Hospital.

· Julee Waldrop, a clinical assistant professor with the UNC School of Nursing.

Foster, whose 35-year pediatric nursing career includes clinical practice, teaching, research and evidence-based consultation for agencies such as the American Pain Society, the Child Health Corporation of America and the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions, will speak on why evidence-based clinical practice is important for effective pediatric pain management.

Foster is an associate professor of nursing at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Nursing, chair of pediatric nursing at the Children’s Hospital and clinical director of a pain consultation service in Denver, Colo. She has served as editor for the Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses and the Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing. She currently is a member of the American Academy of Nursing’s Expert Panel on Children and Youth.

The registration cost for the all-day conference (and lunch) is $99. For more information or to register, call (919) 966-3638 or visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/nursing/lifelong.

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Note: To schedule an interview with Foster, contact Sunny Smith Nelson at (919) 966-1412. To schedule an interview with any of the other speakers, contact Tom Hughes at (919) 966-6047.

School of Nursing contact: Sunny Smith Nelson, (919) 966-1412

School of Medicine contact: Tom Hughes, (919) 966-6047