Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD

Pediatric Pain Master Class in San Francisco, CA from January 24-30, 2026.

The conference will be in-person (offered hybrid - with live online availability).

Scholarships for clinicians from low-medium income countries are available.

Information & Registration: virtualce.ucsf.edu/pediatric-pa...

Excited to be at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne/Australia. Looking forward to learn from amazing colleagues (and teach) over next 2 weeks.

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5 May Webinar

Register for tomorrow’s 15 May webinar: “Innovative Approaches for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Youth.” Join us for this installment of the Placebo Beyond Opinions Organized Research Center guest lecture hybrid series presented by Laura E. Simons, PhD. bit.ly/42M2XuO

🦙 Cuddle a llama and brush its fur? Sign us up! ✅
Therapy llamas returned to Mission Bay last week to bring joy to UCSF staff, learners and community members!

Clinical Social Worker - Pedi Palliative Care in New Haven, Connecticut | Yale New Haven Health Yale New Haven Health Services is hiring a Clinical Social Worker - Pedi Palliative Care in New Haven, Connecticut. Review all of the job details and apply today!

We’re looking for a rockstar part-time social worker to help build a Pediatric Palliative dream team here at Yale New Haven.

Position is part-time, 24h/wk with benefits.

Come join us as we grow and support better QOL for our pediatric patients and their families!

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REGISTRATION OPENED for "Become an EPEC-Pediatrics Trainer Conference" plus Professional Development Workshop. Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC)-Pediatrics.

Mission Bay Conference Center at @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social. San Francisco, CA. August 27-29, 2025 epecpediatrics.ucsf.edu

Our next @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Global Lecture Series presents @noneedlesspain.bsky.social "Integrative Medicine Modalities in Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management: Show me the Evidence!"

Thursday, June 1st, 2025. 3pm (PT)

Registration: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Save the Date:
Thur, May 1, 2025 at 3pm Pacific Time California

@ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Stad Center Global Lecture Series: “From Erythromelalgia to Suzetrigine: Sodium Channels in Painful diseases and New Treatment Options”

by Charles Berde, MD, PhD

Registration: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

PR 5 March

Check out articles like “The effects of psychosocial aftercare following pediatric chronic pain treatment withstand the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: long-term outcomes of a randomized controlled trial” by Rau et al. in #PainReports bit.ly/4hwhfnM

Save the Date:
Wed, April 2nd, 2025 at 9am Pacific Time California

@ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Stad Center Global Lecture Series: “Neural circuitry and pain and itch: A Yin and Yang story”

by Allan Basbaum, PhD (Professor & Chair
Department of Anatomy)

Registration: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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March 6, 2025 at 3pm (15:00hrs) Pacific Time California

Global Lecture Series: "Unequal burden: Pain and psychosocial functioning in sexual and gender minority youth with chronic pain."

by Lauren Harrison, PhD (Stanford Univ School Medicine)

Register: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Interesting @biomedcentral.bsky.social article about the experience of painful healthcare procedures for children. Needle pain creates a lasting effect from childhood onwards and is not as inevitable as it seems.

"Moments that matter" - the healthcare experiences that affect future expectations.

Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life—we can do better every time in every child - BMC Medicine Background Needle procedures, such as vaccinations, blood draws, and intravenous cannulation, are the most frequent source of childhood pain, causing fear and reducing the uptake of medical procedures...

Hot off the press: Our recent publication in British Medical Journal:

Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life-we can do better every time in every child

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Opinion | The Six Principles of Stupidity I define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it.

The Six Principles of Stupidity by David Brooks www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

It was fabulous…

Opening of our Healing Environment @stad-center-ppim.bsky.social Stad Center Clinic for children in pain and for kids with serious illness.

Thanks to Elisa and Marc Stad for their vision. And thank you to so many people joining the opening - including Orlando Bloom.

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Watch the ABC7 Live News Coverage from our Stad Clinic opening.

Amazing healing environment space for children with pain and children with serious illness - combining Western medicine, physical therapy, psychology with massage, acupuncture, hypnosis and more

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Distribution of opioid analgesics by community racial/ethnic and socioeconomic profiles, 2011-2021 - PubMed Rapid declines in opioid analgesics dispensed in American communities since 2011 raise concerns about inadequate access to effective pain management among patients for whom opioid therapies are approp...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39847449/

Experiences of Gender-Diverse Youth Living With Chronic Pain - PubMed In a diverse sample of gender-diverse youth who live with chronic pain, experiences of invalidation and difficulty managing pain were experienced in the context of unique stressors and sources of joy ...

My first post here and I can't think of a more fitting occasion: sharing our paper on chronic pain experiences in gender-diverse youth has been published! This work was an amazing team effort and a labour of love, and I'm so proud to be sharing it now: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39820473/ 🌈

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Chronic Pain: Five Things We Know About Causes, Treatments and Diagnoses After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned.

“Chronic pain is a disorder of the central nervous system. In some cases, pain signals just keep firing, driven by what researchers now think is a complex set of genetic, endocrinological and immunologic processes.” By Jennifer Kahn @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...

Save the Date:
Our next Global Lecture on Feb 13, 2025 @3pm Pacific Time

"Using Regional Anesthesia to Manage Pediatric Acute Pain" by David Burns, MD

Register: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Tomorrow, Jan 9, 2025: 3pm PT / 6 pm ET

UCSF Stad Center Global Lecture Series

“How To Implement Nitrous Oxide Analgesia, Anxiolysis and Minimal Sedation into Your Clinical Practice”

Mindy Brice, RN-BSN, CLC, CPN, Mary Kay Farrell, RN, PED-BC, Children’s Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

You don’t want to miss that!

1/ 🧠 Excited to share our new preprint:

Convergent state-control of endogenous opioid analgesia

We uncover how cognitive + contextual factors—like injury, fear, and placebo—modulate pain through dynamic opioid signaling in the periaqueductal gray (PAG)

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

HPV vaccine stops 90% of cervical cancer cases England began vaccinating teenage girls in 2008 and results show it is paying off.

I will never get tired of posting articles like this.

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Insurance cartels impose denials or unaffordable co-payments to the majority of opioids we prescribe for cancer pain. Opioid rotation has become extremely difficult. Will this year bring Robin Hood or a French Revolution to limit their unethical practices?

Adolescent predictors of young adult pain and health outcomes: results from a 6-year prospective follow-up study - PubMed Adolescent chronic pain may lead to persistent disability and long-term health impairments in adulthood. However, our understanding of which youth are more likely to experience adverse outcomes remain...

Follow-up of adolescents in chronic pain 6 years later:

Higher pain intensity, more pain locations, lower sleep quality, and greater anxiety symptoms in adolescence predicted worse pain outcomes in young adulthood

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38916525/

Hot off the press:

Chronic Postsurgical Pain observed in 41% of adolescents at 3 months postsurgery, declining to 14% at 24 months after surgery.

Presurgical pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, and pain anxiety were presurgical predictors for CPSP at 3 months. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39047258/