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Pain Management Symposium

"Wayne Is in Pain": A Global 3-Part Webinar Series

  • February 17 - 19, 2026
  • 19:30 AEDT
  • Veterinarians, Vet Nurses, and Technicians are welcome
  • Eligible for 3 Structured CPD Points   

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Event Details

This three-part webinar series follows a case from traumatic injury through treatment and recovery, bringing together top clinicians from around the world. You will get a clear, practical overview of pain management, covering everything from opioid, and opioid-free analgesia and effective use of pain-scoring tools to chronic pain management and the latest developments in monoclonal antibody therapies.

Vet Education and Animals Asia have partnered to provide a truly global perspective, offering protocols and practical guidance suitable for everyday clinical practice – wherever you practice!

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Speakers

Dr Philip Judge

Dr Donna Tang

Evie Tummon

Dr Emma Johnson

Dr Sarah Heath

Dr Mandala Hunter-Ishikawa

Dr Philip Judge

Dr Donna Tang

Evie Tummon

Dr Emma Johnson

Dr Mandala Hunter-Ishikawa

The Clinical Problem and Case Context

“Wayne Is in Pain”: A Global 3-Part Webinar Series
How do you manage a patient’s pain from the emergency cage to full recovery? Meet Wayne. His case – a trauma victim with serious fractures – will guide our global discussion on optimising analgesia at every stage.

This 3-lecture series is built for the real world: we know your drug formularies vary, so our international faculty will provide you with practical strategies for effective analgesia – whether you have full access to opioids or need robust opioid-sparing protocols for acute pain management, through to the very latest strategies for chronic pain management.

Event Schedule

Acute Pain, Stabilisation and Opioid-free Analgesia

  • Speakers: Dr Donna Tang and Dr Philip Judge

Lecture Description:

Wayne’s journey begins 30 minutes after a road traffic accident, with severe trauma, respiratory compromise and an unstable femoral fracture. This lecture focuses on recognising and managing acute pain in the true emergency patient, where rapid decisions can be life-saving.

Participants will be guided through the assessment of traumatic pain and shock, interpretation of point-of-care diagnostics, and the development of safe, effective, and an discussion of opioid-free multimodal analgesic plans. Particular emphasis is placed on analgesic choices for patients with concurrent thoracic injury, and the practical use of pain scoring tools to guide real-time treatment adjustments.

From Theatre to Home: Pain Control, Nursing Care and Client Communication

  • Speakers: Dr Emma Johnson and Evie Tummon

Lecture Description:

Three days after his accident, Wayne is prepared for complex orthopaedic surgery. This lecture follows his peri-operative management, focusing on how meticulous pain control and nursing care directly influence healing and functional recovery.

Participants will learn how to design balanced anaesthetic and analgesic protocols, integrate regional and local anaesthesia, and manage breakthrough pain in hospitalised patients. A major focus is placed on post-operative nursing care – including monitoring, mobility, wound care and comfort – and on developing clear, practical discharge and at-home care instructions. The lecture highlights the importance of effective client communication, ensuring owners understand that comfort and pain relief are not optional, but central to successful healing.

Recognising, Diagnosing and Treating Pain Months to Years after Injury

  • Speakers: Dr Sarah Heath and Dr Mandala Hunter-Ishikawa

Lecture Description:

Wayne returns months and then years after surgery with persistent lameness and discomfort. This final lecture shifts the focus to chronic pain – how to recognise it, diagnose its underlying contributors and manage it long-term.

Participants will explore the progression of post-traumatic and post-surgical pain, learn to differentiate mechanical, inflammatory and neuropathic components, and apply objective assessment tools to monitor treatment response. The session concludes with practical, multimodal long-term management strategies, including updates on monoclonal antibody therapies and other emerging options.

Wildlife extension – Managing Chronic Pain in Rescued Bears This lecture concludes by translating the principles learned from Wayne’s case to bears, demonstrating how these pain management strategies can be adapted to large wildlife species to improve welfare outcomes under human care.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this 3-part webinar series, participants will have a sound understanding of how to:

Strategic Plan

Develop a staged analgesic plan for a trauma patient, from emergency stabilization through to full recovery, integrating multimodal strategies appropriate to each phase of care.

Evaluate and Select

Evaluate and select from a range of opioid and non-opioid analgesics, considering their mechanisms, synergistic benefits, and limitations within the context of variable hospital formularies.

Design Effectively

Design effective opioid-sparing protocols for acute pain management that utilize local/regional anesthesia, NSAIDs, adjuncts, and novel techniques.

Adapt Techniques

Adapt learned analgesic principles and techniques to their local clinical environment, formulating pragmatic solutions despite resource or drug availability constraints.

Implement Strategies

Implement strategies to identify patients at risk of transitioning from acute to chronic pain and initiate evidence-based preventive and early management interventions.

What Makes This Symposium Different

This series is special. With global faculty, across 3 continents, following one single patient – from emergency to chronic care – you’ll get a complete, balanced and unique perspective of what it takes to provide your patients with analgesic care that spans beyond a single visit!
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Your Vet Education Membership includes complimentary access to the Pain Management Symposium and all our 2026 live webinar events.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need access to opioids to benefit from this symposium?
No. Our global faculty will be covering analgesic approaches using a range of techniques and medications – including opioid-free analgesic techniques!
Yes! Vet nurses and technicians will gain valuable insights into the holistic approach to pain management presented – and the essential role of nursing care and communication that is so vital in providing best practice patient care
No problem! We’ll be recording each lecture, and will release recording links to all registered attendees – so if you miss the live interaction – you can still catch up on all of the discussions a few days after the event!
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Dr Philip Judge

BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Clin Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)

Philip graduated from Massey University in New Zealand in 1992, and spent 7 years in small animal practice before undertaking a 3-year residency in veterinary emergency and critical care at the University of Melbourne in 1998.
Following his residency, Philip worked for nearly 6 years at the Animal Emergency Centre in Melbourne, becoming the Senior Veterinarian at the centre in 2004. In 2006, Philip undertook a 1-year surgical externship before moving to Townsville to take up the position of Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care at JCU. Philip is also co-founder, and director of Vet Education Pty Ltd (www.veteducation.com) – one of Australia’s leading providers of online continuing education for veterinarians and veterinary nurses.

Philip has published numerous manuals and guides concerning emergency medicine, including a CRI manual, haematology and biochemistry interpretation guide, emergency anaesthesia guide, and a ventilation therapy manual for small animals, in addition to being published in peer reviewed literature.

Philip’s key interests in veterinary science include respiratory emergencies, ventilation therapy, envenomations and toxicology.

Dr Donna Tang

BAg, MAg, BVM&S, MRCVS

Dr (Donna) Tang serves as Vice Director of the China Veterinary Medical Association Specialty Committee of Veterinary Anaesthesia (Small Animals) and is a CVMA Diplomate in Veterinary Anaesthesia (Small Animals).
Currently, she works as an academic and practicing veterinarian at the College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, and the China Agricultural University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, where she specialises in small animal anaesthesiology and acts as a core anaesthetist within the hospital’s anaesthesia department. In addition to her anaesthesia responsibilities, she holds a faculty position in surgery and leads the veterinary behaviour medicine clinic at the university.

Donna earned her Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) and Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medicine Education (UCVME) from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is a registered practicing veterinarian in China and maintains overseas practicing membership with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in the UK (MRCVS).

Beyond her clinical duties, Donna is actively engaged in clinical veterinary education and research. As a faculty member at the College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, she teaches veterinary anaesthesia to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has also delivered numerous lectures on veterinary anaesthesia and pain management at industry conferences and continuing professional development (CPD) sessions. In 2024, she presented “Be Prepared – Proper Planning for Anaesthesia” during the pre-conference of the WSAVA Congress and served as an interpreter for anaesthesia lectures at the 2022 One Health International Young Veterinarian Conference (OHIYVC).

During her university years, Donna adopted a DLH cat named Hameett and has been his dedicated caretaker for over 16 years. This experience has not only deepened her understanding of companion animals but also strengthened her emotional connection with them.

Evie Tummon

RVN

Evie is a registered veterinary nurse and clinical coach working in a first opinion practice in North Cornwall. Her interests within practice are geriatric care, osteoarthritis, rehabilitation and pain management. Within her practice, Evie has helped to implement pain clinics enabling personal support for patients suffering from osteoarthritis. Alongside working in general practice Evie is also the Facebook live coordinator for Canine Arthritis Management – helping to educate both pet professionals and owners about osteoarthritis.

Dr Emma Johnson

BVSc, MVS (Murdoch), MVS (Melbourne), MVSc, MANZCVS, DACVAA
Emma graduated with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science from James Cook University in 2011. After some time in general practice, she completed a small animal rotating internship at the University of Sydney and then a three-year anaesthesia and analgesia residency at the University of Melbourne.
She passed her speciality board exams and became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia in 2020. Emma is also a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists Anaesthesia chapter.

Since 2019 Emma has been a veterinary anaesthetist at the Small Animal Specialist Hospital (SASH). Her interests include critical care anaesthesia, drug regulation &management and pain management, particularly local anaesthesia – with her Master’s thesis assessing the transversus abdominal plane local anaesthesia block in dogs.

Dr Sarah Heath

BVSc DipECAWBM(BM) PGCert Vet Ed CCAB FHEA FRSM FRCVS

Sarah qualified from Bristol and spent four years in mixed general practice before setting up Behavioural Referrals Veterinary Practice in 1992. In 2018 she was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in recognition of her work in establishing Behavioural Medicine as a veterinary discipline.
She is an RCVS and EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Behavioural Medicine. Sarah is an External Lecturer in small animal behavioural medicine on the veterinary undergraduate courses at Liverpool University and also lectures at University of Lancashire School of Veterinary Medicine as well as veterinary schools in other countries. She is a Certificated Clinical Animal Behaviourist under the ASAB accreditation scheme. Sarah sees clinical cases across North West England. In 2002 she became a Founding Diplomate of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine (formerly the ECVBM-CA) and served as President from 2002 to 2008. She served as Treasurer of the College from 2011 to 2017, the Chair of the Behavioural Medicine Credentialing Committee from 2017 to 2024 and is currently the Chair of the Behavioural Medicine subspecialty of the College. Sarah is the author of the Heath Model and promotes the concept of Comprehensive Veterinary Healthcare. She has a special interest in the interplay between emotional and physical illness in dogs and cats and particularly in the role of pain. She promotes the recognition of emotional health issues in companion animals and the role of the veterinary profession in safeguarding the welfare of animals in this context. Sarah lectures at home and abroad and is an author, co-author and editor of several books and papers.

Dr Mandala Hunter-Ishikawa

BS, MS, DVM

Dr. Mandala Hunter-Ishikawa has been a veterinarian for almost two decades, working with companion animals, large animals and wild animals. She was the Centre Director of Born Free Ethiopia’s wildlife sanctuary and Senior Vet at the Animals Asia Bear Rescue Centres in Vietnam and China.
Mandala is currently the Senior Veterinary Trainer for Animals Asia’s Veterinary Welfare Training Program. With the goal of elevating veterinary welfare education in China, she lectures at conferences and shares practical information to vet professionals as well as pet guardians. She is a member of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s Global Pain Council. She has a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, a Master’s Degree in Anatomy and Neurobiology, and a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University. She is currently working towards a specialty from the American College of Animal Welfare.
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