Support for GPs and other primary care professionals
• Pre-consultation telephone or telehealth advice for GPs
• Post consultation telephone advice for GPs
Research Interests
• Non pharmacological management, analgesia and sedation for painful procedures in children
• Pain in connective tissue disorders and other rare diseases of childhood
Services offered
• Education and advice
• Medical reviews
• Multidisciplinary assessment
• Pain program (see The Children's Hospital at Westmead LEAP program below). A local education and support program for parents of children with chronic pain is under development
• Telehealth service delivery to GP rooms, community health centres or to homes where broadband internet access if available
• Treatment planning and appointments with health professionals e.g. psychology and physiotherapy
• Hydrotherapy (by referral)
Special areas of interest chronic pain and
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
• Headache, abdominal pain, widespread pain
• Improving access for families of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin
• Neonates, children and adolescents
• Pain in neonates
• Pain in rare diseases of childhood, including cancer
• Procedural pain and medical traumatic stress