Plenary Session 4 May

Chairman:	Albrecht Koepfer Giustino Varrassi
Opening:	Giustino Varrassi	Statement	President EFIC	IT
Welcome:	Celine Leto	Video Presentation Statement	Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Social Affairs and Health	BE
Can pain be helpful as a quality indicator for health care systems?	Alberto Grua	Video Presentation	Grünenthal	DE
Chronic pain: a disease without a name	Serdar Erdine	Video Presentation Statement	President World Institute of Pain	TR
The Need For A Whole Systems Perspective	Ceri Philips	Video Presentation Statement	School of health science, Swansea University	UK
The impact of pain according to consumers and patients; results of a survey in big 5 EU countries	Paul Langley	Video Presentation Statement	University of Minnesota	US
Health and Pain in the European Union	Isabel De La Mata	Video Statement	EU Health & Consumers Directorate General - DG SANCO Principal Adviser - Public health and risk assessment	EU
Interventional therapeutic strategies for the treatment of pain	José De Andrés	Video Presentation Statement	President of the Foundation for study and treatment of pain of the Valencian community	ES
Innovation; pain or value	Meindert Boysen	Video Presentation Statement	Programme Director Technology Appraisals, NICE	UK
The informational gap between physicians and their patients.	Lise Rochaix	Video Presentation Statement	French National Health Authority (HAS, Haute Autorité de Santé)	FR
Therapeutic strategies for the treatment of pain	Paolo Daniele Siviero	Video Presentation Statement	Direttore, Ufficio Centro Studi Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA)	IT
Are we adequately equipped to asses pain therapies	Ken Paterson	Video Presentation	Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC)	UK