What is PANS?

About PANS

Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) denotes neuropsychiatric disorders characterized by a dramatic and abrupt onset of obsessive compulsive behaviours and/or severe restriction in food intake and concurrent presence of additional severe, neuropsychiatric symptoms and signs including: severe anxiety, emotional lability and/or depression; irritability, aggression, and oppositional behaviours; developmental regression; deterioration in school performance; sensory/motor abnormalities; sleep disturbance.

Why is this Conference Required?

The health care professions and systems are not serving children with PANS and their families well. Few health care providers know about PANS and are unaware of the crucial need for prompt recognition and treatment interventions. The diagnosis of affected children is often missed or delayed.

Conference Aims

This conference will heighten awareness and impart information about PANS to Saskatchewan health care providers so the condition can be recognized promptly. Further, this event will create the framework for a care delivery program that can be an easily accessed resource for primary and specialty health care providers throughout Saskatchewan.

Conference Objectives

  • Develop a process to inform the health care community about PANS
  • Establish a plan for a Saskatchewan-based multidisciplinary care delivery team
  • Explore PANS research opportunities and needs
  • Establish programs for regular knowledge translation about PANS

Target Audience

  • Physician and allied health care providers (nurses, psychologists, social workers) in the fields of family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, medical imaging, and genetics
  • Undergraduate and post-gradyate trainees in relevant disciplines
  • Faculty and graduate student researchers
  • School-based teachers/counsellors
  • Health care administrators, health economists, and health care funders
  • Patients, parents, and families

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Registration

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2015

Please fill out the REGISTRATION FORM, save it, and return it to pans.conference@usask.ca

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE REGISTRATION FORM IS OPTIMIZED FOR INTERNET EXPLORER, GOOGLE CHROME, AND SAFARI BROWSERS, BUT NOT FIREFOX. If you are using Firefox, please save the form and re-open with Adobe Acrobat to access the fillable fields. Alternatively, please email pans.conference@usask.ca and ask for a registration form.

Registration is open to health care professionals, researchers, and administrators; educators; and families with an interest in PANS. A public lecture will be open to all conference registrants and to the general public. There is NO registration fee for the conference, but pre-registration is required.

For further information about the event please send an email to pans.conference@usask.ca or telephone the conference coordinating office at 306-844-1229.

This event is accredited for as a Section 1 Group Learning Activity by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. This event has been approved by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for Mainpro-M1 credits.