The scientific and organizing committees of the conference are committed to training young generations in daily practice, and we will introduce for the first time practical hands-on training workshops on neurostimulation implants and intrathecal infusion in cadavers.

Another new thing in the pre-congress courses will be the possibility to carry out practical workshop in the use of opioids. In addition to the well-known radiofrequency course, there will be clinical cases, round tables, symposiums and keynote conferences, which will allow us to learn and talk about the things which concern us: a patient with pain and everything surrounding them. And of course, patients will also have a voice in the program.

The city of León, transcends civilizations, styles and historic places, was founded as a camp by of the Roman Legion. The city evolved to be one of the most important in the northern peninsula, where the imperial court was built. A transcendental legislative milestone is owed to the leonese kings: the first courts pre-democratic inspiration introduced in Europa in 1188. UNESCO, based on the oldest documentary evidence of a parliamentary system, has made the city of León to be recognized as the Cradle of Parliamentarism.

With an eye to our next meeting to share ideas, knowledge and conversations about pain, it has inspired our main poster announcing SEDLEON20.0, to which it allows me to dedicate a few words. Although the body is a drawing of an embrio, a symbol of the state of knowledge in which we find ourselves, the final result is more of a half body figure than a shapeless humanoid. The heart is a stained-glass window in which the cathedral of León appears, whose rose window is an eye. Together it makes up a superhero comic book character called “Superteam”, fighting tooth and nail in defense of pain treatment, like a tight team working together to improve interdisciplinary pain management. A Kafkaesque metamorphic world to which the author, Eduardo López Casado, refers us.

Finally, I would like to thank the entire Board of Directors, the Scientific and Organizing Committees and our indispensable collaborators from the Pharmaceutical and Technological Industry, for their invaluable cooperation in organizing an event of the highest level and scientific interest.

We hope to see you in León enjoying such a special meeting, and we hope that this Conference will be an unforgettable professional and personal experience for you all #SEDOLOR24.

Kindest regards.

Alicia Alonso Cardaño
President of the 20th National Congress of the Spanish Society of Pain
Anaesthesiologist MD, FIPP, Hassenbusch award 2019
Pain Treatment Unit. University Hospital of León