NIH Pain Consortium Symposium: “Moving Towards Personalized Pain Management”

This year's NIH Pain Consortium Symposium, titled "Moving Towards Personalized Pain Management," will include presentations and discussions of three topic areas: development of tools for individualized pain management, emerging therapies, and translating research in tailored pain management. The members of the Pain Consortium have invited a selective group of highly talented junior investigators to present posters representing a broad spectrum of current pain research findings. Researchers, health care providers, and the public are invited to attend. Registration is free. The event will be hosted by the co-chairs of the NIH Pain Consortium.   Videocast The symposium will be videocast live and archived at http://videocast.nih.gov.  Symposium Location National Institutes of Health Lipsett Auditorium, Building 10 Bethesda, MD 20892  www.nih.gov/about/visitor/index.htm   Agenda   Wednesday, May 5, 2010   7:30 AM  -  8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast   8:30 AM  -  8:45 AM Introduction and Welcome  Dr. Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Director, National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research, Pain Consortium Co-Chair   8:45 AM  -  9:00 AM Message from the American Pain Society   Session One:  Developing Tools for Individualized Pain Management   9:00 AM  -  9:20 AM Harvard Medical School: Assessment Tools to Characterize Individual Pain Phenotypes Clifford Woolf, M.B., B.Ch., Ph.D., Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School   9:20 AM  -  9:40 AM Developing Imaging Biomarkers of Analgesic Effects David Borsook, M.D., Ph.D., McLean Hospital, Harvard University   9:40 AM  -  10:00 AM Methodology for Adaptive Treatment Strategies for Chronic Disorders: Focus on Pain Susan A. Murphy, Ph.D., University of Michigan   10:00 AM  -  10:20 AM Moving from the Means to the Standard Deviations in Pain Research: Novel Approaches to Characterize  Christine Miaskowski, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, University of California, San Francisco   10:20 AM  -  10:40 AM Questions and Answers: Panel   10:40 AM  -  11:00 AM Break and Posters Poster presentations will be held outside the auditorium.   Session 2:  Translating Research into Tailored Clinical Practice   11:00 AM  -  11:20 AM Identifying Risk Factors for Post-Surgical Pain Robert Edwards, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University   11:20 AM  -  11:40 AM Trends and Risks of Chronic Opioid Therapy Among the Elderly Michael Von Korff, Ph.D., Group Health Research Institute   11:40 AM  -  12:00 PM Psychopathology as a Predictor of the Efficacy of Pain Management Strategies  Ajay D. Wasan, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University   12:00 PM  -  12:20 PM Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis: More Than Inflammation Daniel Solomon, M.D., Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University   12:20 PM  -  12:40 PM Questions and Answers: Panel   12:40 PM  -  2:00 PM Lunch Break and Posters Poster presentations will be held outside the auditorium.   2:00 PM  -  2:10 PM Presentation of the Mitchell Max Award for Best Poster Story Landis, Ph.D., Director, National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Pain Consortium Co-Chair   2:10 PM  -  2:10 PM Session 3:  Emerging Therapies for Individualized Pain Management   2:10 PM  -  2:30 PM Targeted Nerve Toxin for Cancer Pain  Michael Iadarola, Ph.D., National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research   2:30 PM  -  2:50 PM Emerging Therapies for Pain Management: Glial Targets Linda Watkins, Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder   2:50 PM  -  3:10 PM Central Role of Protein Kinase-C Epsilon in Mediating Analgesic Synergy in  Primary Afferent Terminals  George Wilcox, Ph.D., University of Minnesota   3:10 PM  -  3:30 PM Emerging Therapies for Pain Management: Spinal Analgesics James Eisenach, M.D., Wake Forest University   3:30 PM  -  3:50 PM Questions and Answers: Panel   3:50 PM  -  3:50 PM Closing Remarks Josephine Briggs, M.D., Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Pain Consortium Co-Chair

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