2023 NIH Pain Consortium Symposium on Advances in Pain Research

Resilience and Pathways to Recovery

Jun 06, 2023 - Jun 07, 2023

Speaker Bios

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2023 Pain Consortium Symposium on Advances in Pain Research: Resilience and Pathways to Recovery

June 6-7, 2023

Natcher Conference Center
NIH Campus, Bethesda MD

Co-chairs:

Melissa Ghim, PhD | NIDCR
Devon Oskvig, PhD | NIA

June 6, 2023

8:30am	Welcome and Opening Remarks *Rena D'Souza, DDS, MS, PhD – Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research*
9:00am	Keynote Address Resilience and Pain: Harnessing the Power of Joy, Optimism and Love Afton Hassett, PsyD – University of Michigan
10:00am	Break and Poster Session
10:25am	Panel Session: Pain Disparities Across Diverse Populations Moderator: Karen Kehl, PhD, RN, FPCN – National Institute of Nursing Research
10:25am	*Overview:* Biopsychosocial Contributors to Pain Disparities: Identifying Opportunities to Facilitate Resilience Robert Edwards, PhD – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
10:55am	Do Threats to Social Safety Promote Pain Disparities Burel Goodin, PhD – Washington University at St. Louis
11:15am	Chronic Pain Disparities in Older Adults Christine Ritchie, MD – Harvard University
11:35am	Q&A and Panel Discussion
12:10pm	Networking Lunch and Poster Session
1:15pm	Junior Investigator Presentations Moderator: David Thomas, PhD – Office of Research on Women’s Health
1:20pm	Madelyn Frumkin – Washington University in St. Louis
1:35pm	Taichi Goto, PhD RN – National Institute of Nursing Research
1:50pm	Tyler Nelson, PhD – New York University
2:10pm	Break
2:20pm	Panel Session: Resilience and Mechanisms of Pain Resolution Moderator: Inna Belfer, MD, PhD – National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
2:20pm	*Overview:* Redefining Resilience: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Whole Person Health Emily Bartley, PhD – University of Florida
2:50pm	Translational Approach to Studying Mechanisms Underlying Pain Persistence and Pain Resolution *Luda Diatchenko, MD, PhD – McGill University*
3:10pm	Buffering the Whole Person Burden of Chronic Pain with Resilience *Kim Sibille, PhD – University of Florida*
3:30pm	Q&A and Panel Discussion
4:00pm	Mitchell Max Award Presentation Linda Porter, PhD – Director, Office of Pain Policy and Planning
4:15pm	Adjourn

June 7, 2023

8:30am	Poster Session
9:00am	Opening Remarks and Patient Introduction Helene Langevin, MD – Director, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
9:15am	Perspective of a Person with Lived Experience: My Path from Teen with Pain to Leading a Pain Organization Nicole Hemmenway – US Pain Foundation
9:45am	Break and Poster Session
10:15am	Panel Session: Novel Treatment Approaches for Pain
10:15am	Developing Nanomedicines for the Treatment of Pain *Nigel Bunnett, PhD – New York University*
10:45am	Non-pharmacologic Therapies for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Children – Combining Psychological Intervention With Novel Exercise-Based Approaches *Susmita Kashikar-Zuck, PhD* – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
11:05am	Psychedelic Therapeutics for Chronic Pain Steve Ross, MD – NYU Grossman School of Medicine
11:25am	The Injectrode: A Novel Solution to Address Long-Standing Issues in Spinal Cord Stimulation to Treat Pain Kip Ludwig, PhD – University of Wisconsin
11:45pm	Q&A and Panel Discussion
12:15pm	Closing Remarks David Shurtleff, PhD – Deputy Director & Acting Scientific Director, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
12:30pm	Adjourn

June 6 and 7, 2023 on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.

The 2023 Pain Consortium Symposium on Advances in Pain Research: Resilience and Pathways to Recovery will highlight NIH funded research in the pain field with a focus on understudied populations, physiological mechanisms of resilience and recovery, and advances in biopsychosocial interventions, therapeutics development, and other approaches for pain management and resolution.

Resilience is a dynamic and multidimensional concept that includes the ability to resist, adapt, recover, or grow from a challenge. Relying on a whole-person biopsychosocial model of health, the capacity to adapt and recover from a painful injury, disease or condition is a function not only of an individual’s social support, and emotional and behavioral flexibility, but also of the ability for physiological systems to adapt or compensate to regain function and resolve pain.