Pain Management through the lens of Whole Person Health
Junior Investigator Poster Abstracts(pdf, 470 KB)
Speaker Bios(pdf, 250 KB)
Co-chairs:
Inna Belfer, Md, PhD | NCCIH
Melissa Ghim, PhD | NIDCR

June 1, 2022
11:00am to 5:15pm
11:00am |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
11:15am |
Keynote Address - Transforming Healthcare to Whole Health: What Can it Mean for Pain Management? |
12:00pm |
Panel Session: Complexity of Pain and the Interplay of Comorbidities |
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Overview: Complexity of Pain & the Interplay of Comorbidities: Through the Lens of the Military Health System Reframing Endometriosis: A Systemic Disease Beyond the Pelvis How Affective Function Frames the Association of Sleep and Pain Treating Chronic Pain in Individuals with Substance Use Disorders Orofacial Pain – More Than One System at Play |
1:20pm |
Panel Session Q&A |
1:45pm |
BREAK |
2:15pm |
Junior Investigators Session Pre-recorded presentations and Q&A |
2:55pm |
Panel Session: Integration of Whole-Person Tools and Approaches |
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Overview: Ideas for Designing Pain Research from a Whole Person Perspective Pain, Expectancy, Arousal, and the Role of the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex A Person Oriented Approach to Research on Pain and Pain Management Assessing chronic overlapping pain conditions within individuals. |
4:00pm |
Panel Session Q&A |
4:25pm |
Junior Investigator Session Pre-recorded presentations and Q&A |
5:15 pm |
ADJOURN |
June 2, 2022
11:00am to 5:15pm
11:00am |
Opening Remarks and Keynote Introduction |
11:05am |
Keynote Address - The Value of Deconstructing Experience to Discover the Whole Person |
11:50pm |
A Patient's Perspective |
12:05pm |
Junior Investigator Session Pre-recorded presentations and Q&A |
12:50pm |
Mitchell Max: The Person Behind the Award |
12:55pm |
Mitchell Max Awardee Presentation |
1:00pm |
Mitchell Max Awardee Presentation |
1:20pm |
BREAK |
1:40pm |
Implementation of Whole-Person Approaches to Pain Management Memories and Lessons Learned from a Dialysis Graduate Whole-person Pain Treatment Implementation: Engaging Stakeholders Personalized Psychological Approaches to Chronic Pain Informed by Whole Person Health Barriers to Implementation of Whole-Person Approaches to Pain Management |
2:40pm |
Q&A and Facilitated Panel Discussion |
3:30pm |
Closing Remarks |
3:45pm |
Networking Session Transition |
5:15pm |
ADJOURN |
17th Annual NIH Pain Consortium Symposium
Pain Management through the lens of Whole Person Health
Keynote presentation by Dr. Tracy Gaudet and Dr. Ruth Wolever.
The NIH Pain Consortium sponsors an annual symposium on a significant topic relevant to pain. This symposium features NIH supported researchers whose work has made an important contribution to pain research. In addition to speakers and panel sessions the symposium includes a patients' perspective talk and a session featuring early career investigators.