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Schedule at a Glance

Monday, May 11 | Tuesday, May 12 | Wednesday, May 13
Thursday, May 14 | Friday, May 15 | Saturday, May 16

Monday, May 11

Spring Pain Conference

4-8 pm

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Tuesday, May 12

Spring Pain Conference

8 am-1:30 pm

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Wednesday, May 13

Spring Pain Conference

8 am-1 pm

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APS Annual Scientific Meeting Begins

1-4:15 pm
APS Early Career Forum

4:30–6 pm
APS Opening Reception in the Experience Exchange

6:15–8:15 pm
APS and Spring Pain Clinical and Basic Science Data Blitz

APS and ACPA Event

1–3 pm
APS and the American Chronic Pain Association will host "Navigating the Maze of Pain." This free event is for people with pain and those who care for them. This free event will be held at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Smoketree, AB. To register, please call 800.533.3231.

Thursday, May 14

7:45–8 am
Gathering and Introductions

8–8:30 am
(100) State of the Society
Greg Terman, MD PhD, APS President

8:30–9 am
(101) Keynote Address: Envisioning Research Focused on Outcomes Rather Than Diseases or Treatments
Joe Selby, MD MPH, Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

9-9:30 am
(102) Plenary Lecture: Inside Information–Knowns and Unknowns
Jerry Gebhart, PhD

9:30–11 am
Poster Session and Networking in the Experience Exchange
Author-Attended Poster Session (Odd-Numbered Posters)

11 am–12:30 pm
Symposia Sessions

(200) Rethinking Clinical Research: The NIH Health Care Systems (HCS) Research Collaboratory and PCORNet

(201) American Pain Society Clinical Centers of Excellence: Promoting the Highest Standards of Evidence-Based, Interdisciplinary Pain Care

(202) Unmixing the Transcriptional Responses of Sensory Neurons in Partial Injuries

(203) Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Pain and Reward: Implications for Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Chronic Pain

(204) Improving Assessment of Clinical Pain Using Technology

(205) Musculoskeletal Pain: Translating Basic Models and Mechanisms

12:45–2 pm
Lunch Symposium

(L1000) Basic Science of Pain 101

2:15–3:45 pm
Symposia Sessions

(300) Rita Allen Scholars Symposium

(301) Cancer Pain

(302) Cutting-Edge Research: Complementary Health Strategies to Inform or Improve Pain Management in Veterans

(303) The Impact of Sleep on the Experience of Pain: Evidence from Laboratory and Clinical Studies Across the Lifespan

(304) Insight into the Neural Circuits of Itch and How They Are Distinct from Pain

(305) Technology and Psychological Interventions: Promises and Realization

3:45–5:15 pm
Poster Session and Networking in the Experience Exchange
Author-Attended Poster Session (Even-Numbered Posters)

5:15–6:15 pm
Shared Interest Group (SIG) Meetings

(127) Complementary and Alternative Medicine

(128) Basic Science

(129) Geriatric Pain

(130) Pain Rehabilitation

(131) Psychosocial Research

(132) Clinical Trials

(133) Pain and Disparities

(134) Sickle Cell

6:30–8 pm
Awards Reception

Friday, May 15

7:30–8 am
(103) Plenary Lecture
Cannabis and Pain: Old Drug, New Perspectives
Mark Ware, MD MRCP (UK) MSc

8–8:30 am
(104) Plenary Lecture
Effect of Environment on the Long-Term Consequences of Chronic Pain
Catherine Bushnell, PhD

8:45–10:15 am
Poster Session and Networking in the Experience Exchange

8:45-10:15 am
Session Sound Bytes in the Learning Lounge

10:30 am–Noon
Symposia Sessions

(400) Modeling the Transition from Acute to Chronic Pain

(401) Multidimensional Pain Mechanisms in Fibromyalgia: Implications for Understanding Individual Differences

(402) Pain in Older Adults: Predictors, Functional Consequences, and Considerations for Treatment

(403) Using Mixed-Methods Research to Enhance the Understanding of Pain Management

(404) Combination Pharmacotherapy for Pain: Preclinical and Clinical Perspectives

(405) Engineering and Delivery of Druggable Targets for the Treatment of Pain

12:15–1:30 pm
Lunch Symposia

OFIRMEV® (acetaminophen) Injection: A Non-Opioid Foundation for Multimodal Analgesia in the Perioperative Patient
Supported by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals

1:45–3:15 pm
Symposia Sessions

(500) Potential Targets for Future Migraine Therapeutics

(501) Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for Pain: Translating Between Bedside and Bench

1:45–5 pm
Workshops

(W700) Clinical Application of American Pain Society’s Guidelines for Managing Postoperative Pain

(W701) Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Innovative Primary Care Responses to the Chronic Pain Crisis

3:30–5 pm
Symposia Sessions

(600) Basic Mechanisms for Spinal Cord Stimulation and the Potential Clinical Implications

(601) Keratinocyte Mechanisms in Tactile Sensation, Neuropathic Pain, and Dermatopathologies

5:15–7:15 pm
Shared Interest Group (SIG) Meetings

(137) Ethics SIG
Basic and Clinical Pain Research Ethics: National Oversight, Data Integrity, and How and Why Your Role as Ethical Steward Outlasts Your Research Study

(138) Measurement of Pain and Its Impact SIG
Pain Measurement Across the Lifespan

(139) Nursing SIG
The Experiences and Perceptions of Advanced Practice Nurses Caring for Patients with Coexisting Substance Use Disorder and Chronic Pain

(140) Pharmacotherapy SIG
Teaming Up with a Clinical Pharmacist: A Unique Practice Model for Chronic Pain Management

(141) Primary Care SIG
Advancing Primary Pain Care Within the American Pain Society and Nationwide

(142) Advancing the Science of Quality

(143) Pain Education

(144) Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents

5:30–7:30 pm
Basic Science Research Dinner
(136) A Debate on the NIH Policy for Gender Equality in Pre-clinical Research

8:30–11 pm
The Pain Sensations, Live at the Renaissance Hotel Pool Deck

Saturday, May 16

8–8:30 am
(105) Frederick W. L. Kerr Basic Science Research Lecture
Making and Braking Pain
Clifford Woolf, MD PhD

8:30–9 am
(106) Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Lecture
Fibromyalgia: A Disease, Common Pathway, or Rubbish?
Daniel Clauw, MD

9–9:45 am
(107) Global Year Against Pain Lecture
'Listening' and 'Talking' to Neurons: Clinical Implications of Glial Dysregulation of Pain, Opioid Actions and Drugs of Abuse
Linda Watkins, PhD

9:45–10 am
Break

10–11:30 am
Symposia Sessions

(800) Social and Interpersonal Factors in Pain: New Models for Research and Practice

(801) Pain Public Policy Debate

(802) Urogenital Pain Syndromes: Using Rodent Models to Understand Comorbidity, Novel Targets, and Treatments

(803) Enhanced Classification and Assessment of Chronic Pain: Moving Beyond Dichotomy

(804) Expanding the Toolbox: Theranostic Nanomedicine and Systems Biology Applied to Pain Research and Treatment

(805) Voluntary Opioid Tapering in Nonaddicted Individuals: Research, Clinical Practice, and Ethical Issues for the Clinician

11:45 am–1 pm
(900) The National Pain Strategy–Where Do We Go From Here?

 

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