2016 Accepted Poster Abstracts

Randall Mack
An evaluation of the efficacy and safety of N1539, a novel intravenous formulation of NanoCrystal Meloxicam, in subjects with moderate to severe pain following hysterectomy

Ian Mackey
Cigarette smoking is a predictor of opioid use in a tertiary care pain clinic sample: a Collaborative Health Outcomes Information Registry (CHOIR) study

Aditya Manna
Difficulties in providing palliative care in rural India (West Bengal) - experience of an NGO

Aditya Manna
Utility of mobile phones for better management of terminal cancer patients in rural Bengal - an NGO based approach

Aditya Manna
The role of volunteers in quality palliative care delivery

Benjamin Marshall
Institutional policy development and urine drug testing in a multidisciplinary functional pain program: a retrospective analysis

Thomas Martin
A novel G-protein biased kappa opioid that displays analgesic but not dysphoric actions in the rat

Shirley Martin
Acute post-tonsillectomy pain management in obese and overweight children

Geraldine Martorella
Hand massage therapy for pain management after cardiac surgery: acceptability and feasibility in the intensive care unit

Nicolas Massaly
Kappa opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens mediate pain-induced decrease in motivated behavior

Elizabeth Masters
Identification of high healthcare resource utilizers among patients with fibromyalgia using electronic health records

Matthew Mauck
Association between pain and itch symptom severity after major thermal burn injury increases over time

Ishtiaq Mawla
Investigating the neural circuitry supporting clinical pain perception in chronic low back pain - the importance of cardiorespiratory artifact correction with arterial spin labeling fMRI

Deborah McDonald
The relationship between reminiscence, depressive symptoms, physical activity and pain

Susan McNulty
Implementing evidence based pain competencies into prelicensure physical and occupational therapy curriculum

Kathleen Meacham
Fully-implantable, wireless technology for optogenetic control of bladder sensory neurons

Salim Megat
Dopamine D1/D5 receptor-mediated mechanisms in the maintenance of pathological pain plasticity

Samantha Meints
Social influence of disability judgments for patients with chronic pain

Jose Mercado
A novel, non-opiod, conesnail peptide-based analgesic as a therapeutic alternative for the treatment of chronic pain

Shannon Merkle
Pain sensitivity is associated with vigorous physical activity and high cardiorespiratory fitness

Ericka Merriwether
Monocyte phenotype is associated with physical activity and pain outcomes in women with fibromyalgia

Vincent Miccio
Fluoroscopically-guided radiofrequency neurotomy technique for the treatment of genitofemoral neuralgia

Aaron Mickle
Optogenetic inhibition sensory neurons mediating bladder nociception

Stephanie Middleton
Depression mediates the relationship between pain intensity and effort in minor, but not major, decision making

Alyssa Mielock
Conditioned pain modulation predicts changes in somatization: racial differences

Elizabeth Migoya
Effect of naldemedine, a peripherally acting μ-opioid receptor antagonist, on QT interval

Megan Miller
Injustice perceptions predict future functioning in children with chronic pain

Haeyoung Min
Psychometric evaluation of Korean version of pain knowledge and use instrument among nurses in Korean neonatal intensive care units

Harold Minkowitz
Nausea and vomiting with oliceridine (TRV130), a novel µ receptor G protein Pathway Selective modulator (µ-GPS), vs morphine: an analysis of tolerability from a phase 2b randomized clinical trial

Emelie Modalen
Effects of sleep continuity disruption on cold pain tolerance and accompanying pain catastrophizing in healthy, good sleepers

Tobias Moeller-Bertram
Real-time epidural space identification with the Compuflo® epidural instrument is equivalent to loss of resistance technique coupled with the fluoroscopy confirmation

Moore
Patients' experiences with web-based CBT for the treatment of chronic pain: using qualitative research to deepen understanding of intervention effects

Matthew Morris
Impaired conditioned pain modulation in youth with functional abdominal pain

Natalie Moryl
The influence of age and gender on opioid dosage in cancer pain clinic patients

Caitlyn Moss
Hepatic resection is associated with reduced postoperative opioid requirement

Jamie Moy
Exploring the potential for an evolutionarily conserved role for eIF4A in pain plasticity

Antoun Nader
Dexamethasone versus triamcinolone side effects for ultrasound-guided trigeminal nerve block for the treatment of refractory typical or atypical facial pain

Hadas Nahman-Averbuch
Pain modulation and autonomic function: the effect of clonidine

Srinivas Nalamachu
Levorphanol, another choice in opioid rotation

Meghna Nandi
Sex differences in pain and functioning among Total Knee Arthroplasty patients

Kelly Naugle
Light physical activity behavior predicts pain modulatory function in healthy older adults

Jennifer Naylor
Neurosteroid levels are inversely associated with low back pain in female Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans

Srdjan Nedeljkovic
A randomized, double-blind, parallel group, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the analgesic efficacy and safety of VVZ-149 injections for post-operative pain following laparoscopic colorectal surgery

Ariel Neikrug
Circadian activity rhythms in women with fibromyalgia

Sarah Nelson
The relationship between trauma and pediatric chronic pain: a comprehensive review

Sarah Nelson
Categorizing risk for long-term disability in youth with functional abdominal pain

Andrea Newman
Health care utilization in rural settings

Kristen Noon
Patient with altered mental status, an intrathecal pump, and an unknown dose of ziconotide

Kristen Noon
A novel glial cell inhibitor, low dose naltrexone, reduces pain and depression, and improves function in chronic pain: A CHOIR study

Diane Novy
Effectiveness of splanchnic nerve neurolysis for targeting location of cancer pain: using the pain drawing as an outcome variable

Matthew Nye
The role of central sensitization in pain hypersensitivity in individuals with symptoms of migraine headache

Folabomi Oladosu
Strain-specific polymorphisms and their correlation to MOR-1K receptor function

Michael Owens
Detectable viral load may be associated with increased heat pain sensitivity in individuals with HIV

Shreela Palit
Are there sex differences in the relationship between pain locus of control and pain sensitivity?

Sergio Parra
Chronic leg ulcer pain - a need for effective topical analgesia

Kushang Patel
Evaluation of pain intensity ratings among older adults with and without dementia: findings from the National Health and Aging Trends Study

Kushang Patel
Self-reported and objectively monitored physical activity in a nationally-representative sample of adults with and without chronic pain

Kushang Patel
Expanding treatment of chronic pain in older adults: community-based exercise+CBT

Mayur Patil
Prolactin regulates sensory neurons in a female-specific manner at their peripheral and central terminals and not at their cell bodies

Lynne Pauer
Pregabalin and efficacy for pain score reduction in patients with fibromyalgia evaluated with and without potentially confounding effects

Michael Payne
Temporal habituation of heat pain? Parameters used for measuring temporal summation primarily lead to decreases in pain ratings

Sheri Pegram
Trauma exposure and pain severity among people with chronic lower back pain: moderated mediation by thought suppression and social constraints

Alvaro Pereira
Characterization and prediction of placebo responders in peripheral neuropathic patients in a 4-week analgesic clinical trial

Sarah Perlo
Do athletes have an advantage in chronic pain treatment? Greater decreases in disability and avoidance among youth athletes enrolled in an exposure-based intervention

Lisa Peters
Disparities in pain assessment: using data to understand associations with language proficiency and developmental age

Megan Petrov
Sleep disturbance mediates the association between social discrimination and pain severity in knee osteoarthritis

Melissa Pielech
Pediatric opioid prescription rates for non-cancer pain: 2005-2014

Namratha Prabhu
Radiofrequency ablation for chronic back pain: a comparison of two techniques of radiofrequency ablation for the management of lumbar facet syndrome

Alex Pressman
Endogenous opioid function mediates the relationship between pain catastrophizing and capsaicin pain in healthy participants

Theodore Price
The mitochondrial complex one inhibitor R419 potently stimulates AMPK in dorsal root ganglion neurons and reduces incision-evoked pain in vivo

Tony Priestley
Factors impacting the relative bioavailability of a new formulation of buprenorphine

Sarah Prinsloo
Neurofeedback to treat chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN)

Qiu Qiu
Signaling events underlying the analgesic effect of propofol

Patrick Quinn
Psychiatric predictors of receiving prescription opioids in two national samples

Jennifer Rabbits
Interrelationships between sleep and pain in children undergoing major surgery

Rajan Radhakrishnan
Comparative evaluation of prostate tissue distribution profiles of four non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in rats

Bridgett Rahim-Williams
Alcohol and medication use as pain treatment among women living with HIV (WLHIV)

Ryan Ramsook
Inadvertent filum terminale needle placement during caudal epidural steroid injection: a case report

Ryan Ramsook
Cryoablation of a hip disarticulation residual limb neuroma allowing for ambulation and pain relief: a case report

Fenan Rassu
Acute pain decreases impulsive decision-making in individuals with high perceived stress

Pradipta Ray
Searching for the transcriptomic footprint of chronic pain

Corey Reeves
Single lead spinal cord stimulation of the C2-C5 nerve roots for persistant pain secondary to schwannoma resection

Corey Reeves
Chronic pain refectory to opioids treated with non-pharmaceutical measures using an interdisciplinary inpatient team

Sharon Reif
1-year prevalence of pain diagnoses, severity, chronicity and disposition in an active duty Army sample

Ligia Renata Rodrigues Tavares
Fluoxetine revert the effect of MK-212 intra-amygdala injections but does not change the 8-OH-DPAT effects on antinociception induced in mice confined to open arms the elevated plus-maze

Sean Rice
Elevated depression symptoms associated with greater sensitivity to cyberbullying experiences among adolescents seeking treatment for chronic pain

Jessica Richards
Psychometric evaluation and predictive validity of the sleep and pain behaviors survey in knee osteoarthritis patients undergoing total knee replacement

Stephen Richardson
Opioid-induced nausea and vomiting (OINV) in post-operative patients: a comparison of CL-108 to hydrocodone 7.5 mg/acetaminophen 325 mg

Rebecca Risko
Innovation for complex pain patients who do not fit into evolving care models

Keesha Roach
Vasopressin SNP is related to sickle cell acute care utilization for pain

Sheria Robinson
Managing pain: the experiences of community dwelling Black elders

Jessica Ross
Voluntary activity prevents muscle IL1β upregulation to inhibit the development of ischemic myalgia

Andrea Rubinstein
Risk of hospital acquired pneumonia among chronic opioid users requiring endotracial intubation

Gabriel Rudd-Barnard
Epidemiology of naloxone use for opioid overdose in a tertiary care medical center

Gabriel Rudd-Barnard
A case study investigating opioid medication utilization in patients with complex regional pain syndrome before and after ketamine infusion therapy