People. Purpose. Passion.
You do not want to miss the 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting! The annual meeting features exciting opportunities for attendee engagement and education sessions.
Featured Speakers
(101) Keynote Address
Pain: A Political History
Keith Wailoo, PhD
Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University
(102) Global Year Against Pain Lecture
Osteoarthritis Joint Pain: Mechanisms, Models, Molecules
Anne-Marie Malfait, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center
(103) Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Lecture: Learning Health Systems: A New Dawn in Personalized Pain Care and Real-World Discovery Research
Sean Mackey, MD PhD
Professor, Stanford University Medical Center
(104) Plenary Lecture
Motivation, Action, Learning, and Pain Sensation
Howard Fields, MD PhD
Professor, University of California San Francisco
(105) Frederick W. L. Kerr Basic Science Research Lecture: From the Bedside to the Bench and Back Again – Why It Is Important for Pain Clinicians and Basic Scientists to Keep Talking to Each Other
Michael Gold, PhD
Professor, University of Pittsburgh
(106) Plenary Lecture
Functional Contextualism, Psychological Flexibility, and the Evolution of Psychological Approaches to Chronic Pain
Lance McCracken, PhD
Professor, King's College London, UK
(107) Plenary Lecture: Understanding Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions – Are We Making Progress?
Emeran Mayer, MD
Professor, UCLA
Discuss
- Discover new research during author-attended poster sessions, and view all of the posters during designated times on listed in the brochure.
- Participate in conversations on trending issues and topics during Town Hall Talks in the Learning Lounge.
Discover
- Visit the open format Experience Exchange, to engage with attendees and exhibitors.
- Navigate the Experience Exchange with the interactive Passport Program.
Interact
- Discuss hot topics being presented during annual meeting sessions and interact with key speakers at Session Sound Bytes.
- Network with fellow attendees at various Connection Centrals the Experience Exchange.
Apply
- Attend a workshop to increase your knowledge and learn tools for application in pain management practice.