2017 Accepted Poster Abstracts

Rachel Aaron
Functional ability during hospitalization after pediatric inpatient surgery: a validation study

Ayodeji Adedeji
Differentiating Cognitive Modulation Strategies in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients through Parametric fMRI Analysis

Hyochol Ahn, PhD
Efficacy of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Clinical Pain Severity in Older Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis Pain: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Sham-Controlled Pilot Clinical Study

Sue Aicher, PhD
Corneal hyperalgesia after abrasion injury

Phillip Albrecht, PhD
Increased keratinocyte Nav subunit expression among painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy patients predicts Lidoderm patch responsiveness

Joe Alexander
Identification of Subgroups in Responses to Pregabalin in Patients with Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pDPN) Enables Utilization of Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Data to Reduce Covariate Bias in Observational Study (OS) Data

Joe Alexander
Positive Predictive Value of Responses to Pregabalin in Patients with Severe Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pDPN) Using Integrated Time-Series Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) and Observational Study (OS) Data

Abdulaali Almutairi
Pharmacists’ self-management of chronic pain: examining differences between opioid and non-opioid users

Kevin Alschuler, PhD
Independent associations of pain, fatigue, and depression with quality of life in individuals newly-diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

Benedict Alter, PhD MD
Optimizing conditioned analgesia in healthy volunteers for translational applications.

Abigail Alvarado
CD163 in macrophages from diabetic patients and its role in the inflammatory response of THP-1 and primary human macrophages

Preeti Anand
Failed regional anesthesia: local anesthetic resistance possibly due to voltage gated sodium channellopathy: A Case Report.

Tracy Anastas
Patient race and socioeconomic status influence providers’ recommendations about opioid therapy and workplace accommodations for chronic pain

Daren Anderson
PainNET: impact of developing an online professional learning community on chronic pain management in the primary care setting

Emily Anderson, RN BSN BC
Controlled Substance Advisory: A review of patient outcomes in the year following a prohibition of opioids for chronic conditions due to safety concerns

Dennis Ang, MD
A Non-psychologist Delivered Treatment Program for Patients with Fibromyalgia at the Local YMCA: A Pilot Study

Brett Ankawi
The relationship between the Pain Resilience Scale and perceived disability, pain interference, and depression in chronic pain

Dania Aqeel
Kinesio Tape for Pain Reduction: More than a Placebo Effect?

Lisham Ashrafioun
Pain intensity and suicide attempts in the year following the initiation of Veterans Health Administration specialty pain services

Sebastian Atalla
Altered perceptions to mild pain in Alzheimer’s disease: is there a primary role for the secondary somatosensory cortex?

Andrew Avins, MD MPH
How responder analyses can misinform in pain-related clinical trials

Abdulaziz Awali
Differences in temporal summation using heat and mechanical noxious stimuli

Jinbing Bai
Parent verbal and nonverbal interaction behaviors and child distress during cancer treatment port starts: a time-window sequential analysis

Katherine Barness, MD MPH
Analgesic Prescribing Patterns after Outpatient Inguinal Hernia Repair in Children

Chantel Barney, PhD
International collaboration supports improved pain assessment practices for children with cerebral palsy

Chantel Barney, PhD
Pain outcomes following intrathecal baclofen pump implant in individuals with cerebral palsy

Emine Ozgur Bayman
A Prospective Study of Predictors of Chronic Pain after Thoracic Surgery

Christopher Becker, MA
Posterior cingulate connectivity changes during acute and chronic pain

Jason Beneciuk, PhD MPH PT
Changes in physical therapist attitudes, beliefs, and confidence about low back pain management following participation in a Psychologically Informed Physical Therapy (PIPT) training course

Samantha Bento
Executive functions, coping, and acute pain: Emotion-focused avoidance mediates the relation between executive functioning and reports of pain-related anxiety in children

Cheryl Bernstein
Identifying potential fibromyalgia patients: a novel screening and diagnostic plan using real world data

Ashish Bhandari, MBBS
Assessment of blinding in 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

Mark Bicket
Prescription opioid oversupply following orthopedic surgery: A prospective cohort study

Daniel Bissell
The impact of perceived discrimination, injustice beliefs, and sleep disturbance on anger experience in chronic low back pain

Jessica Black
Painful thermal stimulation to the face and arm produces different patterns of brain activity in migraine patients and controls

William Black, PhD
Fibromyalgia integrative training for teens (FIT Teens): Results from a pilot randomized trial of integrated exercise and cognitive-behavioral therapy for juvenile fibromyalgia

William Black, PhD
Fibromyalgia integrative training for teens (FIT Teens): Biomechanical improvements from a pilot randomized trial of integrated exercise training and cognitive-behavioral therapy

Jeff Boissoneault, PhD
Brain Activity Associated with Fatigue or Happiness in Healthy Adults: Use of Arterial Spin Labeling MRI

Jeff Boissoneault, PhD
Spinal Cord Neuronal Activity Correlates with Experimental Pain Ratings of Healthy Participants: Use of BOLD fMRI

Kelly Boland
Resting State Differences Following Mood Induction in Chronic Pain

Andrey Bortsov, PhD
Autonomic correlates of pain intensity, somatic symptoms and sleep quality in TMD: the OPPERA study

Ashley Brenton
Evaluation of Population-Based Incidences of Drug Abuse and Compliance Behaviors

Ashley Brenton
Association of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Ethnicity, and Sex in a Large Cohort of Fibromyalgia Patients

Chelsie Brewer
Alteration of the metabotropic GABAb receptor in adult mouse spinal cord neurocircuitry after neonatal hindpaw incision.

Amber Brooks
Pain and Function in Older Black and White Adults: a Secondary Analysis of the Health ABC Study

Wesley Browning
Examining the relationship between perceived injustice, pain, and psychosocial outcomes among veterans with chronic low back pain.

Daniel Bruce
Peripherally-restricted opioid combination therapy synergizes in multiple pain states

Hailey Bulls
Impaired physical function is associated with feeling older than actual age in obese adults with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis

Carolina Burgos Vega
Meningeal application of prolactin and CGRP produces female specific migraine-related behavior in rodents

Michael Burton, PhD
TLR4-dependent pain depends on different cell types in males and females.

Eugenia Buta
Longitudinal trajectories of pain intensity in veterans with low back pain

Napoleon Campos, MD
Psychological comorbidities as a predictor of success of Spinal Cord Stimulator (SCS) implants based on 3-month outcome measures in the Military Health System (MHS)

Jaume Canal-Sotelo
The use of the Edmonton Classification System for Cancer Pain adds clinical complexity to the Breakthrough Cancer Pain assessment

Jaume Canal-Sotelo
Clinical outcomes related to the level of nicotine addiction in a population of advanced cancer patients

Christopher Carey
Central sensitization in persons with mild traumatic brain injury: A pilot study  

Junie Carriere, BA
Pain behavior mediates the relationship between perceived injustice and opioid prescription for chronic pain: A Collaborative Health Outcomes Information Registry (CHOIR) study

Olivia Carter-Pokras
The Patient Voice in Cultural Diversity Training for Patient Centered Outcomes Researchers

Marta Ceko, PhD
Normal placebo response in fibromyalgia patients despite reduced gray matter in DLPFC

Alexander Chamessian
Optogenetic control of A-beta low-threshold mechanoreceptors in acute and chronic pain conditions

Annie Chen
Small Fiber Polyneuropathy: A Big Clue to Etiology and Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP)

Chen Chen, PhD RN MBBS
Estimating Minimally Important Differences for the PROMIS Pain Interferences Scales Using Three Clinical Trials

Jinghong Chen
Neurophysiological basis for gender difference of chronic pre-natal stress on visceral hypersensitivity in primary neuronal pathway

Sisi Chen
Peripheral inflammation induces hyperexcitability in Group II mGluR-positive neurons in anterior cingulate cortex

Bopaiah Cheppudira
Altered expression of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) in the prefrontal cortex of the rat with neuropathic pain 

Michael Chiang
Optogenetic dissection of lateral parabrachial pathways in pain perception

Youngeun Cho
Preliminary evaluation of keyword database creation as a tool to improve performance of chronic pain medicine fellows on in-training-examination

Michael Cooper
A ketogenic diet prevents alterations in peripheral nerve function induced with a high-fat/carbohydrate diet.

Shelby Corman
Interactive tool to estimate the total cost of postsurgical analgesia in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty

Marise Cornelius
Pain catastrophizing predicts post-surgical changes in physical functioning in total knee replacement patients

Karissa Cottier
Transient Decreases in Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity Correspond with Facial Allodynia Duration in a Model of Migraine with Aura

Laura Cousins
Beyond fear of movement and pain catastrophizing: objective assessments of physical ability are important in the context of pain among adolescents with juvenile fibromyalgia

Megan Curtis, MA
Psychological flexibility and chronic pain characteristics in patients seeking treatment for opioid use disorder

Rebecca Dale
Use of methadone in hospitalized patients with acute pain and co-existing opioid substance use disorder: a QI study

Arash Danesh, MD
Could depression be a causative factor in the development of CRPS types I?

Yarim Elideth De La Luz Cuellar
Role of alpha 5 subunit-containing GABAA receptors in a rat model of fibromyalgia

Rocio de la Vega
Chronic pain prevalence and associated factors in adolescents with physical disabilities

Hojjat Derakhshanfar
A Comparative Study on the Sedative Effect of Oral Midazolam and oral Promethazine Medication in lumbar puncture

Hojjat Derakhshanfar
Comparing the Effect of Dexmedetomidine and Midazolam on Sedition in Children With Head Trauma to Perform CT in Emergency Department

Josimari Desantana
Interferential current reduces pain sensitivity and central sensitization in patients with fibromyalgia: a randomized clinical trial

Saugat Dey
Postherpetic neuralgia treatment with high concentration capsaicin patch: Three Cases demonstrating reduction in pain receptive field without associated reduction in pain intensity

Jacob Dickman
Perceived injustice is associated with an indicator of aberrant medication use in a chronic pain population.

Alexander Domanski
Evaluating the agreement between self-reported and documented analgesic use in older veterans with osteoarthritis

Anthony Domenichiello
Diet and bioactive lipid mediators for treatment of chronic pain: a translational aproach

Suzanne Doolen
Fingolimod Reduces Neuropathic Pain Behaviors in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis by a Sphingosine-1 Phosphate Receptor 1-Dependent Inhibition of Central Sensitization in the Dorsal Horn

Ardith Doorenbos
TelePain: improving primary care pain management

Kathleen Dorado
The association between catastrophizing, fatigue, and sleep quality among patients with fibromyalgia

Diogo Francisco Dos Santos
Does a long-lasting, analgesic synergy develop between spinal mu opioid receptors and neuropeptide Y1Rs after surgical incision?

James Dow
Coadministration of metformin with mirogabalin in healthy subjects: Results from a phase 1, randomized, open-label, drug-drug interaction study

Timothy Doyle, PhD
Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor subtype 1: a neuroinflammatory rheostat of the spinal cord in the development of chronic pain

Robert Duarte, MD
Pain update 1917

Mariaconcetta Durante
Contribution of IL-10 and T cells in beneficial effects exerted by A3 adenosine receptor agonists in blocking and reversing neuropathic pain

Sara Edmond
Process of change in CBT for chronic pain: Examining skill practice and knowledge

Olivia Eller, BS
Evaluating the impact of early life stress and exercise on elicited migraine in mice

Dan-Mikael Ellingsen
Pain drawings for fibromyalgia show that catastrophizing is associated with pain quality and distribution to specific bodily locations

Bonnie Essner
Pediatric visits to the emergency department for chronic pain

Jenny Evans
Somatization, Sleep, School Attendance, and Quality of Life As Predictors of Completing a Pediatric Pain Clinic.

Carrie Falling
Influence of demographic and anthropometric factors on tactile acuity of various body regions: a systematic narrative review.

Amanda Feinstein
Risk and resilience in parent-child outcomes in pediatric pain: the interactive effects of catastrophizing and acceptance

Elizabeth Felix, PhD
Associations between symptoms and signs of dry eye and evoked pain sensitivity

David Ferreira
Macrophage directed ED2/CD163 gene therapy using nanotechnology prevents spontaneous pain in a rat model of persistent postoperative pain.

Jonathon Finney
Dorsal root ganglion stimulation for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: a case report

Pamela Flood
PREEMPT: Prospective from complex patients in practice

Neil Ford
Substance P-activated Na+ leak conductance enhances the intrinsic excitability of rodent spino-parabrachial projection neurons

Olivia Franceschelli
The association between day-to-day physical activity, catastrophizing and pain among patients with fibromyalgia: The moderating role of catastrophizing.

Isabella Fuentes
Voluntary wheel running can improve increased urogenital sensitivity and function resulting from neonatal maternal separation in male mice

Christine Gagnon, PhD
The relationship of absorption and relaxation training with biofeedback in the management of chronic pain

Christine Gagnon, PhD
Pain-related anxiety and performance in an interdisciplinary pain management program

Nina Gakii
Over-expression of Glyoxalase 1 reduces hyperalgesia in the db/db model of type 2 diabetes.

Jennifer Gewandter, PhD
Wearable TENs band for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN): a feasibility study

Jennifer Gewandter, PhD
Research design characteristics and clarity of reporting in trials of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy treatments initiated during chemotherapy: An ACTTION systematic review

Nayereh Ghoreishi-Haack, MS
NYX-2925, a NMDA receptor glycine site functional partial agonist, shows efficacy in neuropathic pain that is NMDA and AMPA receptor dependent and appears to be driven through brain, but not spinal, circuitry

Robert Gibler
Temporal associations among state pain catastrophizing, pain intensity, and pain tolerance in the cold pressor task: The effect of prior experience with cold thermal stimuli

Sean Gill
Bioequivalence of abuse-deterrent, immediate-release (ADIR) oxycodone compared with IR oxycodone without abuse-deterrent properties

Melissa Giraldo Duque
Persistent inflammation increases store-operated Ca2+ entry in rat cutaneous nociceptors

Dustin Goerlitz
Sleep Quality and Positive Affect as Mediators of Daily Relationship between Pain Intensity and Physical Activity

Kaylin Gonzalez
The effects of race and sex on experimental sleep disruption-induced hyperalgesia

Yuri Gordon, BS
Spinal Cord Stimulators at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Clinical Characteristics of Patients at 3-month Follow-up

Debra Gordon, BC CNS-BC DNP FAAN RN
Impact of the Harborview Chronic Pain Self-Management Program on participants quality of life, confidence and pain experience

Anna Goshua
Values and preferences regarding opioids among chronic non-cancer pain patients: a systematic review

Carol Greco, PhD
Nonspecific factors in complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional treatments: Predictive validity of the Healing Encounters and Attitudes Lists (HEAL) in persons with ongoing pain.

Carol Greco, PhD
Associations of psychosocial factors with chronic postsurgical pain following total knee arthroplasty.

Seth Greenbaum
Prediction of pain and opioid utilization in the perioperative period in patients undergoing primary knee arthroplasty: psychophysical and psychosocial factors

Mari Griffioen
Comparison of quantitative sensory testing and current perception threshold testing results in patients with chronic pain following lower extremity fracture and healthy controls.

Cornelius Groenewald
Racial differences in analgesic use by children in the United States: a nationally representative study.

Rachel Grosick
Optimizing an in vitro model using THP-1 macrophages to study pain, inflammation, and wound healing in the context of diabetes

Jason Hackett
Age differences in endogenous pain modulation: A systematic review

Keri Hainsworth, PhD
The role of inflammatory biomarkers in youth with co-occurring chronic pain and obesity

Ling Han
Use of propensity score to facilitate causal inference when evaluating complementary health therapies among US veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain

Shuanglin Hao, MD PhD
Phospho-C/EBPβ trigged by TNFα-mtROS-pCREB1 pathway contributes to perineural HIV gp120-related neuropathic pain in rats

Caron Harada
Identification of spinal GPR160 as a novel protein promoting chronic neuropathic pain states

Christopher Harle, PhD
Developing clinical decision support for chronic pain by understanding clinician information needs during primary care visits

Kathryn Hassell, MD
Ketamine infusion as an analgesic adjunct in the management of severe pain in patients with sickle cell disease

Shayne Hassler, PhD BS
Stimulation of meningeal protease activated receptor type 2 (PAR2) causes headache behavior and sensitization to nitroglycerin in a mouse model of migraine

Linda Hatfield, PhD NNP-BC
The association between parental education/knowledge of genetics and parental attitudes in genotypic pediatric pain research

Leslie Hausmann
Use of potentially unsafe high opioid dosage varies by demographic characteristics among Veterans dually-enrolled in Veterans Affairs and Medicare

Marissa Heirich
Use of simulation as a teaching and research tool for opioid management: implications for patient communication skills

Natalie Hellman
Does State Pain Catastrophizing Mediate the Relationship between Trauma Exposure and Spinal Nociceptive Processing?

Michele Herneisey
Nanoparticles for combination therapy of inflammatory pain with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and natural products

Alberto Herrero Babiloni, DDS MS
Pain modulation profiles: initial investigation of classification methods

Caroline Hinkle, BS
Unexpected relationship between optimism and pain reduction in a conditioned pain modulation paradigm

Kwo Wei Ho, MD PhD
A SNP in COL11A2 associated with thermal hyperalgesia in patients with knee osteoarthritis

Nicole Hollingshead, MS
Differences in the experience and management of chronic pain across first-, second-, and third-generation Mexican Americans: Results from NHANES 1999-2004

Rebecca Hornung
Protective role of progesterone against allodynia in rats with persistent temporomandibular joint inflammation

Kelly Huffman, PhD
Utilizing psychophysical measurements of central sensitization to evaluate the interdisciplinary treatment of fibromyalgia

Eli Iacob, PhD
Sleep and pain sensitivity and its relationship to cellular aging in women with fibromyalgia

Megan Jack
Female rats bred for low and high running capacity: a new model of inflammatory pain?

Sameer Jain
Using pharmacogenomics as an effective tool in minimizing drug related side effects in patients with Chronic regional pain syndrome: A feasibility study

Robert Jamison, PhD
Efficacy of Vibrating Gloves for Chronic Hand Pain due to Osteoarthritis 

Mary Janevic
Excess hours spent on health and health care management among older U.S. adults with disabling chronic pain.

Olivia Jang
A bed-mounted screen-based approach to managing preoperative anxiety in young children undergoing mask induction of anesthesia

Kristen Jastrowski Mano
School-Related Attentional Biases in Pediatric Chronic Pain: Initial Development and Validation of a Novel Attentional Bias Task

Nicholas Juan
S3 Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections as Treatment of Chronic Testicular Pain

Alexandra Kearson
Early life stress is associated with capsaicin-induced flare and secondary hyperalgesia

Heidi Kempert
Evaluating Self Report and Objective Measures for Adolescents’ Change in Functional Abilities after Completion of an Intensive Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program

Asma Khan
Structural basis underlying the interaction between miRNAs and TLR8

Norikazu Kiguchi
Differential expression of pain regulatory ligands and receptors in the spinal cord of primates with type 2 diabetes

Samsuk Kim
A pilot study: Does trait mindfulness predict threat appraisals to anticipated and actual pain? 

Tamara King
MOR agonists block tumor-induced ongoing pain, DOR agonists block movement-induced breakthrough pain in a rat model of tumor-induced bone pain

Gwynne Kirchen
Chronic Pain in Anesthesia Practice: A Case-based Educational Initiative

Elisabeth Kjaer Jensen
A Center for Patients with Severe Persistent Pain after Groin Hernia Repair: Five-years of Nationwide Experience.

Amanda Klein, PhD
Modulation of KATP channel activity in the peripheral nervous system reduces mechanical hyperalgesia after nerve injury

Brittany Knight
TIMP-1 regulates the persistence of inflammatory hypersensitivity

Mitchell Knisely, PhD RN
Associations between neurotransmitter candidate genes and persistent breast pain severity following breast cancer surgery

Mancia Ko
Medication Adherence Monitoring in Patients Prescribed Buprenorphine/Naloxone

Michael Koblish
Assessment of Nociceptive Sensitization with TRV9101, a Novel µ Receptor G Protein Pathway Selective Modulator (µ-GPS), versus Fentanyl, Morphine, and Oxycodone

Anna Kratz, PhD
Ambulatory heart rate variability identifies differences in sleep between people with fibromyalgia and matched controls

Anna Kratz, PhD
Feasibility of the E4 Wristband to assess sleep in adults with and without fibromyalgia

Ian Kudel, PhD
Characteristics of patients with neuropathic pain screened by the painDETECT and diagnosed by physician exam.

Bethany Kuhn, BS
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) and diabetes risk: are abnormalities in small diameter afferents present in healthy persons at high risk for diabetes?

Marissa Kuzirian
Genetic identification and characterization of inhibitory long-range projecting neurons within the cortex.

Naomi Kuznets
Ambulatory pain management low back injections: clinical practice guidelines versus practice

Kristine Kwekkeboom, PhD FAAN RN
Changes in stress, outcome expectancy, and symptom cluster severity predict numeric but not verbal ratings of Patient Global Impression of Change after a cognitive-behavioral intervention for cancer pain, fatigue and sleep disturbance.

Don Laird
Pharmacological inhibition of methylglyoxal-associated type II painful diabetic neuropathy by the PPARγ agonist pioglitazone is sex-dependent

Ryan Lanier
Interventions to reduce the placebo response in clinical trials: a review of the literature

Edward Lannon
Supraspinal modulation of pain and the nociceptive flexion reflex (NFR): is emotional modulation correlated with conditioned pain modulation?

Danielle Lapaglia
RNA-Seq investigations of human post-mortem trigeminal ganglia with a perspective on headache and migraine.

Emily Law, PhD
Interdisciplinary pain clinic treatment may reduce health care utilization among youth with chronic pain

Asimina Lazaridou
The impact of daily yoga-based exercise on pain, pain interference, sleep and stress in patients with fibromyalgia: a pilot study

Asimina Lazaridou
The association between mindfulness, catastrophizing and pain interference among patients with fibromyalgia: The moderating role of mindfulness

Min Jeong Lee
The combination effect of propacetamol with nefopam for postoperative pain after thyroidectomy

Trevor Lentz, MPH PT
Predictors of persistently high healthcare expenditures for osteoarthritis

Jessica Lerch
A novel murine neuroma model: sural ligation results in neuroma formation and the up-regulation of Sema3A

Ivan Lesnick
Impact of the Harborview Integrated Pain Care Program on primary care clinicians’ perceived confidence to care for patients with complex chronic pain

Amy Lewandowski Holley, PhD
Using the pediatric pain screening tool to predict longitudinal pain outcomes in treatment seeking youth with acute musculoskeletal pain

Jie Li
Prostaglandins modulate the efficacy of primary afferent synapses onto adult spino-parabrachial neurons

Lu Liu
Design and development of novel nanotherapeutics with 30 day long anti-inflammatory and analgesic action

Qing Liu
Opioid Induced Loss of Local Anesthetic Potency in Osteoarthritis Patients

Sufang Liu
Role of descending dopaminergic signaling in orofacial neuropathic pain

Emanuel Loeza
Peripheral GABAA receptors regulate colonic afferent excitability

Daniel Lopez Martinez
Automatic detection of nociceptive stimuli and pain intensity from facial expressions

Travis Lovejoy, PhD MPH
Suicidal ideation and behaviors following clinician-initiated prescription opioid discontinuation among long-term opioid users

Sukhbir Kaur Lulla
Rapid modulatory effects of 17β-estradiol on serotonin’s pronociceptive activity on the TRPV1-expressing population of trigeminal neurons

Anne Lynch-Jordan, PhD
Protective parenting mediates the relationship between parent-observed pain behaviors and adolescent functional disability

Renee Manworren, PhD FAAN
Pediatric return visits to the emergency department for postoperative pain

John Markman, MD
Preliminary Results of the MIP (Maximal Intensity Pain) Retrospective Cross Sectional Study

Shirley Martin
Weight-based risk for uncontrolled post-tonsillectomy pain in children: a retrospective study

Bianca Mason
Peripheral CGRP sites of action: examination of the vasculature in migraine-like photophobia

Jordan McCall
Agnostic identification of mouse behavioral phenotypes

Deborah McDonald, PhD RN
Older adults’ identification and response to adverse analgesic drug related events

Lauren Mehok
Pain assessment and activity-related recommendations for chronic pain are influenced by patient gender and weight.

Michael Meier
Pain-related fear: one or many?

Samantha Meints, MS
The Effects of Active vs. Passive Prayer on Experimental Pain Tolerance

Samantha Meints, MS
Distorted ambulation and affective distress predict pain-related disability

Miriam Das Dores Mendes Fonesca
The interleukin 27 (IL-27) protects mice from neuropathic pain development through up-regulation of anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10

Shannon Merkle
Self-reported physical activity is related to less pressure pain sensitivity but not to acute muscle pain

Ericka Merriwether
Body mass index is differentially associated with physical and psychosocial outcomes among men and women with chronic low back pain.

Benoit Michot
Lipopolysaccharide but not lipoteichoic acid induces inflammation and sensitization of nerve ending in the dental pulp

Megan Miller, MS
Pain-related injustice perception, but not catastrophizing, partially mediates the relationship between pain intensity and pain outcomes in children with chronic pain

Francie Moehring
A new role for keratinocytes: mediators of touch sensation

Somayyeh Mohammasi
Investigating the role of pain behaviors in the association between patients’ pain catastrophizing and their partners’ burden

Maitreyee Mohanty
Medication errors associated with intravenous patient controlled analgesia: a descriptive analysis of 2005-2015 MEDMARX database

Brent Moore, PhD
Sustained participation in the VA SCAN ECHO Pain Management Telementoring Program enhances pain care quality

Erin Moorman
A multi-method approach to developing the Aim to Decrease Anxiety and Pain Treatment (ADAPT) for youth with functional abdominal pain

Jamie Moy
BDNF/TrkB signaling in the hyperalgesic priming model: temporal, sex and species differences

Jennifer Mundt
Severity and likelihood of chronic pain in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia

Vaibhav Murali
Impaired contingency learning in youth with chronic pain

Hadas Nahman-Averbuch, PhD
Meta-Analysis Confirms Modality and Location Specific Alterations in Pain Thresholds in Migraine Patients

Sarah Najjar
Epithelial-neuronal signaling in the colon

Srdjan Nedeljkovic, MD
VVZ-149 infusion reduces opioid consumption in patients with postoperative pain following colorectal surgery

Sarah Nelson
Consistency of trauma-reporting over time among young-adults with juvenile-onset fibromyalgia

Sarah Nelson
Examining Emotion Dysregulation in Youth with Functional Abdominal Pain

Timothy Ness, PhD MD
Selective inhibitory effects of a GABA-A receptor agonist on subpopulations of spinal dorsal horn neurons excited by urinary bladder distension.

Andrea Newman
Depression and Pain Catastrophizing as Mediators of the Relation Between Demographic Factors and Pain Severity

Andrea Nicol
Treatment of refractory chronic pain associated with sclerosing mesenteritis with intrathecal opioids.

Andrea Nicol
Fibromyalgia-ness in persistent low back pain after lumbar spine surgery: a preliminary investigation.

Andrea Nicol
Development of a Murine Model of Acute Burn Injury and Chronic Pain

Tom Ohlman
The temporal stability of conditioned pain modulation and temporal summation of pain in healthy older adults

Welton O’Neal
Cognitive tolerability and health outcomes with once-daily Trokendi XR (extended-release topiramate) in migraineurs

Demario Overstreet
Racial Differences in Appraisal of Physical Activity among Community-Dwelling Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain

Michael Owens
The impact of disease-specific internalized stigma on depressive symptoms, pain catastrophizing, pain interference, and alcohol use in people living with HIV and chronic pain (PLWH-CP)

Candler Paige
Microglia promote pain plasticity in males while CGRP promotes pain plasticity in females in the hyperalgesic priming model

Stacey-Ann Parker
Screening extracts of marine cyanobacteria for lead compounds to treat pain

Niteshkumar Patel
Not all epidural patches are created equal: a case report of a large cerebral spinal leak and review of emerging techniques.

Sebastian Pena
Effects of demographics and water temperature on cold pressor test responses in patients with opioid use disorder

Cristina Peterson
Inhibition of MOR-NMDAR interaction restores opioid efficacy and inhibits neuropathic pain

Jorge Pineda
Characterization of chemotherapeutic-induced visceral neuropathy.

Anna Polaski
Dose-dependent effect of walking exercise on pressure pain in humans

Richard Pollak, DPM
Efficacy and Safety of N1539, Intravenous Meloxicam, in a Phase 3 Study of Subjects with Moderate to Severe Pain following Bunionectomy

Elisabeth Powelson
Injury as a Risk Factor for Persistent Pain: Preliminary Results

Alex Pressman
Pain catastrophizing may have a moderating effect on the association between pain and secondary hyperalgesia

Alice Pressman
The failure to identify migraine related genes

Stephanie Puig
Inhibition of the Sonic Hedgehog pathway prevents morphine tolerance.

Susanne Quallich
Preliminary Clinical Characterization of Men with Chronic Unexplained Orchialgia

Luis Queme, PhD MD
VGLUT3-containing primary muscle afferents are a unique subpopulation that respond to innocuous metabolites

Patrick Quinn
Prescription opioid duration and dose: associations with substance use disorder events

Mizanur Rahman, MD
Vitamin B12 and Ketorolac on pain and inflammation in Long Evans rats

Stephen Raithel
Pre-surgical intraplantar resiniferatoxin decreases post-operative pain in rats with plantar incision.

Richard Rauck, MD
Oral methylnaltrexone for adults with chronic noncancer pain and opioid-induced constipation (OIC): timing and characterization of clinical symptoms do not suggest opioid withdrawal with daily treatment

Richard Rauck, MD
Novel design to evaluate the efficacy and safety of an abuse-deterrent, extended-release oxycodone product candidate in patients with moderate-to-severe chronic low back pain

Nicholas Reed
Lumbar spinal cord microglial hyperactivation occurs during the development of persistent low back muscle pain

Ashley Reynolds
Brief optogenetic silencing of CGRPα-expressing sensory neurons alleviates neuropathic pain behavior, whereas inhibition of CGRP signaling alleviates postoperative pain behavior. 

Madison Richey
The maintenance of NGF-induced persistent low back muscle pain is associated with lumbar spinal cord astrocytic hyperactivation

Sean Rundell, PhD PT
Multisite pain among older adults with persistent back pain and its association with longitudinal outcomes

Shivani Ruparel
Single Fiber Electrophysiology Method to study Tumor-Nerve interaction for Oral Cancer Pain

Katelyn Sadler
Asymmetric nociceptive properties of the left and right central amygdala

Muzamil Saleem
Macrophage protein expression changes following administration of anti-inflammatory drug-loaded nanoemulsion in a rat CCI model

Ana Belen Salinas-Abarca
Inhibition of ATF2 decreases mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia after spinal nerves ligation

Erica Salter
Neuropeptide Y as a Potential Neurobiological Mediator of Exercise Benefits for Pain Sensitivity in Patients with Chronic Pain and PTSD

Vivian Santiago
Community women with research diagnosed fibromyalgia characterize their pain onset.

Marta Santos, MBS
Evaluation of the Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation (TENS) in the Treatment of an Experimental Model of Neuropathic Pain and its Implications on Functionality

Melissa Santos, PhD
Parental beliefs on the impact of obesity in pediatric pain.

Melissa Santos, PhD
The pain burden inventory: a brief measure of pain intereference

Matthew Sapio
The pain transcriptome: RNA-Seq profiling of dorsal spinal cord during persistent inflammatory hyperalgesia.

Bernard Schachtel, MD
Measurement of affective, sensory and evaluative dimensions of pain using a Qualities-of-Pain Index (QPI)

Katie Schappacher
Effects of neonatal vincristine administration on pain sensitivity and nociceptive processing in the developing rat

Nicole Scheff, PhD
Tumor-derived therapeutic targets of oral cancer pain: a translational approach

Kristen Scherrer
Effects of long-term opioid use in chronic low back pain patients: results from quantitative sensory testing and behavioral measures

Victor Schneider
Covert versus overt assessment of pain tolerance

Kristin Schreiber, MD PhD
Use of a brief, portable bedside quantitative sensory test in mastectomy patients: longitudinal assessment of individual differences in pain sensitivity and prediction of clinical pain

Katharine Seagly
Pain acceptance is negatively associated with use of other types of pain coping on a daily basis in people with chronic pain and spinal cord injury

Amy Sentis
Pain processing during recalled pain differs in chronic low back pain sufferers and healthy individuals

Landrew Sevel, MS
Repeated Exposure to Clinically-Relevant Pain Stimuli Results in Changes in Functional Brain Connectivity: Evidence of Novel Pain Modulatory Adaptation

Benjamin Shaw, MS
Fingolimod behaves as an agonist at sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 to inhibit pain in an experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model of multiple sclerosis

Tayler Sheahan
mGlu2/3 differentially modulate TRPV1 sensitization in mouse and human sensory neurons

Stephanie Shiers
Neuropathic pain creates an enduring deficit in prefrontal cortex-dependent behavioral performance that is resistant to gabapentin treatment but reversed by metformin

Corey Simon
Post-operative shoulder recovery for a high-risk subgroup defined by genetic and psychological predisposition: Analysis of sensory, affective, and functional domains.

Ghanshyam Sinha, PhD
Electrophysiological properties of neuropeptide Y Y1 receptor-expressing neurons in the substantia gelatinosa of mouse spinal cord

Franck Skobieranda, MD
APOLLO-1: randomized, placebo- and active-controlled phase 3 study investigating oliceridine (TRV130), a novel μ receptor G protein Pathway Selective (μ-GPS) modulator, for management of moderate to severe acute pain following bunionectomy

Marion Slack
Self-management strategies for pain reported in population-based surveys: A systematic review

Danica Slavish
Bidirectional associations between daily pain, affect, and sleep quality in young adults with and without chronic back pain

Peter Slepian, MS BA
Pain resilience predicts improvement in self-reported physical and mental health during an interdisciplinary rehabilitation program.

Peter Slepian, MS BA
Gender, but not resilience or catastrophizing, is associated with habituation of heat pain thresholds.

Jeremiah Slutsky
Measuring clarity, relevance, and usefulness of HEAL and PROMIS measures in pain treatment through interviews with patients and their healthcare providers

Alyssa Smith
Alterations in mood are associated with dysfunctional effective connectivity in the default mode network (DMN), reward and memory related brain regions in a chronic pain population

Shannon Smith, PhD
Comparing the assay sensitivity of average pain intensity and worst pain intensity: an ACTTION meta-analysis

Lindsey Snyder
Modulation of multiple modalities of somatosensory information by peripheral kappa opioid receptors

Zongbin Song, MD
High fat diet prolongs mechanical pain responses in a rat model of postoperative pain in a sex dependent fashion.

Natasha Sosanya
Altered tropomysin receptor kinase B (TrkB) protein expression in the hypothalamus links to prolonged stress-induced enduring mechanical allodynia in naive and thermal injured rats

Levi Sowers
Investigation of brain regions underlying light-aversive behavior

Anders Springborg, BS
Validity of an enriched pharmacological study design using secondary hyperalgesia phenotypes.

Winfred Stacey
Effects of thermal and nerve injury on COX-2 expression in the prefrontal cortex of rat brain

Roland Staud, MD
Increased Spinal Cord Neuronal Activity of Healthy Individuals Correlates with Temporal Summation of Second Pain

Nora Stern
Pain education in primary care and rehab services improves patient outcomes

Andrea Stevens
Peripheral gene expression changes in the chronic constriction injury (CCI) rat model at the sciatic nerve following administration of neuroinflammation-targeted nanoparticles

Randall Stevens, MD
Safety and Tolerability of CNTX-4975 in Subjects With Chronic, Moderate to Severe Knee Pain Associated With Osteoarthritis (OA): A Pilot Study

Randall Stevens, MD
CNTX-4975 (Trans-Capsaicin) Injection Provides Clinically Meaningful Pain Reduction in Subjects With Painful Intermetatarsal Neuroma (Morton’s Neuroma): A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Dose-Ranging Study

John Streicher, PhD
Heat shock protein 90 promotes opioid-induced anti-nociception by an ERK Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase mechanism in mouse brain

Cassandra Sturycz, MA
Does trauma exposure affect temporal summation of pain and the nociceptive flexion reflex?

Zhiyong Tan
Differential Expression of Tetrodotoxin-Sensitive Sodium Currents in Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons

Yuanyuan Tang
Effect of inhibition of Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors on nitroglycerin-induced migraine headache

Casey Thacker
The association of high activity level with chronic pain: a study of midlife and older adults in the United States, England, and Europe

See Wan Tham, MBBS
Pain as a predictor of persistent post concussion symptoms in adolescents

Kathryn Thompson
The association of psychological resilience and conditioned pain modulation is moderated by optimism in adults with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis

Kathryn Thompson
Insomnia severity predicts clinical and experimental measures of pain and physical function in adults with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis

Adrianna Tilton, BS
Insomnia and clinical pain in sickle cell disease patients

Tyler Toledo
Is risk for diabetes associated with disrupted descending modulation of pain and spinal nociception?

David Tompkins, MD
Hyperalgesia in patients on long-term medication-assisted therapy for opioid use disorder

Sirima Tongkhuya
Peripheral serotonin evokes sexually dimorphic orofacial nocifensive behavior in rats

Calia Torres, MA
Reducing Disparities with Literacy-Adapted Psychosocial Treatments for Chronic Pain: The effect of the LAMP intervention on patient’s pain and psychosocial functioning

Stacie Totsch
The SAD weekend: a perilous North American tradition

Kimberlee Trudeau, PhD
Natural history of prescription opioid misuse/abuse: a qualitative investigation

Steven Tung
Reliability of Common Methodologies for Accessing Thermal Pain in Early-Phase Clinical Trials

Barbara Turner, MD
Randomized trial of multimodality chronic pain care for primary care patients in clinic versus in community: Preliminary results

Barbara Turner, MD
Challenges for U.S. National Pain Strategy in low income populations

Henrik Bjarke Vaegter
Brief Psychological Screening Questions Can Be Useful for Ruling Out Psychological Conditions in Patients with Chronic Pain

Henrik Bjarke Vaegter
Facilitated pro-nociceptive pain mechanisms in cervicobrachialgia and sciatica compared with localized neck and low back pain patients

Carolina Valencia, PhD
Heart Rate Variability Response to Experimental Pain Procedure

April Vallerand, PhD RN FAAN
A three-component approach to imrpoving perceived control over pain in African Americans with cancer pain

Janet Van Cleave, PhD RN
Pain and function in head and neck cancer: a systematic literature review

Benjamin Van Dyke, MA
Linear growth models of social support among participants of psychosocial treatment groups for chronic pain

Ben Vaughn
The relationship between the pharmacokinetics of morphine abuse-deterrent, extended-release, injection-molded tablets and pharmacodynamic outcomes in oral and intranasal human abuse potential studies

Isabel Velazquez
Role of HMGB1 and TLR4 receptor in a chronic stress-induced pain model in rats

Carolina Vera Resendiz
Dental implants: assessment of pain, discomfort, and altered sensations

Tonhu Vu, MD
The clinical efficacy of repeat magnetic resonance imaging in patients with chronic spine pain

Emily Wakesfield, PsyD
Face validity of the sickle cell disease health-related stigma scale in youth with sickle cell disease

Taylor Walls
Sex differences in the perception of pain from topical capsaicin

Laura Wandner, PhD
Use of Spinal Cord Stimulators in a Sub-Sample of the Veterans Health Administration’s Musculoskeletal Disorders Cohort from 2000-2012

Laura Wandner, PhD
Descriptive and Clinical Characteristics of Patients Prior to Receiving a Spinal Cord Stimulator at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Christopher Watson, PhD
Reduced intradermal nerve fiber density follows sustained increases in insular glutamate: a pilot study examining the potential pathogenesis of small fiber pathology in fibromyalgia (FM)

Anne-Sophie Wattiez
Immediate and delayed effects of peripherally administered CGRP in mice.

Kenneth Weber, PhD DC
Neural correlates of response inhibition in chronic low back pain: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Lynn Webster
Ventilator Hypercapnic Response (VHR) methodology

Alan White
A harm reduction model to quantify potential misuse/abuse reduction and misuse/abuse-related events avoided from extended-release abuse deterrent opioids

Marian Wilson, PhD MPH RN
Receptivity to an online pain self-management program among people with persistent pain in opioid addiction treatment

Sharon Wrona, APRN DNP RN
A multidisciplinary approach to improve pain and quality of life in children with limb-salvage procedures for pediatric bone tumors

Ning Wu
Trigeminal neuralgia: pharmacotherapy and surgical treatment patterns in the United States

Wenrui Xie, PhD
Close relationship between peripheral nerve regeneration and pain behaviors in two rat models of neuropathic pain

Xiaofang Yang
Organ-specific pelvic hypersensitivity in dams whose litters underwent neonatal maternal separation

Jessica Yasko
Transcriptional and physiological profiling of individual sensory neurons and peripheral tissue following spinal contusion injury

Yi Ye, PhD
Epidermal growth factor receptor signaling in oral cancer pain

Analise Zapadka
Phylogenetic relationships of cyanobacteria serving as possible targets for pain and depression

Jose Zeballows, MD
Infusion of VVZ-149 for postoperative pain following colorectal surgery is associated with high levels of patient satisfaction

Xin Zhang
Sustained Activation of β2- and β3ARs Leads to Phosphorylation of Neuronal MAPKs and Activation of Glial Cells in Spinal Cord and DRG

Maisa Ziadni
Is worrying about your worry detrimental to your health? Negative metacognitive thoughts about worry amplify the negative effects of pain catastrophizing on psychological and physical functioning.