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 pm
Welcome

4:05-5 pm
Session 1

5-6 pm
Session 2

6:30–8 pm
Welcome Reception

For more information regarding Spring Pain sessions, visit www.springpainconference.com.

Tuesday, May 12

Spring Pain Conference

8-9 am
Session 3

9-10 am
Session 4

10-11 am
Session 5

11 am-Noon
Session 6

Noon-12:30 pm
Plenary Session 1

1–6 pm
Optional Afternoon Activities for Spring Pain

For more information regarding Spring Pain sessions, visit www.springpainconference.com.

Wednesday, May 13 

Spring Pain Conference

8-9 am
Session 7

9-10 am
Session 8

10-11 am
Session 9

11 am-Noon
Session 10

Noon-12:30 pm
Plenary Session 2/Spring Pain Closing

For more information regarding Spring Pain sessions, visit www.springpainconference.com.

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

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
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

12:45–2 pm
Lunch Symposium

2:15–3:45 pm
Symposia Sessions

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   
Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings

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

12:15–1:30 pm
Lunch Symposia

1:45–3:15 pm
Symposia Sessions

1:45–5 pm
Workshops

3:30–5 pm
Symposia Sessions

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

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

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

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