Tampa, FL, May 8-10, 2008

Conference Overview

Tuesday, May 6

 

Resident’s Course

 

Wednesday, May 7

 

Resident’s Course

7 pm

Data Blitz for Clinical and Basic Science Research

 

Thursday, May 8

7:45-8 am

Gathering and Welcome

8-8:30 am Allan Basbaum, PhD

Keynote Address
The Neurobiology of Pain
Allan Basbaum, PhD

8:30-9 am

State of the Society
Judith Paice, PhD RN FAAN

9-9:30 am Gary Macfarlane, MD

Plenary Session
Chronic Pain in Adults: Is It Influenced by Early Life Events?
Gary Macfarlane, MD

9:30-11 am

Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall

11:15 am-12:45 pm

Symposia

1-2:30 pm

Corporate Satellite Lunch Symposia

2:45-4:15 pm

Symposia and Paper Presentations

4:45-6:15 pm

Author-Attended Poster Session*

6-7:30 pm

SIG Meetings

7:30-10:30 pm

Clinical Centers of Excellence and Awards Gala

 

Friday, May 9

6:45-8:15 am

Corporate Satellite Breakfast Symposia

8:30-10 am

Workshops and Symposia

10:45 am-12:15 pm

Workshops and Symposia

12:30-2 pm

Corporate Satellite Lunch Symposia

2:15-2:45 pm Mitchell Max, MD

Plenary Session
Toward a Molecular Epidemiology of Pain: Recent Gene Association Studies
Mitchell Max, MD

2:45-3:15 pm John N. Wood, PhD DSc

Plenary Session
Peripheral Pain Pathways
John N. Wood, PhD DSc

4-5:30 pm

Author-Attended Poster Session*

5:30-6:30 pm

SIG Meetings

6:30-8:30 pm

Corporate Satellite Dinner Symposium

6:30-8:30 pm

Basic Science and Research Forum Dinner

9:30 pm-1 am

An Evening with the Pain Sensations

 

Saturday, May 10

7:30-9 am

SIG Meeting

9-9:30 am Karin Westlund High, PhD

Frederick W. L. Kerr Basic Science Research Lecture
Stopping Pain in Its Tracts
Karin Westlund High, PhD

9:30-10 am Srinivasa Raja, MD

Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Lecture
From Poppies to Pill Popping: Is There a Middle Way?
Srinivasa Raja, MD

10:15-11:45 am

Symposia and Paper Presentations

Noon-1:30 pm

Corporate Satellite Lunch Symposium

1:45-3:15 pm

Symposia and Paper Presentations

*Posters ending in odd numbers will be presented on Thursday, and posters ending in even numbers will be presented on Friday.