Tampa, FL, May 8-10, 2008
Tampa Convention Center and Marriot Tampa Waterside Hotel & Marina, Tampa, Florida
- Annual Meeting Registration Deadlines: After April 28 please register onsite
- Conference Update
- 2008 Annual Conference Evaluation
Meeting Benefits
Designed for a diverse group of pain clinicians, scientists and other professionals, the 27th Annual Scientific Meeting features a prominent faculty presenting basic, translational, and clinical research advancements.
- Interact with cutting-edge researchers.
- Translate scientific discoveries into clinical practice.
- Network with your colleagues.
- Hear from policy makers about issues that directly affect you.
- Raise questions, debate the implications, plan follow-up studies, and discuss results.
- Discuss your own research and clinical observations.
- Meet with poster presenters to learn about their thinking and future research directions.
- Visit more than 150 booths that feature products and services specifically designed for multidisciplinary leaders who study and treat pain.
Conference Purpose and Objectives
The 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society will offer current information about the diagnosis, treatment, and management of acute pain, chronic cancer and noncancer pain, and recurrent pain. In-depth workshops are planned and are designed to enhance research or clinical skills pertinent to the management of pain; they will feature content appropriate for professionals at several experience levels.
Each year the APS Scientific Program Committee carefully reviews attendees’ evaluations in order to organize a scientific program which addresses a broad range of topics related to pain research and treatment.
- Designed for a diverse group of scientists, pain clinicians, and other professionals, the 27th Annual Scientific Meeting features a prominent faculty presenting basic, translational, and clinical research advancements.
- Interact with cutting-edge researchers.
- Translate scientific discoveries into clinical practice.
- Network with your colleagues.
- Hear from policy makers about issues that directly affect you.
- Raise questions, debate the implications, plan follow-up studies, and discuss results.
- Discuss your own research and clinical observations.
- Meet with poster presenters to learn about their thinking and future research directions.
- Visit more than 150 booths that feature products and services specifically designed for multidisciplinary leaders who study and treat pain.
Interactive Workshops
New in 2008 are in-depth, interactive workshops. These are scheduled to take place on Friday, May 9 from 8:30 am to 12:15 pm.
Parental and Socio-cultural Factors in Pediatric Pain: Laboratory-based, Translational and Clinical Research Perspectives
Susmita Kashikar-Zuck, PhD (Moderator); Christine Chambers, PhD; Tonya Palermo, PhD; Christopher Eccleston, PhD; Qian Lu, MD PhD; Subhadra Evans, PhD
This workshop will address findings from laboratory-based, translational and clinical research on parental and socio-cultural factors that determine children’s pain experience and ability to cope with pain. There will be an interactive discussion about 1) implications for the development of effective behavioral therapies using knowledge gained from laboratory based research, and 2) future research directions including the combined use of traditional and non-traditional research methodologies to study social and cultural factors in pediatric pain.
Promoting Safe and Effective Chronic Opioid Therapy: An Integration of Scientific Evidence and Practice Considerations
Robert Kerns, PhD (Moderator); Jodie Trafton, PhD; Bruce Naliboff, PhD; Bridget Ann Martell, MD MA; Paul Kreis, MD; Kenneth Berkowitz, MD FCCP; Scott Fishman, MD
This workshop will review the evidence base for patient-level and public health concerns related to chronic opioid therapy and propose strategies for promoting safe and effective use of opioids. Faculty will also conduct a case-based discussion of important clinical, ethical, and legal issues relevant to the safe and effective use of opioids for the management of chronic, non-malignant pain.
Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels and Calcium Channels in Pain Transmission and Therapy
Robert Gereau, PhD (Moderator); John Wood, PhD DSc; Sulayman Dib-Hajj, PhD; Michael Jarvis, PhD; Yu-Qing Cao, PhD; Cenk Ayata, MD; Charlie Taylor, PhD; Terrance Snutch, PhD FRSC
This workshop focuses on voltage-gated sodium channels found in nociceptors and their role in pain, as well as voltage-gated calcium channels in pain transmission and therapy. Speakers will discuss both inherited pain disorders mediated by mutations in voltage-gated sodium channels and the analgesic properties of novel compounds that target these ion channels. Speakers will also discuss research progress of calcium channel mutations associated with familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 as well as compounds that target calcium channels for chronic pain treatment.
Lectures
APS is pleased to present the following lectures at the 27th Annual Scientific Meeting:
Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award
Srinivasa Raja, MD
From Poppies to Pill-Popping: Is there a “Middle Way?”
The Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award and Lecture was established in 1995 to recognize and honor career achievement in clinical research on pain. The award has been named for Wilbert E. Fordyce, PhD, the first recipient of this honor.
Frederick W.L. Kerr Basic Science Research Award
Karin Westlund High, PhD
“Stopping Pain in Its Tracts”
This award and lectureship were established in 1987 in honor of Frederick W.L. Kerr, a founder of the American Pain Society, to recognize individual excellence and achievement in pain scholarship. Since then, the Kerr medallion has been presented to 14 outstanding pain professionals—researchers and clinicians—whose career achievements have made important contributions to the field of pain.
