LOCATION: THE ASSEMBLY AUDITORIUM
| 8:00 – 8:30 AM | Registration and Refreshments Check-in to pick up your name badge at the registration table. Coffee, tea, and water will be available |
| 8:30 – 8:35 AM | Welcome Remarks Pain Day recap and Overview: Benedict Alter MD, PhD, and Rebecca Seal, PhD |
| 8:35 AM – 8:55 AM | Trent D. Emerick, MD, MBA, FASA CIPC, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh “Current Interventional Approaches to Pain Management” |
| 8:55 AM – 9:15 AM | Jami L. Saloman, PhD PCPR, Departments of Neurobiology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh “Unraveling Pancreatitis Pain: Novel Mechanisms and Models” |
| 8:55 AM – 9:15 AM | BREAK |
| 9:30 AM – 9:50 AM | Andreas Pfenning, PhD Carnegie Mellon University “Selective Inhibition of Chronic Pain by Integrating AI and Genomic Screening” |
| 9:50 AM – 10:00 AM | Sam Noh, PhD PCPR, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh “A Convergent Spinal Node for Mechanical Allodynia: From Circuit Identification to Enhancer Based Targeting” |
| 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM | Keith M. Vogt, MD, PhD, FASA CIPC, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh “Neuroimaging of Pain Modulation by Anesthetic and Analgesic Agents” |
| 10:20 AM – 10:25 AM | Ms. Simran Kulkarni Pitt undergrad engineering; Dr. Kevin Bell mentor - LB3P, BME “Evaluating Posture Estimation of Accelerometry Data Through Signal Analysis and Custom Classification” |
| 10:25 AM – 10:30 AM | Ms. Kristina Boyd Pitt Anes Data Scientist and Epidemiology PhD student “Opioid-Free Perioperative Pain Management” |
| 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | BREAK |
| 10:45 AM – 11:05 AM | Karly A. Edwards, PhD Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh “Innovative Behavioral Treatments for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder” |
| 11:05 AM – 11:25 AM | John A. Pollock, PhD Duquesne University “Neuroimmune Modulation with COX-2 Inhibiting Nanoemulsions: Sex Differences in the Molecular Cell Biology of Pain and Pain-Relief” |
| 11:25 AM – 11:35 AM | Allison Bean MD, PhD LB3P, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh “A Multimodal Ultrasound-Based Biomarker for Myofascial Pain” |
| 11:35 AM – 11:40 AM | Min Gon Kim, PhD University of Pittsburgh, CNUP graduate student, Dr. Nicole Scheff mentor in PCPR, Neurobiology, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center “Low-Intensity Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Chronic Pain: Linking EEG Activity, Cellular Responses, and Behavior” |
| 11:35 AM – 11:40 AM | Mr. André Martel Matos Carnegie Mellon University postdoc, Dr. Bin He mentor at CMU-BME “Cancer-Induced Nerve Injury Unveils a Sympathetic-to-Sensory Nerve Axis in Head and Neck Cancer” |
LOCATION: CRANE SHED
| 11:45 – 12:45 PM | Lunch Network, relax, and enjoy a midday break with fellow attendees. |
LOCATION: THE ASSEMBLY AUDITORIUM
| 1:00 – 1:50 PM | Laureate Lecture Series Beth Darnall, PhD Stanford University Keynote Lecture: “Enhancing Access to Pain Relief: Evidence, Implementation, and Opportunities” |
| 1:50 – 2:00 PM | BREAK |
| 2:00 – 2:50 PM | Laureate Lecture Series Clifford J. Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD Harvard University Keynote Lecture: “Spontaneous Neuropathic Pain” |
| 2:50 – 3:00 PM | Comments on Pittsburgh Pain Research Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences John and Gertrude Petersen Dean, School of Medicine Professor of Psychiatry Professor of Clinical and Translational Science University of Pittsburgh |
| 3:00 – 3:05 PM | Pain Challenge Updates and Outcomes Virginia Kaufmann Pain Challenge |
| 3:05 PM – 3:10 PM | Pittsburgh Pain Consortium - What's Next Benedict Alter MD, PhD, and Rebecca Seal, PhD Pittsburgh Pain Consortium |
LOCATION: CRANE SHED
Beverages located outside The Assembly Auditorium
| 3:10 – 3:30 PM | Poster Setup Poster presenters, hang posters Poster judges report to registration table |
| 3:30 – 4:30 PM | Poster Presentations Poster presenters should stand by their posters for judging if they are trainees and have been notified they have been selected for in-person judging |
| 4:30 – 5:00 PM | Wrap Up Luster Awards for Best Research announced |