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April 17, 2006
7:30 a.m. REGISTRATION and CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00 a.m.OPENING REMARKS

NIH Pain Consortium Co-Chairs:
Patricia Grady, R.N., M.S, Ph.D.
Director, National Institute of Nursing Research
Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Robert Jamison, Ph.D.
Executive Committee, Board of Directors, American Pain Society
8:30 a.m.GENETICS AND PAIN

Moderator: John Kusiak, Ph.D.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Pain Consortium Representative
Alan Basbaum, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
A Genetic Approach to Tracing Pain Transmission Circuits
David Fink, M.D.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Gene Transfer to the DRG for the Treatment of Pain
Luda Diatchenko, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Genetic Basis for Development of Chronic Pain Conditions

Panel: Questions and Answers
10:00 a.m.BREAK
10:30 a.m.NEURONAL AND GLIAL MECHANISMS OF PAIN

Moderator: David Thomas, Ph.D.
National Institute on Drug Abuse Pain Consortium Representative
Linda Watkins, Ph.D.
University of Colorado, Boulder
Activated Glia: Culprits in Neuropathic Pain, Opioid Tolerance, and Opioid Dependence
Justin McArthur, MBBS, M.P.H.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
HIV and Painful Peripheral Neuropathy
Qiufu Ma, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston
Runx1 Determines Nociceptor Phenotype Necessary for Thermal and Neuropathic Pain

Panel: Questions and Answers
12:00 p.m.LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
1:30 p.m.THE ROLE OF IMAGING IN PAIN RESEARCH

Moderator: Richard Nahin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Pain Consortium Representative
David Borsook, M.D, Ph.D.
McLean Hospital, Belmont
fMRI of Trigeminal Pain Pathways in Health and Disease
Robert Coghill, Ph.D.
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem Neural Correlates of the Subjective Experience of Pain
M. Catherine Bushnell, Ph.D.
McGill University, Montreal
Effects of Attention and Emotion on Pain Perception
3:00 p.m.BREAK
3:30 p.m.COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF PAIN

Moderator: Ray Dionne, D.D.S., Ph.D.
National Institute of Nursing Research Intramural Research Director
Roger Fillingim, Ph.D.
University of Florida, Gainesville
Individual Differences in Pain and Analgesia: Genes, Gender, and Ethnicity
Jennifer Haythornthwaite, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Cognitive Factors That Enhance Pain Processing
Ted Kaptchuk
Harvard University, Boston
The Placebo Effect: New Insights

Panel: Questions and Answers
5:00 p.m.RECEPTION AND POSTER VIEWING
April 18, 2006
8:00 a.m.REGISTRATION and CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 a.m.HEADACHE

Moderator: Linda Porter, Ph.D.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Pain Consortium Representative
Michael Moskowitz, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown
Cortical Spreading Depression: A pain Stimulus and Target for Prophylaxis in Migraine?
Rami Burstein, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Boston
Defeating Migraine Pain: A Race Against the Development of Central Sensitization and Cutaneous Allodynia

Panel: Questions and Answers
10:00 a.m.BREAK
10:30 a.m.CANCER PAIN: RESEARCH AND INTERVENTIONS

Moderator: Wendy Smith, M.A., Ph.D.
National Cancer Institute Pain Consortium Representative
Patrick Mantyh, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Bone Cancer Pain: Causes, Consequences and Therapeutic Opportunities
Christine Miaskowski, R.N., Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Improving Pain Management and Patient Outcomes Through a Self-Care Intervention

Panel: Questions and Answers
12:00 p.m.LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
1:30 p.m.NOVEL THERAPIES FOR PAIN

Moderator: Michael Iadarola, Ph.D.
Chief, Neurobiology and Pain Therapeutics Section
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Baldomero Olivera, Ph.D.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Conus Peptides: Discovering Diverse Non-Opioid Mechanisms for Alleviating Pain
James Eisenach, M.D.
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem
Preoperative Treatment for Postoperative Pain Management
Christopher DeCharms, Ph.D.
Omneuron, Menlo Park
A New Technology for Measuring and Potentially Controlling Brain Activation
Associated with Pain: Real Time Functional Brain Imaging

Panel: Questions and Answers
3:00 p.m.JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR PRESENTATIONS

Moderator: Alexis Bakos, M.S.N., Ph.D.
Program Director
National Institute of Nursing Research
Erin Dannecker, Ph.D.
University of Missouri, Columbia
Exercise-induced Muscle Pain in Humans
Asma Khan, B.D.S., Ph.D.
University of Texas, Health Sciences Center, San Antonio
TNF regulation of TRPV1 in Rat Trigeminal Neurons
Susan Dorsey, R.N., Ph.D.
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Modeling NRTI-Induced Allodynia in the Mouse
3:45 p.m.CLOSING REMARKS
Story Landis, Ph.D.

Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke