The American Pain Society's 26th Annual Scientific Meeting (May 2 – 5, 2007)
Washington, D.C.

Welcome, APS Attendees!

Schedule of Events and Session Handouts

Please click on the sessions within the schedule below to view a listing of the session’s faculty and to access handout materials submitted by the presenters. Please note that to date, APS has not received handout materials from every speaker. We will continue to update the handout links as we receive additional materials. Printed handouts will not be available at the meeting. Please plan to print the handouts you need and bring them with you. Handouts will remain available online until June 1, 2007.

  • Recorded presentation file.
  • Multiple file types available-including some recordings.
 
May 2, 2007

Pre-Conference Workshop


1:00 PM-5:00 PM
1 Integrating Individual Responder Approaches and Pharmacogenetics for Clinical Pain Research
 
May 3, 2007

8:00 AM-8:45 AM
100 Keynote Address

8:45 AM-9:15 AM
101 Glial-Neuronal Interactions: Implications for Chronic Pain and Its Treatment

9:15 AM-9:30 AM
Special Remarks from the APS President

11:15 AM-12:45 PM
301 HSV Viral Vector Translational Approaches to Pain Relief
302 The Battlefield and Beyond: Pain Among Returning OIF and OEF Soldiers
303 Acceptance, Mindfulness, Values, and Cognition in a Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Chronic Pain
304 Assessing and Treating Pain in People with Advanced Dementia
305 Long Term Implications of Repeated Pain in Neonates
306 Alpha-2 Adrenergic Receptors in Acute and Chronic Pain: Actions and Interactions

2:45 PM-4:15 PM
307 Immune-glial and Pain Interactions
308 The Role of Exercise in Pain Management
309 Ethnicity and Pain: Where Policy, Cultures and Science Intersect
310 Past and Current State of Multidisciplinary Treatment Programs
311 Comparative Studies of Standard Sensory Assessment Methods with Operant Conditioning Paradigms
312 Paper Presentations: Molecular Approaches to Pain and Pain Treatment

4:45 PM-6:15 PM
Poster Session I
 
May 4, 2007

8:45 AM-9:15 AM
102 The Nature and Nurture of Pain

9:15 AM-9:45 AM
103 Obstetric Pain: Acute and Chronic?

10:15 AM-11:45 AM
313 Neurotrophic Growth Factors and Pain Signaling
314 The Neurocognitive Effects of Opioids
315 All You Need to Know About Gene Silencing: RNAi in vitro and in vivo
316 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Interventions for Chronic Pain: Efficacy, Mechanism of Action, and Integration into Multidisciplinary Pain Management Practice
317 Bridging the Gap Between Preclinical Pain Models and Clinical Efficacy in Pain
318 Paper Presentations: Diverse Therapies for Diverse Pain Syndromes

1:45 PM-3:15 PM
319 Peripheral and Supraspinal Mechanisms of Above-level Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury
320 New Investigator Guide to the NIH Grant Process, Training Programs, and Funding Opportunities
321 Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
322 The Evaluation and Management of Pain-related Disability in Workers’ Compensation Claims
323 The Mayday Pain and Society Fellowship Experience: A Media and Policy Initiative
324 Paper Presentations: Physiological and Psychosocial Influences on Pain Outcomes

4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Poster Session II

6:30 PM-8:30 PM
132 Basic Science Research Forum Dinner: Defining the Pain Proteome: Issues and Opportunities
 
May 5, 2007

8:15 AM-9:00 AM
104 Decade of Pain Control and Research Special Lecture: Advancing Pain and Palliative Care Nationally and Globally

9:00 AM-10:15 AM
105 Business Meeting and Award Presentations

10:15 AM-11:00 AM
106 Frederick W.L. Kerr Basic Science Research Award Presentation and Lecture: Analgesic Synergies in the Spinal Cord: Neurochemical Dissection and Clinical Implications

11:15 AM-12:00 PM
107 Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award and Lecture: The Biopsychosocial Approach to the Etiology, Assessment, Treatment and Prevention of Chronic Pain

1:30 PM-3:00 PM
325 Beyond the Messenger: Translational Regulation as a Novel Target for Pain Management
326 The Therapeutic Potential of Cannabis and Cannabinoids
327 Understanding Pain Expression: Language, Behavior and Distress
328 Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Programs: Developing U.S. Models of Clinical Service and Education
329 Persistent Pain , the Hippocampus, and Depression – Mechanistic Links?
330 Epidemiology of Pain: From Classical to Molecular Approaches


  • [Recording]
  • [Handout]
  • Multiple file types available-including some recordings.