NIH Annual Pain Consortium Symposium: At the Intersection of Pain Management and the Opioid Crisis

The NIH Pain Consortium sponsors an annual symposium on a significant topic relevant to pain. This symposium features NIH supported researchers whose work has made an important contribution to pain research. In addition to speakers and panel sessions, there is a poster session featuring early career investigators. Researchers with the best abstracts are selected to give an oral presentation, and the best presenter receives the Mitchell Max Award for Best Poster.

Registration is now open.

The 2018 symposium, “From Science to Society: At the Intersection of Chronic Pain Management and the Opioid Crisis”, will feature panel sessions on the Intersection of Pain, Reward & Opioid Tolerance; The BRAIN Initiative: Harnessing Technology for Pain Research; and Disparities in Clinical Pain Management.

The keynote address titled “Unintended Consequences: Ensuring Access to Pain Control during an Opioid Epidemic” will be delivered by Judith A. Paice, PhD, RN, Northwestern University.

A poster session will include a broad selection of current pain research findings presented by junior investigators. Please note the poster session is by invitation only. Members of the extramural scientific community, the NIH scientific community, health care providers, and the public are invited to attend.  The event is free and open to the public.

We encourage in-person attendance, but for those unable to attend in-person, the meeting will be videocast live.  

View the agenda here and register here for in-person and webcast attendees