Sex and Gender Differences in the Neurobiology of Pain, its Experience and Management

May 30, 2024 - May 31, 2024

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This yearly meeting is for pain researchers, pain clinicians, people with lived experience of pain, and the general public to share the latest pain research findings and connect people from different backgrounds who work on or are interested in pain research.

2024 Pain Consortium Symposium on Advances in Pain Research: Sex and Gender Differences in the Neurobiology of Pain, its Experience and Management

May 30-31, 2024

Natcher Conference Center, NIH Campus, Bethesda MD

Agenda (Draft)

Day 1- May 30, 2024, 8:30am to 4:30pm | Day 2 - May 31, 8:30am to 12:30pm

May 30
8:30 am	Welcome Shannon Zenk, PhD\| Director National Institute of Nursing Research
8:40 am	Opening Remarks and Introduction of keynote speaker Vivian Ota Wang, PhD – Deputy Director, NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health
8:55 am	Keynote Address Marjorie Jenkins, MD – Dean of USC Medical School
	Panel Session: Pain by Sex, Gender, and Sexual Identity: Differences and Experience
9:35 am	Introductions Moderator: DP Mohapatra, NINDS
9:40 am	Jeff Mogil, PhD \| McGill University (via ZOOM)
10:00 am	Rob Sorge, PhD \| University of Alabama at Birmingham
10:20 am	Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk \|University at Buffalo, SUNY
10:40 am	Gunisha Kaur, MD \| Weill Cornell Medicine
11:00 am	Q&A and panel discussion
11:30 am	Poster Session Atrium - Short presentations via videocast
12:30 pm	Networking Lunch In Rooms F and G with NIH Program Officials
1:30 pm	Introduction to Mitchell Max Award Dave Thomas \| ORWH
1:40 pm	Junior Investigator Presentations
2:25 pm	BREAK
	Panel Session: Pain across the lifespan
2:45 pm	Introductions Moderator: Inna Belfer, NCCIH
2:50 pm	Pervez Sultan, MD \| Stanford University (via ZOOM)
3:10 pm	Christine Szperka, MD \| Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3:30 pm	Roger Fillingim, PhD \| University of Florida
3:50pm	Q&A and panel discussion
4:20 pm	Mitchell Max Award Presentation
4:30 pm	ADJOURN

May 31
8:30 am	Poster Session Atrium
9:00 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks Amy Kelley, MD, Deputy Director, National Institute on Aging (PRE-RECORDED)
	Panel Session: Perspectives of persons with lived experience Moderator: Karen Kehl - National Institute of Nursing Research
9:15 am	Introduction Helene Langevin, MD – Director National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
9:25am	Eden Buell
9:35am	Sharee Turpin
9:45am	Sonya Huber
9:55am	Charis Hill
10:05am	Q&A and Panel Discussion
	Panel Session: Approaches to pain management
10:40am	Introductions Moderator: Andrew Mannes, NIH Clinical Center
10:45am	Diane Hoffman, JD \|University of Maryland, Baltimore
11:05am	Sara Jane Ward, PhD \|Temple University
11:25am	Tamara Somers, PhD \| Duke University
11:45am	Q&A and panel discussion
12:15 pm	Closing Remarks Walter Koroshetz, MD – Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
12:30 pm	ADJOURN