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Previous Lectures:
2014
Speaker: Anesthesiologist Daniel B. Carr, MD, MA
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
A leader in pain medicine and has written extensively on the change in American health care and how they might alter pain management.
2013
"The Millitary Experience with Pain Management: Are Complementary & Integrative Practices No Longer 'Alternative'?" - Eric Bradley Schoomaker, MD, PhD, FACP
2012
Our Twenty-Seventh Annual Lecture - Heather Tick, MA, MD, CCFRP,CAFCI, DipAAPM, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology of Pain Medicine, UW Scool of Medicine, Seattle, Washington: "Chronic Pain: Moving Towards an Integrative Model"
2011
Our Twenty-Sixth Annual Lecture - Joyce A. DeLeo, PhD, Chair of Pharmacology & Toxicology, and Professor of Anesthesiology & Toxicology; Director of Academic Partnerships, SYNERGY Dartmouth Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA: "Role of CNS Glia and Infiltrating Immune Cells in Pain: Lessons Learned from the Lab and Clinic"
2010
Our Twenty-Fifth Annual Lecture - Ian Gilron, MD, MSC, FRCPC, Director of Clinical Pain Research; Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine and Pharmacology & Toxicology, Kingston General Hospital and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada: "Combination Pharmacotherapy for the Management of Pain"
2009
Our Twenty-Fourth Annual Lecture - Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, and E.P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada: "The Development of Animal Models of Common Pain Pathologies: Why and How"
2008
Our Twenty-Third Annual Lecture - James L. Henry, PhD, Scientific Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care; Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: "Animal Modeling: the Crossroads of Physiology and Clinical Pain"
2007
This year’s lecture was presented on July 19, 2007. The lecturer was Dr Robert H Dworkin, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York. The topic of his lecture was "Shingles and its Persistence: A Belt of Roses from Hell"
2006
Dr Linda Watkins, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder - "Listening' and 'Talking' to Neurons: Clinical Implications of Immune and Glial Regulation of Pain".
2005
Dr Patrick Mantayh, Professor, Department of Preventive Sciences
2004
Gerry Gebhart, Professor of Pharmacology at University of Iowa
2003
Dr Catherine Bushnell, PhD - How Pain Manifests Itself in the Brain
2002
Marshal Devor, PhD - "Neural Mechanisms of Pain in Neuropathy"
2001
Allan I. Basbaum, PhD - "The Neurochemistry of Acute and Persistent Pain"
2000
Ronald Dubner, DDS, PhD, USA - "Solving the Puzzle of Persistent Pain"
1999
David Morris, PhD, USA - "Reinventing Pain"
1998
Clifford J. Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD, MRCP, USA - "Central Sensitization and Pain"
1997
Ira Byock, MD, USA - "Dying Well: Reframing and Reclaiming Life's End"
1996
Maria Fitzgerald, MD, England - "Transient Sensory Connections in the Developing Spinal Cord - or What a Neonate Feels"
1995
Gordon Waddell, MD, Scotland - "Contemporary Management of Low Back Pain"
1994
John C. Liebeskind, PhD, USA - "Pain Can Kill"
1993
Dennis Turk, PhD, USA - " Cognitive Factors in Chronic Pain: Psychological, Physiological and Behavioral Effects"
1992
Gary J. Bennett, PhD, USA - "Pathogenic Mechanisms of Painful Peripheral Neuropathy: Evidence from an Experimental Model"
1991
Mitchell B. Max, MD, USA - "Clinical Trials in Neuropathic Pain"
1990
Kathleen Foley, MD, USA - "Controversies in the Management of Cancer Pain"
1989
Howard L. Fields, MD, PhD, USA
1988
Ulf Lindblom, MD, Sweden - "Neuropathic and Musculoskeletal Pain: Mechanisms and Diagnostic Criteria"
1987
Patrick D. Wall, MD, England - "Why Some Pains Resist Treatment"
1986
Ron Melzack, PhD, Canada - " The Challenge of Pain"
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