Frontiers in Pain Research Lecture Series 2024-2025

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

2024

Oct 2

Lavarnan Sivanathan
Pain Physician
Toronto Academic Pain
Medicine Institute

“Opioid Management for Pain in the Post-Pandemic Era: The Toronto Experience”

Mark Ware

Nov 20

Eric Garland
Endowed Professor in Health Sciences
T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and
Compassion
Professor | Department of Psychiatry
Center for Addiction Science and Treatment -
University of California San Diego

“Targeting Chronic Pain and Opioid Misuse with Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: Effects on Clinical Outcomes and Hedonic Deregulatory Mechanisms”

Marc O. Martel

Dec 4

Yarimar Carrasquillo
Investigator
Section on Behavioral Neurocircuitry and Cellular Plasticity
NCCIH

“The Amygdala: A Pain Rheostat in the Brain”

Reza Sharif-Naeini

2025

Jan 23*

Tor Wager
Director Brain Imaging Center
Dartmouth University

“Self-regulation of pain and emotion”

Arkady Khoutorsky / Emerson Krock

Feb 18

Isaac Chiu
Associate Professor of Immunobiology
Harvard University

“Neuronal interactions with microbes in pain and itch”

Arkady Khoutorsky

Mar 19

Ziva Cooper
Director
UCLA Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids

“THC-sparing Effects of Cannabis Constituents: Potential to Reduce Harms and Improve Outcomes”

Mark Ware

Apr 16

Ewan St. John Smit
Professor of Nociception
Corpus Christi Collete
Cambridge University

“Provoking and preventing joint pain”

Emerson Krock