All sessions will take place at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine Auditorium located at 10 Discovery Drive, Farmington, Connecticut. Listed below is the schedule for the conference:
November 30, 2017
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 7:00 AM–8:00 AM | Check-In (Continental breakfast) |
| 8:00 AM–8:10 AM | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:10 AM–9:00 AM | Robert Sorge, PhD, University of Alabama-Birmingham "Diet and Pain: Interactions and Interventions" |
| 9:00 AM–9:30 AM | Angela Starkweather, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, CNRN, FAAN, University of Connecticut School of Nursing "Risk Factors of the Transition from Acute to Chronic Low Back Pain" |
| 9:30 AM–10:00 AM | Erin Young, PhD, University of Connecticut School of Nursing "Precision Healthcare for Abdominal Pain: Identifying novel targets to address pain at the source" |
| 10:00 AM–10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM–11:20 AM | William Maixner, DDS, PhD, Duke University "Advances in Translational Medicine: New Targets and New Ways of Diagnosing and Caring for the Complex Pain Patient" |
| 11:20 AM–11:50 AM | William T. Zempsky, MD, MPH, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center "Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease: From Bedside to Bench" |
| 11:50 AM–1:00 PM | Lunch (Provided) |
| 1:00 PM–1:50 PM | Luda Diatchenko, MD, PhD, McGill University "In a search for a pain gene" |
| 1:50 PM–2:20 PM | Kyle M. Baumbauer, PhD, University of Connecticut School of Nursing "Transcriptional profiling of individual sensory neurons reveals high priority candidate genes underlying pain following spinal cord injury" |
| 2:20 PM–2:50 PM | Coffee Break |
| 2:50 PM–3:40 PM | Robert Kerns, PhD, Yale University "Integrated precision chronic pain management: Ready or not?" |
| 3:40 PM–4:30 PM | Theodore Price, PhD, University of Texas-Dallas "Mechanisms governing the transition to chronic pain" |