Live Hearings on The National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium, Thursday May 31, Friday June 1

From Science to Society: At the Intersection of Chronic Pain Management and the Opioid Crisis; May 31-June 1, 2018

  • At the Intersection of Pain, Reward & Opioids
  • The BRAIN Initiative: Harnessing Technology for Pain Research
  • Disparities in Clinical Pain Management

Photos of NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams

Featured presentations with NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins (left) and US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams

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.

The NIH Pain Consortium was established to enhance pain research and promote collaboration among researchers across the many NIH Institutes and Centers that have programs and activities addressing pain. The consortium supports initiatives, development of research resources and tools, and hosts events to promote collaboration and highlight advances in pain research. For more information on the Pain Consortium, please visit www.painconsortium.nih.gov.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation’s medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the US Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.

More Information2018 Pain Consortium

You will be able to view the event at https://videocast.nih.gov when the event is live.

 

13th Annual Pain Consortium Symposium: At the Intersection of Pain Management and the Opioid Crisis (Day 1)

   
Air date: Thursday, May 31, 2018, 8:30:00 AM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
   
Description: 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.

For more information go to https://painconsortium.nih.gov/Meetings_Events/Annual_Symposium

Author: NIH
Runtime: 8 hours, 30 minutes
You will be able to view the event at https://videocast.nih.gov when the event is live.  

13th Annual Pain Consortium Symposium: At the Intersection of Pain Management and the Opioid Crisis (Day 2)

   
Air date: Friday, June 1, 2018, 8:00:00 AM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
   
Description: 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. 

For more information go to https://painconsortium.nih.gov/Meetings_Events/Annual_Symposium

Author: NIH
Runtime: 4 hours

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