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Milano Convention Centre | August 27-31, 2012

Congress Faculty

Faculty Chair: Irene Tracey, PhD, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Eske K. Aasvang, MD, Rigshospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tasuku Akiyama, PhD, University of California, Davis, Davis, USA
Steven Andrews, PhD, Array BioPharma, Boulder, USA
Vania Apkarian, PhD, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Lars Arendt-Nielsen, DMSc, PhD, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Charles Argoff, MD, Albany Medical College, Albany, USA
Nadine Attal, MD, PhD, INSERM U987 and Hopital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Jane C. Ballantyne, MD, FRCA, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Ralf Baron, MD, PhD, Campus Kiel, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
Ulf Baumgärtner, MD, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
Susanne Becker, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Inna Belfer, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC, Pittsburgh, USA
Kim Bennell, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
David L. Bennett, MB, PhD, MRCP, King's College, London, UK
Michael I. Bennett, MB, ChB, MD, FRCP, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Rafael Benoliel, BDS, Hadassah-Hebrew University Faculty of Dentistry, Jerusalem, Israel
Karen J. Berkley, PhD, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Chantal Berna, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA
Ulrike Bingel, MD, PhD, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Lori A. Birder, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
Frank Birklein, MD, Universitaetsmedizin Mainz, Mainz, Germany
L. Ashley Blackshaw, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Fiona M. Blyth, PhD, MBBS, FAFPHM, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Fiona M. Boissonade, BDS, PhD, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Michael R. Bond, MD, PhD, DSc, DUniv, FRCS, FRCPsych, FRCP, FRCA, FRSE, FRSA, University of Glasgow,
 Glasgow, UK
David Borsook, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, USA
Didier Bouhassira, MD, PhD, INSERM U 987 and APHP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Stuart Brierley, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Mark T. Brown, MD, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton, USA
Rami Burstein, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Phyllis N. Butow, PhD, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Asokumar Buvanendran, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
Annmarie Cano, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Augusto T. Caraceni, MD, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy
Earl Carstens, PhD, University of California-Davis, Davis, USA
Nicolas Cenac, INSERM U1043, Toulouse, France
Stefania Ceruti, PhD, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
C. Richard Chapman, PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Pongparadee Chaudakshetrin, Pain Management Clinic, Bangkok, Thailand
Catherine L. Cherry, MBBS, PhD, Burnet Institute, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Clifton Hill, Australia
Santina Chiechio, PhD, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Rolando Cimaz, Anna Meyer Childrens Hospital, Florence, Italy
Daniel J. Clauw, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Terence J. Coderre, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Robert C. Coghill, PhD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA
Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA
Matilde Cordero-Erausquin, PhD, INCI – CNRS UPR 3212, Strasbourg, France
Michael Costigan, PhD, Children's Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA
Kenneth D. Craig, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Geert Crombez, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Giorgio Cruccu, MD, PhD, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Karen D. Davis, PhD, Toronto Western Research Institute and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Antoon De Laat, DentSci, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Ruth Defrin, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Stuart W. Derbyshire, Reader, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Marshall Devor, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Vincenzo Di Marzo, PhD, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
Luda Diatchenko, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, West Haven, USA
Anthony H. Dickenson, PhD, University College London, London, UK
Greg Dussor, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Robert Edwards, PhD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Chestnut Hill, USA
Eli Eliav, DMD, PhD, UMD, NJ, Newark, USA
Jens Ellrich, MD, PhD, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Deborah Falla, PT, PhD, University Hospital Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, MD, PhD, University Hospital of Liege, Liege, Belgium
César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, PT, MSc, DO, PhD, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain
Michel Ferrari, MD, PhD, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
G. Allen Finley, MD, FRCPC, FAAP, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Nanna B. Finnerup, Assoc. Prof, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Michael J. M. Fischer, MD, PhD, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Scott M. Fishman, MD, Sacramento, USA
Maria Fitzgerald, PhD, University College London, London, UK
Herta Flor, PhD, CIMH, Mannheim, Germany
Robert D. Foreman, PhD, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA
Matthew O. Fraser, PhD, Duke University & Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, Apex, USA
Felipe Fregni, MD, PhD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Kaj J. Fried, BDS, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
Julie Fritz, PT, PhD, ATC, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Perry N. Fuchs, PhD, University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, USA
Shin Fukudo, MD, PhD, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Alberto Gallace, PhD, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Luis Garcia-Larrea, MD, PhD, INSERM, Lyon, France
G. F. Gebhart, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Sandrine M. Geranton, PhD, University College London, London, UK
Hans J. Gerbershagen, MD, PhD, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Stephen John Gibson, PhD, National Aging Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Janne Gierthmühlen, MD, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
Ian Gilron, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Michael S. Gold, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Liesbet Goubert, PhD, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Brett A. Graham, PhD, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
Joshua A. Grant, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Thomas Graven-Nielsen, DMSc, PhD, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Yun Guan, PhD, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Maija L. Haanpää, MD, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Menachem Hanani, PhD, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Denise M. Harrison, MN, RN, PhD, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Monika I. Hasenbring, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Christiane Hermann, PhD, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Aki Hietaharju, MD, PhD, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
Paul W. Hodges, PhD, MedDr, DScB, The University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences,
 Brisbane, Australia
Peter Holzer, PhD, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Fred M. Howard, MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, USA
Richard Howard, MB, ChB, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
Wenlong Huang, MBBS, PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK
David I. Hughes, PhD, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Anna Huguet, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Canada
Stephen P. Hunt, PhD, University College London, London, UK
Bettina S. Husebo, Postdoctoral FE, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Mark R. Hutchinson, PhD (Med), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Frank Huygen, MD, PhD, Erasmusmc, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Giandomenico Iannetti, MD, PhD, University College London, London, UK
Kazuhide Inoue, PhD, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Eufemia Jacob, UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, USA
Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, UCSF, Los Angeles, USA
Mark P. Jensen, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Rigmor Jensen, MD, PhD, Danish Headache Center, Glostrup, Denmark
Troels S. Jensen, MD, DMSc, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Ru-Rong Ji, PhD, BWH, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
Ian N. Johnston, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Eija A. Kalso, MD, DMedSci, Helskinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Peter Kamerman, PhD, University of the Witwatersrand, Parktown, South Africa
Ted J. Kaptchuk, BA, OMD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Zaza Katsarava, MD, PhD, MSc, University of Essen, Essen, Germany
Joel Katz, York University, Toronto, Canada
Francis J. Keefe, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA
Henrik Kehlet, MD, PhD, Copenhagen University Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Edmund Keogh, PhD, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Brigitte L. Kieffer, PhD, IGBMC, Illkirch, France
Regine Klinger, PhD, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Roger D. Knaggs, PhD, MRPharmS, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Anne-Kari Knudsen, MD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Stephanie C. Koch, PhD, University College London, London, UK
Eva Kosek, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Klas Kullander, PhD, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Rohini Kuner, PhD, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Miriam Kunz, PhD, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
Jennifer M. Laird, PhD, AstraZeneca R&D-Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Richard M. Langford, FRCA, FFPMRCA, Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, UK
William R. Lariviere, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
Stefan Lautenbacher, PhD, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
Judy A. Le Page, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur, MD, PhD, Hopital Henri Mondor, APHP, Créteil, France
Valéry Legrain, PhD, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Massimo Leone, MD, Carlo Besta Neurological Institute Foundation, Milan, Italy
Jon D. Levine, MD, PhD, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Roy C. Levitt, MD, Veterans Administration, Miami VA Medical Center, Miami, USA
Bengt Linderoth, MD, PhD, Karolinska University Hosptial, Stockholm, Sweden
Steven J. Linton, PhD, Orebro University, Örebro, Sweden
David Lussier, MD, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Chris G. Maher, PhD, The George Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Chris J. Main, PhD, FBPsS, Keele University, Manchester, UK
Sabatino Maione, The Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
William Maixner, DDS, PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
Marzia Malcangio, PhD, King's College London, London, UK
Anne-Marie Malfait, MD, PhD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
Patrick W. Mantyh, PhD, JD, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Tucson, USA
Arne May, MD, University of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Emeran A. Mayer, MD, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
John McBeth, PhD, Keele University, Keele, UK
Lance M. McCracken, PhD, King's College London, London, UK
Jason J. McDougall, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Samuel McLean, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Stephen B. McMahon, PhD, King's College, London, UK
Joanna L. McParland, PhD, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK
Mary Lynn McPherson, PharMD, BCPS, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, USA
Winfried Meissner, MD, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany
George Mendelson, MD, FFPMANZCA, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Duncan Mitchell, MSc, PhD, University of the Witwatersrand, Parktown, South Africa
Jeffrey S. Mogil, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Andrew Moore, DSc, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Lorimer Moseley, PhD, FACP, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
André Mouraux, MD, PhD, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Istvan Nagy, Imperial College London, London, UK
Vitaly Napadow, PhD, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, USA
Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Volker Neugebauer, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
Michael K. Nicholas, PhD, University of Sydney at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Kathryn Nicholson Perry, PhD, University of Western Sydney, Penrith South DC, Australia
Christopher S. Nielsen, PhD, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Koichi Noguchi, MD, PhD, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan
Richard B. North, MD, Berman Brain and Spine Institute, Baltimore, USA
Kenji Okuse, PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK
Kristin Ørstavik, MD, PhD, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
Noriyuki Ozaki, MD, PhD, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
Judith A. Paice, PhD, RN, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
Jiri Palecek, MD, PhD, Institute of Physiology Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Ranjith W. Pallegama, BDS, PhD, University of Peradeniya, Peredeniya, Sri Lanka
Gisele Pickering, MD, DPharm, PhD, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Markus Ploner, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Frank Porreca, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Donald D. Price, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Glen Allen, USA
Theodore J. Price, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Dirk Rasche, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
Richard L. Rauck, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA
Andrew S. Rice, MB, BS, MD, FRCA, Imperial College London, London, UK
Frank L. Rice, PhD, Albany Medical College, Albany, USA
Sarah E. Ross, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Michael Rowbotham, MD, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Michael W. Salter, MD, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Daniela Salvemini, PhD, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
Peter S. Sandor, MD, Privatdozent, University of Zürich, RehaClinic, Baden Dätwill, Switzerland
Jamir J. Sarda, Psych, MSc, PhD, Univali, Aced, Singular Centro de Dor, Florianópolis, Brazil
Seddon Savage, MD, MS, Dartmouth University, Concord, USA
Christian Schmahl, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
Jean E. Schoenen, MD, PhD, Liege University, Liege, Belgium
Martien Schrooten, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Stephan A. Schug, MD, FANZCA, FFPMA, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Petra Schweinhardt, MD, PhD, Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, Montreal, Canada
David J. Scott, PhD, Omneuron, Inc., Menlo Park, USA
Ze'ev Y. Seltzer, DMD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Jordi Serra, MD, Barcelona, Spain
Barry J. Sessle, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Navil F. Sethna, MB, ChB, FAAP, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, USA
William S. Shaw, PhD, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, USA
Karen J. Sherman, PhD, MPH, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Marc Sindou, MD, DSc, Hopital Neurologique P. Wertheimer, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
Per Sjogren, MD, Rigshospitalet Pain Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kathleen A. Sluka, PT, PhD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
Claudia L. Sommer, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Olaitan Soyannwo, MBBS, DA, MMed, University College Hospital-Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Catherine F. Stannard, MB, ChB, FFPMRCA, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK
Roland Staud, MD, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Michele Sterling, The University of Qld, Brisbane, Australia
Jennifer Stinson, RN, PhD, CPNP, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Audun Stubhaug, MD, PhD, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Michael J. Sullivan, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Camilla I. Svensson, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Deborah Talmi, PhD, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Tsutomu Tanabe, PhD, Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
Astrid J. Terkelsen, MD, PhD, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Andrew J. Todd, MB, BS, PhD, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Rolf-Detlef Treede, MD, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
Judith A. Turner, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Nurcan Üçeyler, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Hiroshi Ueda, PhD, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
Tomohiro Ueda, MD, PhD, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Takahiro Ushida, MD, PhD, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan
Ana M. Valdes, PhD, King's College London, London, UK
Stefaan Van Damme, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Danielle A. van der Windt, PhD, Keele University, Keele, UK
Maarten van Kleef, MD, PhD, Maastricht, Netherlands
Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium
Nathalie Vergnolle, PhD, INSERM U1043, Toulouse, France
Tine Vervoort, PhD, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Francis Veyckemans, Dr med, Clinical University St. Luc, Brussels, Belgium
Luis Villanueva, DDS, PhD, Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, U.894, INSERM, Paris, France
Johannes W. Vlaeyen, PhD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Daniel L. Voisin, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Michael Von Korff, ScD, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, USA
Tor D. Wager, PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Suellen M. Walker, MBBS, PhD, FANZCA, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Mark A. Ware, MBBS, MRCP, MSc, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Paul J. Watson, PhD, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Katja Wiech, PhD, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Amanda C. Williams, PhD, University College London, London, UK
Beth A. Winkelstein, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Jim Winkler, PhD, Array BioPharma, Boulder, USA
Clifford J. Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD, Harvard University, Boston, USA
David Yarnitsky, MD, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Joanna M. Zakrzewska, MD, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Min Zhuo, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada