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Milano Convention Centre | August 27-31, 2012

IASP Distinguished Lectures

IASP President Eija A. Kalso has selected two long-time Association members as the recipients of two of IASP's highest honors, the John J. Bonica and John D. Loeser Distinguished Lecture Awards.

John J. Bonica Distinguished Lecturer

Troels Staehelin Jensen, MD, DMSc, a past president of IASP and director of the Neuropathic Pain Clinic at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, will deliver the John J. Bonica Distinguished Lecture Award (link). Dr. Jensen has authored more than 300 articles in journals and books on various neurological and neurobiological topics, mainly related to experimental and clinical pain. He has received several awards and honors for his pain research, including the Nis-Hanssen Pain Research Award (1986), NATO Science Fellowship (1992), and the Norwegian Monrad-Krohn Research Award (1997). In 2006 he was knighted by the Queen of Denmark.

"Dr. Jensen has been very productive regarding clinical trials and evidence base medicine in pain relief. However, it is his translational research in the mechanisms underlying transition from acute to chronic pain that, I believe, have had the most important impact on the study of pain and stimulated many clinical and basic pain researchers," said Kalso in announcing the award.

Dr. Jensen has indicated the title of his lecture will be "Neuropathic Pain: Is it an Entity?" He is scheduled to speak at 08:30 on Thursday, August 30, 2012.

John D. Loeser Distinguished Lecturer

Recognizing his work relating to psychosocial interventions for improving pain management and quality of life, particularly in cancer pain patients, cancer survivors, and the elderly, Dr. Kalso named Francis (Frank) Keefe, PhD, as the John D. Loeser Distinguished Lecture Award recipient. Dr. Keefe is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University where, among other things, he has focused on the psychosocial treatment of persistent pain syndromes (low back pain, arthritic pain, and temporomandibular joint pain), the use of early psychosocial intervention to prevent persistent pain, and pain coping processes in persons with acute and persistent pain.

"I have been impressed by the very broad spectrum of his research and the way in which he has collaborated with different disciplines and used the positive resources of the human mind as a tool to change lifestyle as a gateway to enhanced pain relief and quality of life," said Kalso.

Dr. Keefe's topic will be "Psychosocial Interventions for Managing Pain in Older Adults: Outcomes and Implications for Clinical Practice." He is scheduled to speak at 14:00 on Wednesday, August 29, 2012.