Editor’s note: This seminar is the latest event in a series of seminars launched in May 2020 to help keep the pain research community connected during the COVID-19 pandemic and to provide all members of our community with virtual educational opportunities. The seminar series is supported by The MAYDAY Fund and the Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, US.
The IASP Pain Research Forum partnered with the IASP Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group (NeuPSIG) to host a seminar with Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US, and Tina Doshi, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US, on Friday, April 16, 2021, 1-2:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (US)/6-7:15 p.m. BST/7-8:15 p.m. CEST. A Q&A session moderated by Simon Haroutounian, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, US, follwed the presentations.
A recording of the seminar is now available on the IASP Pain Education Resource Center here.
Here is an abstract for the event
Despite recognition of the profound societal impact of acute pain and an ever-increasing interest in the transition from acute pain to chronic pain, historical classification systems of acute pain have been limited. In 2016, the Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trial Translations, Innovations, Opportunities, and Networks (ACTTION) public-private partnership with the US Food and Drug Administration, the American Pain Society (APS), and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) convened an expert panel to develop an acute pain taxonomy that would reflect contemporary mechanistic insights and guide future pain research and treatment. The resulting consensus report published the following year outlined the ACTTION-APS-AAPM Acute Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT), a multidimensional acute pain classification system. Since then, a series of papers presenting acute pain diagnostic criteria using the AAAPT framework for various acute pain conditions has been published, including the AAAPT Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Abdominal and Peritoneal Pain After Surgery and, most recently, the AAAPT Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Neuropathic Pain. In this seminar, we will discuss the AAAPT framework in the context of these diagnostic criteria, its relevance to clinical care and research, and what chronic pain researchers can learn from the study of acute pain.
About the presenters
Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, is co-director of the Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (MOPEN), and Assistant Professor, Division of Pain Research, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, US. His research interests include clinical trials, health services, and comparative effectiveness research. He also studies the evidence base, safety, and quality of treatments for acute and chronic pain, including opioid prescribing and use in the time around surgery, hospitalizations, and other healthcare settings.
Tina L. Doshi, MD, MHS, is assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine, and the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. After completing medical school at Duke University and anesthesiology residency at Washington University in St. Louis, she completed her clinical fellowship in pain medicine at Johns Hopkins. She has been involved in multiple clinical trials for the treatment of chronic pain, with particular interests in neuropathic pain, craniofacial pain, quantitative sensory testing, transcriptomic analyses, and developing precision medicine approaches for pain treatment. She has been the recipient of a Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Pain Research Institute Pain Research Scholar Award, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research Mentored Research Training Grant, and the Doris Duke Early Clinician Investigator Award. Dr. Doshi is a founding member and chair of the Women in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (WRAPM) Special Interest Group of the American Society for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA) and is an appointed member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group (NeuPSIG) Trainee Subcommittee.
About the moderator
Simon Haroutounian, PhD, is associate professor of Anesthesiology, and chief of the Division of Clinical and Translational Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Haroutounian obtained his BScPharm and MSc in clinical pharmacy and his PhD from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed a Fulbright doctoral fellowship in pain outcomes research at the University of Utah, and a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical pain research at the Danish Pain Research Center in Aarhus University Hospital. His laboratory is focused on investigating clinically relevant mechanisms of pain and developing personalized approaches for prevention and treatment of chronic neuropathic and postsurgical pain conditions. Dr. Haroutounian currently serves as vice chair of the IASP Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group (NeuPSIG).
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We thank The MAYDAY Fund and the Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, US, for their support of the PRF seminar series.
