This webinar was presented on February 7, 2022. Thank you to all who attended. The link to the event is available here.
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This workshop focused on recent studies investigating the impact of COVID-19 on neuropathic pain. It addressed the development of neuropathic pain as a potential neurological complication of a SARS-CoV-2 infection, as well as describe the effect of the pandemic on psychosocial functioning of patients suffering from chronic pain.
Presenters
- Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, MD, PhD, Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain, Aalborg, Denmark: De Novo Pain After COVID: New Data and Insights from Large Cohorts
- Chioma Odozor, MSc, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, US: An Observational Cohort Study of Peripheral Neuropathy Symptoms Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection
- Chung Jung Mun (“Moon”), PhD, Arizona State University, US: Trajectories and Individual Differences in Pain, Emotional Distress, and Prescription Opioid Misuse Among Individuals with Chronic Pain during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A One-Year Longitudinal Study
- Margarita Calvo, MD, PhD, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago (moderator)
About the presenters
Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, MD, PhD, is a neurologist specializing in pain, and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine and Health Technology and Faculty of Health Sciences at the Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain in Aalborg, Denmark. Previously, Ciampi de Andrade was a professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His lines of research are clinically oriented, focusing on pain in neurological diseases and novel pain treatments such as non-invasive brain stimulation.
Chioma Odozor, MSc, is currently a third-year medical student at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, US. Originally from Toronto, Canada, she achieved her bachelor of science (honors) in life sciences with a specialization in drug development and human toxicology from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, in 2016. She went on to achieve her master of science in biomedical sciences (therapeutics, drug development and human toxicology) from Queen’s University in 2018. After working for a year in Ottawa, Canada, as a toxicology evaluator for Health Canada, she moved to Missouri to pursue her medical degree. Since 2020, Odozor has been a part of Simon Haroutounian’s lab, where she studies peripheral neuropathy symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection in people.
Chung Jung Mun (“Moon”), PhD, is an assistant professor in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He directs the Biobehavioral Pain, Addiction, Sleep, and Momentary Experience (Bi-PAS ME) Research Laboratory. Utilizing smartphones, wearable devices, and quantitative sensory testing, his lab aims to understand the biopsychosocial individual differences in pain processing and coping, the role of sleep/circadian rhythm and cannabis use in pain and opioid use, and technology-based treatment and prevention of chronic pain and opioid use disorder.
About the moderator
Margarita Calvo MD, PhD, is an associate professor at the Department of Physiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago. She undertook her medical training at this same institution. She was awarded her PhD in 2010 by King’s College London, UK, working at Prof. David Bennett’s lab. She went back to Chile in 2013, where she set up her own lab. She is working in two lines of research: painful small-fiber neuropathy in skin conditions and the role of Kv1 channels in counterbalancing hyperexcitability in neuropathic pain. She takes a translational approach ranging from in vitro models to human psychophysics. The National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research, Chile, funds her work. She is a physician at the Pain Unit at the University Hospital where she sees neuropathic pain patients. She has published in international peer-reviewed journals, and presented invited talks and workshops at local and international conferences.
The PRF virtual seminar series is supported by the Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, US, and The MAYDAY Fund.
