Date: Thursday, May 15th, 12:00pm to 1:00pm, EDT
This webinar is being produced through a collaboration of the IASP’s Pain and Placebo Special Interest Group and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA – in particular – the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Placebo Beyond Opinions Organized Research (PBO) Center. Both groups are aligned on advancing unbiased knowledge of placebo effects by promoting interdisciplinary investigation of the placebo phenomenon and nurturing placebo research.
**Please note that this webinar is unique in that it is being hosted (both in-personal and virtually) by the University of Maryland.
Join us for the Placebo Beyond Opinions Organized Research Center guest lecture hybrid series. This lecture on “Innovative Approaches for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Youth” is presented by Laura E. Simons, PhD from Stanford University Medical School (Palo Alto, California, USA). This lecture is being co-sponsored by the PBO Center and the Center for the Advancement of Chronic Pain Research (CACPR).
The webinar will feature:
— Laura E. Simons, PhD, Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, California, USA
— Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, University of Maryland School of Nursing, USA (host)
Laura E. Simons, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and an attending psychologist at the pediatric pain management clinic at Stanford Children’s Health. Dr. Simons is a committed researcher and clinician with a focus on psychological assessment and development of treatment interventions to improve the lives of youth with chronic pain. Prior to joining Stanford in 2016, she was an attending psychologist/associate professor at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Over the decade she spent at BCH she worked in the chronic pain clinic, pediatric headache program, and pediatric pain rehabilitation center (PPRC).
About the Host
Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, is an NIH-funded physician-scientist who conducted ground-breaking studies that have advanced scientific understanding of the psychoneurobiological bases of endogenous systems for pain modulation in humans including the discovery that the vasopressin system is involved in the enhancement of placebo effects with a dimorphic effect. Currently, her team conducts basic and translational research on genomics of orofacial chronic pain, brain mechanisms of expectancy – and observationally-induced hypoalgesia – and immersive virtual reality. Her research has been published in top-ranked international journals including Biological Psychiatry, Pain, Nature Neuroscience, JAMA, Lancet Neurology, Science and NEJM. The impact of her innovative work is clear from her outstanding publications, citation rate, numerous invited lectures worldwide and media featuring by The National Geographic, The New Scientist, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Nature, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, News and World Reports.