1. OHSU PAIN Day 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 12:00 noon – 6:00 p.m.
Vey Conference Center 11th floor,
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
11:45 – 12:00 Mount posters (Poster area)
12:00 - 12:15 Introduction, breadth and depth of pain research and pain management efforts as
OHSU, the Pain Awareness and Investigation Network (Auditorium)
12:15 – 1:00 From the bench to the bedside: Why do so many promising drugs fail?
Stephen Arneric, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Eli Lilly (Auditorium)
1:15 - 2:30 Workshops
Managing Pain in Challenging Populations (breakout)
• Managing pain in people with dementia. Lois Miller, PhD, RN, FAAN.
• Pain management in pediatric populations. Anna C. Wilson, PhD
• Acute pain management in the opioid tolerant patient. Tim Brennan, MD, PhD.
Facial Pain (breakout)
• Pain pathways from the cornea to the brain: neurochemistry and central targets.
Sue Aicher, PhD.
• Inflammation-neurotrophin interplay: a new consideration for mechanisms of
trigeminal pain. Agnieszka Balkowiec, MD, PhD.
• Non-surgical management of temporomandibular pain. Julie Ann Smith, DDS, MD.
Opioids for chronic pain management: should we take that path? (Auditorium)
• A discussion, with Bretty Stacey, MD, Erik Fromme, MD, Thomas P. Carr, MD, and
Jennifer Wagner, LPN, ASN, BS, Director of Clinical Research at Pain Research of
Oregon, Executive Director of the Western Pain Society
2:30 – 3:45 Poster Session and Refreshments (Poster area)
3:45 – 4:00 Pain Awareness Award:
Jennifer Wagner, LPN, ASN, BS, Executive Director, Western Pain Society
4:00- 5:00 Mechanisms for Postoperative Pain
Tim Brennan, MD/PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Iowa.
5:00 – 6:00 Please join us for refreshments at the PAIN Day Networking and Social Hour!
Registration FREE! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PAIN2012
Continuing education credits at no charge with registration. Seats are limited, so register
today!
Questions: Beth Fee (feeb@ohsu.edu)
See: www.ohsu.edu/xd/health/services/brain/in-community/ohsu-pain-day.cfm
Sponsored by the OHSU Schools of Nursing and Dentistry, Offices of the Provost and Vice-President for Research, Knight
Cancer Institute, and OCTRI. Support provided by the Office of Technology Transfer and Business Development and by the
OHSU Brain Institute. Social hour supported in part by the Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists/Haugen Endowment.