PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Theme: Building Latin American Leadership in Pain Research

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Day 1

12:00-18:00: Arrival

19:00-21:00: Dinner

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Day 2
8:30-9:00: Welcome by Organizers
9:00-10:00: Faculty lecture: "Improving Trustworthiness of Pain Research, the ENTRUST-PE Initiative". Speaker: Andrew Rice
10:00-10:30: Coffee Break
10:30-11:30: Faculty lecture: "From Data to Discovery: Charting the Molecular Landscape of Chronic Pain". Speaker: Ted Price
11:30-12:00: Coffee Break
12:00-13:00: 4 Student presentations I (10 min + 5 min questions). PIs to chair
13:00-14:00: LUNCH
14:00-15:00: Faculty Discussion: Pain Research in Europe. Francesco De Logu, Shafaq Sikandar, Andrew Rice, Daniel Ciampi
15:00-16:00: Faculty lecture: "Satellite Glial Cells: Gatekeepers of Sensory Ganglia and Pain Modulation". Speaker: Temugin Berta
16:00-17:00: 4 Student presentations II (10 min + 5 min questions). PIs to chair
17:00-18:00: Coffee Break and Free Time
18:00-19:00: Debate 1, Controversies in Pain Research: Preclinical Models, Where We Are and Where We Can Go. PIs to chair

20:00: DINNER and SOCIAL DRINKS

Day 3

9:00-10:00: Faculty lecture: "Orphan Disease, Novel Insights: Unlocking Mechanisms of Small Fiber Neuropathy through Inherited Skin Disease". Speaker: Margarita Calvo

10:00-10:30: Coffee Break

10:30-11:30: Faculty lecture: "Brain Connectivity Assessed by TMS-EEG in People with Pain: From Phenotyping to Therapy". Speaker: Daniel Ciampi De Andrade
11:30-12:30: 4 Student presentations III (10 min + 5 min questions). PIs to chair

12:30-14:00: LUNCH

14:00-15:00: Faculty lecture: "Leaving Academia for a Non-Academic Career: Opportunities and Obstacles". Speaker: Paulino Barragán Iglesias
15:00-16:00: Faculty lecture: "Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy and Pain: Experimental and Clinical Studies / Approaches". Speaker: María Florencia Coronel

16:00-17:00: 4 Student presentations IV (10 min + 5 min questions). PIs to chair

17:00-21:00: CULTURAL ACTIVITY AND DINNER

 

Day 4

9:00-10:00: Workshop: Entrepreneurship in Science, Pitching and Financing Your Idea. Speaker: Ted Price

10:00-10:30: Coffee Break

10:30-11:30: Faculty lecture: "Mechanisms of Pain in the Neuroimmune Axis". Speaker: Shafaq Sikandar

11:30-12:30: Faculty lecture: "The Role of Schwann Cells in Chronic Pain". Speaker: Francesco De Logu

12:30-14:00: LUNCH

14:00-15:00: Faculty lecture [TBC — substitui a duplicação da palestra do Temugin Berta. Candidatos naturais entre os bios já confirmados: Dra. Carla Leal Pereira, Dr. Gabriel Taricani Kubota ou Kristian Kjær-Staal Petersen]

15:00-15:30: Coffee Break
15:30-17:00: 6 Student presentations V (10 min + 5 min questions). PIs to chair (90 min, antes estavam incorretamente alocados em 60 min)

17:00-18:00: Faculty lecture: "Cannabis Analgesia: The Real Evidence for Benefit and Harm". Speaker: Andrew Rice (60 min, antes 45 min, padronizando com as demais faculty lectures)

18:00-19:00: Debate 2, Overcoming Barriers in Pain Treatment: Science, Strategy and Solutions. PIs to chair

20:00: DINNER AND FAREWELL PARTY

 

Day 5
7:00-9:00: Breakfast

9:00: Departure