DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

2024

Oct 2

Pain Physician
Toronto Academic Pain
Medicine Institute

听

鈥淥pioid Management for Pain in the Post-Pandemic Era: The Toronto Experience鈥�

Mark Ware

Nov 20

Endowed Professor in Health Sciences
T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and
Compassion
Professor | Department of Psychiatry
Center for Addiction Science and Treatment -
University of California San Diego

听

鈥淭argeting Chronic Pain and Opioid Misuse with Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: Effects on Clinical Outcomes and Hedonic Deregulatory Mechanisms鈥�

Marc O. Martel

Dec 4

Investigator
Section on Behavioral Neurocircuitry and Cellular Plasticity
NCCIH

听

鈥淭he Amygdala: A Pain Rheostat in the Brain鈥�

Reza Sharif-Naeini

2025

Jan 23*

Director Brain Imaging Center
Dartmouth University

听

鈥淪elf-regulation of pain and emotion鈥�

Arkady Khoutorsky / Emerson Krock

Feb 18

Associate Professor of Immunobiology
Harvard University

听

鈥淣euronal interactions with microbes in pain and itch鈥�

Arkady Khoutorsky

Mar 19

Director
UCLA Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids

听

鈥淭HC-sparing Effects of Cannabis Constituents: Potential to Reduce Harms and Improve Outcomes鈥�

Mark Ware

Apr 16

Professor of Nociception
Corpus Christi Collete
Cambridge University

听

鈥淧rovoking and preventing joint pain鈥�

Emerson Krock