Seminars and Symposia

January 9, 2017-Meredith C. B. Adams, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology and Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship/Co-Director, Pediatric Pain Fellowship, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, Staff Physician (WOC), Anesthesiology Service, Milwaukee VAMC.  "Bioinformatics Approach Might Be Useful to Examine Population-Based Data in Humans"

February 28, 2017-Katherine Martucci, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine.  "Acute and Chronic Pain in Humans:  Pain Phenomena, Neurophysiological Altercations, and Effects of Opinoids"

April 6, 2017-Kenneth T. Kishida, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology.  "Towards a neuro-computational account of human experience and decision-making:  What can capsaicin teach us about human beliefs?"

• March 15, 2016-Andreas Sebastia Beutler, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Oncology and Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. “Novel Analgesics for Image Guided Spinal Delivery: Resiniferatoxin and AAV Gene Vectors”
• August 2016-Zetang Wu, PhD, Research Investigator, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI.  "Replication-Defective Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Based Vectors in Pain Research.
• September 13, 2016-Yong-Jing Gao, MD, PhD, visiting scholar, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University, Professor, Institute of Nautical Medicine, Nantong University.  "Ghemokines and Neuropathic Pain:  From Spinal Cord to Brain"
• December 13, 2016-Zhonghui Guan, MD, Assistant Professor in Residence, Pain Management Center of UCSF Medical Center.  "Gene Induction After Nerve Injury: How Should We Extend the Scope of Post Operative Care to Prevent Chronic Pain?"
• September 7, 2017-External Board Meeting

• February 20, 2014-Elena Maria Vazey, PhD, Laboratory for Neuromodulation & Behavior, Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina. "The role of the locus coeruleus norepinephrine system in general anesthetic state transitions"

• May 17, 2013-Dr. Robert Takashi Sudo, Visiting Full Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , “Antinociceptive effect of new zolpidem analogues, LASSBio-873 and LASSBio-981, in animal models of acute and chronic pain"

• December 3, 2012 - Dr. Donald Simone, Ph.D., Professor and Interim Chair, Dept. of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, “Descending Facilitation of Pain: Modulation by Substance P and NK-1 Receptors”
• January 10, 2012 - Dr. Larry Young, Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Translational Social Neuroscience, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. "Oxytocin, Vasopressin and the Neurobiology of Social Bonding: Implications for Autism"
• December 6, 2011 - Dr. Volker Neugebauer, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. "Maladaptive Brain Plasticity in Pain: Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex"

• March 9, 2010-Jessica Spradley. Graduate student, Dept. of Psychology, University of Georgia, "The Effects of Central and Peripheral Endocannabinoid Modulation on Pain"
• March 1, 2010-Dr. Edward Boyden, Assistant Professor of Biodemical Engineering, MIT, "Novel Optical Biological Control Tools: Enabling Integrative Analysis and Engineering of Neural Substrates"
• February 1, 2010-Dr. Yi Ye, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, UCSF, "Heat Sensitivity of Myelinated Nociceptors and Acute Effects of Inflammation in Newborn Mice"
• January 11, 2010-Dr. Misha Backonja, Professor of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, "Complexity and Dynamic Nature of Neuropathic Pain and Implications"
• November 11, 2009-Dr. Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Dept. Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Muenster, "Mechanisms of Post-operative Incisional Pain: Translation from Bench to Bedside"
• October 12, 2009-Dr. Tony Pickering, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Bristol, "Targeted Genetic Manipulation of Noradrenergic Descending Control"