| Thursday,May 27, 2010 |
| 08:00 |
Registration Opens |
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Local Anesthetics
C - Radicular Pain
M - Primary Headaches
S - Astrocyte Regulation via neural glial interactions |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Management of Central Pain
C - Diabetic Neuropathy
M - NP and other pathophysiologies
A - How to diagnose NP
S - Autonomic & microvascular dysfunction in CRPS
B - Neuropathic Pain Management |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Break |
| 13:30 – 14:15 |
Opening Ceremony including talk:
Greek Pain Medicine and Art Through the Ages - Manos Stefanidis, Greece |
| 14:15 – 15:15 |
Keynote Theme:Stimulation of the Central Nervous System-Mechanisms and Management
Spinal Cord Stimulation - Richard North, UK
Motor cortex stimulation for chronic pain: can we proceed from phenomenology to mechanisms - Luis Garcia-Larrea, France |
| 15:30 – 16:00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:00 – 17:30 |
New Concepts for Treatment of Localized Neuropathic Pain Symposium Sponsored by Grunenthal GmbH |
| 17:30 – 19:00 |
Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Emerging Drug Treatments
C - Post Herpetic Neuralgia
M - Non Dermatomal Somatosensory Deficits
A - Learning & Placebo Effect
S - Trigeminal Pains
B - Which patients might benefit from SCS? |
| 19:00 |
WELCOME RECEPTION |
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| Friday, May 28, 2010 |
|
Session |
| 07:00 – 08:45 |
Parallel Sponsored Breakfast Symposia |
| 09:00 – 11:00 |
The Spinal Cord
Peripheral Sodium Channels as Gate-Keepers for Pain -
 Suleyman Dib-Hajj, USA
Chemokines in Neuropathic Pain - Steve McMahon
Novel opioid actions in the spinal cord - Jurgen Sandkuhler, Austria
Spinal cord injury pain - from symptom to pathology -
Gunnar Wasner, Germany |
| 11:00 – 11:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30 – 13:00 |
Parallel Sponsored Sympoia:
Symposium Sponsored by Grunenthal GmbH
Targeting the Skin for Treating Peripheral Neuropathic Pain: Symposium Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd |
| 13:00 – 13:30 |
LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:30 – 15:30 |
Poster Session 1 |
| 15:30 – 17:00 |
Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Personalized Treatment
C - Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
M - Sodium Channels
A - Sensory Testing by Primary Care doctors
S - The Spinothalamic Tract
B - NP in Cancer Patients |
| 17:00 -17:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 17:30 – 19:00 |
Symposium Sponsored by Pfizer |
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| Saturday, May 29, 2010 |
|
Session |
| 08:00 - 09:00 |
Parallel Sponsored Breakfast Sessions:
Meet the Experts Session Sponsored by St. Jude Medical
Meet the Experts Session Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd |
| 09:00 – 11:00 |
Genetics and Epidemiology
Epidemiology of Neuropathic Pain. What do we really know? - Blair Smith, UK
Pain Genes - Marshall Devor, Israel
The threat of chronic pain - Johann Vlayen, Belgium |
| 11:00 – 11:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30 – 13:00 |
Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Opioid-tolerance and Hyperalgesia
C - Mechanisms of TGN
M - Surrogate Models
A - Attention to Pain
S - Genes involved in peripheral neuropathy and its treatment
B - Which Blocks Work for NPP? |
| 13:00 – 13:30 |
LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:30 – 15:30 |
Poster Session 2 |
| 15:30 – 17:00 |
Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Opioids for Chronic NP
C - Postsurgical Pain
M - Abeta Fibres in Paroxysmal Pain
A - NeuPSIG Recommendations
S – Central Neuropathic Pain: Anical and Human Studies
B - Treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia |
| 17:00 -17:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 17:30 – 19:00 |
Parallel Industry Sponsored Symposia |
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| Sunday, May 30, 2010 |
|
Session |
| 09:15 – 10:45 |
Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Cost Effectiveness of Treatment
C - HIV Sensory Polyneuropathies
M - Endogenous Pain Modulation
A - Spontaneous Activity in Nociceptors
S - Genetics & NPP
B - (Pulsed) Radiofrequency |
| 10:30 – 11:00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00 - 12:45 |
Drugs
Neuropathic Pain Clinical Trials and Tribulations: There’s Many a Slip ‘Twixt Cup and Lip - Robert Dworkin, USA
Drug treatments for NPP – looking at the evidence with a cold and fishy eye - Andrew Moore, UK
Peter Nathan, His Work - Geoff Schott, UK
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| 12:45 - 13:00 |
Closing Ceremony |