QPRN presents:

The North American Pain School,
the official pain school of the Canadian Pain Society and the United States Association for the Study of Pain

An international educational initiative since 2016

Fairmont Le Château Montebello
Montebello, QC, Canada

NAPS 2023

June 18-23, 2023
Fairmont Le Château Montebello,
Montebello, QC, Canada

Theme and program

The 2023 edition of NAPS will focus on the following theme:


Pain and time: Acute Pain, Chronic Pain, and Acute-to-chronic Pain Transitioning

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Guest speakers

Anna Hood, PhD

Anna Hood, PhD

  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
  • Division of Psychology and Mental Health
  • Manchester Centre for Health Psychology
  • University of Manchester, UK

 

John Farrar, M.D., M.S.C.E., Ph.D.

John Farrar, M.D., M.S.C.E., Ph.D.

  • Departments of Epidemiology, Neurology, and Anesthesia, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania
  • Professor in the departments and a senior scholar in the CCEB

Marco Loggia, Ph.D.

Marco Loggia, Ph.D.

  • A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
  • Departments of Radiology and Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Camilla Svensson, Ph.D.

Camilla Svensson, Ph.D.

  • Professor in Cellular and Molecular Pain Physiology, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego

Frank Porreca, Ph.D.

Frank Porreca, Ph.D.

  • Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona

Rachael Bosma, Ph.D.

Rachael Bosma, Ph.D.

  • Co-director, University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain
  • Assistant Professor, Pain and Neuroscience
  • Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto
  • Research Lead, Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute

Patient partners

Keith Meldrum, AScT, RTMgr

Keith Meldrum, AScT, RTMgr

  • Patient partner
  • IASP’s Global Alliance of Partners for Pain Advocacy Task Force
  • Canadian Pain Society (CPS): People with Lived Experience (PWLE) Committee
  • Pain Canada National Advisory Committee member
  • Pacific Pain Forum planning committee member
  • University of British Columbia and University of British Columbia-Okanagan guest lecturer

Jennifer Daly-Cyr

Jennifer Daly-Cyr

  • Canadian Pain Society (CPS): People with Lived Experience (PWLE) Committee, Scientific Programming Committee, National Pain Rounds Working Group
  • CPN Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Science Planning Group, Knowledge User
  • Association of Faculties of Medicine in Canada (AFMC), Response to the Opioids Crisis project Phase 2
  • Pain Ontario Task Force
  • Pain Canada, People with Lived Experience Conference Steering Committee
  • National CircaPain study