QPRN presents:
The North American Pain School

An educational initiative
of IASP and ACTTION

Fairmont Le Château Montebello
Montebello, QC, Canada

NAPS 2023

June 18th-23rd

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