PAIN SCHOOL EUROPE 2020PAIN EXPERTS OF INTERNATIONAL RENOWNINTERACTIVE SUMMER SCHOOL SETTINGMETHODS AND COMPETENCE WORKSHOPSPAIN SCHOOL EUROPE 2020
Chronic pain remains a global health problem and a challenge to basic and clinical research. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) is dedicated to improving pain education as a salient approach towards understanding and treating pain. The main goal of this Pain Winter School, in harmony with the programs of IASP, is to address fundamental mechanisms of resilience to pain and explore strategies to develop novel therapeutic principles from insights gained from basic research on susceptibility vs. resilience to pain. The international gender-balanced faculty reflects not only a diversity of participating nations and disciplines in pain research, but also of experimental focus on preclinical/experimental models and clinical research. The school has a vibrant and exciting research and training program, including lectures from top international multidisciplinary faculty, hands-on methods workshops, trainee presentations, structured scientific debates involving trainees and faculty, workshops for advanced trainees on developing concepts for initiating and planning their independent research groups, individual mentoring sessions with experienced faculty mentors that can be booked by trainees and lots of time for interpersonal interactions in a relaxed setting.
The Winter School will be conducted online.

Confirmed Faculty

Kirsty Bannister
King's College London, UK

David Bennett
University of Oxford

David Finn
NUI Galway, Ireland

Nanna Finnerup
Danish Pain Research Center, Denmark

Herta Flor
CIMH Mannheim and Heidelberg University, Germany

Thomas Graven-Nielsen
Aalborg University, Denmark

Rohini Kuner
Heidelberg University, Germany

Giulia Liberati
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Claudia Sommer
University Hospital Würzburg, Germany

Andrew Todd
University of Glasgow, UK

Rolf-Detlef Treede
Heidelberg University, Germany

Felix Viana
Institute of Neuroscience, Spain

Videos from the 2021 School
Claudia Sommer, University of Würzburg, Germany
IASP Address
Reciprocal interactions between pain and negative affect: sites, mechanisms and translational implications
David Finn, NUI Galway, Ireland
David Bennett, University of Oxford, UK
Human pain channelopathies
Pain-related oscillations: insights from intracerebral EEG
Giulia Liberati, UC Louvain, Belgium:
Interrogating cortical circuits of pain
Rohini Kuner, Heidelberg University, Germany
Rolf-Detlef Treede, Heidelberg University, Germany
Clinical and preclinical characteristics of chronic primary and secondary musculoskeletal pain

School Organisers


The International Association for the Study of Pain
Heidelberg Pain Consortium
Wellcome Trust Pain Consortium
Colleen Eubanks
Rohini Kuner
David Bennett

Coordinators and Contact
Pooja Gupta & Anne Seller
c/o Pharmacology Institute
Heidelberg University
Im Neuenheimer Feld 366
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
