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The symposium is organized by the NIH Pain Consortium to highlight NIH supported advances in pain research and this year’s theme will be ‘Pain Across the Lifespan.’ Three panel sessions will focus on different aspects of the overall theme: “Pain in Pediatric Populations,” “Mid-life Pain & Special Populations,” and “Pain Management in Older Adults.” The symposium also features A Patient’s Perspective presentation, and a keynote by Drs. Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton from Princeton University, entitled “Pain and Opioids in an Epidemic of Mental and Economic Distress.”
Members of the extramural scientific community, the NIH scientific community, health care providers, and the public are invited to attend. The event is free and open to the public. Online registration will be open through May 23, 2019
We encourage in-person attendance, but for those unable to attend in-person, the meeting will be videocast live: https://videocast.nih.gov/