From Mechanisms to Medicine: Rethinking the Discovery-to-Care Continuum in Multi-System Disorders | North Bethesda, MD

DIGITAL PROGRAM BOOK  

Day 1 

9:00 - 9:30 AM | Welcome & Workshop Overview 

Alexander Denker, Ph.D.; Amy Adams, Ph.D.; Elise Courtois, Ph.D.; and Daniel Clauw, M.D. 

9:30 - 10:00 AM | Keynote Address: Beyond Research Silos: The Origins and Future of COPCs Research

Christin (Chris) Veasley, B.S., Co-Founder and Director Chronic Pain Research Alliance 

10:00 - 11:00 AM | Bridging Medicine & Lived Experience

Moderated by Laura Wandner, Ph.D., Associate Professor Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System

          Panelists: Aryn Lee, B.A.; Benjamin Bouvier, B.S.; Kathryn Min, Ph.D.; and Heather Guidone, B.C.P.A.

11:00 - 11:15 AM | Break 

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM | Where Pain Conditions Converge: Understanding Chronic Overlapping Pain

         Moderated by Daniel Clauw, M.D.

         Daniel Clauw, M.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan 

Laura Payne, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 

Sawsan (Suzie) As-Sanie, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan 

Andrea Chadwick, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center 

Tor Wager, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth 

12:45 - 2:00 PM | Lunch (seating available in 1255/1265)

2:00 - 3:30 PM | Illuminating the Invisible: Infection-Associated Conditions

Moderated by Joseph J. Breen, Ph.D., Chief, Immunoregulation Section, Basic Immunology Branch, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Nancy Klimas, M.D., Director, Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine, Nova Southeastern University Florida 

Judith James, MD., Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Michal (Mikki) Caspi Tal, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT 

Alba Azola, M.D., Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

3:30 - 3:45 PM | Break 

3:45 - 5:15 PM | Neuroimmune Dynamics of Chronic Illness

Moderated by Victoria (Vicki) Shanmugam, M.B.B.S., M.R.C.P., F.A.C.R., C.C.D., Director, Office of Autoimmune Disease Research, Office of Research on Women's Health, NIH  

Robert (Rob) Sorge, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Andrew Schrepf, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, University of Michigan Medical School 

Michael Rogers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School 

Michelle James, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Stanford Medicine  

5:15 - 5:30 PM | Day 1 Summary  

Daniel Clauw, M.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan 

Day 2 

8:00 - 8:50 AM Trainee and Early Stage Investigator Networking Breakfast hosted by endoRISE (rm 1255/1265)

9:00 - 9:15 AM Introduction to Day 2 

Elise Courtois, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The Jackson Laboratory; Co-Director, endoRISE 

9:15 - 10:45 AM | Who Gets Chronic Pain? Genomic Risk, Hormonal Axes, & Neuroinflammation  

Moderated by Elise Courtois, Ph.D.

Elise Courtois, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The Jackson Laboratory; Co-Director, endoRISE

Hadas Nahman-Averbuch, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Kanako Hayashi, Ph.D., Professor, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University 

Renato Polimanti, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine 

10:45 - 11:15 AM | Keynote Address Day 2 

Stacey Missmer, Sc.D., Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan

11:15 - 11:30 AM | Break 

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Untangling the Genetics of Complex Disease

Moderated by Steve Gardner, Ph.D., CEO and Co-founder, Precision Life 

Michael Wainberg, Ph.D., Investigator, Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto 

Hanna Ollila, Ph.D., Group Leader, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki 

         Kristina Allen-Brady, Ph.D., MSPH, MPT, Research Associate Professor, Division of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Utah School of Medicine

12:30 - 1:30 PM | Lunch (seating available in 1255/1265)

1:30 - 3:00 PM | The Brain Body Connection: The Autonomic Nervous System's Role in Disease 

Moderated by David Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Lucinda (Cindy) Bateman, M.D., Founder and Medical Director, Bateman Horne Center  

Bridget Mueller, M.D., Ph.D., Research Director, David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Center for Headache Treatment and Translational Research, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai 

Susan Eshleman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 

Kevin Tracey, M.D., President and CEO, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health 

3:00 - 3:15 PM | Break 

3:15 - 4:45 PM | Future Directions: Advancing Clinical Research, Translational Advancement & Therapeutic Discovery 

Moderated by Alexander Denker, Ph.D., Chief of Staff, Division of Translational Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 

Steve Gardner, Ph.D., CEO and Co-founder, Precision Life 

Jan Kubanek, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, WashU Medicine 

Michael Vanelzakker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 

 Danielle Luciano, M.D. Professor and Chair of OBGYN at UConn Health, Co-Director, endoRISE

Amy Rochlin, CEO, Complex Disorders Alliance

4:45 - 5:00 PM | Conclusion