2021 SD Virtual Pain Summit

• Jackie Walumbe, MSc Global Public Health, MSc Pain, BSc  - Just get on with it”- An exploration of the ideological, interventional and experiential meanings of self-management of chronic pain
• Nathan Hutting, Ph.D. - Do It Yourself (DIY): Self-management support
• Annie O’Conner, MSPT - Pain Is Complex But It Doesn't Have To Be Complicated
• Biafra Ahanonu, Ph.D. - Illuminating neural circuit dynamics of pain processing with in vivo imaging and computational techniques
• Blaise Doran, PT - Managing persistent pain in young people: Assembling the physical, psychological, social through the philosophical
• Sheren Gaulbert, Cognitive Hypnotherapist DipCHyp, HPD, MNCH (Reg); Neuro LInguistic Programming Practitioner PNLP - What Is Really Being Communicated? Recognizing Incongruencies In Clinical Interactions
• Keynote Melanie Noel, Ph.D. - Trauma and Pain: An Inter-generational Problem
• Linda Crawford, OTR, CDWF - Do, Feel, Think--Humanizing the Pain Experience: An Occupational Therapy Perspective
• Michael Amato, PT - Pain and Attention: Focusing on the Lived Body
• Paul McCambridge, DC -Implementation Of Clinical Guidelines - The Big Problem
• Keynote John Launer, GP - Conversations Inviting Change: Narrative-Based Practice in Health Care
• Rachel Zoffness, MS, Ph.D. - CBT for Chronic Pain: Bridging the Gap between Medicine & Psychology
• Richard McIlmoyle, BSC, DC, PGCPain - Stop searching for the Sasquatch. Throwing time, money and effort on mechanistic predictors for responders to manipulation is a mythical journey
• Amy Eicher, PTA - A Tale Of Two Stories, Our Needs & Their Needs: The Power Of Words & How We Affect Conditions For Healing In Chronic Pain Patients

2020 SD Virtual Pain Summit

• Timothy Wideman, Ph.D. - How to think about pain– toward a person-centered perspective
• Tim Salomons, Ph.D. - Biomarkers of Vulnerability and Resilience to Pain
• Catherine Siengsukon, PT, Ph.D. - The Relationship Between Sleep and Pain: What To Do?
• Felicity Braithwaite, Ph.D. - The Magic Of Placebo: Using the art of deception to improve blinding in clinical trials, and harnessing the benefits of non-specific effects in clinical practice
• Laura Rathbone, PT - What about us? How psychologically flexible are we?
• Michael Ray, DC - Pain: Exploring the Human Experience
• Devra Sheldon, PT, DPT - Persistent Pain: Shame and Stigma in Clinical Encounters
• Sandy Hilton, PT, DPT, MS - Mind The Gap: Forced Tapers And Unrelenting Pain
• Jason Silvernail, DPT, DSc, FAAOMPT - Difficult Conversations and Patient Noncompliance
• Kathryn Gloor - Seek First to Understand (Patient Perspective)
• Philip Austin, Ph.D. - Virtual Reality For The Treatment Of Chronic Pain Disorders
• Keynote Tasha Stanton, Ph.D. - Targeting Pain From Many Angles: A foray into language, sensory modification, and brain trickery

2020 San Diego Pain Summit

• Keynote Melanie Noel, Ph.D. - Remembering the Pain of Childhood
• Diarmuid Denneny, PT - Psychologically Informed Practice: Beyond The Two Day Workshop
• Lars Avemarie, PT - The Future of Pain Rehabilitation
• Neil O'Connell, Ph.D. - Low Back Pain: What Have Clinical Guidelines Done For Us?
• Cory Blickenstaff, PT, MS, OCS - The Next Edge of Interaction
• Marcos Lopez, DPT - Clouded Hope: Our Role In Addressing Opioid Use Disorder
• Erik Ouellet - Deconstructing Palpation: The Illusion of Touch
• Ben Cormack - Making Moving Person Centered
• Joletta Belton & Keith Meldrum - The Lived Experience: A Conversation About Pain
• Jamie Lowy, MSPT - Chronic Pain Management In Low Income And Homeless Populations: When Uncertainty Is The New Normal
• Jarod Hall, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS - Becoming A Responsible Human Interactor
• David Walton, Ph.D. - Blood, Spit, Hair, and Poop: How Novel Biomarkers Are Shedding New Light On The Transition To Chronic Pain
• Sandy Hilton, PT, DPT, Maxi Miciak, PT, Ph.D., Mark Milligan, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT, & Uchenna Ossai, PT, DPT, WCS, CLT - Know It, Own It, Change It: Transforming the Way We Think and Do Health and Health Care for the Good of All

2019 San Diego Pain Summit

• Keynote Antonio Damasio, Ph.D. - About The Psychology of Feeling
• Maxi Miciak, PT, Ph.D. - ‘Being’ Begets ‘Doing’: Establishing the Conditions Necessary for Cultivating Therapeutic Relationships
• Sharna Prasad, PT - As Providers What We Say Matters...Matters A Lot
• Mark Bishop, Ph.D. - You, Them, Us: What You Expect Is What You Get
• Shelly Prosko, PT, C-IAYT, PCAYT - A Case for Compassion in Pain Care
• Karen Davis, Ph.D. - Are We Ready To Translate Research Into Practice?
• Tim Beames, Ph.D. - Evidence For Altered Body Perception In Pain
• Keith Waldron, DPT - In Pursuit of a Premise
• Pain: The Patient’s Perspective - 2019
• Sandy Hilton, PT, DPT & Mark Milligan, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT - Even Superheroes Need a Hand

2018 San Diego Pain Summit

• Keynote Neil O'Connell, Ph.D. - Negotiating The Evidence Maze In Persistent Pain
• Mark Milligan, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT - Implementing Pain Science Education Into Clinical Practice
• Greg Lehman,BKin, MSc, DC, MScPT - When Biomechanics DOESN'T Matter: A Choose Your Own Adventure Lecture
• Sarah Haag, PT, DPT - Pregnancy Does Not Equal Pain
• Laura Simons, Ph.D. & Rikard Wicksell, Ph.D. - Fear In Chronic Pain: Mechanisms & Effective Treatment
• Mike Stewart, MCSP SRP BSc (Hons) MSc PG Cert (Clin Ed) - More Than Words: How Can We Help People Express Their Experience Of Pain?
• A. Vania Apkarian, Ph.D. - The Brain In Chronic Pain
• Patient Perspective Panel
• Bahram Jam, D.Sc.PT, M.PHty, B.Sc.PT, FCAMT - The Pain Truth And Nothing But: Simplifying Pain Education
• Nicolas V. Karayannis, MPT, Ph.D. - Cultivating Mindfulness and Compassion In Our Lives
• Mark Kargela, PT, DPT, OCS, cert-MDT, MTC, FAAOMPT - The Patient's Story: The Science Behind The Story
• Christopher Caldwell, DO - Serenity Amongst Pushback