2025 Annual Meeting
Program at a Glance

Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday, April 29th 2025

Workshop	Time
Board of Directors Meeting	8:00- 12:00 PM
Sickle Cell Disease Pain Analgesia and Integrative Network (SCDPAIN)	8:00-4:30 PM
2025 Updated Essentials of Primary Care Management	8:00-3:30 PM
Leadership Academy Workshop	9:00- 1:00 PM
Empowering Pain Research: Leveraging PCORI for Funding and Stakeholder Engagement	1:00-4:30 PM
2025 Early Career Forum	12:00-4:45 PM

Conference Agenda

Wednesday April 30-Thursday, May 1st, 2025

Agenda	Time
Welcome/Introductions	8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Plenary Presentation	9:00-10:00 AM
Poster Session	10:15-11:30 AM
Symposia Session	11:30-1:00 PM
Lunch	1:00-2:00 PM
Poster Session	2:00-3:15 PM
Symposia Session	3:30-5:00 PM
Special Interest Group Meetings	5:15-7:00 PM

Friday, May 2nd 2025

Agenda	Time
Welcome/Poster Awards	8:30-9:00 AM
Plenary Session	9:00-10:00 AM
Symposia Session	10:15-11:45 PM
Lunch Panel Discussion	12:00-1:30 PM
Workshop: How to talk to the Press about your Research and Translating Research into Policy: An Introduction	2:00-5:00 PM

Plenary Speakers

2025 Plenary Speakers

Cameron Young, Person with Lived Experience
Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, University of Maryland, “Breaking Boundaries of Pain Management: Harnessing the Value and Power of Virtual Reality”
Beth Darnell, PhD, Stanford University, “Enhancing access to pain relief through innovative patient-centered formats, technologies, and trial designs”
Theodore Price, PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, "Insights into neuropathic pain mechanisms from studies of human dorsal root ganglion and spinal cord"